Warmth, humor, anecdotes, and poems make up this inspirational guide to a revolutionary new way of being, seeing, and living. Exploring principles and practices of mindfulness, Dr. Kabat Zinn has taught this two thousand year old Buddhist method of relaxation to thousands. Learn how to capture the present, to live fully in the moment and reduce anxiety, achieve inner peace, and enrich the quality of life. Let this be your guide to mindfulness meditation in everyday life.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Listening Length	3 hours and 9 minutes
Author	Jon Kabat-Zinn
Narrator	Jon Kabat-Zinn
Audible.com Release Date	February 24, 2000
Publisher	Macmillan Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Abridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0000544T5
Best Sellers Rank	#3,380 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #9 in Buddhist Rituals & Practice (Books) #12 in Meditation (Audible Books & Originals) #16 in Spiritual Meditation

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Tom Venuto, Author of Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle

A classic on the subject of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 23, 2022

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I read this book back in the 1990s and just re-read it as my interest in learning about and practicing mindfulness has been high recently. I thoroughly enjoyed it it again.

Wherever You Go, There You Are is written from a mostly secular / scientific point of view. The author Kabat Zinn does reference the Buddhist roots of mindfulness, but the book is not religious nor is Kabat Zinn a monk. He is the creator of a mindfulness-based stress reduction program at the stress reduction clinic at the University of Massachusetts medical center.

Stress is a huge problem for many people and having stress management and coping tools could not be more important for so many reasons. I work in the health and fitness field and mindfulness is especially valuable to people who are endeavoring to eat for health and weight loss and avoid eating mindlessly or for emotional reasons. Mindful eating is a valuable skill to have.

Mindfulness in daily living - being fully in the present moment - as well as mindfulness meditation and the focus on the breath are among the best of the stress management tools. As Stanford psychologist Kelly McGonigal has said, "Stress is the enemy of willpower." Meditation and even simple breathing exercises can reduce stress and improve self control

As a fitness coach I teach my clients and readers the importance of mental training, not just physical training. Most people, especially those only exposed to sports psychology, usually think of mental training as goal setting, controlling self-talk or using affirmations and visualization. But we could also say that mindfulness meditation is the original and oldest type of mental training, as this passage from the book explained:

"Im told that in Pali, the original language of the Buddha, there is no one word corresponding to our word "meditation," even though meditation might be said to have evolved to an extraordinary degree in ancient Indian culture. One word that is frequently used is bhavana. Bhavana translates as "development through mental training." To me, this strikes the mark - mediation really is about human development."

I highly recommend this book. It may be the singe best place to start learning about mindfulness. It's a full length book at about 270 pages, but it's easy to read and has short chapters, most about 2 to 5 pages long.

This was first written in 1994 and I still have that original paperback. I picked up the newer anniversary version (2010) for my kindle because it was inexpensive and I wanted to see what was in the update. I know more scientific evidence about mindfulness and meditation has been discovered recently, but this is not the kind of information or practice that goes out of date. After all, it's thousands of years old.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

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Who cuts the pages like this? They are infuriating to flip.
Content seems good though.

