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Mindfulness for Beginners
Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Momentand Your Life | Jon Kabat-Zinn
We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives. With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and playand thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are. 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. Beginning and advanced meditators alike will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found most useful with his students, including: Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulness The value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over again How our thoughts self-liberate when touched by awareness Moving beyond our story into direct experience Stabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activities The three poisons that cause sufferingand their antidotes How mindfulness heals, even after the fact Reclaiming our wholeness, and more The prescription for living a more mindful life seems simple enough: return your awareness again and again to whatever is going on. But if youve tried it, you know that here is where all the questions and challenges really begin. Mindfulness for Beginners provides welcome answers, insights, and instruction to help us make that shift, moment by moment, into a more spacious, clear, reliable, and loving connection with ourselves and the world. Contents Part I Entering Beginners 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 PronounsEspecially I, Me, and Mine Awareness Is a Big Container The Objects of Attention Are Not as Important as the Attending Itself Part II: Sustaining Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction A World-Wide Phenomenon An Affectionate Attention Mindfulness Brought to All the Senses Proprioception and Interoception The Unity of Awareness The Knowing Is Awareness Life Itself Becomes the Meditation Practice You Already Belong Right Beneath Our Noses Mindfulness is Not Merely a Good Idea To Come Back in Touch Who Am I? Questioning Our Own Narrative You Are More Than Any Narrative You Are Never Not Whole Paying Attention in a Different Way Not Knowing The Prepared Mind What Is Yours to See? Part III: Deepening No Place to Go, Nothing to Do The Doing That Comes Out of Being To Act Appropriately If You Are Aware of What Is Happening, You Are Doing It Right Non-Judging Is an Act of Intelligence and Kindness You Can Only Be YourselfThank Goodness! Embodied Knowing Feeling Joy for Others The Full Catastrophe Is My Awareness of Suffering Suffering? What Does Liberation from Suffering Mean? Hell Realms Liberation Is in the Practice Itself The Beauty of the Mind That Knows Itself Taking Care of Your Meditation Practice Energy Conservation in Meditation Practice An Attitude of Non-Harming Greed: The Cascade of Dissatisfactions Aversion: The Flip Side of Greed Delusion and the Trap of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Now Is Always the Right Time The Curriculum is Just This Giving Your Life Back to Yourself Bringing Mindfulness Further Into the World Part IV: Ripening The Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness Practice Non-Judging Patience Beginners Mind Trust Non-Striving Acceptance Letting Go Part V: Practicing Getting Started with Formal Practice Mindfulness of Eating Mindfulness of Breathing Mindfulness of the Body as a Whole Mindfulness of Sounds, Thoughts, and Emotions Mindfulness as Pure Awareness
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DieAReader
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Not really impressed tbh. I‘ve heard & read much better than this one.

Andrew65 Shame it wasn‘t better. 3y
DieAReader @Andrew65 🙃I know he has better stuff on YouTube, that‘s what made this one jump out at me. 3y
CoverToCoverGirl Bummer, but it‘s off the TBR pile. 😊 3y
DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl Precisely!😉 3y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 3y
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Book 32👂🏻🎵 - 5⭐️
Another quick listen (2.5hrs) so I will 100% be listening to this again.
I really enjoyed how the author presented mindfulness and how easy he made the understanding.
The second half was meditation 🧘🏼‍♀️ practices which can help anyone looking to be more mindful - will try them in the future too!🤍

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My therapist encouraged me to read this. I struggle a lot with anxiety and panic attacks. First COVID and now, just, everything, were making it worse and more frequent so I have been taking this book day by day. It‘s not super helpful so far but that may be because I am not also taking the time out of my day to meditate, but it has certainly helped me to reflect on my thought processes. I am looking forward to reading more.

