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Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment?and Your Life
- ISBN-10:
- 1604076585
- ISBN-13:
- 9781604076585
- Pub. Date:
- 01/01/2012
- Publisher:
- Sounds True, Incorporated
- ISBN-10:
- 1604076585
- ISBN-13:
- 9781604076585
- Pub. Date:
- 01/01/2012
- Publisher:
- Sounds True, Incorporated
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Overview
We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives. With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play—and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are. Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways: as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding “lesson- a-day” primer on mindfulness practice. Beginning and advanced meditators alike will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found most useful with his students, including:
- Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulness
- The value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over again
- How our thoughts “self-liberate” when touched by awareness
- Moving beyond our “story” into direct experience
- Stabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activities
- The three poisons that cause suffering—and their antidotes
- How mindfulness heals, even after the fact
- Reclaiming our wholeness, and more
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781604076585 |
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Publisher: | Sounds True, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 01/01/2012 |
Pages: | 184 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is the founder and director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and associate professor of medicine in the Division of Preventative and Behavioral Medicine. His clinic was featured in 1993 in the public television series Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the author of Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full-Catastrophe Living: Using Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I Entering 7
Beginners Mind 9
The Breath 11
Who Is Breathing? 13
The Hardest Work in the World 14
Taking Care of This Moment 16
Mindfulness Is Awareness 17
Doing Mode and Being Mode 18
A Grounding in Science 19
Mindfulness Is Universal 21
Wakefulness 22
Stabilizing and Calibrating Your Instrument 24
Inhabiting Awareness Is the Essence of Practice 26
The Beauty of Discipline 27
Adjusting Your Default Setting 29
Awareness; Our Only Capacity Robust Enough to Balance Thinking 31
Attention and Awareness Are Trainable Skills 33
Nothing Wrong with Thinking 34
Befriending Our Thinking 35
Images of Your Mind That Might Be Useful 37
Not Taking Our Thoughts Personally 39
Selfing 40
Our Love Affair with Personal Pronouns-Especially I, Me, and Mine 41
Awareness Is a Big Container 43
The Objects of Attention Are Not as Important as the Attending Itself 45
Part II Sustaining 47
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction 49
A World-Wide Phenomenon 51
An Affectionate Attention 53
Mindfulness Brought to All the Senses 54
Proprioception and Interoception 56
The Unity of Awareness 58
The Knowing Is Awareness 60
Life Itself Becomes the Meditation Practice 61
You Already Belong 62
Right Beneath Our Noses 63
Mindfulness Is Not Merely a Good Idea 64
To Come Back in Touch 65
Who Am I? Questioning Our Own Narrative 66
You Are More Than Any Narrative 67
You Are Never Not Whole 70
Paying Attention in a Different Way 72
Not Knowing 73
The Prepared Mind 74
What Is Yours to See? 75
Part III Deepening 77
No Place to Go, Nothing to Do 79
The Doing That Comes Out of Being 80
To Act Appropriately 82
If You Are Aware of What Is Happening, You Are Doing It Right 83
Non-Judging Is an Act of Intelligence and Kindness 85
You Can Only Be Yourself-Thank Goodness! 87
Embodied Knowing 88
Feeling Joy for Others 90
The Full Catastrophe 91
Is My Awareness of Suffering Suffering? 92
What Does Liberation from Suffering Mean? 94
Hell Realms 96
Liberation Is in the Practice Itself 98
The Beauty of the Mind That Knows Itself 101
Taking Care of Your Meditation Practice 103
Energy Conservation in Meditation Practice 104
An Attitude of Non-Harming 106
Greed: The Cascade of Dissatisfactions 108
Aversion: The Flip Side of Greed 110
Delusion and the Trap of Self Fulfilling Prophecies 113
Now Is Always the Right Time 114
The "Curriculum" Is "Just This" 115
Giving Your Life Back to Yourself 117
Bringing Mindfulness Further into the World 118
Part IV Ripening 121
The Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness Practice 123
Non-Judging 123
Patience 124
Beginners Mind 124
Trust 126
Non-Striving 127
Acceptance 130
Letting Go 132
Part V Practicing 135
Getting Started with Formal Practice 137
Mindfulness of Eating 143
Mindfulness of Breathing 145
Mindfulness of the Body as a Whole 147
Mindfulness of Sounds, Thoughts, and Emotions 148
Mindfulness as Pure Awareness 151
Epilogue 153
Acknowledgments 155
Recommended Reading 157
About the Author 165
What People are Saying About This
“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