{"product_id":"mindfulness-for-beginners-reclaiming-the-present-moment-and-your-life","title":"Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--and Your Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives. With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play—and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are.\u003cbr\u003eHere, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways: as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding “lesson- a-day” primer on mindfulness practice.\u003cbr\u003eBeginning and advanced meditators alike will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found most useful with his students, including:\u003cbr\u003e * Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulness\u003cbr\u003e * The value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over again\u003cbr\u003e * How our thoughts “self-liberate” when touched by awareness\u003cbr\u003e * Moving beyond our “story” into direct experience\u003cbr\u003e * Stabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activities\u003cbr\u003e * The three poisons that cause suffering—and their antidotes\u003cbr\u003e * How mindfulness heals, even after the fact\u003cbr\u003e * Reclaiming our wholeness, and more\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prescription for living a more mindful life seems simple enough: return your awareness again and again to whatever is going on. But if you’ve tried it, you know that here is where all the questions and challenges really begin. Mindfulness for Beginners provides welcome answers, insights, and instruction to help us make that shift, moment by moment, into a more spacious, clear, reliable, and loving connection with ourselves and the world.\u003cbr\u003eIncludes a complete CD with five guided mindfulness meditations by Jon Kabat-Zinn, selected from the audio program that inspired this book.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart I  Entering\u003cbr\u003eBeginner’s Mind\u003cbr\u003eThe Breath\u003cbr\u003eWho Is Breathing?\u003cbr\u003eThe Hardest Work in the World\u003cbr\u003eTaking Care of This Moment\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness Is Awareness\u003cbr\u003eDoing Mode and Being Mode\u003cbr\u003eA Grounding in Science\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness is Universal\u003cbr\u003eWakefulness\u003cbr\u003eStabilizing and Calibrating Your Instrument\u003cbr\u003eInhabiting Awareness Is the Essence of Practice\u003cbr\u003eThe Beauty of Discipline\u003cbr\u003eAdjusting Your Default Setting\u003cbr\u003eAwareness:  Our Only Capacity Robust Enough to Balance Thinking\u003cbr\u003eAttention and Awareness Are Trainable Skills\u003cbr\u003eNothing Wrong with Thinking\u003cbr\u003eBefriending Our Thinking\u003cbr\u003eImages of Your Mind That Might Be Useful\u003cbr\u003eNot Taking Our Thoughts Personally\u003cbr\u003eSelfing\u003cbr\u003eOur Love Affair with Personal Pronouns—Especially I, Me, and Mine\u003cbr\u003eAwareness Is a Big Container\u003cbr\u003eThe Objects of Attention Are Not as Important as the Attending Itself\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart II:  Sustaining\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness-Based Stress Reduction\u003cbr\u003eA World-Wide Phenomenon\u003cbr\u003eAn Affectionate Attention\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness Brought to All the Senses\u003cbr\u003eProprioception and Interoception\u003cbr\u003eThe Unity of Awareness\u003cbr\u003eThe Knowing Is Awareness\u003cbr\u003eLife Itself Becomes the Meditation Practice\u003cbr\u003eYou Already Belong\u003cbr\u003eRight Beneath Our Noses\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness is Not Merely a Good Idea\u003cbr\u003eTo Come Back in Touch\u003cbr\u003eWho Am I?  Questioning Our Own Narrative\u003cbr\u003eYou Are More Than Any Narrative\u003cbr\u003eYou Are Never Not Whole\u003cbr\u003ePaying Attention in a Different Way\u003cbr\u003eNot Knowing\u003cbr\u003eThe Prepared Mind\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is Yours to See?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart III:  Deepening\u003cbr\u003e No Place to Go, Nothing to Do\u003cbr\u003eThe Doing That Comes Out of Being\u003cbr\u003eTo Act Appropriately\u003cbr\u003eIf You Are Aware of What Is Happening, You Are Doing It Right\u003cbr\u003eNon-Judging Is an Act of Intelligence and Kindness\u003cbr\u003eYou Can Only Be Yourself—Thank Goodness!\u003cbr\u003eEmbodied Knowing\u003cbr\u003eFeeling Joy for Others\u003cbr\u003eThe Full Catastrophe\u003cbr\u003eIs My Awareness of Suffering Suffering?\u003cbr\u003eWhat Does Liberation from Suffering Mean?\u003cbr\u003eHell Realms\u003cbr\u003eLiberation Is in the Practice Itself\u003cbr\u003eThe Beauty of the Mind That Knows Itself\u003cbr\u003eTaking Care of Your Meditation Practice\u003cbr\u003eEnergy Conservation in Meditation Practice\u003cbr\u003eAn Attitude of Non-Harming\u003cbr\u003eGreed:  The Cascade of Dissatisfactions\u003cbr\u003eAversion:  The Flip Side of Greed\u003cbr\u003eDelusion and the Trap of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies\u003cbr\u003eNow Is Always the Right Time\u003cbr\u003eThe “Curriculum” is “Just This”\u003cbr\u003eGiving Your Life Back to Yourself\u003cbr\u003eBringing Mindfulness Further Into the World\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart IV:  Ripening\u003cbr\u003eThe Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness Practice\u003cbr\u003eNon-Judging\u003cbr\u003ePatience\u003cbr\u003eBeginner’s Mind\u003cbr\u003eTrust\u003cbr\u003eNon-Striving\u003cbr\u003eAcceptance\u003cbr\u003eLetting Go\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart V:  Practicing\u003cbr\u003e Getting Started with Formal Practice\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness of Eating\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness of Breathing\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness of the Body as a Whole\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness of Sounds, Thoughts, and Emotions\u003cbr\u003eMindfulness as Pure Awareness\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roots Bookstore \u0026 Market","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46932110409895,"sku":"9781604076585","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/8312\/8231\/files\/9781604076585.jpg?v=1753993975","url":"https:\/\/rootsbookstore.com\/products\/mindfulness-for-beginners-reclaiming-the-present-moment-and-your-life","provider":"Roots Bookstore \u0026 Market","version":"1.0","type":"link"}