Chapters don’t have names

Is there any chance that Amazon can edit the chapter names so they include a clear indication of what they are?

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Well worth the time and money!

This audio book has been incredibly helpful in facing depression. MBCT is science based and proven. Take the actual 8 week course if you can alongside listening to and reading the book.

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I'm at chapter 3 and so far I love the audiobook. However I wonder where I can find the meditation tracks?

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A useful consolidation of ideas that are out there

Ultimately this book consolidated a set of useful mindfulness exercises, but ones that are pretty much already out there in the public domain in one form of another. It also consolidates the ideas that underpin the practice of mindfulness for depression. This includes a detailed, considered and convincing account of how mindfulness can contribute to better mental health and well thought-out descriptions of anxious and depressive thought processes in this context. However, in terms of self-treatment through mindfulness, there’s little that’s new here beyond systematically practising different mindfulness exercises such as body scans. The benefit of the product is to package this all up in one place. There still seems to be a gap to fill in terms of how self-administered CBT exercises could integrate with the mindfulness exercises perhaps, and even, an analysis of where and how other approaches (talking therapies etc) might integrate or add complimentary value. So from a user perspective there’s still a bit of silo-perpetuation here. Nonetheless the book/audio exercises add a useful tool for helping to avoid relapse.

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This is great

One thing that the authors say is that this is not really for people experiencing acute depression. I found it rather good though for coming out the other side. Goes together well with Mindfulness for Beginners.

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hit and miss

I really like this author, and I have another audiobook by him and a book, and planning to read more books by him. However, whilst I totally loved his other audiobook, this one gets from me a slight lesser rating because I detest Zinn's voice. Williams should have done the meditation sections too, as he's much closer to a pro speaker....I am really fussy about hearing speech, I don't want to hear cheeks and tongues slapping and mucus build up in the throat :)

UPDATE: a year or two later, I conclude that this mindfulness thingy is nothing I had not done in the past, and it is overrated and simplistic. Too long to give details here. I prefer to study things like Seneca, the Dokkodo, Hagakure, and Schopenhauer. This is not to say that mindfulness isn't good, just that it's overrated. I liked the sunset and the sunrise before, the breeze etc. The problem is that 'mindfulness' presupposes that people never have done these things before. And anyhow, they don't address other important things. As usual in the West, the understanding of these ancient philosophies is only partial, and tainted with what Kenji Tokitsu calls: 'current day thinking'.

Having said all that, maybe you DO need to know about mindfulness. It's easy to think "yeah, I get it.". You probably do not. I do highly recommend the books and audiobooks by Mark Williams, but the ones done on his own.

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useful

hard to keep going each day with the schedules but worth it and rewarding. would recommend.

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not enough self kindness or compassion

for me, it feels too cold, needs more kindness and compassion. just 'observing' my pain isn't enough. I've found cft (compassion focused therapy) and other self-compassion stuff much more helpful and healing. also, no options to adaptations no encouragement to explore what's right(or not) for you e.g an almost 30 minute body scan is tough!

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Extremely Helpful

I have struggled with depression for a very long time. The practices given in this book have brought healing and a sense of wellbeing.

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Amazing! I love Jon Kabat Zinn,a calm peaceful relaxing voice he is so wise!

Another great book I have yet to come across a book that involvesI’m not sure now

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