Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--and Your Life - Couverture rigide

Kabat-Zinn, Jon

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ISBN 10 : 1604076585 ISBN 13 : 9781604076585

Editeur : Sounds True Inc, 2011

Synopsis

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. The prescription for living a more mindful life seems simple enough: return your awareness again and again to whatever is going on. But if you've tried it, you know that here is where all the questions and challenges really begin. "Mindfulness for Beginners" provides welcome answers, insights, and instruction to help us make that shift, moment by moment, into a more spacious, clear, reliable, and loving connection with ourselves and the world. Includes a

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

At the heart of mindfulness is simplicity. And Jon Kabat-Zinn the teacher who awakened western medicine to its powerful health benefits 32 years ago just made it even simpler and more inviting. Mindfulness for Beginners is a new treasury of teachings and practices to inspire those new to meditation 40 small, bright candle-flames of wisdom that show us how to: Dissipate stress and enter the joyful stream of present moment awareness Reenergize the body and clear the mind to navigate the storms and crises of life Bring compassionate attention to challenging situations and relationships Here, Kabat-Zinn reveals the beauty and wonder hidden within the practices taught within MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction) to create a book that can be enjoyed in different ways: as a box of teaching gems to be opened and explored on whim, as an unfolding practice-a-day programme, or as an engaging start-to-finish primer on living a more mindful life. For the millions transformed by Jon Kabat-Zinn s classic writings on mindfulness, the mind-body connection, and health or for anyone seeking the benefits of this profound interior work Mindfulness for Beginners will be a welcome source of inspiration and instruction.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sounds True Inc
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1604076585
• ISBN 13: 9781604076585
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 166