Mindfulness for Beginners by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn
Author of Coming to Our Senses
Mindfulness for Beginners by Dr 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
non-judgmentally" could improve your health? Again, according to Dr.
Kabat-Zinn—it can. On Mindfulness for Beginners, this internationally
known scientist, best-selling 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—Zorba's "full catastrophe"
• 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.
Mindfulness Meditation by Dr Jon Kabat-ZinnCultivating the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind
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About The Author Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn:
(from Wikipedia) Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn (born June 5, 1944) is Associate
Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
He teaches mindfulness meditation as a technique to help people cope with
stress, anxiety, pain and illness.
His life work has been largely dedicated to bringing mindfulness into the
mainstream of medicine and society. Kabat-Zinn is the author or co-author
of scientific papers on mindfulness and its clinical applications. He has
written two bestselling books: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom
of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (Delta, 1991), and
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
(Hyperion, 1994). He co-authored with Myla Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings:
The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (Hyperion, 1997). His most recent book
is Coming to Our Senses(Hyperion, 2005).
Kabat-Zinn is the founder and former Executive Director of the Center for
Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founder (1979) and former
director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine
emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Kabat-Zinn received his Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1971 from MIT where
he studied under Salvador Luria, Nobel Laureate in Medicine. Kabat-Zinn
has made significant contributions to modern health care with his research
which focused on mind/body interactions for healing, and on various
clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training for people with
chronic pain and/or stress-related disorders. Kabat-Zinn began teaching
the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the Stress Reduction
Clinic in 1979. MBSR is an eight week course which combines meditation and
Hatha yoga to help patients cope with stress, pain, and illness by using
moment-to-moment awareness. Such mindfulness helps participants use their
inner resources to achieve good health and well being. Kabat-Zinn and
colleagues have studied the effects of practicing moment-to-moment
awareness on the brain, and how it processes emotions, particularly under
stress, and on the immune system.
Kabat-Zinn and colleagues have studied the use and effects of MBSR on
women with breast cancer and on men with prostate cancer; on patients
undergoing bone marrow transplant; with prison inmates and staff; in
multicultural settings; and on stress in various corporate settings and
work environments.
In 1993, Jon Kabat-Zinn’s work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was
featured in Bill Moyers' PBS Special, Healing and the Mind and in the book
by Moyers of the same title. Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues published a
research paper demonstrating in a small clinical trial, a four-fold effect
of the mind on the rate of skin clearing in patients with psoriasis
undergoing ultraviolet light therapy: [Kabat-Zinn et al, Psychosomatic
Medicine 60:625-623 (1998)]. A more recent paper [Davidson, Kabat-Zinn, et
al. Psychosomatic Medicine 65: 564-570 (2003)] shows positive changes in
brain activity, emotional processing under stress, and immune function in
people taking an MBSR course in a corporate work setting in a randomized
clinical trial.
Kabat-Zinn has trained groups of judges, business leaders, lawyers,
clergy, and the 1984 U.S. Olympic Men's Rowing Team, and environmental
activists in mindfulness. Under his direction, the Center for Mindfulness
conducted MBSR programs in both the inner city and the Massachusetts state
prison system in Spanish and in English. He conducts annual mindfulness
retreats for business leaders and innovators, and with his colleagues at
the Center For Mindfulness, conducts training retreats for health
professionals in MBSR. Over 200 medical centers and clinics nationwide and
abroad now use the MBSR model.
In 1998, Kabat-Zinn received the Art, Science, and Soul of Healing Award
from the Institute for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical
Center in San Francisco. In 2001, he received the 2nd Annual Trailblazer
Award for "pioneering work in the field of integrative medicine"
from the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California.
He is a Founding Fellow of the Fetzer Institute, a Fellow of the Society
of Behavioral Medicine, and the founding convener of the Consortium of
Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine; a network of deans and
chancellors and faculty at major U.S. medical schools engaged at the
creative edges of mind/body and integrative medicine. He is a board member
of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between
the Dalai Lama and Western scientists to promote deeper understanding of
different ways of knowing and probing the nature of mind, emotions, and
reality. Dr. Kabat-Zinn holds a second degree black belt in Shim Gum Do
(Zen Sword). He, and his wife Myla, have three grown children.
Additional Papers
* Kabat-Zinn, J., An out-patient program in Behavioral Medicine for
chronic pain patients based on the practice of mindfulness meditation:
Theoretical considerations and preliminary results. Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry
(1982) 4:33-47.
* Kabat-Zinn, J., Lipworth, L. and Burney, R., The clinical use of
mindfulness meditation for the self-regulation of chronic pain. J. Behav.
Med. (1985) 8:163-190.
* Kabat-Zinn, J., Lipworth, L., Burney, R. and Sellers, W., Four year
follow-up of a meditation-based program for the self-regulation of chronic
pain: Treatment outcomes and compliance. Clin.J.Pain (1986) 2:159-173.
* Kabat-Zinn, J. and Chapman-Waldrop, A., Compliance with an outpatient
stress reduction program: rates and predictors of completion. J.Behav.
Med.(1988) 11:333-352.
* Ockene, J., Sorensen, G., Kabat-Zinn, J., Ockene, I.S., and Donnelly,
G., Benefits and costs of lifestyle change to reduce risk of chronic
disease. Preventive Medicine, (1988) 17:224-234.
* Bernhard, J., Kristeller, J. and Kabat-Zinn, J., Effectiveness of
relaxation and visualization techniques as an adjunct to phototherapy and
photochemotherapy of psoriasis. J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. (1988) 19:572-73.
* Ockene, J.K., Ockene, I.S., Kabat-Zinn, J., Greene, H.L., and Frid, D.
Teaching risk-factor counseling skills to medical students, house staff,
and fellows. Am. J. Prevent. Med. (1990) 6 (#2): 35-42.
* Kabat-Zinn, J., Massion, A.O., Kristeller, J., Peterson, L.G., Fletcher,
K., Pbert, L., Linderking, W., Santorelli, S.F., Effectiveness of a
meditation-based stress reduction program in the treatment of anxiety
disorders. Am. J Psychiatry (1992) 149:936-943.
* Miller, J., Fletcher, K. and Kabat-Zinn, J., Three-year follow-up and
clinical implications of a mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention
in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry (1995)
17:192-200.
* Massion, A.O., Teas, J., Hebert, J.R., Wertheimer, M.D., and Kabat-Zinn,
J. Meditation, melatonin, and breast/prostate cancer: Hypothesis and
preliminary data. Medical Hypotheses (1995) 44:39-46.
* Kabat-Zinn, J. Chapman, A, and Salmon, P. The relationship of cognitive
and somatic components of anxiety to patient preference for alternative
relaxation techniques. Mind/ Body Medicine (1997) 2:101-109.
* Saxe, G., Hebert, J., Carmody, J., Kabat-Zinn, J., Rosenzweig, P.,
Jarzobski, D., Reed, G., and Blute, R. Can Diet, in conjunction with
Stress Reduction, Affect the Rate of Increase in Prostate-specific Antigen
After Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer? J. of Urology, In Press,
2001.
