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Re-released on its tenth anniversary of publication, this book presents meditation as a natural activity that can be practiced anytime and anywhere, without props or trappings.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in various venues around the world. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria.

His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers' PBS Special, Healing and the Mind and in the book of the same title, as well as on Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Oprah's Super Soul Sunday, as well as NPR. he has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession, prisons, and professional sports.

He is the author of numerous bestselling books about mindfulness and meditation: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness; and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness. He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting; and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness Overall, his books have been translated into over thirty languages.

Introduction

xiii

PART ONE The Bloom of the Present Moment

1

(102)

What Is Mindfulness?

3

(5)

Simple but Not Easy

8

(3)

Stopping

11

(3)

This Is It

14

(3)

Capturing Your Moments

17

(1)

Keeping the Breath in Mind

18

(3)

Practice, Practice, Practice

21

(1)

Practice Does Not Mean Rehearsal

22

(2)

You Don't Have to Go Out of Your Way to Practice

24

(2)

Waking Up

26

(3)

Keeping It Simple

29

(1)

You Can't Stop the Waves but You Can Learn to Surf

30

(3)

Can Anybody Meditate?

33

(2)

In Praise of Non-Doing

35

(3)

The Non-Doing Paradox

38

(2)

Non-Doing in Action

40

(4)

Doing Non-Doing

44

(3)

Patience

47

(6)

Letting Go

53

(2)

Non-Judging

55

(3)

Trust

58

(3)

Generosity

61

(4)

You Have to Be Strong Enough to Be Weak

65

(3)

Voluntary Simplicity

68

(4)

Concentration

72

(3)

Vision

75

(6)

Meditation Develops Full Human Beings

81

(6)

Practice as a Path

87

(6)

Meditation: Not to Be Confused with Positive Thinking

93

(3)

Going Inside

96

(7)

PART TWO The Heart of Practice to Sitting Meditation

103

(68)

Taking Your Seat

106

(1)

Dignity

107

(2)

Posture

109

(3)

What to Do with Your Hands

112

(5)

Coming Out of Meditation

117

(4)

How Long to Practice?

121

(6)

No Right Way

127

(4)

A What-Is-My-Way? Meditation

131

(4)

The Mountain Meditation

135

(6)

The Lake Meditation

141

(4)

Walking Meditation

145

(4)

Standing Meditation

149

(2)

Lying-Down Meditation

151

(6)

Getting Your Body Down on the Floor at Least Once a Day

157

(3)

Not Practicing Is Practicing

160

(2)

Loving Kindness Meditation

162

(9)

PART THREE In the Spirit of Mindfulness

171

(100)

Sitting by Fire

173

(3)

Harmony

176

(3)

Early Morning

179

(6)

Direct Contact

185

(3)

Is There Anything Else You Would Like to Tell Me?

188

(3)

Your Own Authority

191

(4)

Wherever You Go, There You Are

195

(6)

Going Upstairs

201

(3)

Cleaning the Stove While Listening to Bobby McFerrin

204

(2)

What Is My Job on the Planet with a Capital J?

206

(5)

Mount Analogue

211

(2)

Interconnectedness

213

(4)

Non-Harming-Ahimsa

217

(3)

Karma

220

(6)

Wholeness and Oneness

226

(4)

Eachness and Suchness

230

(3)

What Is This?

233

(3)

Selfing

236

(5)

Anger

241

(2)

Cat-Food Lessons

243

(4)

Parenting as Practice

247

(10)

Parenting Two

257

(3)

Some Pitfalls Along the Path

260

(3)

Is Mindfulness Spiritual?

263

(8)

Afterword

271

(6)

Mindfulness Meditation Practice CDs

277

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Wherever You Go, There You Are : Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Wherever You Go, There You Are : Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

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