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 Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life :: 1401307787
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| In his follow-up to Full Catastrophe Living--a book in which he presented basic meditation techniques as a way of reducing stress and healing from illness--here Jon Kabat-Zinn goes much more deeply into the practice of meditation for its own sake. To Kabat-Zinn, meditation is important because it brings about a state of "mindfulness," a condition of "being" rather than "doing" during which you pay attention to the moment rather than the past, the future, or the multitudinous distractions of modern life. In brief, rather poetic chapters, he describes different meditative practices and what they can do for the practitioner. The idea that meditation is "spiritual" is often confusing to people, Kabat-Zinn writes; he prefers to think of it as what you might call a workout for your consciousness. This book makes learning meditation remarkably easy (although practicing it is not). But it also makes it seem infinitely appealing. --Ben Kallen Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
The book is great, it blew my mind, and changed the way I see life. The delivery [of the book] was super fast. I Never received an item so soon when ordering. I was very satisfied with the whole purchase.
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Author: Guest
This is a book you have to be ready to read in order to get the benefit out of it. You will either think it is just scribbles of others' notes. Or you will think that it is a masterpiece. I bought this book sitting on my shelf a year ago. Why? Because at that point of my life I could not stop my racing thoughts (the need to do something all the time) enough to experience what the author - Jon Kabat-Zinn, tries to communicate. Some how, life turned around a little (probably when I started reading Eckart Tolle's books). My thought pattern starts slowing down and I start living in the present moment with consciousness of thoughts. A year later, I pick up this book again and start reading. Suddenly, it is truly a bundle of joy. It is a book I would like to read when I am at the coffee shop or even just to enjoy a great Saturday afternoon. I feel that this book is truly a rare jewel you find on Earth. The author picks up the most delicate moment where human beings can meditate. He gives me great inspiration/ways to slow down thoughts/thinking.
But again, meditations, staying in the present moment isn't something we need to read a lot about. We can read on the world's greatest books and still not able to find peace and joy in life. Just like what the author had said in one chapter. One can jump from one teacher to another looking for salvation from the outside. However, it is working on the inner self, focusing on the inner thoughts and patterns that rise one's mindful/peaceful thinking to the next level (yet rising just means further centering and grounding).
From experience, it is about letting the human ego die every day and letting go of fear and judgement. Letting go of the seemingly unbearable pain and attachment. It is truly about having full awareness of thoughts and beliefs and process those things on a piece of paper/therapist. Then, sooner or later, one will find a taste of what mindfulness truly mean. You might still endure physical pain because of illness. But the pain gets easier every day when we are aware of our mind and body.
This is a book to experience. Speed-reading will not help you to taste what the author is trying to offer.
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Author: Guest
I heard the audio version of this book and it is a good starting point on the concept of mindfullness and 'Being'. Since then, I have also taken meditation classes at the Nataraja Yoga Center in San Diego which are taught by Erhard Vogel. His book, Journey Into Your Center, is used in the class and captures the universality of being and the self much better than this book. I suggest that book to those who have liked this one and want to pursue similar (and in my opinion deeper) explanations of Being.
Also, if you live in San Diego, I absolutely recommend the meditation classes. They also have a correspondence course but I cannot comment on that since I have not tried it.
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Author: Guest
My best friend tends to take life slowly and accept it on its own terms...and that facet of his personality has always driven me crazy! :-) The words "slow" and "languid" could never be applied to my lifestyle. I have always hurried through life at such a frantic pace...regretting yesterday and dreaming of tomorrow, yet never truly living in the moment. A year ago I happened upon this book, and it has made an enormous impact on my life. This literary jewel took me to a place I'd never visited before: the realm of 'moment mindfulness.' As the author so eloquently writes,
The lack of mindfulness "...scavenges to fill time, conspires with my mind to keep me unconscious, lulled in a fog of numbness to a certain extent. It has me unavailable to others, missing the play of the light on the table, the smells in the room, the energies of the moment. Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything."
Learning how to immerse myself in this moment, and this moment alone, has been incredibly difficult. Yet the serenity, peace and soul satisfaction experienced therein are priceless. The "Non-Judging" chapter alone is worth the price of the book. Realizing my propensity to constantly evaluate my experiences and hold them up against expectations and standards that I create, often out of fear, has been tremendously liberating. I largely thank this book, and my best friend, for that lesson learned. :-)
I enthusiastically recommend this book to everyone. I find it especially useful to my clients who struggle with childhood abuse issues. Therapy clients who suffer from bi-polar, COPD or Borderline Personality disorders could also be helped significantly from learning the meditation techniques in this book.
We exist as we are, on this plane, in this realm, at this moment in the timeless here and now. And that is enough....more than enough.
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Author: Guest
I really like this book- put in the present tense because it is something that you flip through from time to time and dont read from front to back, so i have read the majority of it but not all. What I like especially about this book is that it does not take any particular religous orientation- a lot of meditation practices start looking at concepts from religions when I am really just interested in meditating and stress reduction, although the occasional eastern philosophy does come in handy. The main weakness in this book is that it is very general and although it does give examples on how to meditate, it does not really focus on the practice so much. It more focuses on meditation as a whole. I think other books written by Jon Kabat-zinn focus more on putting meditation into practice, so perhaps people who are interested might want to also look at these as an option. But overall, a good read and gives good motivation to get into meditation.
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