{"product_id":"mindfulness-for-beginners-book-jon-kabat-zinn-9781604076585","title":"Mindfulness for Beginners","description":"We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives. With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play—and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are.  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.  Beginning and advanced meditators alike will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found most useful with his students, including:  Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulness The value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over again How our thoughts “self-liberate” when touched by awareness Moving beyond our “story” into direct experience Stabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activities The three poisons that cause suffering—and their antidotes How mindfulness heals, even after the fact Reclaiming our wholeness, and more  The prescription for living a more mindful life seems simple enough: return your awareness again and again to whatever is going on. But if you’ve tried it, you know that here is where all the questions and challenges really begin. Mindfulness for Beginners provides welcome answers, insights, and instruction to help us make that shift, moment by moment, into a more spacious, clear, reliable, and loving connection with ourselves and the world.  Includes a complete CD with five guided mindfulness meditations by Jon Kabat-Zinn, selected from the audio program that inspired this book.     Contents     Part I  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     Part II:  Sustaining  Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction  A World-Wide Phenomenon  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?     Part III:  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?  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     Part IV:  Ripening  The Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness Practice  Non-Judging  Patience  Beginner’s Mind  Trust  Non-Striving  Acceptance  Letting Go     Part V:  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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49531261419793,"sku":"CIN1604076585G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49542101860625,"sku":"GOR004179263","price":21.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49723784495377,"sku":"CIN1604076585VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50172741878033,"sku":"GOR007193831","price":42.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50200178852113,"sku":"CIN1604076585A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51835101872401,"sku":"GOR010629111","price":21.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53072136601873,"sku":"GOR008061268","price":19.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1604076585.jpg?v=1751214238","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/mindfulness-for-beginners-book-jon-kabat-zinn-9781604076585","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}