Being Well (Even When You're Sick) Mindfulness Practices for People with Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses

Maintaining a state of well-being and equanimity in the midst of serious disease is a challenge, but mindfulness can help make it possible. It is a process of bringing a fierce but loving attention to everythingthat arises in our mind and body. The simple techniques Elana Rosenbaum presents here are the same ones she uses with the people in her practice of mindfulness-based psychotherapy and stress reduction-and that she uses herself as a cancer survivor. These are methods that offer proof positive that it is indeed possible not only to "have a life" while you're seriously ill, but that the life can include satisfaction, ease, and happiness. This book includes a downloadable companion 60-minute audio program with seven simple mindfulness practices.

Elana Rosenbaum, MS, LICSW, is a senior teacher at the renowned Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she worked with Jon Kabat-Zinn as one of the early teachers of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).