The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness | J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, ... | Finally, a practical use for mindfulness!.

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	The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, ... The Guilford Press, 2007 - 273 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Mindfulness skills to weather the storm

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.

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Finally, a practical use for mindfulness!.

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.

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A great product for individuals with Severe Depression

Many of the materials that are available for working with depressive clients are most successful with Moderate to mild depression. I have found this book helpful for those with more severe depressions. The methods don't require battling negative thoughts so much as seeing them as "noise in the background". After the depression begins to lift, the more traditional cognitive therapy methods can be used in combination with the mindfulness strategies.

We needed this book!

Very good research has been done on the use of mindfulness meditation in the prevention of repeated episodes of depression. While the use of classes to teach this is great, try finding them for you, or your clients if you're a therapist! This book becomes a gift then to all those who can't find the classes, or don't have the time to go. My only criticism is that it's a bit wordy and slow in the first two chapters, which might lose some people (almost lost me!) After that, though it is wonderfully written, and the CD very helpful.

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Great practical introduction into mindfulness

This book is a great introduction to mindfulness meditation and it's benefits, especially with depression. It provides practical exercises and case studies to help you be more compassionate with yourself and aware of your feelings, thoughts, body sensations and behaviour, and use this awareness to live more fully in the present.

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