The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness [With CD]

one of the best book ever i have read based on scientific research not on assumptions and believes of the authors and if you continue to do practices as described in the books for 3-4 months without getting wanted something else or without any expectations then one will realize that he found the something which cannot be described in words and that something always was with him but he was unable to assess that due to unawareness that is so profound and determine the outcome of our life on everyday .

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The print quality is bad.The letters are not dark enough to read and appears faded. It is extremely difficult to read. I have attached a sample page from the book supplied by amazon another page from a different book. You will observe the difference

I find the skills useful. Very practical. This takes teaching meditation techniques to a higher level to overcome depression and tendencies to depression

A good way to learn to be aware of your feelings and emotions and how they can affect in your mood.

If are feeling low or unhappy about your life, are anxious about the future or worried about what has happened in the past then I cannot recommend this book highly enough.What if you aren't suffering from depression? - I feel the book covers a wide range of emotional experiences including low self esteem and can even help with anxiety issues. It looks at our tendencies as individuals to always focus upon the negative, how we end up self criticising and how, if we are prone to low mood and depression, this inner critic can take control, making us feel worse about ourselves.It looks at how depression can impact on our sleeping habits, eating habits and can lead to persistent feelings of exhaustion and low level aches and pains. I also feel that anxiety and low self esteem can impact in similar ways affecting our desires to connect with our friends and the people close to us, affecting our feelings about going out and socialising and impacting upon our working lives.The book comes with a simple premise - if we pay attention to the present moment, not looking back on the past or speculating about the future then the `cycle of unhappiness' can be broken. It sounds almost too good to be true - but the book teaches how it is possible to refocus attention on the here and now with simple instructions and explanations. I use the meditation CD often and it has made a big impact with people I have worked with who are suffering from anxiety, depression and low self esteem.The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (includes Guided Meditation Practices CD)

This book is fantastic and the practical exercises help to work through depression. It should not be rushed through, there is a lot of information that should be read slowly. The other alternative is to read through it once and then go back and actually do the exercises. Our lives are rush,rush, rush and we try to focus on so much and our thoughts whirl through our minds mostly out of control, this book challenges us to step out of this 'doing' mode and enter into a 'being' mode. Being a self proclaimer expert in rumination I am finding that there is more focus on what I am doing now (mindfulness) instead of rehashing the past and this has helped me with the depression I've had. We learn to recognize thoughts and feelings and how impermanent they are and how often they change.The CD that comes with it is great, narrated by the soothing voice of Jon Kabat-Zinn it takes you through some of the basic exercises.Living in the present moment is a better way to embrace life. Trying to live in the past is futile and worrying about a future event that may never happen creates so much anxiety. All we have is this present moment.I highly recommend this book, it is helpful, informative, and can introduce some life changing techniques!

If reading and informally following along with the exercises can manifest such a change in perspective, and thus my approach of the daily grind, I can’t wait to see the effects of actually implementing the 8 week program in my life :)I mean that literally, I just finished reading the book and I’m making a schedule for the next 8 weeks to do the exercises in the book, in the recommended order, with the recommended focus. For the first time in a really long time, I’m somewhat optimistic about my life. That feeling was missing from my life for the past 17 years. I’m not trying to change myself anymore, but I want to experience more of this ‘being state’. That in itself has been such a comfort to me, just experiencing self-acceptance for a short while. Let’s see if that pops up again during the 8 week program; it would be a welcome visitor :)

While perhaps not outlined as fluently as Kabat-Zinn's major works ,this book does offer genuine hope for depression sufferers. Of course the trick is to lean into depression, to hear what it is trying to say, or hide.This seems counter intuitive or even threatening but it is worth a try, even if just to see if you are ready to really look