Full Catastrophe Living

Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: Sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking audiobook shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit. By using the practices described within, you can:

• Learn to manage chronic pain resulting from illness and/or stress related disorders
• Discover the roles that anger and tension play in heart disease
• Reduce anxiety and feelings of panic
• Improve overall quality of life and relationships through mindfulness meditation and mindful yoga

More timely than ever before, Full Catastrophe Living is an audiobook for the young and the old, the well, the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in today’s world.

©2007 Jon Kabat-Zinn (P)2007 Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"A practical guide not only to mindfulness meditation and healing, but daily life." (Joseph Goldstein, author of One Dharma)
"Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn eloquently explains the power of paying attention and increasing awareness. I strongly recommend this book for everyone who wants to begin healing [to] their life." (Dean Ornish, M.D.)

Slowing Down Time Itself

Sometimes we gotta listen to something like that: soothing, motivational, relaxing, healthy. Better, we gotta listen to it on a regular basis. The book focus on concentrating in the moment, instead of thinking about the past or wondering about the future. We have to listen to our body, learn how to breathe, being fully there.
Jon Kabat-Zinn has a penetrating voice that convinced me to practice mindfulness.
Great book!

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good stuff

this audio book really helped me get to the ideas in thia book. excellent abridged version

Don’t let the old copyright deter you

This book is as relevant today as it was when it was written - if not more! For anyone coping with burnout, stress, or pandemic exhaustion, there is so much tried and true wisdom in this book. Even as a mindfulness skeptic, I found myself alternately moved to tears and shaken awake, invigorated by these ideas and the science that backs them up.

Present Moment Living

I want to be more mindful and the author describes different ways to live that way. I find observing pain and stress rather than reacting to it beneficial to my well being. I want appreciate the moments as they come rather than relying on negative connotations. Dr. Kabat-Zinn's work has introduced to me a new way to accept things as they come and let go.

Great Book, worth it!

I greatly enjoyed listening to this book. I had to buy this for school this semester and l want to listen a few more times to continue to learn. Awesome book listened on 2X and was able to pick up everything. Highly recommended!

every person should read this book

I'm a licensed clinical social worker and cannot recommend this book highly enough to both mental health practitioners and people who are looking to improve the quality of their lives

good introduction

voice is very calming and helpful to stop and smell the roses each day. i would recomemd

Highly Recommended By A Pain Psychologist

This book high List the best way to heal from your chronic pain. This book is your stepping stone into "practicing@ Mindfulness.

This is one of my most highly recommended books for my patients who are afflicted with chronic pain. The strategies suggested here are not only practical --it is evidenced based!

Apply the book's steps into creating a daily habit of Mindfulness and see your pain transform before your eyes with a committed practice.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is superb.

If you could sum up Full Catastrophe Living in three words, what would they be?

Jon Kabat-Zinn explains how to begin to practice mindfulness and tells reasons why this practice is beneficial.

Have you listened to any of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Currently I am listening to Jon's Mindfulness Pain Reduction. This is my favorite since I need knee replacements and pain is constant. I have been able to reduce my pain medication.

At the right time

the beginning of a profound change in my mind and life.... thankful to have found this book... it addresses the very issues that I have been battling but with a simple solution that I never would have imagined .