Title: Mindfulness for beginners : reclaiming the present moment--and your life /
Authors: Kabat-Zinn, Jon; Richardson, Stan
Year: 2016
Subjects: Meditation; Awareness; Meditation; Consciousness; Awareness; Meditation
Abstract: "Here, 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."--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Entering: Beginner's mind -- The breath -- Who is breathing? -- The hardest work in the world -- Taking care of this moment -- Mindfulness is awareness -- Doing mode and being mode -- A grounding in science -- Mindfulness is universal -- Wakefulness -- Stabilizing and calibrating your instrument -- Inhabiting awareness is the essence of practice -- The beauty of discipline -- Adjusting your default setting -- Awareness: Our only capacity robust enough to balance thinking -- Attention and awareness are trainable skills -- Nothing wrong with thinking -- Befriending our thinking -- Images of your mind that might be useful -- Not taking our thoughts personally -- Selfing -- Our love affair with personal pronouns -- especially I, me, and mine -- Awareness is a big container -- The objects of attention are not as important as the attending itself.