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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
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Jon Kabat-zinn
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Product Details
- Author: Jon Kabat-zinn
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- Binding: Paperback
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- Dewey Decimal Number: 155.9042
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- EAN: 9781401307783
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- ISBN: 1401307787
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- Label: Hyperion
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- Language: English
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- Manufacturer: Hyperion
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Number of Pages: 304
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- Product Group: Book
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- Publication Date: 2005-01-05
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- Publisher: Hyperion
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- Release Date: 2005-01-05
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- Studio: Hyperion
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- Title: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
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Product Description: In his follow-up to Full Catastrophe Living--a book in which he presented basic meditation techniques as a way of reducing stress and healing from illness--here Jon Kabat-Zinn goes much more deeply into the practice of meditation for its own sake. To Kabat-Zinn, meditation is important because it brings about a state of "mindfulness," a condition of "being" rather than "doing" during which you pay attention to the moment rather than the past, the future, or the multitudinous distractions of modern life. In brief, rather poetic chapters, he describes different meditative practices and what they can do for the practitioner. The idea that meditation is "spiritual" is often confusing to people, Kabat-Zinn writes; he prefers to think of it as what you might call a workout for your consciousness. This book makes learning meditation remarkably easy (although practicing it is not). But it also makes it seem infinitely appealing. --Ben Kallen
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Customer Reviews
6 stars
For someone growing up from a Buddhist culture, I feel the author has captured the essence of meditation. Specifically, the author reminds to practice meditation without feeling that you are better than everyone else, which is what I have felt. He also suggests to practice meditation without the goal of becoming a better person, more calm, more relaxed, more focused... etc. These are merely by-products of practicing meditation. So why do we do it? Better read the book to find out!
A reviewer who gave it 1 star says that "the book puts you to sleep." This indeed happened to me a few times when I listened to the audio version of the book while trying to meditate. When I have much stress, this is actually a great way to get sound sleep without any meditation and therefore any side effects. And for this quality alone, I wish I can award the book 6 star.
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Kabat-Zinn & Tolle
I read this book after reading Ekhart Tolle's two books and listening to Jon Kabat-Zinn on Oprah's radio program. His ideas parallel Tolle. I devoured the book and recommend it to anyone who wants to grow in mindfulness.
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A Keeper
This is a book to keep in your library for periodic re-reading. I wish I hadn't waited so long this time, to re-read it. Understanding and practicing this "philosophy" can change one's life for the positive.
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Wherever You Go There You Are
I love the book, this was my second copy that I wanted to give as gift,however the seller did a very bad job of packing it for shipping, it arrived, but was completely open on one end. It had water and dampness damage, not from the mailing process. I could not give it as a gift. Seller would not contact me.
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good enough
It's a great book and i am enjoying it. it had a good bit more markings in it than was described, but it's not a big deal.
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