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Falling Awake: How to Practice Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Think you have no time for mindfulness? Think again.
"Thoughtful and provocative.... The relevance of this work is unquestionable, as it leaves us inspired and optimistic that true healing really is possible" (Sharon Salzberg). For four decades, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream. Today millions of people have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as part of their everyday lives. But how do you actually go about meditating? What does a formal meditation practice look like? And how can we overcome some of the common obstacles to incorporating meditation into daily life in an age of perpetual self-distraction?
Falling Awake directly answers these urgent and timely questions. Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book titled Coming to Our Senses , it has been updated with a new foreword by the author and is even more relevant today. Science shows that the tangible benefits of a mindfulness meditation practice are impossible to ignore. Kabat-Zinn explains how to incorporate them into our hectic, modern lives. Read on for a master class from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.
"Thoughtful and provocative.... The relevance of this work is unquestionable, as it leaves us inspired and optimistic that true healing really is possible" (Sharon Salzberg). For four decades, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream. Today millions of people have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as part of their everyday lives. But how do you actually go about meditating? What does a formal meditation practice look like? And how can we overcome some of the common obstacles to incorporating meditation into daily life in an age of perpetual self-distraction?
Falling Awake directly answers these urgent and timely questions. Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book titled Coming to Our Senses , it has been updated with a new foreword by the author and is even more relevant today. Science shows that the tangible benefits of a mindfulness meditation practice are impossible to ignore. Kabat-Zinn explains how to incorporate them into our hectic, modern lives. Read on for a master class from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.
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First published August 7, 2018
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About the author
Jon Kabat-Zinn
207 books2,066 followersJon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in various venues around the world. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria.
He is the author of numerous scientific papers on the clinical applications of mindfulness in medicine and health care, and of a number of books for the lay public: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (Delta, 1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Hyperion, 1994); Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2005); and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2007). He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (Hyperion, 1997); and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Guilford, 2007). Overall, his books have been translated into over 30 languages.
His major research interests have focused on mind/body interactions for healing, clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training, the effects of MBSR on the brain, on the immune system, and on healthy emotional expression while under stress; on healing (skin clearing rates) in people with psoriasis; on patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation; with prison inmates and staff; in multicultural settings; and on stress in various corporate settings and work environments. His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers’ PBS Special, “Healing and the Mind” and in the book of the same title, as well as on Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and NPR. It has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession, prisons, and professional sports.
He has trained groups of CEOs, judges, members of the clergy, and Olympic athletes (the 1984 Olympic Men’s Rowing Team) and congressional staff in mindfulness. The Stress Reduction Clinic has served as the model for mindfulness-based clinical intervention programs at over 200 medical centers and clinics nation-wide and abroad.
Dr. Kabat-Zinn has received numerous awards over the span of his career. He is a founding fellow of the Fetzer Institute, and a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He received the Interface Foundation Career Achievement Award, and the New York Open Center’s Tenth Year Anniversary Achievement in Medicine and Health Award (1994); the Art, Science, and Soul of Healing Award from the Institute for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco (1998); the 2nd Annual Trailblazer Award for “pioneering work in the field of integrative medicine” from the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California (2001); the Distinguished Friend Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (2005), and an Inaugural Pioneer in Integrative Medicine Award from the Bravewell Philanthropic Collaborative for Integrative Medicine (2007).
He is the founding convener of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, and serves on the Board of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between the Dalai Lama and Western scientists to promote deeper understanding of different ways of knowing and probing the nature of mind, emotions, and reality. He was co-program chair of the 2005 Mind and Life Dialogue: The Clinical Appl
He is the author of numerous scientific papers on the clinical applications of mindfulness in medicine and health care, and of a number of books for the lay public: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (Delta, 1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Hyperion, 1994); Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2005); and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2007). He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (Hyperion, 1997); and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Guilford, 2007). Overall, his books have been translated into over 30 languages.
