Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life
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An Invitation to the Practice of Mindfulness
We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives. With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play―and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are.
Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways: as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding “lesson-a-day” primer on mindfulness practice.
Beginning and long-time meditators alike will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found most useful with his students, including:
• Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulness
• The value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over again
• How our thoughts “self-liberate” when touched by awareness
• Moving beyond our “story” into direct experience
• Stabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activities
• Three fundamental mental factors that cause suffering
• How mindfulness heals, even after the fact
•Reclaiming our wholeness, and more
The prescription for living a more mindful life seems simple enough: return your awareness again and again to whatever is going on. But if you’ve tried it, you know that here is where all the questions and challenges really begin. Mindfulness for Beginners provides welcome answers, insights, and instruction to help us make that shift, moment by moment, into a more spacious, clear, reliable, and loving connection with ourselves and the world.
Includes digital access to five guided mindfulness meditations by Jon Kabat-Zinn, selected from the audio program that inspired this book. Read more
Editor's Take
Amazon reviewers say this book is a strong, easy-to-understand introduction to mindfulness, with many describing it as concise, practical, and calming. Some readers also praise it as a good basis for learning and a gentle guide for beginners, while a minority find it boring or disappointing and feel the included CD is inconsistent.
Goodreads reviews are similarly mixed, with many readers calling it reflective, informative, and useful for both newcomers and experienced practitioners, while some criticize the style as repetitive or overly simplistic. A blog-style review also frames it as a straightforward introduction to mindfulness practice.
Overall: customer opinion skews positive for clarity and accessibility, but a recurring downside is that some readers want more depth or better audio companion quality.
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Specifications
| Topic | Mindfulness |
Product Details
| ASIN | 1622036670 |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Essentials / Sounds True |
| Publication date | July 1, 2016 |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 184 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9781622036677 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1622036677 |
| Item Weight | 6.4 ounces |
| Dimensions | 6 x 0.5 x 8 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #42,337 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #316 in Meditation (Books) #994 in Personal Transformation Self-Help |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,992) |
