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Mindfulness-based cancer recovery : a step-by-step MBSR approach to help you cope with treatment & reclaim your life /
In Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery, two leading researchers on mindfulness programs for cancer patients present an eight-week program for coping with the symptoms of chemotherapy, radiation, and other cancer treatments by reducing stress and anxiety through meditation, mindfulness, and gentle yoga...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, CA :
New Harbinger Publications,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I.
- Setting the Stage
- 1.
- Mindfulness and Cancer
- Outline of This Book
- The Cancer Experience
- What Is Mindfulness?
- Roots of Mindfulness
- Development of MBCR
- Is Mindfulness for You?
- 2.
- Stress and Cancer
- The Stress Response
- The Effects of Prolonged Stress
- Recognizing Your Stress Symptoms
- Where Does Stress Come From?
- Stress and the Mind-Body Connection
- Mindfulness and Stress
- Stress and Cancer
- Coping with Stress
- Part II.
- The MBCR Program
- 3.
- Beginning the Program
- Intention, Attention, and Attitude
- Seeing Things Anew
- Paying Attention to Breathing
- Body ScanHow to Practice These Skills
- 4.
- Responding to Stress
- Reacting vs. Responding to Stress
- Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices
- Sitting Meditation
- 5.
- Mindful Movement
- The Context of Yoga
- Foundations for Yoga Practice
- Getting Started
- When to Practice Yoga
- 6.
- Balancing Breath
- The Autonomic Nervous System
- "Mini" Practices
- When to Do Minis
- 7.
- Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Your Life in Stories
- The Nature of Thought
- Trouble in Mind: Our Distressing Stories
- Thoughts Running Wild
- The "Don't Know" Mind
- Walking Meditation
- How to Practice These Skills
- 8.
- Meditation with Imagery
- Your Life in Images
- Mountain Meditation
- Lake and Tree Meditations
- Uses of Nature Meditation
- 9.
- A Day of Silence
- Why Practice a Day of Mindfulness in Silence?
- What the Day Involves
- How to Practice a Day of Silence
- 10.
- Deepening and Expanding
- Choiceless Awareness as a Path of Insight
- Choiceless Awareness and Cancer
- 11.
- Moving into the World
- You Are Not Alone
- The Weekly Drop-in Group
- Part III.
- Symptom Management and Everyday Mindfulness
- 12.
- Mindful Coping with Cancer-Related Symptoms and Side EffectsHair Loss and Changes in Self-Image and Identity
- Sleep and Fatigue
- Pain
- Nausea
- 13.
- Knowing Our Fear and Other Difficult Emotions
- The Paradox of Avoidance
- Opening to Emotional Suffering
- Working with Difficult Emotions
- Calming the Anxious Mind
- Antidotes to Difficult Emotions
- 14.
- What Now?
- Everyday Mindfulness
- Life as Your Practice
- Beyond Cancer
- Healing Our World: Mindfulness in Community
- Final Words
- Appendix
- Reading List
- Meditation Instruction
- Inspirational Books on Meditation
- Mind-Body Health
- BuddhistFaith-Guided Approaches
- Visualization and Imagery
- Yoga and Stretching
- Websites.