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Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780786886548
ISBN: 0786886544
Label: Hyperion
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Hyperion
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: January 18, 2006
Publisher: Hyperion
Release Date: January 18, 2006
Studio: Hyperion
Features:- ISBN13: 9780786886548
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Review:Now in paperback, the guide to living a meaningful life from the world stress expert "[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 Ten 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. 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.
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This book is an excellent exploration of the wider aspects of how to apply mindfulness in our lives to help us break free of the patterns of habitual thinking and reactivity that distorts our perceptions and prevents us from living life to the full. Mindfulness is a fascinating subject that we ALL need to learn more about, because the benefits are many. If you would like to learn more, read Dr Peter Strong's recently published in-depth study on mindfulness: 'The Path of Mindfulness meditation.'
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I bought this book after watching the author on PBS(John McLaughlin's One on One) talking about it. I was looking for something that had lots of studies in it and hard data. The way the interview went, the author led me to believe this book was chock-full of that sort of thing. The book sounded like a good buy. I was wrong.
Here's what it boils down to on how to meditate- sit, lay down, stand, listen, feel. Really? Just sit and breath? Guess what I'm doing right now? As for the actual ... Read More
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This book seems like a good idea-- basically, it's a series of essays about meditation, its positive effects, our various inabilities to use our inner and outer senses the way we should to interact the world, and how we could handle it all better. But it ends up sounding like an ill-informed, overly New-Agey, endless Grumpy Old Man tirade, quite honestly.
I had a feeling that things weren't going to go well once Kabat-Zinn hit us with Chapter 3: "Thirty years ago, no one had ever heard of ... Read More
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I checked this book out from my Public Library and while reading it I quickly decided that I wanted to own a copy for reading and re-reading. It is wonderfully organized so you can always refer back to a particular section easily. The bibliograpy is a gold mine for those interested in further pursuit of COMING TO OUR SENSES.
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I started paying attention to the physical reactions my body has to stressful situations and thoughts about a month ago. Now things that would have been devastating are pretty ok to down right amusing. This single insight from the book has made a world of difference.
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