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# 600+ pages of deep mindfulness wisdom Top #40 in Stress Management Self-Help books Complete Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

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## Key Features

- • **Master Stress Like a Pro:** Unlock proven techniques to face stress, pain, and illness with science-backed mindfulness.
- • **Comprehensive Mindfulness Course:** Dive into a full MBSR program that transforms your mental resilience and emotional well-being.
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- • **Enduring Wisdom for Life’s Catastrophes:** Timeless insights that grow with you—read it once, revisit forever, and always discover new depth.
- • **Scientifically Grounded & Practically Tested:** Backed by decades of research and real-world application, this book is your ultimate stress survival toolkit.

## Overview

Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition) by Jon Kabat-Zinn offers a comprehensive, research-backed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program spanning over 600 pages. Ranked among the top stress management self-help books, it provides practical tools to face stress, pain, and illness through meditation, mindful living, and holistic health practices. With a 4.6-star rating from over 3,400 readers, this edition remains a definitive guide for professionals seeking lasting mental resilience and emotional balance.

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Review: Is your life a Full Catastrophe right now? Then get this! YOUR LIFE COULD DEPEND ON IT! Seriously! - An excellent guidebook for facing the worst things in life. The best book I know of for those facing overwhelming problems & disasters & catastrophes -- which is almost everyone, sooner or later. Especially if you're facing serious physical problems & illnesses, but also for anyone in an equally terrible states for any reason. Condensed wisdom on how to live, and live a basically good and meaningful life, in the midst of the worst things happening to you. This is one of those extremely rare books that I think everyone would benefit from reading, and enormously so. Wish I had read it every year since I could start reading. The only real issue I have with it is that he doesn't condense the distilled wisdom as much as he could. I will try summing up the main things here, though this list of actions to take is oversimplified & biased towards my own experiences: 1) Find the best doctors and therapists in your area, including a Stress Reduction Clinic, or something like it. If they aren't working out, find ones that will. Probably will be lifechanging. 2) Visit a professional Pain Management clinic. Crucially important. 3) Learn to meditate, and do it daily. It's simple, easy, and surprisingly effective. The better you get at it, the more routine it is, and the more you can DETATCH from pain and suffering. Absolutely essential. (If you can't do it alone, get help & training. Also: you might learn it best through Yoga or Tai Chi -- all of which go hand-in-hand). 4) Be with others who are going through catastrophes. Especially catastrophes similar to your own, if possible. Alone, you'll probably feel overwhelmed and hopeless; with others, you probably won't. Helps massively. 5) Do Dry Sauna OR some form of intense cardiovascular exercise every day (treadmill, elliptical exerciser, bicycling, aerobics, sports, martial arts training -- SOMETHING), if at all possible. Might be hard at first, but you'll get addicted to it sooner or later, and then it will be effortless. Will help you intensely, and in multiple ways, by a) releasing tons of painkillers into your system b) dramatically improving your emotional state c) killing stress d) helping you detatch from both physical pain & emotional suffering e) radically improving your immune system f) flushing toxins from your tissues, which are constantly adding to the pain & stress. 6) Do Yoga, Tai Chi, or something similar every day. Deeply relaxing, pain-detatching, and helps your ability to meditate dramatically. 7) Find the best-tasting foods that are super healthy & nutritious & preservative-free & pesticide-free, and focus on eating them all the time, so you can avoid the terribly toxic foods that are multiplying your stress/pain/suffering drastically. 8) Listen to audio tapes on meditation, stress, tai chi, health, and all the other things listed above & related to them, while doing these activities. This will a) reinforce everything you're learning b) keep you maximally informed on all these things c) distract you & detatch you from pain/suffering/problems d) keep you INSPIRED and MOTIVATED to do them & keep doing them. 9) Get as deeply into spirituality as you can (or a profound form of existentialism if you're non-spiritual). Helps profoundly, and may be the most important thing of all. 10) Understand that EVERYONE goes through catastrophes, sooner or later, in one form or another. This is the way life is. Learning to accept this will help enormously. I could go on, but those are the most crucial things. Good luck.
Review: The Most Comprehensive Resource on Mindfulness! - I teach mindfulness and I started with one of Kabat-Zinn's easier books: "Mindfulness for Beginners". It wasn't until I starting working on my dissertation that I got this book a year or two later. This book is the complete course in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). There are other books that are a spin-off or they use Kabat-Zinn's teachings, however, this book gives you everything including a complete program. The only issue that I had was that I had to buy the CD's separately. This is a heavy course and while some of the information in the book is from the 80's and 90's, there are updates to this book that make it relevant even for those of you who are looking for things that are current. It took me quite a while to read this book, it is not easy. I mean it is written with simple language but it is extremely deep and at over 600 pages, it took me some time as I flipped back and forth between the charts and took time to compare it with my own teaching of mindfulness. You can read this book over and over and over again and every time you go back, you will find something new and you will learn something different. This is a book that will remain on my shelf for the remained of my life and it is a resource that I turn to when I need something that is mindfulness related. If you are a teacher in a school district that infuses mindfulness for your children as part of a mental health initiative, this book may be a little too much. I would not start with this. I would start with Chambers & Hassed (2015): "Mindful Learning" or begin with one of Kabat-Zinn's other shorter books such as: "Wherever you go, There you are."

