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Meditation Is Not What You Think
Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important
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Jon Kabat-Zinn is regarded as "one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you'll ever encounter" (Jack Kornfield). He has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream for decades. Today, millions of people around the world have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as part of their everyday lives. But what is meditation anyway? And why might it be worth trying? Or nurturing further if you already have practice?
Meditation Is Not What You Think answers those questions. Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book entitled Coming to Our Senses, it has been updated with a new foreword by the author and is even more relevant today. If you're curious as to why meditation is not for the "faint-hearted," how taking some time each day to drop into awareness can actually be a radical act of love, and why paying attention is so supremely important, consider this book an invitation to learn more — from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.
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May 1, 2018 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781549116490
- File size: 202579 KB
- Duration: 07:02:02
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Languages
- English
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An attitude of calm acceptance soothes listeners amid the author's enlightening explanation of what meditation is and is not. Author/narrator Kabat-Zinn gently sets aside the popular belief that meditation revolves around a state of being that is devoid of thoughts. With quiet encouragement, Kabat-Zinn reveals that meditation is simpler and more fluid than this and, therefore, less intimidating. The meditation practice is about awareness of mind and emotions, not necessarily the content of these thoughts and emotions. Earnestly, Kabat-Zinn explains how achieving and sustaining a sense of presence and wakefulness in spite of life's endless preoccupations and obligations and occasions for distraction restore one's mind, body, soul, and spirit. Kabat-Zinn's calm voice and gentle tone persuasively attest to the benefits of a meditation practice. M.F. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
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