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Book: Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
Quotes of Book: Full Catastrophe Living,
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  1. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    when you inhabit the domain of alert and affectionate attention, the domain of non-judgmental spaciousness, and simply rest in awareness with no agenda other than to be awake. We adopt this perspective of open presence and acceptance throughout the meditation practice.
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  2. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    Catastrophe here does not mean disaster. Rather, it means the poignant enormity of our life experience. It includes crisis and disaster, the unthinkable and the unacceptable, but it also includes all the little things that go wrong and that add up. The phrase reminds us that life is always in flux, that everything we think is permanent is actually only temporary and constantly changing. This includes our ideas, our opinions, our relationships, our jobs, our possessions, our creations, our bodies, everything.
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  3. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    the highly respected macroeconomist Jeffrey Sachs has recently made an impassioned and well-argued case in his book The Price of Civilization that mindfulness needs to be at the heart of any attempt to resolve the major problems we face as a country and, by implication, as a world.
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  4. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    In the old days, if a king didn't like the message he was given, he would sometimes have the messenger killed. This is tantamount to suppressing your symptoms or your feelings because they are unwanted. Killing the messenger and denying the message or raging against it are not intelligent ways of approaching healing. The one thing we don't want to do is to ignore or rupture the essential connections that can complete relevant feedback loops and restore allostasis, self-regulation, and balance. Our real challenge when we have symptoms is to see if we can listen to their messages and really hear them and take them to heart, that is, make the connection fully.
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  5. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    The transactional view of psychological stress reminds us that we can be more resistant to stress, more resilient, if we build up our resources and enhance our physical and psychological well-being in general {for example, via regular exercise, meditation, adequate sleep, and the deep connectedness of interpersonal intimacy, to name four of the most important ones} during times when we are not particularly taxed or overwhelmed. This is our biological and psychological "bank account" from which we can withdraw needed resources on some occasions, and to which we can make deposits at other times. This is really what the phrase "healthy lifestyle" implies.
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  6. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    When I was talking to a reporter, she said, "Oh, you mean to live for the moment." I said, "No, it isn't that. That has a hedonistic ring to it. I mean to live in the moment.
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  7. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    It would not be hard to imagine that a happy hermit, living in isolation, might feel connected to everything in nature and all people on the planet and not be at all affected by a dearth of human neighbors.
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  8. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it is the essence of mindfulness practice.
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  9. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    Because of this inner busyness, which is going on almost all the time, we are liable either to miss a lot of the texture of our life experience or to discount its value and meaning.
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  10. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    cultivating mindfulness is not unlike the process of eating. It would be absurd to propose that someone else eat for you. And when you go to a restaurant, you don't eat the menu, mistaking it for the meal, nor are you nourished by listening to the waiter describe the food. You have to actually eat the food for it to nourish you. In the same way, you have to actually practice mindfulness, by which I mean cultivate it systematically in your own life, in order to reap its benefits and come to understand why it is so valuable.
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  11. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Full Catastrophe Living,

    One very important domain of our lives and experience that we tend to miss, ignore, abuse, or lose control of as a result of being in the automatic pilot mode is our own body.
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