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 0345536932 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #10,589 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #38 in Stress Management Self-Help #77 in Alternative Medicine (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (3,412) |
| Dimensions  | 6.1 x 2 x 9.1 inches |
| Edition  | Revised |
| ISBN-10  | 9780345536938 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0345536938 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 720 pages |
| Publication date  | September 24, 2013 |
| Publisher  | Bantam |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Is your life a Full Catastrophe right now? Then get this! YOUR LIFE COULD DEPEND ON IT! Seriously!
*by D***E on May 23, 2011*

An excellent guidebook for facing the worst things in life. The best book I know of for those facing overwhelming problems & disasters & catastrophes -- which is almost everyone, sooner or later. Especially if you're facing serious physical problems & illnesses, but also for anyone in an equally terrible states for any reason. Condensed wisdom on how to live, and live a basically good and meaningful life, in the midst of the worst things happening to you. This is one of those extremely rare books that I think everyone would benefit from reading, and enormously so. Wish I had read it every year since I could start reading. The only real issue I have with it is that he doesn't condense the distilled wisdom as much as he could. I will try summing up the main things here, though this list of actions to take is oversimplified & biased towards my own experiences: 1) Find the best doctors and therapists in your area, including a Stress Reduction Clinic, or something like it. If they aren't working out, find ones that will. Probably will be lifechanging. 2) Visit a professional Pain Management clinic. Crucially important. 3) Learn to meditate, and do it daily. It's simple, easy, and surprisingly effective. The better you get at it, the more routine it is, and the more you can DETATCH from pain and suffering. Absolutely essential. (If you can't do it alone, get help & training. Also: you might learn it best through Yoga or Tai Chi -- all of which go hand-in-hand). 4) Be with others who are going through catastrophes. Especially catastrophes similar to your own, if possible. Alone, you'll probably feel overwhelmed and hopeless; with others, you probably won't. Helps massively. 5) Do Dry Sauna OR some form of intense cardiovascular exercise every day (treadmill, elliptical exerciser, bicycling, aerobics, sports, martial arts training -- SOMETHING), if at all possible. Might be hard at first, but you'll get addicted to it sooner or later, and then it will be effortless. Will help you intensely, and in multiple ways, by a) releasing tons of painkillers into your system b) dramatically improving your emotional state c) killing stress d) helping you detatch from both physical pain & emotional suffering e) radically improving your immune system f) flushing toxins from your tissues, which are constantly adding to the pain & stress. 6) Do Yoga, Tai Chi, or something similar every day. Deeply relaxing, pain-detatching, and helps your ability to meditate dramatically. 7) Find the best-tasting foods that are super healthy & nutritious & preservative-free & pesticide-free, and focus on eating them all the time, so you can avoid the terribly toxic foods that are multiplying your stress/pain/suffering drastically. 8) Listen to audio tapes on meditation, stress, tai chi, health, and all the other things listed above & related to them, while doing these activities. This will a) reinforce everything you're learning b) keep you maximally informed on all these things c) distract you & detatch you from pain/suffering/problems d) keep you INSPIRED and MOTIVATED to do them & keep doing them. 9) Get as deeply into spirituality as you can (or a profound form of existentialism if you're non-spiritual). Helps profoundly, and may be the most important thing of all. 10) Understand that EVERYONE goes through catastrophes, sooner or later, in one form or another. This is the way life is. Learning to accept this will help enormously. I could go on, but those are the most crucial things. Good luck.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Most Comprehensive Resource on Mindfulness!
*by D***G on October 9, 2018*

I teach mindfulness and I started with one of Kabat-Zinn's easier books: "Mindfulness for Beginners". It wasn't until I starting working on my dissertation that I got this book a year or two later. This book is the complete course in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). There are other books that are a spin-off or they use Kabat-Zinn's teachings, however, this book gives you everything including a complete program. The only issue that I had was that I had to buy the CD's separately. This is a heavy course and while some of the information in the book is from the 80's and 90's, there are updates to this book that make it relevant even for those of you who are looking for things that are current. It took me quite a while to read this book, it is not easy. I mean it is written with simple language but it is extremely deep and at over 600 pages, it took me some time as I flipped back and forth between the charts and took time to compare it with my own teaching of mindfulness. You can read this book over and over and over again and every time you go back, you will find something new and you will learn something different. This is a book that will remain on my shelf for the remained of my life and it is a resource that I turn to when I need something that is mindfulness related. If you are a teacher in a school district that infuses mindfulness for your children as part of a mental health initiative, this book may be a little too much. I would not start with this. I would start with Chambers & Hassed (2015): "Mindful Learning" or begin with one of Kabat-Zinn's other shorter books such as: "Wherever you go, There you are."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
*by K***S on February 19, 2011*

This is a great book about how the Buddhist practice of Mindfulness Meditation can help an individual gain insight into the body and mind. By implementing these practices, you can become more aware of life moment to moment. The book describes how this type of meditation is used at the Massachusetts General hospital Pain Reduction Clinic, where the author Kabat-Zinn uses a combination of Mindfulness practices to help people with serious, chronic illnesses ranging from heart disease, back pain, cancer and AIDS. The book gives more than just the history of the practices and how they have been medically proven to help bring wholeness to the mind, body and spirit. It provides the basic instruction how to begin such practice in your own life. This is not a book to read and leave but one to use as a guide to practice mindfulness in your own life. The author has provided other boos to begin meditation practice that are focused on the practice alone. This book serves as a great introduction.

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