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"Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity." - Jon Kabat Zinn

#QuotsyOct19 #indolent

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BookBelle84
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Lunchtime reading

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wanderinglynn
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I enjoyed the audiobook so much I decided I needed my own physical copy so I could underline and make notes. The audiobook is pretty short, but packed full of great stuff, more science-based if you prefer that. And if you‘re working on meditation or mindfulness, I highly recommend the audio version since he walks you through guided mindfulness practices.

#BFCr2 #BookFitnessChallenge #mindfulness

wanderinglynn @Leftcoastzen Thanks! This was my first book by him, but I definitely got a lot out of it. I‘ll have to pick up that one too. 👍🏻 5y
julesG Thanks for the review. Sounds like I should listen to it stat 5y
wanderinglynn @julesG Let me know what you think of you do listen to it. 5y
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JoyBlue
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I'll re-read this (eventually) with my eyes. The audio book was a helpful sleep aid. I haven't yet had a chance to check out the meditations disc in the back of the book. I didn't luuurve it; but, I'll mark it as a cautious Pick.

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#BFCr2 All the motivation & encouragement is so energizing! ❤

For those not satisfied with week 2, you're not alone! Many of us didn't get where we wanted. BUT we're sticking with it & making progress. So take time to say “YAY ME!“ for what you did accomplish. The important thing is you STARTED & haven't quit!

Optional Week 3 Photo Challenge: favorite motivational book or most helpful book you've ever read.

#BFC #BookFitnessChallenge

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Crazeedi It was a different week for me cause I was away, but this 3rd week will be great I can feel it!! 5y
wanderinglynn @Crazeedi yes, when you travel, it‘s hard to stick with your routines & good habits! But you got week 3! 🙌🏻 5y
Crazeedi @wanderinglynn and I almost said I didn't do very well, then I remember what you say! And I changed my thoughts!! Yippee!! I'm also sending another book, I have 2 copies. I sent a package last week to you! 5y
wanderinglynn @Crazeedi I got it! Thank you! 💜 And way to go on the #positivity! It really does make a difference in your outlook. ☺️ 5y
twohectobooks Really like that phrase about finishing last etc. Something I remind myself of a lot in the pool: I may be slow compared to so many others, but I‘m fast compared to where I was last year and the year before! 5y
KathyWheeler I love how positive you are! 5y
wanderinglynn @twohectobooks 👍🏻👍🏻 When I was training for a marathon (and a bit down because I am a S-L-O-W runner), it‘s something a coach said to me. It stuck with me. 5y
wanderinglynn @KathyWheeler It‘s my super power! 😉 5y
LibrarianRyan ⭐️👍🤓 5y
Bookwormjillk Have a great week 3 everyone! 5y
KathyWheeler @wanderinglynn we‘re opposites! My superpower is my negativity. I‘m trying to overcome that though. 5y
Crazeedi @KathyWheeler I've been where you are, but things look brighter when you change your view, it's not easy but worth it! You can do it! We are all here to encourage you!! 5y
Larkken 😍 thanks! Onwards! 5y
wanderinglynn @KathyWheeler it‘s not easy to change habits we‘ve had for a long time, especially when society reinforces them. But as @Crazeedi says, it‘s so worth it. 💜 And like any change, it takes just getting off the couch (so to speak) and then one step at a time, one day at a time. You got this! 🙌🏻 5y
Mitch Happy week 3 everyone 🏆 5y
TheWordJar I love this! It reminds me of my mom and stepfather (73 and 82 years old)...they did their first ever 5k walk this spring. I walked with them and we finished dead last (I took official last so they could say they beat me), but they finished!!!! I was so proud of them. You can‘t finish what you don‘t start. I think this week I‘m going to try to be as good a cheerleader for myself as I am for others! 5y
wanderinglynn @TheWordJar that‘s awesome! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉 5y
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This book's gently matter-of-fact tone and careful language introduces the reader to practices for being awake in one's breath, in one's senses. I like that it is written in brief passages, kind of like a daybook, so you can attentively absorb reflections and practices of being - rather than forcing, doing, and striving. #mindfulness #moments #presence #breathe