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Jon Kabat-Zinn Meditation is Not What You Think – book excerpt

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Book Excerpt: In its outward manifestation, formal meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activ- ity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us. When I am guiding a meditation with a group of people, I often find myself encouraging them to throw out the thought “I am meditating” and just be awake, with no trying, … [Read more...]

StreetSmart Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKxzBHn8Ss In this StreetSmart interview, Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about tuning into our senses as a way to meaningful experience, the Thai soccer team that survived with mindfulness, and a lot more . “We don’t want to be on our death beds in the end realizing that we didn’t pay attention at all to what mattered,” Jon Kabat-Zinn says. For more, check out Mindfulness in The Digital Age with Jon Kabat-Zinn here. … [Read more...]

Mindfulness in the Digital Age – preview

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Please enjoy this preview below. Here is a link to another preview of the program and the opportunity to purchase the entire program. Enjoy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QbAH7g-rQc&feature=youtu.be Jon Kabat-Zinn discusses digital addiction & mindfulness. You can get the complete program here Mindfulness In The Digital Age. … [Read more...]

Mindfulness in Society With Jon Kabat-Zinn & Anderson Cooper

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnLRhHulcDU Anderson Cooper interviews renowned mindfulness teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn on the opportunities and challenges of mindfulness in our current society. Jon will share his reflections on the state of mindfulness in our culture, from his work creating Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to working with leaders in a wide range of fields. Find more at http://wisdom2conference.com Check out our new online program with Jon here. … [Read more...]

Lying Down Meditations: New Jon Kabat-Zinn Excerpt

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The following is an excerpt from book two Falling Awake: How to Practice Mindfulness in Everyday Life, by Jon Kabat-Zinn, published by Hachette Books. Copyright © 2018 by Jon Kabat-Zinn. "The most important thing to keep in mind when practicing meditation lying down is that, as with every aspect of the cultivation and embodiment of mindfulness, it is about falling awake. But because whenever we lie down there is always the “occupational hazard” of falling asleep, we actually have to work at remembering to fall awake in the face of a not-insignificant possibility that we might drift into drowsiness and unawareness and fall asleep. With ongoing practice, however, it is actually possible … [Read more...]

Meditation is Not What You Think with Jon Kabat-Zinn

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnfcsKvRkrc In this StreetSmart conversation, Steve Stein talks with Jon Kabat-Zinn about his new book Meditation is Not What You Think. They talk about mindfulness in the context of the present digital age. How has mindfulness changed throughout history? How can we be present in the current era? What kinds of new challenges are we facing when it comes to being mindful? How can we transition from a culture of doing to a culture of being? Check out Jon's new book here. Browse Jon Kabat-Zinn's catalog on BetterListen here. Please Leave Comments Below … [Read more...]

Meditation Is Not What You Think: Free Excerpt from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s New Book

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The following is an excerpt from Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important, by Jon Kabat-Zinn, published by Hachette Books. Copyright © 2018 by Jon Kabat-Zinn. "It is hard to notice but also hard not to notice that awareness, when we dwell within it, has no center and no periphery. In that way, it resembles space itself and what we know of the boundary-less structure of the universe. Yet, despite Galileo, the Copernican revolution, and Hubble’s astounding discovery of the expansion of the universe in all directions from every location, we still tend to think and feel and speak as if the cosmos were centered on our little planet. We speak of the sun … [Read more...]

Jon Kabat-Zinn on NPR!

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This NPR interview features the founder of modern Western mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn, discussing how to practice mindfulness in everyday life. From the interview: JKZ: "In some sense, we’re all living like the proverbial frog in the pot of water which has a giant flame underneath it. The transition from an analog world 20 or 30 years ago to an increasingly digital world is actually driving all sorts of different problems in our society, as well as beauty, because you can’t live without the technology in some ways, and it’s hard to live fully with it. We’re perpetually distracted now, and capable of distracting ourselves infinitely because we have these supercomputers in our … [Read more...]

Meditation Is Not What You Think It Is with Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Here’s an excerpt from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s newly released book Meditation Is Not What You Think. "The act of taking your seat in your own life, which could also be seen as taking a stand of a certain kind, on a regular basis, is in and of itself a profound expression of human intelligence. Ultimately it is a radical act of sanity and love—namely to stop all the doing that carries us through our moments without truly inhabiting them, and actually drop into being, even for one fleeting moment. That dropping in is the exceedingly simple, but at the same time, hugely radical act undergirding mindfulness as a meditation practice and as a way of being. It is easy to learn. It is easy to do. But it … [Read more...]