His major research interests have focused on mind/body interactions for healing, clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training, the effects of MBSR on the brain, on the immune system, and on healthy emotional expression while under stress; on healing (skin clearing rates) in people with psoriasis; on patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation; with prison inmates and staff; in multicultural settings; and on stress in various corporate settings and work environments. His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers’ PBS Special, “Healing and the Mind” and in the book of the same title, as well as on Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and NPR. It has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession, prisons, and professional sports.
He has trained groups of CEOs, judges, members of the clergy, and Olympic athletes (the 1984 Olympic Men’s Rowing Team) and congressional staff in mindfulness. The Stress Reduction Clinic has served as the model for mindfulness-based clinical intervention programs at over 200 medical centers and clinics nation-wide and abroad.
Dr. Kabat-Zinn has received numerous awards over the span of his career. He is a founding fellow of the Fetzer Institute, and a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He received the Interface Foundation Career Achievement Award, and the New York Open Center’s Tenth Year Anniversary Achievement in Medicine and Health Award (1994); the Art, Science, and Soul of Healing Award from the Institute for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco (1998); the 2nd Annual Trailblazer Award for “pioneering work in the field of integrative medicine” from the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California (2001); the Distinguished Friend Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (2005), and an Inaugural Pioneer in Integrative Medicine Award from the Bravewell Philanthropic Collaborative for Integrative Medicine (2007).
He is the founding convener of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, and serves on the Board of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between the Dalai Lama and Western scientists to promote deeper understanding of different ways of knowing and probing the nature of mind, emotions, and reality. He was co-program chair of the 2005 Mind and Life Dialogue: The Clinical Appl
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April 30, 2019
When explaining the contents of this book out loud, to the outside ear it may sound dry due to it's focus on the mundane in everyday life. Going over the basics of sitting, standing, walking the dog, tasting food, hearing sounds, it turns everything into an art of awareness.
That is in fact it's power -- it helps you wake up to, and be accepting of what is so you can start seeing all that is in front of you, with loving kindness.
That is in fact it's power -- it helps you wake up to, and be accepting of what is so you can start seeing all that is in front of you, with loving kindness.
July 3, 2019
This newly reformulated text was originally part of the author’s 2005 book, Coming to Our Senses. Still fresh and applicable, it offers helpful direction on how to meditate regularly despite constant distractions in the age of social media. The benefits? Greater compassion and well-being, both for ourselves and for the world in which we live. More than ever, we need this wisdom from the master of mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Thanks to the author, Hachette Books and NetGalley for the review copy.
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Thanks to the author, Hachette Books and NetGalley for the review copy.
#FallingAwake #NetGalley
December 12, 2024
It’s a very good meditation book that makes a lot of important points about life and what really matters. It is not strict on how to practice meditation; reminding you that you can meditate anywhere at any time. I’d recommend this to anyone pursuing a spiritual healing path
August 14, 2018
Total waste of time (and money)! It is better to go for a walk in the forest, or in the fields, or even in a town centre and watch... trees, fields, clouds or people! The words in the book are wasted, wasted, wasted...
April 14, 2024
Jon Kabat-Zinn is just so, so good. This book combines actionable advice with a narrative style that guides you into being mindful even as you are reading the book. I listened to the audio version and it felt at times like a guided meditation.
June 27, 2024
This man should run for president.
April 30, 2024
I didn't expect JKZ to get this poetical. Yes, the first half of this book is very lyrical / poetical. Even too much so for my taste.
However, come the second half, a lot more pragmatism settles in, with actual advice / description on how to meditate or integrate mindfulness in every day life.
However, come the second half, a lot more pragmatism settles in, with actual advice / description on how to meditate or integrate mindfulness in every day life.
June 28, 2018
As a huge Jon Kabat-Zinn fan, I was thrilled to receive an ARC of this book from Netgalley, the publisher, and the author. Falling Awake is a slightly revised edition of Kabat-Zinn's earlier work, Coming to our Senses. However, it's as relevant today as it was a decade ago--perhaps even more so with the advent of the age of distraction. Kabat-Zinn does a good job discussing how to be mindful in our always-on demanding society and in the age of social media.
No one does mindfulness as well as Kabat-Zinn and I'm delighted to add Falling Awake to my mindfulness collection.
Many thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.
