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The definitive guide to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), the eight-week clinical program developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center that uses mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and yoga to help people cope with stress, pain, and illness. Based on over thirty years of clinical experience with more than twenty thousand medical patients, this revised edition integrates the latest neuroscience research on how mindfulness practice changes brain structure and function, influences gene expression, and promotes healing.
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Informal Mindfulness Integration
Weave moment-to-moment awareness into the fabric of everyday life
PEAKongoing
Wholeness Through Participatory Medicine
Mobilize your own deep interior resources as a full partner in healing
SELFmonths
Sitting Meditation: Nourishing the Domain of Being
Reclaim the territory of being through disciplined stillness and presence
PRODweeks
Non-Doing as Time Mastery
Step outside the flow of time to transform your relationship with it
PEAKweeks
The Symptom as Messenger Framework
Listen to your symptoms as intelligent feedback, not enemies
SELFdays
Mindful Breathing as Anchor Practice
Use the breath as a portable anchor to calmness and clarity
MINDweeks
Working with Pain: Uncoupling the Dimensions of Suffering
Separate pain's sensory, emotional, and cognitive threads
PEAKweeks
The Body Scan Meditation
Systematically befriend your body through sustained attentive presence
MINDweeks
Stress Response vs. Stress Reaction Model
Replace automatic fight-or-flight with conscious mindfulness-mediated responding
PEAKweeks
The MBSR Eight-Week Curriculum
A structured eight-week program to build a lifelong mindfulness practice
MINDweeks
The Seven Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness
Cultivate the inner soil that makes mindfulness practice flourish