Full Catastrophe Living - an approach to easier living through mindfulness

Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Best Read Cover-to-Cover, Easy Read

Full Catastrophe Living was a reading assignment during the Mindfulness Base Stress Reduction program one of our HEY bloggers attended. Knowing nothing about meditation and mindfulness before reading this book made it even more interesting. It was a great introduction to those topics and also to the inner workings of the mind -- especially how thoughts could easily exacerbate stress and impact health.

This book is filled with great insight about our human condition and the suffering we all endure. Most importantly this book offers an approach to release that suffering and reset our minds. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He studies with Buddhist monks. In this book, Jon Kabat-Zinn uses mindfulness, meditation, and yoga as the foundation to help the reader lead a less stressful, more self-aware life. That in turn begins our journey toward a healthier, happier existence.