Mindfulness for All
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3.9 • 9 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
More than twenty years ago, 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. He followed that up with 2005's Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our well-being on every level, physical, cognitive, emotional, social, planetary, and spiritual.
Now, Coming to Our Senses is being repackaged into 4 smaller books, each focusing on a different aspect of mindfulness, and each with a new foreword written by the author. In the fourth of these books, Mindfulness for All (which was originally published as Part VII and Part VIII of Coming to Our Senses), Kabat-Zinn focuses on how mindfulness really can be a tool to transform the world--explaining how democracy thrives in a mindful context, and why mindfulness is a vital tool for both personal and global understanding and action in these tumultuous times. By "coming to our senses"--both literally and metaphorically--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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Obviously, we think of meditation as a solo practice—it’s hard to do when there are other people around! But educator Jon Kabat-Zinn’s revelatory Mindfulness for All explores how meditation not only helps individuals cope with their everyday lives, but also helps the world on a grander scale. Kabat-Zinn’s core belief is that understanding ourselves naturally leads to a greater understanding of our shared humanity, helping break down the us-versus-them mindset we see playing out in this era of increasing division and social turmoil. Kabat-Zinn’s calming delivery includes useful mindfulness exercises that allow us to put the concepts he examines into immediate practice.