No one does mindfulness as well as Kabat-Zinn and I'm delighted to add Falling Awake to my mindfulness collection.
Many thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.
June 23, 2022
“We only have this one life to live, are we going to sleepwalk through it, lost in our thoughts and narratives and our emotions? Or are we going to find ways to wake up to the fullness of this moment and of what it might portend if only we were more in touch with and accepting of it and of ourselves in the face of anything and everything that can arise during a single moment or over the course of a day?”
I love all this. It is the gentlest, most thorough, most abundant wisdom I have found. I have internalized this as prayer and breath. It is a lot of words for the simplicity mindfulness teaches, but if we could just practice it, we could change the world. Our brains are evolving away from this mindset, perhaps, but we can always come back to it. It is always there.
The invitation is always the same: to stop for a moment—just one moment—and drop into wakefulness. That is all.
Drop in to your experience of experiencing, and for even the briefest of moments, simply holding it in awareness as it is—in no time, or to put it differently, in this timeless moment we call now, the only moment we actually ever have.
Another way to put it is that mindfulness is all about being, as in “human being,” and about life unfolding here and now, as it is, and embraced in awareness. Therefore, it takes virtually no effort because it is already happening. All it requires is learning to reside in your direct experiencing of this moment, whatever it is, without necessarily thinking that it is particularly “yours.”
Later this afternoon, the field and the walk I will take along the same trajectory will be entirely different, and that difference will make me different, will require me to be different, meaning present afresh for what will be offered up to the senses in whatever moment I arrive. And it is always so, summer or winter, spring or fall, yesterday or today, in rain and gloom and snow, at night under the stars… I am always arriving. It is always already here, just as it is, always the same field, but never the same.
Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the air?
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts?
When you turn around, starting here, lift this new glimpse
that you found; carry into evening all that you want from this day.
This interval you spent reading or hearing this, keep it for life—
What can anyone give you greater than now, starting here,
right in this room, when you turn around?
WILLIAM STAFFORD, “You Reading This, Be Ready”
Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke
the owls. Invoke winter, then spring.
Let any season that wants to come here make its own call. After that sound goes away, wait.
A slow bubble rises through the earth
and begins to include sky, stars, all space, even the outracing, expanding thought. Come back and hear the little sound again.
Suddenly this dream you are having matches everyone’s dream, and the result is the world. If a different call came there wouldn’t be any world, or you, or the river, or the owls calling.
How you stand here is important. How you
listen for the next things to happen. How you breathe.
Being a Person (William Stafford)
For a time we are immersed in a world that is probably little different from the way it was five or fifteen thousand years ago or more, a vast and primordial silence, ebbing with sounds. Bald eagles cry out, ravens squawk, smaller birds on the water and in the air all contribute their various calls and cries, the waves lap at the shore, the wind blows through old-growth Sitka spruce and western hemlock temperate rain forest that has known the force of the brutal winters but never the clear-cut saw. We sit here, opening to this world, to this soundscape, to its ancient memories.
The realization has crept up on me that it is indeed just air, but what a gift. What a sensuous gift, this invitation to feel what is already offered to us, to experience that we are being perpetually embraced and nourished, at all times both touched by and touching the spirit of Ariel, the very air itself. We are breathing and being breathed. We are living in air, like Chagall figures, and living on it and off it too.
Everything that unfolds unfolds now, and so might be said to unfold in the nowscape. We’ve already observed how nature unfolds only and always in the now. The trees are growing now. The birds are flying through the air or sitting in the branches only now. The rivers and the mountains are in the now. The ocean is in the now. The planet itself is turning now.
May all beings near and far be safe and protected and free from inner and outer harm May all beings near and far be happy and contented May all beings near and far be healthy and whole to whatever degree possible May all beings near and far experience ease of well-being…
And it need not stop here. Why not include the entire Earth in the field of lovingkindness? Why not embrace the very Earth that is our home, that is an organism in its own right, that is in a sense one body, a body that can be thrown off balance by our own actions, conscious and unconscious, in ways that create huge threats to the life it nurtures and to the intelligences embedded within all aspects of that life, animal and plant and mineral that interact so seamlessly in the natural world?
