"The program of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 450-454) and index.

THE PRACTICE OF MINDFULNESS: PAYING ATTENTION. You have only moments to live -- The foundations of mindfulness practice: attitudes and commitment -- the power of breathing: your unsuspected ally in the heaing process -- Sitting meditation: nourishing the domain of being -- Being in your body: the body-scan technique -- Cultivating strength, balance, and flexibility: yoga is meditation -- Walking meditation -- A day of mindfulness -- Really doing what you're doing: mindfulness in daily life -- Getting started in the practice -- THE PARADIGM: A NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT HEALTH AND ILLNESS. Introduction to the paradigm -- Glimpses of wholeness, delusions of separateness -- On healing -- Doctors, patients, and people: moving toward a unified perspective on health and illness -- Mind and body: evidence that beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, and emotions can harm or heal -- Connectedness -- STRESS. Stress -- Change: one thing you can be sure of -- Stuck in stress reactivity -- Responding to stress instead of reacting -- THE APPLICATIONS: TAKING ON THE FULL CATASTROPHE. Working with symptoms: listening to your body -- Working with physical pain: your pain is not you -- More on pain -- working with emotional pain: your suffering is not you...but there is much more you can do to heal it -- Working with fear, panic, and anxiety -- Time and time stress -- Sleep and sleep stress -- People stress -- Role stress -- Work stress -- Food stress -- World stress -- THE WAY OF AWARENESS. New beginnings -- Keeping up the formal practice -- Keeping up the informal practice -- The way of awareness.