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Mindfulness for Beginners

Reclaiming the Present Moment--and Your Life

Mindfulness for Beginners( )
Author: Kabat-Zinn, Jon
Read by: Kabat-Zinn, Jon
Series title:Playaway Adult Nonfiction Ser.
ISBN:978-1-60812-775-7
Publication Date:Apr 2009
Publisher:Findaway World, LLC
Book Format:Mixed media product
List Price:USD $39.99
Book Description:

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...
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Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.7 x 7.8 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:0.35 Pounds
Author Biography
Kabat-zinn, Jon (Author)
Featured in Bill Moyer's PBS Special Healing and the Mind, Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. is executive director at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He is the founder and former director of the UMMC Stress Reduction Clinic and an associate professor of medicine in the division of preventive and behavioral medicine.

Using mindfulness meditation, Kabat-Zinn works to help people reduce stress and deal with chronic pain, and a variety of illnesses, particularly breast cancer. He was a trainer for the 1984 U.S. Men's Olympic Rowing Team and is especially interested in reducing the stress-related problems in the inner city and in prison populations.

Kabat-Zinn's books include: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (1994), Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (1997), which was co-authored with his wife, Myla, and Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and why it is so important.

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