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Digital Sabbath — What’s Your Phone Got To Do With it?

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A StreetSmart conversation with well-known author and founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Steve Stein, founder of WisdomFeed. How do you manage digital devices in your life, with your family, in your relationships? PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW and let us know..... Check out these resources from Jon Kabat-Zinn here.   … [Read more...]

Behind the Scenes w/ Steve Stein – Jon Kabat-Zinn and The World of Relaxation

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Here is a StreetSmart video from Steve Stein, founder of BetterListen & WisdomFeed, where he explains the behind the scenes process that led to publishing and distributing The World of Relaxation, Jon Kabat Zinn's video and audio bodyscan for folks in the hospital.   https://youtu.be/kbUjhGNEBsk?list=PLlldOAYPNHvVh5gGRxXCcJoqwIyVDtN8_   Don't miss your own opportunity to experience the practice of mindfulness meditation, with the founder of Mindfulness Based Stress-Reduction Clinic, Jon Kabat-Zinn. Check out Jon Kabat-Zinn's The World of Relaxation and other great mindfulness titles from our friends at BetterListen! … [Read more...]

How Raisins Can Help You Become More Mindful

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Mindfulness in Everyday Life: Jon Kabat-Zinn on Eating Raisins Mindfully We should be mindful in every single moment, no matter how trivial. In the lecture, Mindfulness Meditations in Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn, an influential mindfulness leader, discusses the importance of eating raisins consciously. Instead of pouring a bag of raisins down our throats, we should savior, enjoy, and eat each raisin one-by-one. Eating raisins in this mindful way allows us to fully appreciate the taste, origin, and texture of these dried grapes. We should then translate the mindfulness we bring to eating raisins to all other aspects of our lives. Here is an excerpt from his lecture, where he discusses … [Read more...]

The World of Relaxation: A Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practice for Healing in the Hospital and/or at Home Streaming

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This program was released in 1982 and re-mastered in 2009. For that reason, on the DVD version, Jon Kabat-Zinn looks much younger than he does now. He was 38 at the time. The World of Relaxation was and still is a novel and radical use of television, aimed at reaching out to patients lying in bed in the hospital and inviting them to experiment inwardly, with Jon’s guidance, in bringing mindful awareness to their present-moment circumstances, utilizing the occasion of having to lie in bed for some time — whatever the viewer’s medical condition and prognosis — to do something for him or herself to promote healing of the mind and body, as a vital complement to whatever the health care system … [Read more...]