The healing power of mindfulness A new way of being
Book - 2018
More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn showed us the value of cultivating greater awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Now, in The Healing Power of Mindfulness, he shares a cornucopia of specific examples as to how the cultivation of mindfulness can reshape your relationship with your own body and mind--explaining what we're learning about neuroplasticity and the brain, how meditation can affect our biology and our health, and what mindfulness can teach us about coming to terms with all sorts of life challenges, including our own mortality, so we can make the most of the moments that we have. Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book titled Coming t...o Our Senses, The Healing Power of Mindfulness features a new foreword by the author and timely updates throughout the text. If you are interested in learning more about how mindfulness as a way of being can help us to heal, physically and emotionally, look no further than this deeply personal and also "deeply optimistic book, grounded in good science and filled with practical recommendations for moving in the right direction" (Andrew Weil, MD), from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Hachette Books
2018.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xvii, 235 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780316411769
- New Foreword
- Part 1. Healing Possibilities: The Realm of Mind and Body
- Sentience
- Nothing Personal, But, Excuse Me...Are We Who We Think We Are?
- Even Our Molecules Touch
- No Fragmentation
- No Separation
- Orienting in Time and Space: A Tribute to My Father
- Orthogonal Reality-Rotating in Consciousness
- Orthogonal Institutions
- A Study in Healing and the Mind
- A Study in Happiness-Meditation, the Brain, and the Immune System
- Homunculus
- Proprioception-The Felt Sense of the Body
- Neuroplasticity and the Unknown Limits of the Possible
- Part 2. Arriving At Your Own Door
- "I Can't Hear Myself Think!"
- I Didn't Have a Moment to Catch My Breath
- The Infidelity of Busyness
- Interrupting Ourselves
- Filling Up All Our Moments
- Attaining Place
- You Can't Get There from Here
- Overwhelmed
- Dialogues and Discussions
- Sitting on the Bench
- You Crazy!
- Phase Changes
- You Make, You Have
- Any Ideal of Practice Is Just Another Fabrication
- You Want to Make Something of It?
- Who Won the Super Bowl?
- Arrogance and Entitlement
- Death
- Dying Before You Die
- Dying Before You Die-Deux
- Don't Know Mind
- Arriving At Your Own Door
- Acknowledgments
- Related Readings
- Credits and Permissions
- Index
- About the Author
- Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practices with Jon Kabat-Zinn