Full Catastrophe Living
By jon Kabat-Zinn
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Boston, has been recognized as one of the most fundamental leaders in the field of contemplative sciences. This book, widely acknowledged as a the central text for meditation novices, has catalyzed a mindfulness movement in Western medicine and has brought mindfulness out of its esoteric philosophical shadows and into the cultural mainstream.
Full Catastrophe Living provides step-by-step guidance to meditation and lays the foundation for the revolutionary Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course. This book is a must for anybody who is curious, restarting their practice, or those established practitioners who are hoping to reconnect to the fundamentals.
“With warmth, knowledge, and personal storytelling, Rhonda Magee offers us a path to look into the painful truths of structural racial oppression with mindfulness and compassion, which provides the necessary emotional grounding to skillfully work through the pain to generate new solutions through authentic connections to more communities. It may take generations to undo the harms of systemic racial oppression, but with this revolutionary book, Rhonda brings us many generations closer.”
Helen Weng, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco
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