Mindfulness for beginners : reclaiming the present moment--and your life

Kabat-Zinn, Jon. (Author). Richardson, Stan, (performer.).

Summary: "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."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781622036677
ISBN: 1622036670
ISBN: 9781604076585
Physical Description: print
sound disc
xii, 166 pages ; 21 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)
Publisher: Boulder, CO : Sounds True, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: 2012. Accompanying CD (74 min.), in a pocket affixed to inside back cover, includes music by Stan Richardson.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163).
Formatted Contents Note:	Entering: Beginner's mind -- The breath -- Who is breathing? -- The hardest work in the world -- Taking care of this moment -- Mindfulness is awareness -- Doing mode and being mode -- A grounding in science -- Mindfulness is universal -- Wakefulness -- Stabilizing and calibrating your instrument -- Inhabiting awareness is the essence of practice -- The beauty of discipline -- Adjusting your default setting -- Awareness: Our only capacity robust enough to balance thinking -- Attention and awareness are trainable skills -- Nothing wrong with thinking -- Befriending our thinking -- Images of your mind that might be useful -- Not taking our thoughts personally -- Selfing -- Our love affair with personal pronouns -- especially I, me, and mine -- Awareness is a big container -- The objects of attention are not as important as the attending itself.