I love all this. It is the gentlest, most thorough, most abundant wisdom I have found. I have internalized this as prayer and breath. It is a lot of words for the simplicity mindfulness teaches, but if we could just practice it, we could change the world. Our brains are evolving away from this mindset, perhaps, but we can always come back to it. It is always there.
The invitation is always the same: to stop for a moment—just one moment—and drop into wakefulness. That is all.
Drop in to your experience of experiencing, and for even the briefest of moments, simply holding it in awareness as it is—in no time, or to put it differently, in this timeless moment we call now, the only moment we actually ever have.
Another way to put it is that mindfulness is all about being, as in “human being,” and about life unfolding here and now, as it is, and embraced in awareness. Therefore, it takes virtually no effort because it is already happening. All it requires is learning to reside in your direct experiencing of this moment, whatever it is, without necessarily thinking that it is particularly “yours.”
Later this afternoon, the field and the walk I will take along the same trajectory will be entirely different, and that difference will make me different, will require me to be different, meaning present afresh for what will be offered up to the senses in whatever moment I arrive. And it is always so, summer or winter, spring or fall, yesterday or today, in rain and gloom and snow, at night under the stars… I am always arriving. It is always already here, just as it is, always the same field, but never the same.
Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the air?
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts?
When you turn around, starting here, lift this new glimpse
that you found; carry into evening all that you want from this day.
This interval you spent reading or hearing this, keep it for life—
What can anyone give you greater than now, starting here,
right in this room, when you turn around?
WILLIAM STAFFORD, “You Reading This, Be Ready”
Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke
the owls. Invoke winter, then spring.
Let any season that wants to come here make its own call. After that sound goes away, wait.
A slow bubble rises through the earth
and begins to include sky, stars, all space, even the outracing, expanding thought. Come back and hear the little sound again.
Suddenly this dream you are having matches everyone’s dream, and the result is the world. If a different call came there wouldn’t be any world, or you, or the river, or the owls calling.
How you stand here is important. How you
listen for the next things to happen. How you breathe.
Being a Person (William Stafford)
For a time we are immersed in a world that is probably little different from the way it was five or fifteen thousand years ago or more, a vast and primordial silence, ebbing with sounds. Bald eagles cry out, ravens squawk, smaller birds on the water and in the air all contribute their various calls and cries, the waves lap at the shore, the wind blows through old-growth Sitka spruce and western hemlock temperate rain forest that has known the force of the brutal winters but never the clear-cut saw. We sit here, opening to this world, to this soundscape, to its ancient memories.
The realization has crept up on me that it is indeed just air, but what a gift. What a sensuous gift, this invitation to feel what is already offered to us, to experience that we are being perpetually embraced and nourished, at all times both touched by and touching the spirit of Ariel, the very air itself. We are breathing and being breathed. We are living in air, like Chagall figures, and living on it and off it too.
Everything that unfolds unfolds now, and so might be said to unfold in the nowscape. We’ve already observed how nature unfolds only and always in the now. The trees are growing now. The birds are flying through the air or sitting in the branches only now. The rivers and the mountains are in the now. The ocean is in the now. The planet itself is turning now.
May all beings near and far be safe and protected and free from inner and outer harm May all beings near and far be happy and contented May all beings near and far be healthy and whole to whatever degree possible May all beings near and far experience ease of well-being…
And it need not stop here. Why not include the entire Earth in the field of lovingkindness? Why not embrace the very Earth that is our home, that is an organism in its own right, that is in a sense one body, a body that can be thrown off balance by our own actions, conscious and unconscious, in ways that create huge threats to the life it nurtures and to the intelligences embedded within all aspects of that life, animal and plant and mineral that interact so seamlessly in the natural world?
June 27, 2018
I have been a fan of this author and his teaching style for years.
I still believe he is one of the best resources for anyone desiring to learn more about meditation.
As its popularity regains traction, I recommend going to a valued source such as this to learn to still your thoughts and gain control of your mind.
I still believe he is one of the best resources for anyone desiring to learn more about meditation.
