Coming to Our Senses

Healing Ourselves and Our World Through Mindfulness

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD PhD

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD PhD

Come to your senses with the definitive guide to living a meaningful life from a world expert in the connection between mindfulness and physical and spiritual wellbeing.

"[The] journey toward health and sanity is nothing less than an invitation to wake up to the fullness of our lives as if they actually mattered . . ." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the Introduction

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. Now, with Coming to Our Senses, he provides the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual wellbeing. With scientific rigor, poetic deftness, and compelling personal stories, Jon Kabat-Zinn examines the mysteries and marvels of our minds and bodies, describing simple, intuitive ways in which we can come to a deeper understanding, through our senses, of our beauty, our genius, and our life path in a complicated, fear-driven, and rapidly changing world.

In each of the book's eight parts, Jon Kabat-Zinn explores another facet of the great adventure of healing ourselves -- and our world -- through mindful awareness, with a focus on the "sensescapes" of our lives and how a more intentional awareness of the senses, including the human mind itself, allows us to live more fully and more authentically. By "coming to our senses" -- both literally and metaphorically by opening to our innate connectedness with the world around us and within us -- 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.©2005 Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD.; (P)2005 Hyperion

Coming to Our Senses

Interesting variety of types of ways to consider as meditation. Walking and even running as meditation. I will possibly need to listen to it again when I am not so busy multitasking and in more of a meditative position to really absorb the message. Seemed to have some valuable points deserving some more serious consideration to apply in my life.

Amazing but I felt it was too abridged.

Kabat-zinn is an amazing writer and an excellent reader. The content is some of the best written in our generation. my problem is I paid 15 dollars for less than a 10th of the actual book.

abridged

liked that Zinn spoke. wish it was the full book. shared the just of mindfulness.

MESMERIZING

Like a "DIAMOND" Jon Kabat-Kinn gives us another facet of thinking that most of us, or should I say i, never knew existed! Thank you Jon.

listening takes practice. listen many times.

I often found myself nodding in agreement or chuckling out loud at my own behavioral habits. listening takes practice and I listened to this audio book several times, each time catching another bit of information I put into play in my own life.