Meditation for Optimum Health - Jon Kabat-Zinn and Andrew Weil -Audio Book
New 2 CDs Unabridged 2.5 Hours
An easy-to-learn meditation guide for achieving maximum mind/body wellness. The same ability that assists average persons achieve extraordinary success is equally the secret to optimizing your lifespan, letting go of strain, and even improving your body's self-healing powers. In Meditation for Optimum Health, you'll join best-selling authors Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn for a useful introduction that makes it easy to take pleasure in the life-changing advantages of meditation - whether or not you've not tried it before. How does meditation function? Can anybody do it? What do I have to receive started? Is it religious? Does it have the force to heal? In alternating sessions, Dr. Weil and Dr Kabat-Zinn provide you straight answers to the many popular concerns about meditation, and dispel the myths and misconceptions surrounding this time-honored practice. By understanding to cultivate the energy of the attention through daily practice, you are able to harness the full potential of the notice, and utilize it to enrich every dimension of the existence. You will learn how meditation may really unify your notice and body's numerous connected functions - and enable you commence enjoying the number one wellness of the lifetime. Complete with real-life examples, along with a proven system of step-by-step meditations to receive you began, here is the most perfect introduction to the oldest and best program for feeling greater, naturally.
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 folks 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 medical 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 furthermore 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 prepared noticeable contributions to contemporary healthcare with his analysis which focused on mind/body interactions for healing, and on different medical 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 employ 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 thoughts, very 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 little 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 persons taking an MBSR course in a business function setting in a randomized scientific 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 healthcare 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 amongst the Dalai Lama and Western scientists to promote deeper learning of different techniques of recognizing and probing the nature of notice, thoughts, and fact.(from Wikipedia)
About the Author Andrew Weil
Who is Dr. Andrew Weil? Andrew Weil (pronounced "while") MD, is a Harvard Medical School graduate who furthermore holds an AB degree in biology (botany) from Harvard University. He is a medical professor of internal medication and also the founder and director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona's Health Sciences Center in Tucson, where he is training a fresh generation of physicians.
Dr. Weil is an internationally known expert on medicinal herbs, mind-body interactions, and integrative medication. A frequent guest on Larry King Live and Oprah, he has moreover hosted his own PBS-television specials. Additionally, Dr. Weil is the writer of 8 books including the nationwide bestsellers Spontaneous Healing, Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, and Eating Well for Optim5m Health.
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