Mind / Body Connection and Meditation

Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn  ISBN: 0786880708
This wonderful and short book is meant to be read chapter by small chapter.  It frequently helps people begin to have a basic understanding of how to slow down, relax, and stay in the moment. 

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn  ISBN: 0385303122
This is Zinn’s longer book and includes stress reduction exercises including simple yoga poses to help people deal with chronic physical symptoms and stress. 

Eight Weeks to Optimum Health by Andrew Weil M.D.  ISBN: 0449000265
This is an instruction manual of sorts to help people in today’s hectic world to address physical, emotional, and social problems that gnaw away at them.  It provides some very concrete suggestions on diet, exercise, and stress reduction. 

Healing and The Mind by Bill Moyers  ISBN: 0385476876
More educational than instructional, this book interviews a variety of health care practitioners who can point to their work as highlighting big connections between the mind and body.  This is a good book for anyone who is as yet unconvinced about the connection between how we think and feel and how healthy we are physically. 

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