Mindfulness for Beginners

Kabat-Zinn, Jon

ISBN 10: 1591794641 ISBN 13: 9781591794646

Publisher: Sounds True Inc, 2006

Synopsis

What if you could profoundly change your life just by becoming more mindful of your breathing? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, you can. What if 'paying attention on purpose and non-judgmentally' could improve your health? Again, according to Dr. Kabat-Zinn - it can. On Mindfulness for Beginners, this internationally known scientist, best-selling author, and teacher who brought mindfulness meditation into the mainstream of medicine and society gives you immediate access to a practice that can potentially add years to your life, and will certainly enhance the quality of your moments and your years. Join Dr. Kabat-Zinn to: Explore five guided meditations that lead you breath by breath into the essence of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a program offered in medical clinics and hospitals around the world; Cultivate the Seven Key Attitudinal Factors of MBSR - qualities of heart and mind that lay the foundation for mindfulness practice and for seeing and accepting things as they are as a first step to working wisely and compassionately with stress, pain, illness, and sorrow as well as life's joys and pleasures - Zorba's 'full catastrophe'; Free yourself from limiting perspectives, and become more intimate with your own boundless awareness. 'You're already in the perfect moment for inhabiting this liberating awareness, which is always available,' teaches Jon Kabat-Zinn. With Mindfulness for Beginners, he invites you to cultivate mindfulness as if your life depended on it, which it surely does, and experience the magnitude and beauty of who you already are.

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Review:

Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the finest teachers
of mindfulness you will ever encounter.
JACK KORNFIELD
Author of A Path with Heart
Jon Kabat-Zinn provides access to the
essence of meditation and its applications
for both the beginner and those who
wish to deepen and expand their practice.
He embodies what he describes.
DEAN ORNISH, MD

"Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the finest teachers
of mindfulness you will ever encounter."
-JACK KORNFIELD
Author of A Path with Heart

"Jon Kabat-Zinn provides access to the
essence of meditation and its applications
for both the beginner and those who
wish to deepen and expand their practice.
He embodies what he describes."
-DEAN ORNISH, MD

"Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you will ever encounter."
JACK KORNFIELD
Author of A Path with Heart
"Jon Kabat-Zinn provides access to the essence of meditation and its applications for both the beginner and those who wish to deepen and expand their practice. He embodies what he describes."
DEAN ORNISH, MD"

Synopsis:

Through many research studies and his pioneering work at the University of Massachusetts where he is founder of its world renowned Stress Reduction Clinic, Kabat-Zinn has served as a recognized bridge between science and meditation. With "Mindfulness for Beginners", he offers the definitive course designed specifically to introduce new students to the proven benefits of mindfulness practice, including: stress reduction, alleviation of depression, chronic pain relief and more. On CD 1, Kabat-Zinn presents "Mindfulness 101" - an accessible, comprehensive tutorial that addresses the basics of mindfulness meditation and explores the spacious, luminous and mysterious qualities of awareness itself. CD 2 guides listeners through a series of five meditations meant to be used at home, at work or while traveling. It includes Eating Meditation, Mindfulness of Breathing, and Mindfulness of the Body. Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way - on purpose, in the present moment and without judgment. This special kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, and is a simple yet powerful route for getting ourselves back in touch with our own wisdom and vitality.

Now, Jon Kabat-Zinn brings the practice of meditation to the widest possible audience with "Mindfulness for Beginners".

About this edition

• Publisher: Sounds True Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1591794641
• ISBN 13: 9781591794646
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 2