Amit’s Reviews > Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness > Status Update

Maladaptive coping strategies include denial for long time, addiction including workaholic, busyness including charity, chemicals including alcohol, tranquilizers, tobacco and fat/sugar/caffeine.
Unhealthy as they avoid acknowledging and fixing issues. As they become habitual, they add to the overall stress load only numbing or distracting but with harm in return.

Chronic hyper arousal even for perceived stress is flight or flight internalized not expanded, leading to chronic muscle pain in neck, shoulder or back. This affects bodies to create diseases such as high bp, chronic pain, Moodiness and addiction.

The latter half is about studies including chronic stress, author’s views on non doing over visualization with results in mind

Week to week, formal and informal practice. Upto 8 and life

Hatha yoga, gentle, attentive yoga for 30 minutes. Walking meditation

Breathing and sitting meditation instructions. Startbat 15, then 30, then more

46 minutes daily or minimum 6 days a week, for continuous 8 weeks, in morning or afternoon is the ask. Practice varies from body scan, sitting meditation to yoga

Seven attitudes
1. Non-judging — this is good/bad or i cannot do it its hard
2. Patience — letting things unfold in their own time
3. Beginner’s mind — seeing afresh
4. Trust — trusting your own intuition
5. Non-striving — not meditating “to get somewhere”
6. Acceptance — not fighting reality
7. Letting go — of control, expectations

The eating meditation as introduction to mindful living, see, smell, touch and eat a raisin