Meditation Is Not What You Think | Free Book
Jon Kabat-Zinn is regarded as "one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you'll ever encounter" (Jack Kornfield). He has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream for decades. Today, millions of people around the world have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as part of their everyday lives. But what is meditation anyway? And why might it be worth trying? Or nurturing further if you already have practice?
Meditation Is Not What You Think answers those questions. Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book entitled Coming to Our Senses, it has been updated with a new foreword by the author and is even more relevant today. If you're curious as to why meditation is not for the "faint-hearted," how taking some time each day to drop into awareness can actually be a radical act of love, and why paying attention is so supremely important, consider this book an invitation to learn more -- from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.
About the Author
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is founding Executive Director of the
Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding
director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of
Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
in various venues around the world. He received his Ph.D. in molecular
biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador
Luria.
His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers'
PBS Special, Healing and the Mind and in the book of the same
title, as well as on Good Morning America, the
Oprah Winfrey Show, and Oprah's Super Soul Sunday, as
well as NPR. he has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness
into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health
care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession,
prisons, and professional sports.
He is the author of numerous bestselling books about mindfulness and
meditation:
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to
Face Stress, Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go, There You Are:
Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; Coming to Our Senses:
Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness; and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness.
He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of
Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting; and
with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic
Unhappiness Overall, his books have been translated into over thirty languages.
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