Living in the Midst of Disaster

Jon Kabat-Zinn argues that healing has nothing to do with curing. At the Massachusetts Stress Reduction Clinic, patients with chronic pain, hypertension, and panic disorders discovered that the Full Catastrophe—Zorba's term for life's overwhelming totality of spouses, bills, illness, joy—isn't something to escape but to inhabit. Through the Body Scan, firefighter Gregg Hathaway reclaimed his career from panic; 54-year-old Mary released decades-old trauma locked in her neck. The distinction between Stress Reaction and Stress Response rewires everything.

You'll learn:

- Why three raisins can shatter a lifetime of autopilot

- How pain and suffering are separable phenomena

- The Aikido principle that bending prevents breaking