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The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness (2007)

by Mark Williams, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Zindel Segal, John D. Teasdale

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If you've ever struggled with depression or know someone who has, take heart: mindfulness practice is a simple, powerful way to naturally break depression's self-perpetuating cycle.

With The Mindful Way Through Depression, four leading researchers present insightful lessons drawn from both Eastern meditative traditions and cognitive therapy about how to triumph over this illnessâ??and, more importantly, how to prevent it from striking again. Join these uniquely qualified experts to discover the power of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, including:

  • The "quicksand effect" of depressionâ??why our attempts to think our way out of depression can backfire, and the strategy we can use for true freedom
  • The biology of depressionâ??how meditation can rewrite neural structures and heal chemical imbalances
  • What to do when you're not depressedâ??techniques for cultivating an abiding sense of joy that will protect you from recurrence
  • A full CD of guided mindfulness meditations for health and happiness, narrated by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Even successful treatments for depression too often stop short of providing you with a way to protect yourself from falling back into the downward spiral. With The Mindful Way Through Depression, you will develop the tools you need to understand the core mental habits and patterns that lead to depressionâ??and learn a proven method for creating genuine change that lasts a lifetime.

    Course objectives:

  • Identify ways feelings, thoughts, the body, and behavior interact to trigger depression
  • Summarize basic concepts of mindfulness and awareness
  • Recognize the difference between thoughts and the truth
  • Describe the difference between doing mode and being mode
  • Identify ways awareness counteracts depression
  • List several kinds of mindfulness meditation practices
  • Practice guided mindfulness meditation exerci… (more)
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    Very insightful, and with loads of respect for people struggling with depression. They really know their audience. A tad repetitive, but well, that's meditation for you.

    The little stories about people trying the techniques got on my nerves a bit, to me they felt like sales pitches instead of examples.

    This book has great insights, but is too abstract to start meditation. I hear there's a companion workbook, which I will be checking out.

    I'll definitely read this one again, it feels like one of those books you can read again and again and you'll pick up something different each time. ( )
      Yggie | Oct 12, 2023 |
    This has taken a long time for me to read, although I would've finished it earlier if I had realized how close I was finishing (after 83% it's pretty much resources). I started per friend's recommendation when I was suffering from depression. And the book helped. I wasn't very good at doing the exercises, but the book gave me ideas. My problem was that the book was somewhat long winded sometimes... It's good that there are examples, but they went on and on. Also the chapters were super long, which wasn't the easiest thing to deal with while your functionality is low. Of course the book mentions that you should actually follow it when you're feeling better and that while suffering from depression, it might be too much. Also, I don't think I'm chronically unhappy, my depression was directly related to my PhD, so maybe I'm not totally the target group. However, I think the methods described here would work (or are working, I'm just doing it through Headspace) for me as well. Probably would work for most people.

    TL;DR: I think the meat of the book was interesting, but the way it was presented was not best suited for me. ( )
      RankkaApina | Feb 22, 2021 |
    mit 2 Audio CDs, angelesen
      Klookschieter | Aug 18, 2020 |
    Majority of the book was a repeat of what had already been mentioned on the first page. It could be shortened into a very thin book if all the repetition was removed, and this would have made the book less irritating to read. The different exercises feels like they can help though. ( )
      althaeria | Jul 15, 2019 |
    My the Mind/Body counselor recommended by my PT recommended this book "Replace the word depression with any other problem" (ie chronic pain). Meditation is more of a prophylactic for depression rather than something that can be used during a depression so the title is a bit misleading. Anyway, it's a bit on the dry side, but a decent gathering of meditation techniques expunged of all Buddhism. I admire the effort to make available this information to those who are scared off by the religion in which meditation is usually embedded. I was familiar with most of the techniques, and I have a hard time listening to CDs of guided meditations, but there were new ideas there for me too. ( )
      cindywho | May 27, 2019 |
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    Self-Improvement. Nonfiction. HTML:

    If you've ever struggled with depression or know someone who has, take heart: mindfulness practice is a simple, powerful way to naturally break depression's self-perpetuating cycle.

    With The Mindful Way Through Depression, four leading researchers present insightful lessons drawn from both Eastern meditative traditions and cognitive therapy about how to triumph over this illnessâ??and, more importantly, how to prevent it from striking again. Join these uniquely qualified experts to discover the power of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, including:

    The "quicksand effect" of depressionâ??why our attempts to think our way out of depression can backfire, and the strategy we can use for true freedom The biology of depressionâ??how meditation can rewrite neural structures and heal chemical imbalances What to do when you're not depressedâ??techniques for cultivating an abiding sense of joy that will protect you from recurrence A full CD of guided mindfulness meditations for health and happiness, narrated by Jon Kabat-Zinn

    Even successful treatments for depression too often stop short of providing you with a way to protect yourself from falling back into the downward spiral. With The Mindful Way Through Depression, you will develop the tools you need to understand the core mental habits and patterns that lead to depressionâ??and learn a proven method for creating genuine change that lasts a lifetime.

    Course objectives:

    Identify ways feelings, thoughts, the body, and behavior interact to trigger depression Summarize basic concepts of mindfulness and awareness Recognize the difference between thoughts and the truth Describe the difference between doing mode and being mode Identify ways awareness counteracts depression List several kinds of mindfulness meditation practices Practice guided mindfulness meditation exerci

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    Self help book on depression using Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques.
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