Being Well (Even When You're Sick): Mindfulness Practices for People with Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611800005 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Being Well Even When You are Sick - a must read Peter Mark Elana Rosenbaum's latest book, "Being Well Even When You Are Sick" is a must read for anyone who has faced a live changing illness or knows someone who has. She helps you understand the process that someone goes through and how to cope with it. She is generous in her sharing of her own personal story of being a canc. An incredibly helpful and unique approach to sickness through mindfulness and experience. This book by Elana Rosembaum is a source of permanent encouragement and help to those of us who, like herself, are cancer survivors. With sincerity, courage and wisdom, bringing her experience as a therapist and as a patient, Rosembaum manages to come as closer to our sensibility and challenges as a book can get. Fo. lcg said Good read.. Good book when going through chemo. Gives you a lot to consider when you have lots of time doing chemo for hours.
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. This book includes a downloadable companion 60-minute audio program with seven simple mindfulness practices.Note: Click a file to play it in your web browser. 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. 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. Right click and save the link if you would like to download it to your computer.
Elana has a private practice in psychotherapy in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is a sought-after teacher, speaker, workshop leader, and research consultant. . 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 on
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 “Reading this book is like sitting beside a dear friend when you need it the most. Elana is never prescriptive: she does not tell us what to think or what to do.Yet she shows how to remain open to new possibilities in the face of what we most fear, and how the illness itself can become a wellspring of heartfulness and healing. Rosenbaum shares her personal experiences with cancer as well as those of many patients whom she has helped find balance and repose. Being Well