Stress, pain, and illness : facing the full catastrophe

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 healing process ; Sitting meditation : nourishing the domain of being ; Being in your body : the body-scan meditation ; 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 and interconnectedness

Stress. Stress ; Change : the 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 working with pain ; Working with emotional pain : your suffering is not you ... but there is much 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.