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Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is the 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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hachette Books; 10th edition (January 5, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781401307783
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401307783
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 1.05 x 8.3 inches

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edward gordon

Love it

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

A classic on the subject of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation

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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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Great book

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This book was recommended to me through a friend. It was an easy read and very insightful.

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Book as described

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Potentially life changing

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Very thought provoking.

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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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Alexis Benjamin

Awesome for grounding

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Light and easy read. I feel like I can pick it up at anytime, read it for 10 minutes, and feel like I got something out of it. Awesome for grounding when you feel overwhelmed. Doesn’t specify a religion that I’ve noticed, which is nice for gifting. I feel like I’ve learned a lot from it.

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Dominic S.

Not my style but your mileage may vary

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This was one of several books I purchased as I started to get into meditation and mindfulness. While it has some redeeming qualities ultimately it was my least favorite and least useful.

On the inside cover the book is described as a clear and practical guide to meditation. This book is anything but that. It’s a meandering collection of stories, thoughts, and recommendations that are loosely tied together at best. Most chapters are three pages or less. This book could only be considered a guide in the very loosest of sense, akin to perhaps the bible. Indeed, the writing seems very geared toward a more spiritual reader.

What the book does do reasonably well is offer a little taste of various meditation and mindfulness concepts without digging too deeply. As a novice it may be a good book to capture your interest in mindfulness and want to explore further. As an experienced meditator there are surely a few insights that can gleamed from the various thoughts presented throughout. It makes for a great bathroom book with bite sized chapters that don’t require a front to back read through.

Overall I don’t regret buying this book as it adds a different perspective and I found useful bits here and there. If I was going to buy one book on mindfulness though it certainly wouldn’t be this one.

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Cacomixtli

Classic

Reviewed in Germany on August 15, 2023

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Groundbreaking book on mindfulness, deservedly a classic.

Hutch

Important book for a long term lifestyle change

Reviewed in Canada on December 2, 2023

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Very easy and simple book to understand. Mindfulness can be very helpful to some people to calm the mind or help with anger etc.

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growth point for any of us

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This man's work seems to me to be one of those growth points in human culture that don't crop up too often. He's making enormously beneficial mind-training techniques available to ordinary western(ised) people, without the cultural and religious associations of their origins, which can be very challenging for most of us. I mean, you don't have to be a Zen master to benefit from this!
What I like about his approach is that it is so simple and down-to-earth. It's not "alternative," it's here-and-now, everyday, (yet demanding.)
Seems to me if more westerners used his insights and techniques, not only would they feel better about themselves and their lives (I do, already)but the planet might be a safer place to live. Maybe that's pitching it a bit high - but give it a shot and see if you agree.
The book is beautifully lucid. I think most of us need some other additional regular guidance and structure to make mindfulness part of our everyday - well, I do, anyway - but more courses are springing up, and no doubt the CDs help.
But it's not a magic bullet - it takes time and application, and in a funny way, it's quite hard work. And I think it's worth getting into it even if you are not depressed or in pain, ahead of the times when you have to face suffering, yours or someone else's - because it adds so much to ordinary life.
It has taught me to question and adapt or change some of my characteristic responses - or at least to start doing so - and that's not always comfortable. But it really is worth it.
If you're a sceptical rationalist like me, be reassured - this man isn't a freaky guru, he's a trained scientist, a genuine teacher. This isn't a cult. It won't claim to change your life in a flash. But if you give it a chance - it really will help, with a lot of - "stuff." And it can actually be very enjoyable.

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Rajiv Chopra

Good. Not Excellent

Reviewed in India on January 25, 2022

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This is a good book, but not excellent. In some ways, I think that if he had stopped at the book title, it would have been enough.

The first section is excellent, and I like the exercises. Thereafter, Jon Kabat-Zinn becomes a bit repetitive, but it is a book you can still read and learn from.

Ignore what he writes about the Indian word, 'samadhi'. Samadhi is not just one-pointedness, it is the highest form of (let us say) concentration, mindfulness, and oneness. It may be one step away from 'nirvana'.

When you lie in samadhi, you are lying in a tomb, before cremation or burial. This is another aspect of samadhi.
When you attain samadhi, you may die, or be so evolved that you are dead to the world.

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poor physical product quality

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