"First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Piatkus under the title Mindfulness for health"--Title page verso

Every moment is a new chance -- What you resist persists -- Introducing the mindfulness program -- Week one: wild horses -- Week two: you are not your thoughts -- Week three: learning to respond, rather than react -- Week four: watching your suffering and stress dissolve -- Week five: the pleasure of small things -- Week six: "the tender gravity of kindness" -- Week seven: you are not alone -- Week eight: life lives through you

"Pain, suffering, and stress can be intolerable, but it doesn't have to be this way. [This book presents a] set of mindfulness-based practices that you can incorporate into daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness"--

Accompanying CD includes eight meditations