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  • Written by: Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Mindfulness for Beginners

Written by: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn
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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 potentially add years to your life, and will certainly enhance the quality of your moments and your years. Join Dr. Kabat-Zinn to:

  • Explore five guided meditations that lead you breath by breath into the essence of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a program offered in medical clinics and hospitals around the world
  • Cultivate the Seven Key Attitudinal Factors of MBSR, qualities of heart and mind that lay the foundation for mindfulness practice and for seeing and accepting things as they are as a first step to working wisely and compassionately with stress, pain, illness, and sorrow as well as life's joys and pleasures, Zorba's "full catastrophe"
  • Free yourself from limiting perspectives, and become more intimate with your own boundless awareness

    "You're already in the perfect moment for inhabiting this liberating awareness, which is always available," teaches Jon Kabat-Zinn. With Mindfulness for Beginners, he invites you to cultivate mindfulness as if your life depended on it, which it surely does, and experience the magnitude and beauty of who you already are.

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    Excellent succinct read with mindfulness practice

    Loved it, short and to the point with actual practices you can do which aid you to relax and be mindful.

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    most excellent for beginners, I would recommend

    loved it, most excellent for beginners, I would recommend it to any one wishing to start the journey of mindfulness

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    I couldn't love this more...

    Jon is such a pleasure to listen to.. he explains everything so well and so clearly.. he makes me smile...

    Thank you so much Jon Kabat-Zinn for all your wonderful " yakking.." lol

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    The worst book I have read about mindfulness

    A real waste of time and money. specially for beginners. He is just giving a bunch of unrelated thoughts.

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