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Mindfulness for Beginners

Explore the Infinite Potential that Lies Within This Very Moment

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 What if you could profoundly change your life just by becoming more mindful of your breathing? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, you can. What if "paying attention on purpose and non-judgmentally" could improve your health? Again, according to Dr. Kabat-Zinn, it can.

In Mindfulness for Beginners, this internationally known scientist, best-selling author, and teacher who brought mindfulness meditation into the mainstream of medicine and society gives you immediate access to a practice that can potentially add years to your life, and will certainly enhance the quality of your moments and your years. Join Dr. Kabat-Zinn to:

  • Explore five guided meditations that lead you breath by breath into the essence of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a program offered in medical clinics and hospitals around the world
  • Cultivate the Seven Key Attitudinal Factors of MBSR, qualities of heart and mind that lay the foundation for mindfulness practice and for seeing and accepting things as they are as a first step to working wisely and compassionately with stress, pain, illness, and sorrow as well as life's joys and pleasures, Zorba's "full catastrophe"
  • Free yourself from limiting perspectives, and become more intimate with your own boundless awareness

    "You're already in the perfect moment for inhabiting this liberating awareness, which is always available," teaches Jon Kabat-Zinn. With Mindfulness for Beginners, he invites you to cultivate mindfulness as if your life depended on it, which it surely does, and experience the magnitude and beauty of who you already are.

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    I've listened over and over and over to this wonderful audiobook.

    Jon's soulful voice soothes and heals while you sit - or lie - and you can do the meditations sitting or lying down.

    I'm not saying this is the panacea for all known human woes.

    But it offers the chance to see the world through a different lens.

    A lens that needs constant cleaning.

    Excellent.

    Mind altering, world changing

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    This form of mindfulness is excellent for beginners and more experienced.
    It has the BEST guided meditation I've ever had the privilege to experience.
    Those who find meditation difficult will not with this as it's as easy as breathing.
    No matter how stressed or anxious you are, when you listen to this you will feel the weight lifted off you and taken away.
    It's hard not to fall asleep it's that peaceful and calming.
    I woke up with my physical pain levels almost melted away.
    I cannot remember feeling such a deep levels of calm.

    Do not listen to this while driving or needing to drive soon after.
    I was left feeling deeply over relaxed, my body felt floppy with no tension in it.

    Thank you to Jon Kabat-Zinn for an amazing experience of the deepest relaxation.

    An incredible experience

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    Would you listen to Mindfulness for Beginners again? Why?

    There is a lot of depth here that requires careful consideration . It is not a listen to once experience as it requires that the ideas are thought about.

    Who was your favorite character and why?

    me

    Have you listened to any of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s other performances? How does this one compare?

    not yet

    If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

    How not to be a humandoing

    Any additional comments?

    It is a shame that chapter 2 is not split into more chapters so that it is easily possible to get to the particular meditation practices without having to create bookmarks.
    Otherwise a very good book

    Very useful as an introduction

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    beautifully done, I'll be listening to this book multable times through the year, very Insightful.

    highly recommend

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    I loved how the author explains both mindfulness and meditation
    It’s full of non judgmental yet directive dialogue that enabled me realise my ability to benefit from mindfulness

    Brings a simple understanding to mindfulness

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