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Wherever you go, there you are : mindfulness meditation for everyday life / Jon Kabat-Zinn.

By: Kabat-Zinn, Jon.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Piatkus, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Description: xix, 281 pages : 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780749925482 (paperback).Subject(s): Meditation | AttentionDDC classification: 155.9042
Contents:
Part one: The bloom of the present moment -- What is mindfulness? -- Simple but not easy -- Stopping -- This is it -- Capturing your moments -- Keeping the breath in mind -- Practice, practice, practice -- Practice does not mean rehearsal -- You don't have to go out of your way to practice -- Waking up -- Keeping it simple -- You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf -- Can anybody meditate? -- In praise of non-doing -- The non-doing paradox -- Non-doing in action -- Doing non-doing -- Patience -- Letting go -- Non-judging -- Trust -- Generosity -- You have to be strong enough to be weak -- Voluntary simplicity -- Concentration -- Vision -- Meditation develops full human beings -- Practice as a path -- Meditation: not to be confused with positive thinking -- Going inside -- Part two: The heart of practice -- Sitting meditation -- Taking your seat -- Dignity -- Posture -- What to do with your hands -- Coming out of meditation -- How long to practice? -- No right way -- A what-is-my-way? meditation -- The mountain meditation -- The lake meditation -- Walking meditation -- Standing meditation -- Lying-down meditation -- Getting your body down on the floor at least once a day -- Not practicing is practicing -- Loving kindness meditation -- Part three: In the spirit of mindfulness -- Sitting by fire -- Harmony -- Early morning -- Direct contact -- Is there anything else you would like to tell me? -- Your own authority -- Wherever you go, there you are -- Going upstairs -- Cleaning the stove while listening to Bobby McFerrin -- What is my job on the planet with a capital J? -- Mount analogue -- Interconnectedness -- Non-harming-Ahimsa -- Karma -- Wholeness and oneness -- Eachness and suchness -- What is this? -- Selfing -- Anger -- Cat-food lessons -- Parenting as practice -- Parenting two -- Some pitfalls along the path -- Is mindfulness spiritual? -- Afterword.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

THE TIME-HONOURED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, UPDATED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION AND AFTERWORD, CELEBRATING THIRTY YEARS OF INFLUENCING THE WAY WE LIVE

For the past three decades, Wherever You Go, There You Are has helped catalyse the explosion of interest in mindfulness around the world. While mindfulness is considered the heart of Buddhist meditation, its essence is universal and of deep practical benefit, potentially to all.

In essence, mindfulness is about embodied wakefulness. Our minds are such that we are often more asleep than awake to the unique beauty and possibilities of each present moment. While it is in the nature of all our minds to default to autopilot and lose touch with the only time we actually have to live - to feel, to grow, to love, to learn, to give shape to things, to heal - our mind also holds the innate capacity to awaken to each moment.

This book gives you a variety of ways to experiment with not missing your moments and take maximal advantage of them by tending what most needs tending to now. Given the myriad mega-challenges humanity and planet Earth are facing at this time, Wherever You Go, There You Are can provide both a personal refuge for meaning - making, healing and transformation, as well as a locus for collaborating with others to heal the suffering of the world.

Part one: The bloom of the present moment -- What is mindfulness? -- Simple but not easy -- Stopping -- This is it -- Capturing your moments -- Keeping the breath in mind -- Practice, practice, practice -- Practice does not mean rehearsal -- You don't have to go out of your way to practice -- Waking up -- Keeping it simple -- You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf -- Can anybody meditate? -- In praise of non-doing -- The non-doing paradox -- Non-doing in action -- Doing non-doing -- Patience -- Letting go -- Non-judging -- Trust -- Generosity -- You have to be strong enough to be weak -- Voluntary simplicity -- Concentration -- Vision -- Meditation develops full human beings -- Practice as a path -- Meditation: not to be confused with positive thinking -- Going inside -- Part two: The heart of practice -- Sitting meditation -- Taking your seat -- Dignity -- Posture -- What to do with your hands -- Coming out of meditation -- How long to practice? -- No right way -- A what-is-my-way? meditation -- The mountain meditation -- The lake meditation -- Walking meditation -- Standing meditation -- Lying-down meditation -- Getting your body down on the floor at least once a day -- Not practicing is practicing -- Loving kindness meditation -- Part three: In the spirit of mindfulness -- Sitting by fire -- Harmony -- Early morning -- Direct contact -- Is there anything else you would like to tell me? -- Your own authority -- Wherever you go, there you are -- Going upstairs -- Cleaning the stove while listening to Bobby McFerrin -- What is my job on the planet with a capital J? -- Mount analogue -- Interconnectedness -- Non-harming-Ahimsa -- Karma -- Wholeness and oneness -- Eachness and suchness -- What is this? -- Selfing -- Anger -- Cat-food lessons -- Parenting as practice -- Parenting two -- Some pitfalls along the path -- Is mindfulness spiritual? -- Afterword.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD is the highly regarded founder and director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Preventive and Behavioural Medicine.

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