Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery
Description
A Mind-Body Approach to Healing
If you have received a cancer diagnosis, you know that the hundreds of questions and concerns you have about what''s to come can be as stressful as the cancer treatment itself. But research shows that if you mentally prepare yourself to handle cancer treatment by getting stress and anxiety under control, you can improve your quality of life and become an active participant in your own recovery.
Created by leading psychologists specializing in oncology, the Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery program is based on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a therapeutic combination of mindfulness meditation and gentle yoga now offered to cancer survivors and their loved ones in hundreds of medical centers, hospitals, and clinics worldwide. Let this book be your guide as you let go of fear and focus on getting well.
With this eight-week program, you''ll learn to:.Use proven MBSR skills during your treatment and recovery .Boost your immune function through meditation and healing yoga .Calm feelings of fear, uncertainty, and lack of control .Mindfully manage difficult symptoms and side effects .Discover your own capacity for healing and thriving after adversityMore details
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Content
- Intro
- Part I
- Setting the Stage
- Chapter 1
- Mindfulness and Cancer
- Outline of This Book
- The Cancer Experience
- What Is Mindfulness?
- Roots of Mindfulness
- Development of MBCR
- Is Mindfulness for You?
- Chapter 2
- Stress and Cancer
- 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
- Part II
- The MBCR Program
- Chapter 3
- Beginning the Program
- Intention, Attention, and Attitude
- Seeing Things Anew
- Paying Attention to Breathing
- Body Scan
- How to Practice These Skills
- Chapter 4
- Responding to Stress
- Reacting vs. Responding to Stress
- Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices
- Sitting Meditation
- Chapter 5
- Mindful Movement
- The Context of Yoga
- Foundations for Yoga Practice
- Getting Started
- When to Practice Yoga
- Chapter 6
- Balancing Breath
- The Autonomic Nervous System
- "Mini" Practices
- When to Do Minis
- Chapter 7
- Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Your Life in Stories
- The Nature of Thought
- Trouble in Mind: Our Distressing Stories
- Thoughts Running Wild
- The "Don't Know" Mind
- Walking Meditation
- How to Practice These Skills
- Chapter 8
- Meditation with Imagery
- Your Life in Images
- Mountain Meditation
- Lake and Tree Meditations
- Uses of Nature Meditation
- Chapter 9
- A Day of Silence
- Why Practice a Day of Mindfulness in Silence?
- What the Day Involves
- How to Practice a Day of Silence
- Chapter 10
- Deepening and Expanding
- Choiceless Awareness as a Path of Insight
- Choiceless Awareness and Cancer
- Chapter 11
- Moving into the World
- You Are Not Alone
- The Weekly Drop-in Group
- Part III
- Symptom Management and Everyday Mindfulness
- Chapter 12
- Mindful Coping with Cancer-Related Symptoms and Side Effects
- Hair Loss and Changes in Self-Image and Identity
- Sleep and Fatigue
- Pain
- Nausea
- Chapter 13
- Knowing Our Fear and Other Difficult Emotions
- The Paradox of Avoidance
- Opening to Emotional Suffering
- Working with Difficult Emotions
- Calming the Anxious Mind
- Antidotes to Difficult Emotions
- Chapter 14
- What Now?
- Everyday Mindfulness
- Life as Your Practice
- Beyond Cancer
- Healing Our World: Mindfulness in Community
- Final Words
- Appendix
- Reading List
- Meditation Instruction
- Inspirational Books on Meditation
- Mind-Body Health
- Buddhist
- Faith-Guided Approaches
- Visualization and Imagery
- Yoga and Stretching
- Websites
- References
