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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.

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  • 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]

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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.

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

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: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life and Full-Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness .

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