Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--and Your Life Author: Visit Amazon's Jon Kabat-Zinn Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1604076585 | Format: PDF
Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--and Your Life Description
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“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
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.
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- Hardcover: 120 pages
- Publisher: Sounds True; 1 edition (December 28, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1604076585
- ISBN-13: 978-1604076585
- Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This CD is an introduction to mindfulness that is aimed at an audience of Westerners who are not familiar with Eastern philosophy. This audio provides the foundational concepts necessary to have a meditation practice and gives a taste of several different types of practice.
The first CD covers concepts such as the present moment, the definition of mindfulness at attending to what is arising in the moment, awareness, the relationship between mind and heart, etc. It also covers the importance of openness and curiosity vs. judgment and identification with what is going on. That is to say, it distinguishes between a witness of what is arising and the phenomena in question. In other words, it makes the point that there is something standing behind the mind, emotions, sensations, etc. and that this something is a type of consciousness called witness consciousness. This CD also goes into the important of allowing (non-striving) vs. a desire that pushes toward acheiving something. In the last section of CD Zinn contrasts awareness which is passive and accepting with thinking which arises out of desire.
The second CD provides an introduction to some minfulness practices such as mindful eating, breath meditation, mindfulness of the body as a whole, mindfulness of objects such as sounds, thoughts and emotions. It also introduces the notion of meditation as pure awareness without judgment. One might compare this to pure experience without desire or aversion. Although one is given a taste of each of these practices, none of them are comprehensively covered and the guided meditations are not long enough for practice purposes except for a complete beginner.
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