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| The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness | 
 enlarge | Authors: J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, Jon Kabat-zinn
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (41 reviews)
Sales Rank: 647
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 273
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1593851286
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.25
EAN: 9781593851286
ASIN: 1593851286
Publication Date: June 2, 2007
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 Mindfulness skills to weather the storm February 26, 2008
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
This is a must read! Here is what I learned.
Celebrate the miraculous creature that you are! Your God-given gifts provide you with insight, innate tools and mystical powers to create all things not directly created by Him.
Your thoughts are mental media. Mindfulness therapy is the cognitive ear that attends to your bundle of thoughts, feelings, and body sensations oxygenating the passing black cloud.
Our streams of mental thoughts passing through our brain are not unlike the stream of light passing through pictures, accompanied by sounds of the movie we watch. The bundle of thoughts, feelings, and sensations we attended to in that experience evokes emotions and a sense of reality in our imagination. As we become drawn into the experience our story is bundled into a reality state. When the movie is over, we often ruminate about it for some time, but we realize it is entertainment and store it just below the surface in our subconscious mind. In depression, we ruminate on the bundle and fail to distinguish the script from reality. Accordingly the sensations drag us in the hopeless pit of anger and sadness. We can break that downward spiral by accepting those sensations for what they are and let them pass.
Every time we get back in touch with ourselves, the conditions become favorable for us to encounter life in the present moment. Practicing Mindfulness enables us to become a real person.
The book and accompanying CD provide step-by-step Mindfulness Therapy/instruction to gain the skills to weather the storm of depression. Buy it today. You will not be sorry.
Finally, a practical use for mindfulness!. February 23, 2008
18 out of 21 found this review helpful
Mindfulness meditation can sometimes seem to be a practice without a purpose. In addition to the possibility of putting ourselves into a peaceful state, why should we meditate? This book has an answer. It presents a model of the structure of depression (which might be a useful model for all forms of suffering). It says that depression is a self-reinforcing feedback loop of feelings, ruminations, judgments, body sensations, and behaviors. When we try to think our way out of this loop, we just end up reinforcing it. Instead of trying to think our way out, the authors suggest sidestepping the loop entirely by leaving the "doing" mode and going into the "being" mode, i.e., into a state of mindfulness. That removes the resistance, which is the source of suffering. The authors present an eight-week program of practices and meditations, including guided meditations on an included CD. They have helped me a lot.
Depression Doesn't Have to be Forever February 20, 2008
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have taught the 8-week workshop on which this book is based, and found that participants were greatly helped by it. The book offers the same material, and it can be very helpful for the reader. A certain amount of discipline is needed to do the daily homework, but I found an interesting quote by Zindel Segal, one of the authors recently. He said that people who are more afflicted by depression have the "gift of desperation," to motivate them. In the NYC workshop participants answered the question, "How important has this program been to you?" with a 9.75 out of a perfect 10.0 rating. Of particular benefit is the teaching on mindfulness meditation. People find a calm they never knew existed, and quite quickly. The book starts with an introduction to the 'body scan' and asks that the reader do it daily for several weeks. This is not too much practice.... it is introducing a whole new and different way of relating to the body, feelings in the body, and the present experience. Later in the book the 3-Minute Breathing Space is introduced. In some ways this is the capstone of the whole book, a tool that has been called a gift by some psychologists. All in all, this is a practical, workable way through depression. Depression doesn't have to be forever. As a footnote, the methods in the workshop have been carefully researched and replicated. This method really works, and the book is a way of presenting the program in a widely-available format. (Results can be found by Googling PubMed.Gov, and entering MBCT as the search term.) My next workshop begins March 31 in New York City.
I heartily recommend this book!
A wonderfully written, user-friendly guide to this effective therapy February 1, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Having taught the methods these authors recommend to groups and individuals over the past three years I know that they work. But it's not always easy and one can find oneself caught up all sorts of dead-ends. The authors are well aware of that and take pains to make their points with clarity and a deep sensitivity to the issues involved. The result is a work that is highly effective and very approachable. I can't recommend it too highly.
If you ever get depressed or get caught up in negative thinking, , you need to read this! January 10, 2008
64 out of 64 found this review helpful
This is truly an excellent method of working to accept and overcome the problems of depression.
I have read some of the classic books on depression and cognitive therapy such as David Burns' "Feeling Good", and this is a much more comprehensive approach, based on the principles of cognitive therapy but with the addition of mindfulness.
This approach is also good for people who aren't really clinically depressed but who get caught up in negative thinking patterns and low self esteem: "Why me?" "I'm a loser", "I'll never get ahead", etc...
The book has a great cd with it to teach you exactly how to practice the mindfulness exercises. I hesitate to use the term meditation because people tend to start thinking things like "I can't meditate", "It's too hard", etc... By the time you read the book, you will understand that meditation is not hard at all, it's just a matter of doing it, and it can be done in as little as 3-5 minutes and still be worthwhile. It's not a matter of "contemplating your navel" but rather just learning to BE in the present moment, to watch one's thoughts arise and fall away, to slow down, to look at what is happening in one's body and in one's mind. Nothing at all difficult about it. You can do it. And you will find it worthwhile if you do it for a few weeks.
I highly recommend this book to people suffering from depression.
Another very good book for certain types of depression and anxiety that I highly recommend is "Emotional Blackmail" by Susan Forward, which helped me a great deal.
One more book I will recommend not so much specifically for depression but because it teaches the value and technique of "mindfulness", is Jon Kabat-Zinn's "Wherever You Go, There You Are".
The last thing I will say is that just reading any of these books is not enough! You MUST do the exercises and put mindfulness into practice! You will be glad you did!
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