The Mindful Way Through Depression

Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

By: John Teasdale PhD, Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD, Mark Williams DPhil, Zindel Segal PhD

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD

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 illness—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 depression—why our attempts to think our way out of depression can backfire, and the strategy we can use for true freedom
• The biology of depression—how meditation can rewrite neural structures and heal chemical imbalances
• What to do when you’re not depressed—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 depression—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 exercises

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I can not tell you how exactly reading this book will improve your life. Just know it will.

Very useful and clinically proven.

This program now has evidence for preventing relapse in major depression. Mindfulness is an essential skill in developing emotion regulation skills and it has been implemented in other formal psychotherapeutic programs like DBT and ACT.
I think it will be useful if you already are stable on medication and want to try tapering it off.

Wonderful Mindfulness Based CBT instruction.

The books narrative portion hit all the right notes and evolved the transmission of insight and instruction at just the right pace.

it works

Williams and Zinn both have lovely voices, so listening was very pleasant. I was already familiar with meditation, so I took to it easily. I would recommend this program to anyone. all you need is some patience and a few minutes a day. The print version has a CD so the tracks are referred to by number that doesn't correspond to the chapter numbers. you can figure it out pretty easy but it is something to figure out.

Great listening

It has been a month I finished the MBSR program. While listening to the book, I could realize how much my life has already changed by the practices and the new way of living in the present moment.
It was a pleasant and understandable listening although english is not my first language. Great narrators!