 Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation
in Everyday Life
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Catastrophe Living--a book in which he presented basic meditation techniques as a way
of reducing stress and healing from illness--here Jon Kabat-Zinn goes much more deeply
into the practice of meditation for its own sake. To Kabat-Zinn, meditation is important
because it brings about a state of "mindfulness," a condition of
"being" rather than "doing" during which you pay attention to the
moment rather than the past, the future, or the multitudinous distractions of modern life.
In brief, rather poetic chapters, he describes different meditative practices and what
they can do for the practitioner. The idea that meditation is "spiritual" is
often confusing to people, Kabat-Zinn writes; he prefers to think of it as what you might
call a workout for your consciousness. This book makes learning meditation remarkably easy
(although practicing it is not). But it also makes it seem infinitely appealing. LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK |
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