Mindfulness for Beginners

Explore the Infinite Potential that Lies Within This Very Moment

By: PhD Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: PhD Jon Kabat-Zinn

What if you could profoundly change your life just by becoming more mindful of your breathing? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, you can. What if paying attention on purpose (and nonjudgmentally) could improve your health? Again, according to Dr. Kabat-Zinn—it can.

On Mindfulness for Beginners, this internationally known scientist, bestselling author, and teacher who brought mindfulness meditation into the mainstream of medicine and society gives you immediate access to a practice that can potentially add years to your life, and will certainly enhance the quality of your moments and your years.

Join Dr. Kabat-Zinn to:

Explore five guided meditations that lead you breath-by-breath into the essence of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a program offered in medical clinics and hospitals around the world
• Cultivate the Seven Key Attitudinal Factors of MBSR—qualities of heart and mind that lay the foundation for mindfulness practice and for seeing and accepting things as they are as a first step to working wisely and compassionately with stress, pain, illness, and sorrow as well as life's joys and pleasures
• Free yourself from limiting perspectives, and become more intimate with your own boundless awareness

You're already in the perfect moment for inhabiting this liberating awareness, which is always available, teaches Jon Kabat-Zinn. With Mindfulness for Beginners, he invites you to cultivate mindfulness as if your life depended on it, which it surely does, and experience the magnitude and beauty of who you already are.

Course objectives:

Apply an understanding of the concept of mindfulness
• Utilize simple guided meditations led by Kabat-Zinn
• List the ethical and attitudinal foundations necessary to cultivating mindfulness
• Assess how we can choose where to focus our awareness
• Plan to use mindfulness to help us develop compassion and insight into our true nature

Great start for beginners, but be patient

Overall, it's an easy read for those first hearing about mindfulness and even experienced meditators who appreciate reaffirming.

The quality of reading was imperfect. With odd pauses mid sentence. But since you're supposed to be mindful and non judgmental, it shouldn't be a bother.

Great insights to pick up and spark more interest for further reading.

A great guide

You get out of it what you put in. I like that it’s all about what I can do to empower myself through accountability and reasonable action steps. I recommend to open-minded (including skeptical ones) listeners.

This is not the same book as written.

This audible version appears to be the accompanying CD, and not the full text of the book. Other than that, It was great.

Mindfulness

A great and simple practice for cultivating the awareness that is who you already are. A crisp, clean description of the practice and beautiful guided meditations that focus on objects and simple pure awareness. It really reminded me that the point of meditation is to recognize the pure awareness and to just be that fully and compassionately.

Not a medatition book

This is not a meditation book but rather a 2 hr explanation of mindfulness. In my mind anything that takes 2 hrs to explain is not necessary. I do believe the medication can work miracles. We need books on mastering meditation not definistions.