Meditation is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Meditation is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important
By (Author) Jon Kabat-Zinn
Little, Brown Book Group
Piatkus Books
8th May 2018
3rd May 2018
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
158.128
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 152mm, Height 232mm, Spine 28mm
301g
Description
More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. He followed that up with 2005's Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our well-being on every level, physical, cognitive, emotional, social, planetary, and spiritual.
Now, Coming to Our Senses is being repackaged into 4 smaller books, each focusing on a different aspect of mindfulness, and each with a new foreword written by the author. In the first of these books, MEDITATION IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK (which was originally published as Part I and Part II of Coming to Our Senses), Kabat-Zinn focuses on the "what" and the "why" of mindfulness--explaining why meditation is not for the "faint-hearted," how meditation can actually be a radical act of love, and why paying attention is so supremely important. By "coming to our senses"--both literally and metaphorically--we can become more compassionate, more embodied, more aware human beings, and in the process, contribute to the healing of the body politic as well as our own lives in ways both little and big.Reviews
"Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you will ever encounter." -Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of No Time Like the Present - Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of No Time Like the Present
Author Bio
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is professor of medicine emeritus and the founder of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) and of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He has written numerous bestselling books including Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; and Mindfulness for Beginners, and is coauthor, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.
