Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery

Linda Carlson

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• Publié par: New Harbinger Publications
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 0001
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• EAN13: 9781608822355
• Langue: English

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“If you give yourself over wholeheartedly to what is being offered in this book, it could make an enormous difference in your life and health in important ways too numerous to count. The authors are committed practitioners of mindfulness and their mindfulness-based cancer recovery program, firmly rooted in research findings, radiates an authenticity that you can readily feel, and that will grow with time.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., professor of medicine emeritus at University of Massachusetts Medical School
“ Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery is a thoughtful, clear, and useful guide to living with cancer and cancer treatment, written by leading experts in the field. It distills Buddhist tradition into a series of practical exercises that can help you spend more of your time in the calm eye of the hurricane that is cancer.”
—David Spiegel, MD, Willson Professor and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine
“Linda Carlson and Michael Speca have masterfully written a clear, insightful, and comprehensive book on coping with cancer. They beautifully weave together clinical wisdom, deep, personal mindfulness practice, and scientific rigor in their easily accessible book. I believe the wealth of ideas and practices in this book will be of benefit to those with cancer, offering a path toward greater ease, joy, health, and freedom both during treatment and beyond.”
—Shauna L. Shapiro, associate professor at Santa Clara University and coauthor of The Art and Science of Mindfulness
“Linda Carlson and Michael Speca have cowritten this wise and practical guidebook, a generous offering to cancer patients and their allies. Those who find their way to it will certainly be blessed by their clear vision and deep experience.”
—Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness
a step-by-step MBSR approach to help you cope with treatment and reclaim your life
Linda E. Carlson and Michael P. Speca ; foreword by Zindel Segal
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Copyright © 2010 by Linda E. Carlson and Michael Speca
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The Library of Congress has Cataloged the Print Edition as:
Carlson, Linda E.
Mindfulness-based cancer recovery : a step-by-step MBSR approach to help you cope with treatment and reclaim your life / Linda E. Carlson and Michael P. Speca ; foreword by Zindel Segal.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-57224-887-8 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-57224-888-5 (pdf ebook)
1. Cancer--Patients--Rehabilitation. 2. Cancer--Treatment--Psychological aspects. 3. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. 4. Stress (Psychology) 5. Stress management. 6. Relaxation. I. Speca, Michael P. II. Title.
RC262.C299 2010
616.99’406--dc22
2010043970
This book is dedicated to all the people who have shared their lives with us through participation in the mindfulness groups we have led over the past thirteen years. Their stories and bravery in the face of cancer continue to inspire us.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Part I: Setting the Stage
Chapter 1. Mindfulness and Cancer
• Outline of This Book • The Cancer Experience • >What Is Mindfulness? • Roots of Mindfulness • Development of MBCR • Is Mindfulness for You?
Chapter 2. Stress and Cancer
• The Stress Response • The Effects of Prolonged Stress • Recognizing Your Stress Symptoms • Where Does Stress Come From? • Stress and the Mind-Body Connection • Mindfulness and Stress • Stress and Cancer • Coping with Stress
Part II: The MBCR Program
Chapter 3. Beginning the Program
• Intention, Attention, and Attitude • Seeing Things Anew • Paying Attention to Breathing • Body Scan • How to Practice These Skills
Chapter 4. Responding to Stress
• Reacting vs. Responding to Stress • Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices • Sitting Meditation
Chapter 5. Mindful Movement
• The Context of Yoga • Foundations for Yoga Practice • Getting Started • When to Practice Yoga
Chapter 6. Balancing Breath
• The Autonomic Nervous System • “Mini” Practices • When to Do Minis
Chapter 7. Stories We Tell Ourselves
• Your Life in Stories • The Nature of Thought • Trouble in Mind: Our Distressing Stories • Thoughts Running Wild • The “Don’t Know” Mind • Walking Meditation • How to Practice These Skills
Chapter 8. Meditation with Imagery
• Your Life in Images • Mountain Meditation • Lake and Tree Meditations • Uses of Nature Meditation
Chapter 9. A Day of Silence
• Why Practice a Day of Mindfulness in Silence? • What the Day Involves • How to Practice a Day of Silence
Chapter 10. Deepening and Expanding
• Choiceless Awareness as a Path of Insight • Choiceless Awareness and Cancer
Chapter 11. Moving into the World
• You Are Not Alone • The Weekly Drop-in Group
Part III: Symptom Management and Everyday Mindfulness
Chapter 12. Mindful Coping with Cancer-Related Symptoms and Side Effects
• Hair Loss and Changes in Self-Image and Identity • Sleep and Fatigue • Pain • Nausea
Chapter 13. Knowing Your Fear and Other Difficult Emotions
• The Paradox of Avoidance • Opening to Emotional Suffering • Working with Difficult Emotions • Calming the Anxious Mind • Antidotes to Difficult Emotions
Chapter 14. What Now?
• Everyday Mindfulness • Life as Your Practice • Beyond Cancer • Healing Our World: Mindfulness in Community • Final Words
Appendix: Reading List
• Meditation Instruction • Inspirational Books on Meditation • Mind-Body Health • Buddhist • Faith-Guided Approaches • Visualization and Imagery • Yoga and Stretching • Websites
References
Acknowledgments
We are pleased to be able to share the MBCR program with a wide audience, and have many parties to thank for making it possible to offer this book. In terms of academic support, Linda holds the Enbridge Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology, cofunded by the Canadian Cancer Society Alberta/NWT Division and the Alberta Cancer Foundation. She also holds an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Health Scholar Award. These awards provide protected time for research activities, which has made it possible to conduct the research behind this book.
Our professional colleagues in the Psychosocial Resources Department at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Alberta Health Services Cancer Care in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, have been supportive throughout the development of this program. Special thanks to our department head Barry Bultz, and all departmental counselors and researchers. Shirley McMillan, Maureen Angen, and Eileen Goodey have facilitated the MBCR program and contributed to its development. Their support and input have been essential to its ongoing success.
For our own practice of meditation and yoga, thanks go to the Insight Meditation Society, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, and Thich Nhat Hanh. While studying dance at SUNY, Brockport, Michael was introduced to yoga by Peentz Dubble, who is now an accomplished Iyengar yoga instructor in the Boston area, and he began sitting meditation practice with friends from the nearby Rochester Zen Center, founded by Philip Kapleau Roshi. Jon Kabat-Zinn has been a friend, colleague, and mentor, as well as a primary inspiration for the MBCR program. Saki Santorelli, current director of the Center for Mindfulness, has been inspiring and supportive. Linda thanks her colleagues at the Mind and Life Insti