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Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Foreword | p. ix |
Setting the Stage | |
Mindfulness and Cancer | p. 3 |
Outline of This Book | |
The Cancer Experience | |
What Is Mindfulness? | |
Roots of Mindfulness | |
Development of MBCR | |
Is Mindfulness for You? | |
Stress and Cancer | p. 17 |
The Stress Response | |
The Effects of Prolonged Stress | |
Recognizing Your Stress Symptoms | |
Where Does Stress Come From? | |
Stress and the Mind-Body Connection | |
Mindfulness and Stress | |
Stress and Cancer | |
Coping with Stress | |
The MBCR Program | |
Beginning the Program | p. 35 |
Intention, Attention, and Attitude | |
Seeing Things Anew | |
Paying Attention to Breathing | |
Body Scan | |
How to Practice These Skills | |
Responding to Stress | p. 53 |
Reacting vs. Responding to Stress | |
Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices | |
Sitting Meditation | |
Mindful Movement | p. 69 |
The Context of Yoga | |
Foundations for Yoga Practice | |
Getting Started | |
When to Practice Yoga | |
Balancing Breath | p. 99 |
The Autonomic Nervous System | |
ôMiniö Practices | |
When to Do Minis | |
Stories We Tell Ourselves | p. 109 |
Your Life in Stories | |
The Nature of Thought | |
Trouble in Mind: Our Distressing Stories | |
Thoughts Running Wild | |
The ôDon't Knowö Mind | |
Walking Meditation | |
How to Practice These Skills | |
Meditation with Imagery | p. 121 |
Your Life in Images | |
Mountain Meditation | |
Lake and Tree Meditations | |
Uses of Nature Meditation | |
A Day of Silence | p. 127 |
Why Practice a Day of Mindfulness in Silence? | |
What the Day Involves | |
How to Practice a Day of Silence | |
Deepening and Expanding | p. 137 |
Choiceless Awareness as a Path of Insight | |
Choiceless Awareness and Cancer | |
Moving into the World | p. 143 |
You Are Not Alone | |
The Weekly Drop-in Group | |
Symptom Management and Everyday Mindfulness | |
Mindful Coping with Cancer-Related Symptoms and Side Effects | p. 151 |
Hair Loss and Changes in Self-Image and Identity | |
Sleep and Fatigue | |
Pain | |
Nausea | |
Knowing Your Fear and Other Difficult Emotions | p. 163 |
The Paradox of Avoidance | |
Opening to Emotional Suffering | |
Working with Difficult Emotions | |
Calming the Anxious Mind | |
Antidotes to Difficult Emotions | |
What Now? | p. 169 |
Everyday Mindfulness | |
Life as Your Practice | |
Beyond Cancer | |
Healing Our World: Mindfulness in Community | |
Final Words | |
Appendix: Reading List | p. 177 |
Meditation Instruction | |
Inspirational Books on Meditation | |
Mind-Body Health | |
Buddhist | |
Faith-Guided Approaches | |
Visualization and Imagery | |
Yoga and Stretching | |
Websites | |
References | p. 185 |
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