![]() Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness. Hyperion, 2006 Jon Kabat Zinn Ten years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Now, with Coming to Our Senses, he provides the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual well-being. With scientific rigor, poetic deftness, and compelling personal stories, Jon Kabat-Zinn examines the mysteries and marvels of our minds and bodies, describing simple, intuitive ways in which we can come to a deeper understanding, through our senses, of our beauty, our genius, and our life path in a complicated, fear-driven, and rapidly changing world. In each of the books eight parts, Jon Kabat-Zinn explores another facet of the great adventure of healing ourselvesand our worldthrough mindful awareness, with a focus on the sensescapes of our lives and how a more intentional awareness of the senses, including the human mind itself, allows us to live more fully and more authentically. By coming to our sensesboth literally and metaphorically by opening to our innate connectedness with the world around us and within uswe can become more compassionate, more embodied, more aware human beings, and in the process, contribute to the healing of the body politic as well as our own lives in ways both little and big. http://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=0-7868-8654-4&rh=n%3A916520%2Ck%3A0-7868-8654-4&ajr=0 ![]() Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. Hyperion Books, 2005. ISBN 1-4013-0778-7 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 http://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=1-4013-0778-7 ![]() Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life. Piatkus, 2001. ISBN 0-7499-1422-X. http://www.amazon.ca/Wherever-You-There-Are-Mindfulness/dp/1593976216/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347644254&sr=1-2 ![]() Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life. Piatkus, 2001. ISBN 0-7499-1422-X. http://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=ISBN+0-7499-1585-4 ![]() Power-Meditation and Prayer Jon Kabot Zinn This compilation of essays by prominent thinkers in the New Thought field brings the power of meditation and prayer to readers in a very special and personal way. In addition to contributions by Jon Kabat-Zinn (Mindfulness Meditation), this collection includes essays by Thomas Moore, Larry Dossey, M.D., and many others. http://www.amazon.ca/Power-Meditation-Prayer-Jon-Kabat-Zinn/dp/1561704237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347643830&sr=8-1 |
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