Recommended Reading:

 

When Injury, Illness and Disease Is a Teacher: Psychology’s Role In the Treatment of Physical Health Conditions

 

• Kabat-Zinn, J. (2018). Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important. (dispels the myths and fiction that surround meditation and how people trip on the lie that meditation is keeping your mind quiet and that is why they can’t do it, or that it is not for them – in brief, mindfulness is merely awareness and a way we live or do not live life in a conscious manner – and while recovering from injury, illness or disease, being conscious is paramount – it is one of the fundamentals of mind-body medicine)​​

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• Marchant, J. (2016). Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body. (chapter 9 describes Kabat-Zinn’s work and the efficacy of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, several of the chapters site research to support mind-body medicine)​​​

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• Kabat-Zinn, (1994). Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. (the “operating manual” for mindfulness – it is the most informative and user- friendly book I have found on the subject that my patients have found to be life changing)

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• Elliott, S. & Edmonson, D. (2006). The New Science of Breath: Coherent Breathing for Autonomic Nervous System Balance, Health, and Well-being. 2nd edition. 

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• Elliott, S. & Edmonson, D. (2008). Coherent Breathing: The Definite Method Theory & Practice. (this book breaks down what is described in their book cited above – it is like a workbook)

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• Schwab-Reese, L.M., Pittsinger, R. & Yang, J. (2012). Effectiveness of psychological intervention following sport injury. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 1, 71-79.

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Review the references in these articles. The authors site literature that you will find informative and highly interesting to help with your knowledge base. 

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See https://www.heartmath.org/ for information on biofeedback technology that measures HRV and click on the Research tab, then Research Library and view the publications. This is technology you can have available in the clinic for patients to use prior to their appointment. It is an easy way to help people to learn how thoughts, feelings, and breath impact their ANS. It is like taking someone’s “emotional temperature” and teaching them how to regulate it.