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Coming to our senses healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness

As stress continues to exact a toll on everyday life, people are increasingly turning to meditative methods, tested by science, to relieve its ill effects and become more focused, healthy, and proactive. Kabat-Zinn is a leader of the mind/body revolution in medicine and health care, demystifying it...

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Main Author: Kabat-Zinn, Jon.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Hyperion, c2005.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Meditation.
Mental healing.
Meditation > Therapeutic use.
Summary: As stress continues to exact a toll on everyday life, people are increasingly turning to meditative methods, tested by science, to relieve its ill effects and become more focused, healthy, and proactive. Kabat-Zinn is a leader of the mind/body revolution in medicine and health care, demystifying it and bringing it into the mainstream. This book offers insight into how to use the five senses -- touch, hearing, sight, taste, and smell, plus awareness itself -- as a path to a healthier, saner, and more meaningful life.
Physical Description: xiii, 631 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-615) and index.
ISBN: 0786867566
9780786867561
9780786886548 (pbk.)
0786886544 (pbk.)
Author Notes: 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.

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