The Healing Power of Mindfulness: A New Way of Being

by Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD

Overview

Discover how mindfulness can help you with healing.

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 TheHealing Power of Mindfulness, he shares a cornucopia of specificexamples 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 to 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316522052
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	11/20/2018
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	369,118
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, 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.

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 Oprah's Super Soul Sunday, as well as NPR. he 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 is the author of numerous bestselling books about mindfulness and meditation: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness; and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness. He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting; and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness Overall, his books have been translated into over thirty languages.

Table of Contents

New Foreword Jon Kabat-Zinn ix

Part 1 Healing Possibilities: The Realm of Mind and Body 1

Sentience 3

Nothing Personal, But, Excuse Me…Are We Who We Think We Are? 10

Even Our Molecules Touch 21

No Fragmentation 26

No Separation 28

Orienting in Time and Space: A Tribute to My Father 30

Orthogonal Reality-Rotating in Consciousness 38

Orthogonal Institutions 44

A Study in Healing and the Mind 52

A Study in Happiness-Meditation, the Brain, and the Immune System 64

Homunculus 72

Proprioception-The Felt Sense of the Body 85

Neuroplasticity and the Unknown Limits of the Possible 89

Part 2 Arriving At Your Own Door 103

"I Can't Hear Myself Think!" 105

I Didn't Have a Moment to Catch My Breath 107

The Infidelity of Busyness 111

Interrupting Ourselves 116

Filling Up All Our Moments 122

Attaining Place 127

You Can't Get There from Here 131

Overwhelmed 150

Dialogues and Discussions 153

Sitting on the Bench 157

You Crazy! 163

Phase Changes 165

You Make, You Have 170

Any Ideal of Practice Is Just Another Fabrication 175

You Want to Make Something of It? 177

Who Won the Super Bowl? 181

Arrogance and Entitlement 188

Death 194

Dying Before You Die 199

Dying Before You Die-Deux 205

Don't Know Mind 208

Arriving At Your Own Door 210

Acknowledgments 213

Related Readings 217

Credits and Permissions 225

Index 230

About the Author 236

Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practices with Jon Kabat-Zinn 238