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Coming to Our Senses
Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Hardcover: 631 pages
Publisher: Hyperion (January 05 2005)
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Meditation - It's Not What You Think
It might be good to clarify a few common misunderstandings about meditation right off the bat. First, meditation is best thought of as a way of being, rather than a technique or a collection of techniques. Meditation is a way of being, not a technique.

Meditation - It's Not What You Think
It might be good to clarify a few common misunderstandings about meditation right off the bat. First, meditation is best thought of as a way of being, rather than a technique or a collection of techniques. Meditation is a way of being, not a technique.

Meditation - It's Not What You Think, Part 2
For meditation, and especially mindfulness meditation, is not the throwing of a switch and catapulting yourself anywhere nor is it entertaining certain thoughts and getting rid of others.


About the Author

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, as well as Professor of Medicine emeritus. He leads workshops on stress reduction and mindfulness for doctors and other health professionals and for lay audiences worldwide.

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