New Releases by Jon Kabat-Zinn

The landmark work on how to connect your mind and body to reduce stress and lead a more fulfilling, healthy, and complete life—now revised and updated Featuring a preface from Thich Nhat Hanh “This wise, deep book is essential, unique, and, above all, fundamentally healing.”—Donald M. Berwick, M.D., president emeritus and senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work—which gave rise to a whole new field in medicine and psychology—shows you how to use medically proven mind-body approaches derived from meditation and yoga to counteract stress, establish greater balance of body and mind, and stimulate well-being and healing. By engaging in these mindfulness practices and integrating them into your life from moment to moment and from day to day, you can learn to manage chronic pain, promote optimal healing, reduce anxiety and feelings of panic, and improve the overall quality of your life, relationships, and social networks. This revised edition features results from recent studies on the science of mindfulness, a new Introduction, up-to-date statistics, and an extensive updated reading list. Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well and the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in our fast-paced world.

Mindfulness opens us up to the possibility of being fully human as we are, and of expressing the humane in our way of being. Mindlessness de facto closes us up and denies us the fullness of our being alive. This book may on the surface appear to be merely another offering in the genre of daily readings. But deep within these 108 selections lie messages of profound wisdom in a contemporary and practical form that can lead to both healing and transformation. We so urgently need to rotate in consciousness in order to safeguard what precious sanity is available to us on this planet. How we carry ourselves will determine the direction the world takes because, in a very real way, we are the world we inhabit. Our world is continuously being shaped by our participation in everything around us and within us through mindfulness. This is the great work of awareness. Welcome to the threshold . . . to the fullness of arriving at your own door!

Cet ouvrage fondamental est un programme structuré de réduction du stress dont la réputation s’est développée ces dernières années. Le programme MBSR a été développé à la clinique de réduction du stress du Centre Médical de l’université du Massachusetts et continue d’y être développé. Plusieurs centaines de milliers de patients ont, depuis sa création, suivi le programme. Cet ouvrage est préfacé par Christophe André, célèbre psychiatre français, qui utilise ces techniques. Cet enseignement de la "pleine conscience " (Mindfulness) nous amène à vivre d''instant en instant, ce qui permet de réduire le stress, l''anxiété et la douleur, et de vivre autrement la souffrance et la maladie.

Nous pouvons tous apprendre à méditer. Il suffit de s''arrêter quelques minutes par jour pour retrouver la paix de l''esprit et du coeur. S''inspirant de traditions anciennes, Jon Kabat-Zinn a élaboré une forme de méditation dite " de la pleine conscience " voici plus de trente ans. Elle est aujourd''hui pratiquée dans plus de deux cent cinquante hôpitaux dans le monde et ses bienfaits sont validés par la science. Les méditations réunies dans ce CD ont déjà inspiré des dizaines de milliers de personnes. Elles sont écrites dans un langage simple et universel. Accordez-vous le droit de vous asseoir simplement et de ne rien faire. Laissez-vous guider par la voix de Bernard Giraudeau, qui pratique la méditation depuis dix ans. Un livre de 108 leçons de pleine conscience, accompagné d''un CD de 12 méditations guidées à pratiquer chez soi avec la voix de Bernard Giraudeau.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, autor del best-seller Vivir con plenitud las crisis , se ha hecho mundialmente famoso por introducir la técnica budista de la atención plena (mindfulness) para ayudar a sobrellevar el estrés y el dolor de la enfermedad. En el presente libro, el doctor Kabat-Zinn se centra en el poder transformador de la atención plena en nuestras vidas, tanto en nuestra dimensión más íntima como en la social. Describe cómo podemos conferir verdadero valor al momento presente y autorrealizarnos como seres humanos con la práctica de la meditación. En último término, el propósito de La práctica de la atención plena consiste en despertar en nosotros todo el potencial de un don que la mayoría infravaloramos: la sensibilidad. En una inteligente fusión entre ciencia, poesía y espiritualidad, Kabat-Zinn nos enseña que la meditación nunca es lo que uno piensa (piense uno lo que piense) y que en nuestra sociedad compleja y caótica la práctica de la atención de una manera lúcida, sabia y efectiva ya no es un lujo, sino una necesidad para nuestra salud emocional, física y espiritual.