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Jessica Kowalkowski

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 8, 2022

Overall great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2016

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Review for Amazon by Jerry Woolpy of Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
This is a book that defines meditation as awareness of yourself in the immediate present. It is not mystical, spiritual, or religious. It explains thinking as an epiphenomenon of the mind and the self as an ever changing nonentity linked to situations. We tend to think in the past and the future ignoring the sensations of the moment that we are actually in. By taking time to be mindful of our breadth, a pleasant image, or a compassionate idea, for five, fifteen, or even forty-five minutes a day we can reinforce a mindset to actually witness our connectedness to the universe and to discern an objective sense of the truth without the bias of selfish judgments and personal tastes.
Mindfulness may help us to correct the direction of our lives (karma) toward relieving suffering and not causing the suffering of others (ahimsa). It provides a new way of being alive instead of trying to be something that you are not already. But like charity recommended in the Talmud, do not do it for self-aggrandizement or to impress others. It is strictly a personal effort. Mindfulness does not stop the vicissitudes of your life, but it helps you to cope with them. The apt metaphor is “You Can’t Stop the Waves but you Can Learn to Surf”.
Contrary to common opinion, mindfulness is not shutting-off from the world but it is seeing the world more clearly. It involves concentration (samadhi) rather than relaxation. And it is not a way of doing. If someone hits you with a stick, rather than hitting back, you consider the chain of events that may have led to the hit. Maybe you should be angry at the hitter’s parents or the lack of compassion in the hitter’s upbringing. Notice how all events are connected. What may look like a show of strength may actually be weakness.
Consider being soft when your impulse is to be hard. Mindfulness is openness, curiosity, availability, engagement. You can meditate sitting, standing, or even walking. The right way is the way that you choose to do it. Peter Matthiessen has written: The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.
Mindfulness makes us aware of choices that we did not know we had. When you stop outward activity with a decision to sit, you may break the flow of bad karma and open the possibility of replacing it with good karma.
The current edition of the book adds at the end: We all are. Perfectly what we are, including all our imperfections and inadequacies. The question is: can we be with it? Can we sit with it? Can we know it? Can we embrace our own wholeness and embody it, here, where we already are, in the very situations, good, bad, ugly, lost, confusing, heart-rending, terrifying, and painful, that we find ourselves in?

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Jess

Love the meditations, too much ‘family’ talk.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 4, 2019

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I love this book very much. It has been remarkable for me.
I heard a meditation from it and it was my favourite, so i bought the book.
It is the truth. It helps you get in touch with yourself.
However, like so many others of this genre, the author keeps bringing his ‘wife’ and ‘children’ and ‘family life’ into the text, which is totally inappropriate in a self-help book; many many people dont have a wife/ husband/ children/ family life, and dont want to have those old-fashioned, limiting ways of living shoved in their faces when they’re trying to learn about mindfulness. It is annoying and distracting, and hence it dropped stars.
Be objective if you’re going to write a book - i didnt want an autobiography. It’s egotistical and at times the author’s ego is definately there.
The meditations however, are so wonderful. The book’s worth it for them definately.

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Nourished By Books

Very difficult to digest if you are anxious.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 19, 2020

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I am really missing something with this book. There was a couple of helpful sentences, one being from the Dali Lama. I found the rest extremely vague, wishy washy and difficult to digest. It was recommended to me by friends so it is clearly of value to some people and just a case of individual differences. I’m logical and science minded. I found Matt Haig, Clare Weeks and Dare useful.

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CarolineS

Lovely meditation supportive reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 9, 2021

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When it arrived I was so looking forward to starting this book, but it also looks very pretty so I ended up doing it for a secret Santa for a work colleague (with a small Buddha, some crystals and an eye pillow) and bought myself another one. I teach mindfulness and meditation so I am also looking forward to it enhancing my teachings as well as my practise

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kgb73

Some useful tips

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 19, 2017

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A beginner wishing to meditate and create more mindfulness into my existence. Loving the first two chapters I avidly read in, however found the middle of the book over complicated and way too wordy, I found myself mindlessly drifting! I will return to chapters and revisit highlighted points of interest however had I thumbed through this on a bookshelf I may not have purchased and moved on to something else, which
unfortunately is the downside to electronic purchases. Expensive and waffle

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bc90

Up There With The All Time Classics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 24, 2016

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I circled around this book for a long time, putting it on the back burner as just another mindfulness read, but boy was I wrong. It's wonderfully down to Earth, offering advice on how to deal with everyday matters. The chapters are very short and sometimes only one page, which is many ways is very beneficial as it means you can dip in and out and process what is on the pages. The man is a remarkable writer in that he makes this subject matter very simple, concise and more importantly relatable. If you want a read not so involved with the ethereal matters in this field then this is the book for you. I've already bought Full Catastrophe Living off the impression this book imprinted on me. A Kabat-Zinn classic.

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