Friday, July 09, 2010
Full Catastrophe Living - Jon Kabat-Zinn
Full catastrophe living
Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
There are many ways of looking at any thing or event or process. When your mind changes, new possibilities tend to arise.
In fact, everything changes when you can see things on different levels simultaneously, when you can see fullness and connectedness as well as individuality and separateness.
Your thinking expands in scope. This can be a profoundly liberating experience.
It can take you beyond your limited preoccupations with yourself. It can put things in a larger perspective…
When we use the word healing to describe the experiences of people in the stress clinic, what we mean above all is that they are undergoing a profound transformation of view. This transformation of view creates an entirely different context within which we can see and work with our problems, however serious they may be.
It is a perceptual shift away from fragmentation and isolation toward wholeness and connectedness. With this change of perspective comes a shift from feeling out of control and beyond help (helpless and pessimistic) to a sense of the possible, a sense of acceptance and control.
Healing always involves an attitudinal and emotional transformation. Sometimes, but not always, it is also accompanied by a major reduction in physical symptoms and by improvement in a person’s physical condition.
Dramatic or subtle, such shifts in perspective are signs of seeing with eyes of wholeness. Out of this shift in perspective comes an ability to act with greater balance, especially when encountering stress or pain.
Amazon link to this book review :
http://www.amazon.com/Full-Catastrophe-Living-Wisdom-Illness/dp/0385303122/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1278680345&sr=1-1
Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
There are many ways of looking at any thing or event or process. When your mind changes, new possibilities tend to arise.
In fact, everything changes when you can see things on different levels simultaneously, when you can see fullness and connectedness as well as individuality and separateness.
Your thinking expands in scope. This can be a profoundly liberating experience.
It can take you beyond your limited preoccupations with yourself. It can put things in a larger perspective…
When we use the word healing to describe the experiences of people in the stress clinic, what we mean above all is that they are undergoing a profound transformation of view. This transformation of view creates an entirely different context within which we can see and work with our problems, however serious they may be.
It is a perceptual shift away from fragmentation and isolation toward wholeness and connectedness. With this change of perspective comes a shift from feeling out of control and beyond help (helpless and pessimistic) to a sense of the possible, a sense of acceptance and control.
Healing always involves an attitudinal and emotional transformation. Sometimes, but not always, it is also accompanied by a major reduction in physical symptoms and by improvement in a person’s physical condition.
Dramatic or subtle, such shifts in perspective are signs of seeing with eyes of wholeness. Out of this shift in perspective comes an ability to act with greater balance, especially when encountering stress or pain.
Amazon link to this book review :
http://www.amazon.com/Full-Catastrophe-Living-Wisdom-Illness/dp/0385303122/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1278680345&sr=1-1
