Here For Now: Living Well With Cancer Through Mindfulness
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (657 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0972919120 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Read it and weep and laugh and mostly dance in the life that is Elana. This includes learning how to age, grow ill and face death. This includes learning how to age, grow ill and face death. It is about thriving in the face of death; about choosing life in the midst of complete uncertainty; about saying yes (over and over again) to the luminosity that is the core of our human inheritance. SantorelliMindfulness meditation has everything to do with learning how to live. --Larry Rosenberg . If you're like me you'll read through to the end and then go back, intrigued by the power of Elana's courage to look closely at the exercises. Reader take heed: This is not just a book about surviving cancer. By touching her life, perhaps you will touch your own and know it. By touching her life, perhaps you will touch your own and know it. A unique treasu
Silense form page 1 till the end F. Quantumflow This is a great book. it tells the story of Elanan Rosenbaum. Elana is a mindfulnesstrainer and is confronted with the fact that she has cancer. The book describes how she deals with this in a mindfulenss way. It shows her fears, her desires. It shows that she, as all of us are, is a student. And that although we can say that we are psychologist, or millionaire or succesful at the end we are all equal, we are all students. Elana was also very fortunate, she had many supporting friends and a loving husband. It would have be. Powerful insights J. Griffiths Vega A wonderful book that is inspiring to read. Elana's honesty and clear perceptions are very helpful in understanding the underlying currents of experiencing breast cancer. Thank you.. "Inspiring" according to Bev. I read this book as a caregiver. My husband, the cancer patient, did not. It was very helpful to me because it is really stressful to live with a cancer patient. Mindfulness reduces the stress.
Through narrative, guided exercises, and meditations, Here For Now was the first book to apply the principles of mindfulness meditation to living with cancer. This book empowers the reader to transform suffering into compassion and joy. Follow Elana's journey as she experiences the shock of her own cancer diagnosis, the vulnerability of being a patient, the gratitude of survival and recovery, as well as the ability to live with uncertainty and help others live wholly and fully. Elana's moving life story of living with and surviving cancer, and the meditation and visualization exercises she's created for pati
Diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1995, she subsequently underwent stem-cell transplantation, which led to developing a mindfulness-based intervention for bone marrow transplant patients at UMass Medical Center, Emery University and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. . Adjunct faculty at University of Massachusetts Medical School, psychotherapist, teacher, speaker, workshop leader and research consu