I recommend this book and companion CDmost highly." –Daniel Goleman, PhD, author of Emotional Intelligence "An invaluable resource not only for those who suffer from depression, but for anyone familiar with the downward spiral of negative thinking and self-doubt. For mental health professionals, it should be mandatory reading. For depression sufferers, this is a truly useful guide to achieving emotional balance. Depression is epidemic in our society, and I would love to see this sensible treatment approach gain ground." –Andrew Weil, MD, author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health and Healthy Aging "A revolutionary treatment approach. Whether you struggle with depression or simply want to understand your mind and emotions better, you will find this book accessible and useful. "Using mindfulness training to prevent and treat depression is a novel strategy in the West, though it is a traditional application of Eastern meditation practice. Praise For The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness… Plus, mental health professionals, see also the authors' bestselling therapy guide: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition.Īssociation for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book of Merit See also the authors' Mindful Way Workbook, which provides step-by-step guidance for building your mindfulness practice in 8 weeks. Jon Kabat-Zinn gently and encouragingly narrates the accompanying CD of guided meditations (also available as free audio downloads for purchasers), making this a complete package for anyone seeking to regain a sense of hope and well-being. Through insightful lessons drawn from both Eastern meditative traditions and cognitive therapy, they demonstrate how to sidestep the mental habits that lead to despair, including rumination and self-blame, so you can face life’s challenges with greater resilience. In The Mindful Way through Depression, four uniquely qualified experts explain why our usual attempts to “think” our way out of a bad mood or just “snap out of it” lead us deeper into the downward spiral. Mindfulness, a simple yet powerful way of paying attention to your most difficult emotions and life experiences, can help you break the cycle of chronic unhappiness once and for all. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy was also shown to be as effective as antidepressants.If you’ve ever struggled with depression, take heart. Thus, having training in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy balanced activation between these two networks and provided people the opportunity to make more balanced evaluations about their emotions. This is significant because people who suffer from depression are known to have increased activation in the executive control network (the part of the brain responsible for judgment). It also was shown to increase activation in the present-moment pathway. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy taught people how to be mindful of their thoughts without attaching to them. Thus, for some people feeling sad in general leaves them open to the recurrence of a major depressive episode. This led to sadness being associated with depression. However, when people are clinically depressed they are more likely to experience sadness. Sadness is a natural emotion that occurs for all of us. What he learned was that the emotion of sadness was a trigger for clinical depression. However, some people seem to go longer between depressive episodes and Segal set out to discover why. As he mentions in this talk, for most people depression is a chronic lifelong illness prone to flare-ups and periods of remission. Zindel Segal developed a style of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to help people manage recovery from major depressive episodes.
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