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Being Well (even When You're Sick): Mindfulness Practices for People with Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses

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Being Well (even When You're Sick): Mindfulness Practices for People with Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses

Author:   Elana Rosenbaum
Publisher:   Shambhala Publications Inc
ISBN:  

9781611800005


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   02 October 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Maintaining a state of well-being and equanimity in the midst of serious disease is a challenge, but mindfulness can help make it possible. It is a process of bringing a fierce but loving attention to everything that arises in our mind and body. The simple techniques Elana Rosenbaum presents here are the same ones she uses with the people in her practice of mindfulness-based psychotherapy and stress reduction--and that she uses herself as a cancer survivor. These are methods that offer proof positive that it is indeed possible not only to have a life while you're seriously ill, but that the life can include satisfaction, ease, and happiness.
This book includes a downloadable companion 60-minute audio program with seven simple mindfulness practices.

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Author:   Elana Rosenbaum
Publisher:   Shambhala Publications Inc
Imprint:   Shambhala Publications Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9781611800005


ISBN 10:   1611800005
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   02 October 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Speaking directly from her life experience, Elana Rosenbaum offers a rich variety of practical and compassionate mindfulness teachings and practices--wisdom particularly tailored to those who find themselves facing life-threatening illness. Certainly many readers will be helped immensely by both the teachings and the methods, whether these are new ideas to them or treasured, familiar ones. --Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness <br> Reading this book is like sitting beside a dear friend when you need it the most. Savor this book for a few hours (don't wait until you're sick!) and notice the difference it makes. --Christopher Germer, PhD, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion <br> This is a subtle and powerful book, a masterpiece of simplicity, clarity, and caring. It is profoundly inspiring and at the same time, extremely practical. --from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn <br> Elana Rosenbaum wears gravity well. The maelstrom of cancer has swept her far beneath the waves and she has arisen repeatedly in celebration of life! Because of this, her buoyancy is trustworthy, wise, and delightfully light. Through story, poetry, unflinching transparency, and dozens of simple, straightforward awareness exercises she helps us hold ourselves more kindly, see ourselves more clearly, and discover our inborn capacity to wade into the great sea of uncertainty with curiosity and ease. Filled with gusto, grit, and gladness, this generous book is a guide and manifesto celebrating the possibility of feeling greater freedom in the midst of adversity, illness, and the everyday challenge of being a human being no matter what our condition. --Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA, Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine <br> Written out of the experience of her own cancer and stem cell transplant, where, as she says, 'anything can happen, including death, ' Elana Rosenbaum's wonderful book shows how serious illness forces us to 'drop the script' and fi


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Elana Rosenbaum, MS, LICSW, is a leader in the clinical application of mindfulness meditation to cancer care. After she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1995, her ability to embody mindfulness in the face of adversity led to the development of a mindfulness-based intervention for bone marrow transplant patients at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Emory University, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She is adjunct faculty at the renowned Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she worked with Jon Kabat-Zinn as one of the pioneering teachers. She's been educating patients and healthcare professionals in mindfulness for over twenty-five years. Elana has a private practice in psychotherapy in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is a sought-after teacher, speaker, workshop leader, and research consultant.

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