Mindfulness for beginners: reclaiming the present moment--and your life
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Boulder, CO : Sounds True, c2012.
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xii, 166 pages ; 21 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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"Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways; as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding 'lesson-a-day' primer on mindfulness practice."--Jacket.

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"Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways; as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding 'lesson-a-day' primer on mindfulness practice."--Jacket.
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Kabat-Zinn, J. (2012). Mindfulness for beginners: reclaiming the present moment--and your life. Boulder, CO, Sounds True.

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Kabat-Zinn, Jon. 2012. Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--and Your Life. Boulder, CO, Sounds True.

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Kabat-Zinn, Jon, Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--and Your Life. Boulder, CO, Sounds True, 2012.

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Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--and Your Life. Boulder, CO, Sounds True, 2012.

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5050 |a Entering: Beginner's mind -- The breath -- Who is breathing? -- The hardest work in the world -- Taking care of this moment -- Mindfulness is awareness -- Doing mode and being mode -- A grounding in science -- Mindfulness is universal -- Wakefulness -- Stabilizing and calibrating your instrument -- Inhabiting awareness is the essence of practice -- The beauty of discipline -- Adjusting your default setting -- Awareness: Our only capacity robust enough to balance thinking -- Attention and awareness are trainable skills -- Nothing wrong with thinking -- Befriending our thinking -- Images of your mind that might be useful -- Not taking our thoughts personally -- Selfing -- Our love affair with personal pronouns -- especially I, me, and mine -- Awareness is a big container -- The objects of attention are not as important as the attending itself -- Sustaining: Mindfulness-based stress reduction -- A world-wide phenomenon.
5050 |a An affectionate attention -- Mindfulness brought to all the senses -- Proprioception and interoception -- The unity of awareness -- The knowing Is awareness -- Life itself becomes the meditation practice -- You already belong -- Right beneath our noses -- Mindfulness is not merely a good idea -- To come back in touch -- Who am I? Questioning our own narrative -- You are more than any narrative -- You are never not whole -- Paying attention in a different way -- Not knowing -- The prepared mind -- What is yours to see? -- Deepening: No place to go, nothing to do -- The doing that comes out of being -- To act appropriately -- If you are aware of what is happening, you are doing it right -- Non-judging is an act of intelligence and kindness -- You can only be yourself -- thank goodness! -- Embodied knowing -- Feeling joy for others -- The full catastrophe -- Is my awareness of suffering suffering? -- What does liberation from suffering mean?
5050 |a Hell realms -- Liberation is in the practice itself -- The beauty of the mind that knows itself -- Taking care of your meditation practice -- Energy conservation in meditation practice -- An attitude of non-harming -- Greed: the cascade of dissatisfactions -- Aversion: the flip side of greed -- Delusion and the trap of self-fulfilling prophecies -- Now is always the right time -- The "curriculum" is "just this" -- Giving your life back to yourself -- Bringing mindfulness further into the world -- Ripening: The attitudinal foundations of mindfulness practice -- Non-judging -- Patience -- Beginner's mind -- Trust -- Non-striving -- Acceptance -- Letting go -- Practicing: Getting started with formal practice -- Mindfulness of eating -- Mindfulness of breathing -- Mindfulness of the body as a whole -- Mindfulness of sounds, thoughts, and emotions -- Mindfulness as pure awareness.
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