Mindfulness for Beginners
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Mindfulness for Beginners
Product Description
Perhaps no other person in America has done more to bring mindfulness meditation into the mainstream than Jon Kabat-Zinn. Through many research studies and his pioneering work at the University of Massachusetts where he is founder of its world renowned Stress Reduction Clinic, Kabat-Zinn has served as a recognized bridge between science and meditation. With Mindfulness for Beginners, he offers the definitive course designed specifically to introduce new students to the proven benefits of mindfulness practice, including: stress reduction, alleviation of depression, chronic pain relief, and more.
On CD 1, Kabat-Zinn presents “Mindfulness 101″—an accessible, comprehensive tutorial that addresses the basics of mindfulness meditation and explores the spacious, luminous, and mysterious qualities of awareness itself. CD 2 guides listeners through a series of five meditations meant to be used at home, at work, or while traveling. Includes Eating Meditation, Mindfulness of Breathing, and Mindfulness of the Body. Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way—on purpose, in the present moment, and without judgment. This special kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, and is a simple yet powerful route for getting ourselves back in touch with our own wisdom and vitality. Now, Jon Kabat-Zinn brings the practice of meditation to the widest possible audience with Mindfulness for Beginners.
Mindfulness for Beginners
What a waste. This CD was not helpful and I cant recommend. Try your local library and see if they have it there….
The guided meditations on the second CD reduce fear about the future by bringing one’s attention repeatedly to the simple pleasure of being settled in the present moment. The experience of the meditations encourages optimism; as long as life will provide at least the one pleasure of meditative repose in the present moment, it seems life will be good. The experience of the meditations seems to show that life provides ample time for repose amid the requirements of life and for genial meditation on the subjects of those requirements. The pleasures one feels in that rest and in those subjects of meditation will urge one to regard such rest and meditation as being among the requirements of life, or at least of lives worth living. Everything to this point seems good for life, good for a good life. However, three possible dangers seem to need addressing. It seems one may develop greed or, perhaps I should say, too much greed for meditation and its pleasures. It seems too much such greed may foster hatred or, perhaps I should say, too much hatred of the other requirements of life. And too much greed for meditation and too much hatred of life’s other requirements may foster delusion or, perhaps I should say, the specific delusion that it would be good to let go too much of life’s other requirements. But meditative enjoyment of living requires life; the more one enjoys meditating, then, the more it seems good, “as best you can,” to be mindful of the requirements of life, to understand them, and to act prudently for their sake. I think Jon Kabat-Zinn wants, in part, to help us correct our excesses; his Mindfulness for Beginners can help us do that, as an ordinate part of a political philosophic life.
Anything by Zinn is beneficial reading/listening.
The alternative to Mindfulness,… whether beginners or
otherwise you see, is unsconsciousness. So enjoy this one!
I needed something, especially non-religious, to get my mind off of where our country is headed.
Nice… the audio book can get you deep into the mind and soul. Just sit back and feel the stress float away.