Table of Contents
Preface Thich Nhat Hanh xxiii
Introduction to the Second Edition xxv
Introduction: Stress, Pain, and Illness: Facing the Full Catastrophe xlvii
I The Practice of Mindfulness: Paying Attention
1 You Have Only Moments to Live 3
2 The Foundations of Mindfulness Practice: Attitudes and Commitment 19
3 The Power of Breathing: Your Unsuspected Ally in the Healing Process 39
4 Sitting Meditation: Nourishing the Domain of Being 54
5 Being in Your Body: The Body-Scan Meditation 75
6 Cultivating Strength, Balance, and Flexibility: Yoga Is Meditation 98
7 Walking Meditation 123
8 A Day of Mindfulness 132
9 Really Doing What You're Doing: Mindfulness in Daily Life 147
10 Getting Started in the Practice 156
II The Paradigm: A New Way of Thinking About Health and Illness
11 Introduction to the Paradigm 169
12 Glimpses of Wholeness, Delusions of Separateness 175
13 On Healing 193
14 Doctors, Patients, and People: Moving Toward a Unified Perspective on Health and Illness 219
15 Mind and Body: Evidence That Beliefs, Attitudes, Thoughts, and Emotions Can Harm or Heal 242
16 Connectedness and Interconnectedness 269
III Stress
17 Stress 267
18 Change: The One Thing You Can Be Sure Of 297
19 Stuck in Stress Reactivity 306
20 Responding to Stress Instead of Reacting 335
IV The Applications: Taking on the Full Catastrophe
21 Working with Symptoms: Listening to Your Body 353
22 Working with Physical Pain: Your Pain Is Not You 361
23 More on Working with Pain 386
24 Working with Emotional Pain: Your Suffering Is Not You … But There Is Much You Can Do to Heal It 411
25 Working with Fear, Panic, and Anxiety 430
26 Time and Time Stress 452
27 Sleep and Sleep Stress 470
28 People Stress 478
29 Role Stress 495
30 Work Stress 502
31 Food Stress 516
32 World Stress 538
V The Way of Awareness
33 New Beginnings 565
34 Keeping Up the Formal Practice 575
35 Keeping Up the Informal Practice 586
36 The Way of Awareness 592
Afterword 599
Acknowledgments 605
Appendix 611
Awareness Calendars 612
Reading List 617
Resources 629
Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practice CDs with Jon Kabat-Zinn: Ordering Information 633
Index 635