This book offers mindfulness practices specifically for those dealing with chronic pain, injury or any other health conditions that feel limiting. Both authors suffered significant injuries themselves and are no strangers to pain. A key element of mindfulness for pain is understanding primary and secondary pain, where primary pain is…
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Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation, Jon Kabat-Zinn (rev edn 2013)
In this book, Kabat-Zinn describes the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme that he originally developed in 1979 and that was (and still is) taught at the Stress Reduction Clinic in Massachusetts. Kabat-Zinn’s incredible contribution to participatory medicine in the form of MBSR is now world-famous, and has led to a…