Si ha estado luchando contra la depresión, no se desaliente. La atención plena, una forma sencilla y, sin embargo, muy potente de prestar atención a las emociones y experiencias vitales más difíciles, puede ayudarle a romper el ciclo de infelicidad crónica de una vez por todas. En Vencer la depresión, cuatro expertos extraordinariamente cualificados explican por qué nuestros intentos habituales de pensar en una forma de salir del estado de ánimo depresivo o de simplemente salir adelante nos llevan a hundirnos todavía más en la espiral descendente de la depresión. A través de lecciones basadas tanto en las tradiciones meditativas orientales como en la terapia cognitiva, estos expertos nos muestran cómo esquivar los hábitos mentales que conducen a la desesperación, incluidos el sentimiento de culpa y los pensamientos recurrentes, con el fin de que podamos enfrentarnos a los desafíos de la vida con una mayor flexibilidad y capacidad de recuperación. Este libro está dirigido a todos aquellos que desean recobrar la esperanza y una sensación de bienestar.

Yes, there actually is a way to let everything become your teacher, to let life itself, and everything that unfolds within it, the “full catastrophe” of the human condition in the words of Zorba the Greek, shape your ongoing development and maturation. Millions have followed this path to greater sanity, balance, and well-being, often in the face of huge stress, pain, uncertainty, sorrow, and illness. In his landmark book, Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn shared this innovative approach, known as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), with the world. Now, in this companion volume, 100 pointers from that groundbreaking work have been carefully selected to inspire you to embrace what is deepest and best and most beautiful in yourself. Whether you are trying to learn patience, cope with pain, deal with the enormous stress and challenges of the age we live in, improve your relationships, or free yourself from destructive emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, these deceptively simple meditations will remind you that you have deep inner resources to draw upon, the most important of which is the present moment itself. Regardless of your age or whether you are familiar with the healing power of mindfulness, this insightful, inspirational guide will help you to honor, embrace, learn from, and grow into each moment of your life.

Dieci anni fa Jon Kabat-Zinn cambiò il nostro modo di pensare alla pratica di consapevolezza nella vita quotidiana con Dovunque tu vada, ci sei già, ormai un classico. Ora, con Riprendere i sensi ci fornisce il testo di riferimento, nella nostra epoca, sulla relazione fra consapevolezza e benessere fisico e spirituale. Con rigore scientifico, doti poetiche e pregnanti narrazioni personali il dottor Kabat-Zinn prende in esame i misteri e le meraviglie della nostra mente e del nostro corpo e descrive modi semplici e intuitivi per arrivare, tramite i sensi, a una comprensione più profonda della nostra bellezza, del nostro genio e del percorso che scegliamo per la nostra vita in un mondo complicato, dominato dalla paura e in rapido mutamento.

Come to your senses with the definitive guide to living a meaningful life from a world expert in the connection between mindfulness and physical and spiritual wellbeing. "[The] journey toward health and sanity is nothing less than an invitation to wake up to the fullness of our lives as if they actually mattered . . ." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the Introduction Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Now, with Coming to Our Senses, he provides the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual wellbeing. With scientific rigor, poetic deftness, and compelling personal stories, Jon Kabat-Zinn examines the mysteries and marvels of our minds and bodies, describing simple, intuitive ways in which we can come to a deeper understanding, through our senses, of our beauty, our genius, and our life path in a complicated, fear-driven, and rapidly changing world. In each of the book''s eight parts, Jon Kabat-Zinn explores another facet of the great adventure of healing ourselves -- and our world -- through mindful awareness, with a focus on the "sensescapes" of our lives and how a more intentional awareness of the senses, including the human mind itself, allows us to live more fully and more authentically. By "coming to our senses" -- both literally and metaphorically by opening to our innate connectedness with the world around us and within us -- we can become more compassionate, more embodied, more aware human beings, and in the process, contribute to the healing of the body politic as well as our own lives in ways both little and big.

Mindfulness is considered the heart of Buddhist meditation. But its essence is universal and of deep practical benefit to everyone. In Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn maps out a simple path for cultivating mindfulness in our lives, and awakening us to the unique beauty and possibilities of each present moment. He shows us how this simple meditation technique can enable us to be truly in touch with where we already are, so that we can be fully aware at all times.