Mindfulness for Beginners, Jon KabatZinn, PhD
Mindfulness for Beginners, Jon KabatZinn, PhD
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Mindfulness for Beginners
Explore the Infinite Potential that Lies Within This Very Moment

Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD

Narrator: Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD

Unabridged: 2 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2007


Synopsis

What if you could profoundly change your life just by becoming more mindful of your breathing? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, you can. What if paying attention on purpose (and nonjudgmentally) could improve your health? Again, according to Dr. Kabat-Zinn—it can.

On Mindfulness for Beginners, this internationally known scientist, bestselling author, and teacher who brought mindfulness meditation into the mainstream of medicine and society gives you immediate access to a practice that can potentially add years to your life, and will certainly enhance the quality of your moments and your years.

Join Dr. Kabat-Zinn to:

Explore five guided meditations that lead you breath-by-breath into the essence of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a program offered in medical clinics and hospitals around the world
• Cultivate the Seven Key Attitudinal Factors of MBSR—qualities of heart and mind that lay the foundation for mindfulness practice and for seeing and accepting things as they are as a first step to working wisely and compassionately with stress, pain, illness, and sorrow as well as life's joys and pleasures
• Free yourself from limiting perspectives, and become more intimate with your own boundless awareness

You're already in the perfect moment for inhabiting this liberating awareness, which is always available, teaches Jon Kabat-Zinn. With Mindfulness for Beginners, he invites you to cultivate mindfulness as if your life depended on it, which it surely does, and experience the magnitude and beauty of who you already are.

Course objectives:

Apply an understanding of the concept of mindfulness
• Utilize simple guided meditations led by Kabat-Zinn
• List the ethical and attitudinal foundations necessary to cultivating mindfulness
• Assess how we can choose where to focus our awareness
• Plan to use mindfulness to help us develop compassion and insight into our true nature

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kazi on April 27, 2015

Easily the best book on meditation that I've read. For people like me, who have really struggled with meditation, are extremely suspicious of new-age speak and approach meditation from a very analytical rather than an emotional or free-spirited way of thinking, it's perfect. Kabat-Zinn is really goo......more

Goodreads review by I. Mónica del P on May 14, 2019

No me encontré con el contenido de este libro. Hace años, cuando emprendí la práctica de la meditación me topé con la escuela mindfulness, revisé algunas cosas pero finalmente me decanté por simplemente meditar y seguir mi propio proceso. Hace poco volví a encontrarme con el mindfulness, ya que esta......more

Goodreads review by Kitty on May 18, 2018

I can't recommend the audiobook of this highly enough. It's short, simple, surprisingly funny at times, and a great introduction to mindfulness. Even if you're already familiar with the concepts, it is always helpful to bring a "beginner's mind" to the practice.......more

Goodreads review by Nata on March 15, 2024

Mi-a plăcut ideea acestui concept, tehnică de meditație, și am hotărât să încep cu începutul, pentru a o cunoaște mai în detalii. Așadar, m-am apucat de citit 🙂 Mi-a plăcut, în mod special, că se bazează pe conștientizare și atenție, pe a trăi momentele din viața ta aici și acum. O să mai citesc și a......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on June 18, 2009

This is a good introduction to mindfulness and meditation practice, especially for absolute beginners or people who are curious about exploring meditation without getting heavily into any associated religious practice. If you've read or listened to much other material on Buddhism or meditation pract......more