As its popularity regains traction, I recommend going to a valued source such as this to learn to still your thoughts and gain control of your mind.
September 15, 2018
Good advise though often vague and I would think a bit difficult for a newbie to navigate in beginning a practice but has very bright moments.
September 22, 2018
Falling Awake Was originally published in 2005 as part of Coming to Our Senses, This new reformatted book is a exceptional sensible guide of meditating, of becoming aware and awakening ourselves to the benefits of meditating to better ourselves.
The author is the definitive source of mindfulness and meditation. In his extensive teachings he helped millions become more centered with sensible techniques that anyone can do. In this book he emphasizes how we just need to put forth the effort and turn to a simple mindful practice to fully experience meditation and mindfulness.
He suggest a practice called "drop and sit" to begin a practice anywhere. The author invites you to not depend on the right class, the right equipment, or time. To just begin your practice at home be willing to improve your peace of mind and connect with your soul and "drop and sit". This is the encouragement we all need to get started.
I found this outstanding in technique and very sensible. I will be referring to this book when I need a refreshment to return to my own practice of meditation and mindfulness.
Thank you to the publisher and Net Galley for the ARC. My opinions are my own.
The author is the definitive source of mindfulness and meditation. In his extensive teachings he helped millions become more centered with sensible techniques that anyone can do. In this book he emphasizes how we just need to put forth the effort and turn to a simple mindful practice to fully experience meditation and mindfulness.
He suggest a practice called "drop and sit" to begin a practice anywhere. The author invites you to not depend on the right class, the right equipment, or time. To just begin your practice at home be willing to improve your peace of mind and connect with your soul and "drop and sit". This is the encouragement we all need to get started.
I found this outstanding in technique and very sensible. I will be referring to this book when I need a refreshment to return to my own practice of meditation and mindfulness.
Thank you to the publisher and Net Galley for the ARC. My opinions are my own.
June 17, 2019
If you have ever wondered what it would be like to embody mindfulness of sound, breath, or movement, Kabat-Zinn has a masterful way of communicating this through the page despite the fact that it is a very personal experience. The first half of the book explores the different sensory components of mindfulness, and he does so with such rich language and preciseness that there is no doubt as to what he is trying to convey. The second half has more specific practicalities, but still conveys his artful writing style. This is a masterful book that simultaneously inspires individual action towards mindfulness.
July 20, 2024
My first brush with Buddhism was through Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book “Wherever You Go, There You Are.” It was a life changing experience for me, and his works continue to resonate deeply with me. Falling Awake is the 2nd of the Coming To Our Senses series and does a wonderful job exploring the whole landscape of mindfulness practice.
Mindfulness is probably a term that in its proliferation through current culture has been heavily co-opted, changed or watered down from its original meaning. This book can help rediscover what it is really all about.
I highly recommend the audiobook version (read by the author). It makes a great companion while walking.
Mindfulness is probably a term that in its proliferation through current culture has been heavily co-opted, changed or watered down from its original meaning. This book can help rediscover what it is really all about.
I highly recommend the audiobook version (read by the author). It makes a great companion while walking.
June 1, 2019
More of a journey into mindfulness. This book spends some time instructing the reader how to meditate, with several choices; lying down, standing up, sitting and walking. All good lessons. I think I’m going to spend some time just being mindful, then dive into one of the authors online mediation lecturers, to further my practice. It’s hard to learn how to meditate by reading, I think the online sessions will be more helpful. In the meantime, I’m doing my best to be mindful in all that I do.
April 26, 2024
scammed by the amazing foreword! the whole book was a "how to" book, it writes that it's a "how to" book on the cover but i didn't expect the whole book to really be a "how to". the foreword was so insightful and well-written that everything else was disappointing "words are merely, for all their power and beauty when strung together skillfully, elements of thinking about things and thus once removed from direct apprehension" that was a powerful and beautiful and sentence strung together skillfully
May 20, 2019
I don’t believe I’ve ever read a book that has described all that is available to us in a single moment so well and so poetically. At the same time, I just can’t help but feel that Kabat-Zinn includes too much material in his books. It’s hard not to drift from time to time (ironic, I know). I try to just let the words wash over me, leaving just their essence behind, without getting too caught up in the details.
