Meditation Is Not What You Think, Jon KabatZinn
Meditation Is Not What You Think, Jon KabatZinn
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Meditation Is Not What You Think
Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important

Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrator: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 05/01/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Welcome to a master class in mindfulness.

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 Jon Kabat-Zinn

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jared on October 29, 2018

The whole idea behind this book is to try and bring the reader into a heightened self awareness of their true authentic selves. We often go through life almost as zombies,whether it be through work, our cell phones or any of the other countless ways we find to distract ourselves. Using a combination......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on January 07, 2019

Way too many incredibly long and run-on sentences kept me from paying attention - had to stop.......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on March 30, 2018

Meditation Is Not What You Think: The Case for Mindfulness, is the first part of the book, Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness originally published in 2005, updated with a new foreword by the author, Jon Kabat-Zinn. As research has proliferated and mindfulness h......more

Goodreads review by Christina on January 24, 2020

So much of the book is spent saying the same thing, over and over, that I'm not even sure what the point was anymore. To save you the time: Mindfulness and meditation could cure everything.......more

Goodreads review by Pusiu on January 17, 2024

Pierwsze śliwki robaczywki.......more