Coming to our senses Healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Published
New York : Hyperion c2005.
Language
English
Main Author
Jon Kabat-Zinn (-)
Edition
1st ed
Physical Description
xiii, 631 p. ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-615) and index.
ISBN
9780786886548
9780786867561
  • Introduction: The Challenge of a Life's Time-and a Lifetime
  • Part 1. Meditation: It's Not What You Think
  • Meditation Is Not for the Faint-Hearted
  • Witnessing Hippocratic Integrity
  • Meditation Is Everywhere
  • Original Moments
  • Odysseus and the Blind Seer
  • No Attachments
  • The Origin of Shoes: A Tale
  • Meditation-It's Not What You Think
  • Two Ways to Think about Meditation
  • Why Even Bother? The Importance of Motivation
  • Aiming and Sustaining
  • Presence
  • A Radical Act of Love
  • Awareness and Freedom
  • On Lineage and the Uses and Limitations of Scaffolding
  • Ethics and Karma
  • Mindfulness
  • Part 2. The Power of Attention and the Dis-Ease of the World
  • Why Paying Attention Is So Supremely Important
  • Dis-Ease
  • Dukkha
  • Dukkha Magnets
  • Dharma
  • The Stress Reduction Clinic
  • A.D.D. Nation
  • 24/7 Connectivity
  • Continual Partial Attention
  • The "Sense" of Time Passing
  • Awareness Has No Center and No Periphery
  • Emptiness
  • Part 3. The Sensory World: Your One Wild and Precious Life
  • The Mystery of the Senses and the Spell of the Sensuous
  • Seeing
  • Being Seen
  • Hearing
  • Soundscape
  • Airscape
  • Touchscape
  • In Touch with Your Skin
  • Smellscape
  • Tastescape
  • Mindscape
  • Nowscape
  • Part 4. Embracing Formal Practice: Tasting Mindfulness
  • Lying Down Meditations
  • Sitting Meditations
  • Standing Meditations
  • Walking Meditations
  • Yoga
  • Just Knowing
  • Just Hearing
  • Just Breathing
  • Lovingkindness Meditation
  • Am I Doing It Right?
  • Common Obstacles to Practice
  • Supports for Your Practice
  • Part 5. Healing Possibilities: The Realm of Mind and Body
  • Sentience
  • Nothing Personal, But, Excuse Me...Are We Who We Think We Are?
  • Even Our Molecules Touch
  • No Fragmentation
  • No Separation
  • Orienting in Time and Space: A Tribute to My Father
  • Orthogonal Reality-Rotating in Consciousness
  • Orthogonal Institutions
  • A Study in Healing and the Mind
  • A Study in Happiness-Meditation, the Brain, and the Immune System
  • Homunculus
  • Proprioception-The Felt Sense of the Body
  • Neuroplasticity and the Unknown Limits of the Possible
  • Part 6. Arriving at Your Own Door
  • "I Can't Hear Myself Think!"
  • I Didn't Have a Moment to Catch My Breath
  • The Infidelity of Busyness
  • Interrupting Ourselves
  • Filling Up All Our Moments
  • Attaining Place
  • You Can't Get There from Here
  • Overwhelmed
  • Dialogues and Discussions
  • Sitting on the Bench
  • You Crazy!
  • Phase Changes
  • You Make, You Have
  • Any Ideal of Practice Is Just Another Fabrication
  • You Want to Make Something of It?
  • Who Won the Super Bowl?
  • Arrogance and Entitlement
  • Death
  • Dying Before You Die
  • Dying Before You Die-Deux
  • Don't Know Mind
  • Arriving at Your Own Door
  • Part 7. Healing the Body Politic
  • Healing the Body Politic
  • "I Read the News Today, Oh Boy"
  • Reminding Myself That Self-Righteousness Is Not Helpful
  • Politics Not as Usual in the Twenty-First Century
  • Lessons from Medicine
  • The Taming Power of the Small
  • Mindfulness and Democracy
  • Talking Vietnam Meditation Blues-A Snapshot from the Past, or Is It the Future?
  • Wag the Dog
  • "I Don't Know What I Would Have Done Without My Practice!"
  • The Suspension of Distraction
  • Moments of Silence
  • The Ascendancy of the Mindful
  • Part 8. Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do
  • Different Ways of Knowing Make Us Wiser
  • On the Doorstep: Karma Meets Dharma-A Quantum Leap for Homo Sapiens Sapiens
  • Reflections on the Nature of Nature and Where We Fit In
  • Hidden Dimensions Unfurled
  • Getting Things in Perspective
  • Related Readings
  • Index
  • Credits and Permissions
  • Mindfulness Meditation Practice CDs
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

"For any of us, perhaps our greatest potential regret may be that of not seizing the moment and honoring it for what it is when it is here," writes bestselling author Kabat-Zinn (Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; etc.). The scientist who pioneered the use of the Buddhist technique of mindfulness (or moment-by-moment awareness) to help patients cope with the stress and pain of illness arrived at this poignant lesson after seeing the way his father, an eminent immunologist who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, lost all sense of who he was and what was happening to him. In a passionate tour de force that blends personal experience with cutting-edge science (his own and others'), poetry and insights culled from many traditions, Kabat-Zinn sets out to awaken us to the true potential and value of a gift that most of us take for granted: sentience. Our lack of awareness of our impact on the rest of the world amounts to "a kind of auto-immune disease of the earth." Borrowing an analogy made by the neuroscientist Francisco Varela, Kabat-Zinn compares the way our immune system senses the whole of our bodily self to our potential for a mindful awareness. That is, the practice of cultivating this conscious, heightened sentience leads to the realization of our wholeness, as we begin to realize that we don't live just within the envelope of our own senses, sensations and thoughts but within the whole of all that is. Kabat-Zinn illuminates the many facets of this selfless way of being, not just with Buddhist understanding and verse but with quotes from Einstein ("A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe' "), Dickinson, Rilke and many other Western greats. Ardent, personal, frankly opinionated in places, this book seeks to wake up as individuals and as a culture. It is a treasure trove of contemporary wisdom. Author tour. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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