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March 14, 2020I received access to this book as an ARC a while back through NetGalley and I finally read it late last year (yes this is a very delayed review). I feel like I need to get more into reading self-improvement type books now that I’m a real-life adult! This was a good start, teaching me a bit more about meditation that I hadn’t thought of before.
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May 26, 2021
Jon Kabat-Zinn wants you to appreciate every moment of your humanity, your life, just as it is.
This book provides a gentle, practical look at how to accept the present moment. If that sounds corny, it's not. It's actual, often quite difficult work to be in the present. Jon K-Z delivers supportive and practical guidance to accept things while acknowledging that the human mind doesn't simply do that.
This book provides a gentle, practical look at how to accept the present moment. If that sounds corny, it's not. It's actual, often quite difficult work to be in the present. Jon K-Z delivers supportive and practical guidance to accept things while acknowledging that the human mind doesn't simply do that.
April 18, 2019
It is clear to me that Jon Kabat-Zinn enjoys explaining simple ideas no fewer than five different ways before moving on to a different idea or topic of discussion.
There are some excellent nuggets in this text for someone hoping to learn how to bring mindfulness into their lives, but it is sometimes a chore to pull those from the weeds in this short book.
There are some excellent nuggets in this text for someone hoping to learn how to bring mindfulness into their lives, but it is sometimes a chore to pull those from the weeds in this short book.
December 19, 2019
Brutal. This is the third book I have read by this author (just to prove I am determined) and it will be my last. Author is arrogant and condescending. Most of the content is useless. I want to start meditating but this book will turn you off ever starting. I would suggest Dan Harris’s second book instead
September 2, 2021
Mindfulness brings out meaning, healing, purpose, focus and wonderful results if truely practiced.
It starts with being mindful through our senses and surroundings. Then deliberately practicing meditation through any position. But in the end, one must commit and habituate meditation in order to train our mind and body to be able to Fall Awake.
It starts with being mindful through our senses and surroundings. Then deliberately practicing meditation through any position. But in the end, one must commit and habituate meditation in order to train our mind and body to be able to Fall Awake.
March 18, 2019
Tried several times to read this but just couldn't get going. Such long meandering sentences put me off. I'm not a beginner, so doubt one could use this guide to start where they are. Simplify simplify.
July 7, 2020
The book is exactly what the title promises, how to find mindfulness in everyday activities. I really enjoyed it. I like meditation, but dedicating blocks of time for it are really difficult for me. Finding mindfulness in everyday activities is very approachable.
October 20, 2020
this is the 3rd time i read a mindfulness book i think, and it gives me a lot of prospectives and basics on how to practice mindfulness in my daily lives, and of course because i wanna be mindful, i wont judge this book, im just gonna observe it as an object itself ._.
May 7, 2021
Raamat räägib väga selgelt ja põhjalikult sellest, kuidas mediteerimist igapäeva ellu tuua - just rõhk sellel, et mediteerida igapäeva tegevusi tehes ja ka kohaolu igapäeva elus. Põhjalikud näited erinevates mediteerimis praktikatest. Kindlasti alustajale hea raamat.
October 6, 2021
This series of books has become a set of guidebooks for me in learning to practice mindfulness. They each scaffold and build on each other. As with the other books, I've flagged several pages and highlighted several sections to quickly return to so that I may review them later.
April 19, 2023
Un manuale di risveglio sensoriale, per iniziare a praticare meditazione formale e informale e non perdersi la bellezza dell'essere presenti nel qui e ora, invece che sempre frammentati nel passato o nel futuro.
January 11, 2024
This had some helpful meditation ideas and ways to be more in your body and how it is feeling. It touches on the elements and brings that into practice along with yoga and meditation. Helpful suggestions.
August 17, 2024
Often things in meditation are mentioned or talked about and not explained. So, this is a good resource to tell you HOW to do a walking meditation, for example.
3 stars
So far this year my library saved me $1620.78
3 stars
So far this year my library saved me $1620.78
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