Guided Mindfulness Meditation - Jon Kabat-Zinn Audio Book CD
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Perhaps no alternative individual has performed more to bring mindfulness meditation into the modern land of America than Jon Kabat-Zinn. Through a amount of analysis research, and through Kabat-Zinn’s pioneering function at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he is founder of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic, mindfulness is finally being known as a very powerful tool for dealing with strain, chronic pain, and alternative diseases. Today, with a four-part house training course, Jon Kabat-Zinn provides listeners the definitive mindfulness meditation practice on CD. “We are not struggling to actively achieve a state of deep relaxation—or any alternative state for that matter—while practicing mindfulness, ” he teaches. “But interestingly, by opening to an awareness of how details really are in the present time, we frequently taste really deep states of relaxation and well-being—of both body and notice.”
About the Author Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn (born June 5, 1944) is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness meditation as a technique to aid individuals deal with strain, anxiousness, pain and disease.
His existence function has been mostly focused on delivering mindfulness into the mainstream of medication and society. Kabat-Zinn is the writer or co-author of scientific papers on mindfulness as well as its scientific applications. He has created 2 bestselling books: Full Catastrophe Living: Utilizing 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). Other books include Coming to Our Senses (Hyperion, 2005) and his latest book The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness, co-authored with J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale and Zindel V. Segal (Guilford, 2007).
Kabat-Zinn is the founder and previous Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is equally the founder (1979) and previous director of its famous 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 created noticeable contributions to contemporary healthcare with his analysis which focused on mind/body interactions for healing, and on different scientific applications of mindfulness meditation training for individuals with chronic pain and/or stress-related disorders. Kabat-Zinn started training the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. MBSR is an 8 week course which combines meditation and Hatha yoga to aid individuals deal with strain, pain, and disease by utilizing moment-to-moment awareness. Such mindfulness assists participants utilize their internal resources to achieve superior wellness and health. Kabat-Zinn and colleagues have studied the effects of practicing moment-to-moment awareness found on the mind, and how it processes feelings, especially under strain, and found on the immune program.
In 1993, Jon Kabat-Zinn’s function in the Stress Reduction Clinic was showcased 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 analysis paper demonstrating in a tiny scientific trial, a four-fold impact of the notice found on the rate of skin clearing in people 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 mind activity, psychological processing under strain, and immune function in folks taking an MBSR course in a business function setting in a randomized medical trial.
He conducts yearly mindfulness retreats for company leaders and innovators, and with his colleagues at the Center For Mindfulness, conducts training retreats for wellness experts in MBSR. Over 200 health centers and clinics nationwide and abroad today employ the MBSR model.
He is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between your Dalai Lama and Western scientists to promote deeper learning of different techniques of recognizing and probing the nature of notice, feelings, and fact.
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