Guided Mindfulness Meditation
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- ISBN13: 9781591793595
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Guided Mindfulness Meditation
Product Description
Perhaps no other person has done more to bring mindfulness meditation into the contemporary landscape of America than Jon Kabat-Zinn. Th rough a number of research studies, and through Kabat-Zinn’s pioneering work at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he is founder of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic, mindfulness is finally being recognized as a highly effective tool for dealing with stress, chronic pain, and other illnesses. Today, with a four-part home training course, Jon Kabat-Zinn offers listeners the definitive mindfulness meditation practice on CD. “We are not trying to actively achieve a state of deep relaxation—or any other state for that matter—while practicing mindfulness,” he teaches. “But interestingly, by opening to an awareness of how things actually are in the present moment, we often taste very deep states of relaxation and well-being—of both body and mind.” Join the bestselling author of Coming to Our Senses (Hyperion, 2005) and Wherever You Go, There You Are (Hyperion 1995) to develop and deepen your personal mindfulness practice, and to taste the universal aspects of stillness, clarity, wisdom, compassion, and well-being that Guided Mindfulness Meditation offers.
Guided Mindfulness Meditation
It’s very disappointing to read/listen to individuals who take old buddhists texts and re-interpret the texts as their own. Kabat-Zinn borrows so much and rarely mentions Buddhism. Pitiful. For those critically evaluating the book/audio, it’s useful to note that many of these new ideas are actually old ones; simply because no one has a copyright on old buddhist texts doesn’t imply that we can without impunity stealthily borrow their ideas without citation.
I was disappointed by the lack of creativity brought to this expensive set of cd’s. I’m sorry to say, “Guided Mindfulness Meditation” was silent, and slow going. Metaphors, stories, nuggets, and music were missing. My first purchase of Dr. Kabat-Zinn’s work was the audiotape, “Wherever You Go There You Are”. Dr. Kabat-Zinn did a great job here through his use of voice, music, and text. He was able to transport me to a peaceful state, his soothing voice lyrically illustrating relaxation metaphors. Soothing music was the backdrop for his interesting approach mixing together fact and story. I was hoping “Guided Mindfullness Meditation” would be just as inviting.
I can only agree with the other negative reviews regarding Kabat-Zinn’s voice. When I listen to a mindfulness tape I don’t want to be thinking about the reader’s saliva or lack of. I cannot listen to these CDs now due to his voice. There are actually free guided meditations and body scans online that are much better.
It is also a GREAT disappointment that he mentions relaxation as a goal of e.g. body scanning which is wrong, wrong, wrong. It is not a goal with mindfulness which he is very well aware of so I cannot understand why he would say in the beginning that we do the body scan to dwell in a deep state of relaxation.
Huh?
That is not the purpose of mindfulness/meditation/body scanning/yoga and if that is your goal then you are doomed to failure.
Otherwise I love Kabat-Zinn and his work, but I am baffled by these CDs.
I am trying to place a reorder to be shipped to my son as I feel that he would like/benefit from it and I cannot find it again on Amazon. HELP!
I have taken a class based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s mindfulness meditation. The instructor had made a tape similar to this one – it was wonderful. Unfortunately the old tape broke, so I ordered this CD. The voice, whose-ever it is (hopefully not Zinn’s), is so annoying and it is way too wordy. There are so many superfluous words that mean nothing – the guided body meditation is completely lost. There needs to be precise guidance and pauses where nothing is said. As it is it’s useless.