Course objectives: Explain how mindfulness practice can help with pain management Utilize meditation practices that emphasize focus on the breath and body sensations Describe how to turn toward the experience of pain Summarize Kabat-Zinn's seven principles to his mindfulness approach Identify the differences between thoughts and pain sensations, and between coping strategies that contribute to suffering and those that can alleviate it If you're reading...

This program was released in 1982 and re-mastered in 2009. For that reason, on this audio version, Jon Kabat-Zinn sounds much younger than he does now. He was 38 at the time. The World of Relaxation was and still is a novel and radical use of media, aimed at reaching out to patients lying in bed in the hospital and inviting them to experiment inwardly, with Jon's guidance, in bringing mindful awareness to their present-moment circumstances, utilizing

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