Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--And Your Life

English

ISBN: 1604077743

EAN: 9781604077742

Category: Body, Mind & Spirit / Meditation/Self-Help / Stress Management/Psychology / General/Psychology / Cognitive Psychology/

Publisher: Sounds True, Inc

Release Date: 01/01/2012

Synopsis:

NOTE: This ebook does not contain the spoken-word audio component included in the original printed edition.

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 toour 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.