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Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body and Your Life |  | Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
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Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1591797403
Dewey Decimal Number: 615
EAN: 9781591797401
ASIN: 1591797403
Publication Date: December 28, 2009
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Mindfulness can transform pain. Over the past three decades, Jon Kabat-Zinn has clinically proven it. Now, with Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief, the man who brought mindfulness into mainstream medicine presents for the first time on audio his original practices for using conscious awareness to free us from physical and emotional suff ering. This long-awaited two-CD program begins with an overview of how mindfulness changes the way our bodies process pain and stress. Listeners will learn tips and techniques for working with the mind and embracing whatever arises in our lives, however challenging. Then Jon Kabat-Zinn leads us in guided meditations drawn from his pioneering Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) methodology to help us work with and find relief from chronic pain, everyday stress, and emotional challenges, as well as to read and act appropriately in the face of acute pain. "Mindfulness can reveal what is deepest and best in ourselves and bring it to life in very practical and imaginative ways--just when we need it the most," explains Jon Kabat-Zinn. Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief gives us a ready tool for overcoming even the most extraordinary difficulties.
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 Manna From Heaven for Those in Pain February 19, 2010
O. Brown (Twopeas, WA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
*****
I am not an accomplished meditator or a person who enjoys sitting still. However, this two CD set was manna from heaven for me. I suffer with chronic pain of various types and often resort to painkillers and NSAIDS. Much of the time I also am tense and worried because of the pain and from trying to deal with life while in pain. I have other Jon Kabat-Zinn meditation CDs, and they are fine, but this one was exactly what I needed. It is for people who are in pain, including intense pain, and who are open to dealing with this pain via a daily practice of meditating by listening to one of the short meditation exercises on these CDs.
The exercises are of varying lengths, and most are found on the second CD. They range from about 4 minutes to up to 18 minutes. You can listen to one or more at any time. In addition, the first CD is one the author suggests you listen to repeatedly, as it describes an approach to mindfulness, to awareness, to a gentler way of dealing with pain than stringent resistance and fear (my usual approach). He addresses all kinds of problems a listener might have. For example, you might be in so much pain that you cannot even focus on your breath at all; he has a way of dealing with this. In addition, he provides alternatives to basic normal meditation practice, so say, if you're interrupted by unbearable pain in one area of your body, you can breathe into it, you can focus on the pain and then move back to your breath, etc. This felt like a meditation tape made especially for me.
His voice is so calm and soothing that even just listening to it calmed me down. Often my pain levels make me feel agitated and I hyperfocus on such thoughts as "I can't stand this!" or "My life is terrible because of this!" or "When will I be able to just do what I want to do". He addresses these defeating thoughts too, in a calm and accepting way.
If you do not struggle with chronic pain, get another of Jon Kabat-Zinn's CDs. They are all good. But if you are ill, if you are in pain, and even if you struggle with emotional pain and anxiety, I would so highly recommend this CD set. I will listen to this one over and over again and am quite excited about it too. I wish I could give it 6 stars.
Highly recommended.
*****
High Quality Help January 29, 2010
Zoeeagleeye (Belfast, ME United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jon Kabat-Zinn's voice is like listening to a real person rather than an oily-slick guru, a friend to whom you are turning for help. His tone is casual, suggestive, eminently reasonable. Because of this, you are inclined to do what he says, which is very good news for you.
These two CDs are full of help for those who hurt. The music enhances the experience of the words you hear. All the meditational, practical and problematical bases are covered. He knows why you want to run and where to. He patiently brings you slowly to yourself. Therefore, you are brought always to the present, to mindfulness, and that alone is worth the cost of the CDs.
Meet the one True Doctor: a peaceful mind February 9, 2010
James G. Snyder (Albuquerque, NM USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a truly precious resource for the ailing western medical patient. More importantly, if you listen with an open mind you realize that we all are this ailing patient in constant pain. For years now Kabat-Zinn has refined the presentation of the instructions for finding, exploring and stabilizing a mental state known as mindfulness in a secular, scientific mode.
Mindfulness is a particular meditative technique originally popularized in the U.S. by Theravadan tradition Buddhist meditation teachers who created the Insight Meditation Centers. A practice common in many traditions, in this form it has very little presentation that requires religious dogma or belief. This is a profound benefit when teaching this meditative path to persons with an in-place set of religious beliefs, even more so if these beliefs consist of a strongly skeptical non-religious stance.
Through the establishment of many MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) programs in health institutions he has established clinical proof of the effectiveness of these techniques in reducing pain and improving health. It's a sad state of affairs when millions of practitioners over thousands of years have testified that these techniques work, but we only believe clinical studies from hospitals, but that's our modern mind at work. The important thing is Jon Kabat-Zinn has hard evidence we trust and clear instructions we can follow.
These audio disks teache a profoundly peaceful meditative posture of non-judgmental observation, a stance that when stabilized allows us discover the richness of the present moment. An amazing feature of this moment for persons with debilitating pain and illness is that there is very little experience of pain in it. Most of our experience of suffering comes from lingering memory of pain and anticipated aversion of more to come.
While a meditation purist might say that this experience of relaxation is not the purpose of meditation, it is a common consequence. Further, the attainment of peace and insight from these methods usually only comes after pain reduction has smoothed the ground.
This audio set will walk you through various practices so you can find a pain free path that fits you.
Context and Content February 19, 2010
A. B. King
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This two-CD set is oriented for those in chronic pain. The first CD is a
lecture by Jon Kabat-Zinn that gives a context for the meditation. The
second CD has the meditations.
Although the first CD is a lecture, his speaking style takes the
listener into a meditative state. He makes the distinction between pain
and suffering. Pain is physical; suffering is emotional. There's not a
lot you can do about pain, but changing your attitude can help with the
suffering. A lot of this lecture was familiar from lectures on
mindfulness by others. He recommends listening to the lecture
repeatedly. I agree because the concepts that are presented are hard to
take in on the first listening. I also found that listening to the
first one set me up for a better experience in the meditation CD.
The meditation CD has a little intro lecture before going into the
guided meditations. One of the best things about his technique is that
you don't have to get into a specific posture. You can sit comfortably
or lie down. You can lie on your back or curled up in the fetal
position, whatever it takes to be as comfortable as possible. This is
for people in pain, not for Zen students.
Soon after receiving this CD set, I woke up with a migraine. As
soon as I could move around, I listened to the CDs. I felt much better
after the meditations.
I am recommending this set to a friend with chronic back problems.
If you have chronic pain, this is worth the investment of money and
time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn Never Disappoints January 28, 2010
Cheryl L. Malone (Costa Mesa, CA USA)
I have always liked Jon Kabat-Zinn products. Since I teach a yoga class and do a twenty minute relaxation at the end of our session; I used this CD for our session and it worked well. We did the short body scan on the second CD.
This is a two CD set used for pain relief. It is important to note that this must be used on a regular basis; to insure good results. These CD's cover breath, mindfulness, principles for working with pain, working with thoughts and emotions and the body scan. On CD one the longest session is 12 mins. but if you listen to CD1 in total; it's about 40 mins. The second CD is longer for a total of 75 mins.; and the longest session being 19 mins. So no matter how much time you have ; there is something you can do. If you have pain or discomfort I would recommend that you give this a try.
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