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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Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, Mark Williams and Danny Penman (2011)
This is one of the best introductions to mindfulness for anyone wishing to get started with mindfulness practice on their own. This eight-week guide is based on the MBCT programme. There’s enough theory here to be motivating and inspiring, but not enough to get bogged down in. This is a…
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…
Sitting with difficulty in Twelfth Night (1601-2)
Sitting with difficult feelings is perhaps the most challenging task of mindfulness. It’s natural to feel aversion to painful thoughts,…