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

<p><strong>An Invitation to the Practice of Mindfulness</strong></p> <p>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 <em>Mindfulness for Beginners</em> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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:</p> <ul> <li>Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulness</li> <li>The value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over again</li> <li>How our thoughts "self-liberate" when touched by awareness</li> <li>Moving beyond our "story" into direct experience</li> <li>Stabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activities</li> <li>The three poisons that cause suffering-and their antidotes</li> <li>How mindfulness heals, even after the fact</li> <li>Reclaiming our wholeness, and more.</li> </ul> <p>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. <em>Mindfulness for Beginners</em> 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.</p> <p>Includes a complete CD with five guided mindfulness meditations by Jon Kabat-Zinn, selected from the audio program that inspired this book.</p>

Author(s): Jon Kabat-Zinn  

ISBN 10: 1604076585
ISBN 13: 9781604076585
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover
Publication: 12/28/2011