{"product_id":"9781604077537","title":"Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment-and Your Life","description":"We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives. With \u003ci\u003eMindfulness for Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play—and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways: as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding “lesson- a-day” primer on mindfulness practice.\u003cbr\u003e Beginning and advanced meditators alike will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found most useful with his students, including:\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow our thoughts “self-liberate” when touched by awareness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoving beyond our “story” into direct experience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe three poisons that cause suffering—and their antidotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow mindfulness heals, even after the fact\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReclaiming our wholeness, and more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eThe prescription for living a more mindful life seems simple enough: return your awareness again and again to whatever is going on. But if you’ve tried it, you know that here is where all the questions and challenges really begin. \u003ci\u003eMindfulness for Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e provides welcome answers, insights, and instruction to help us make that shift, moment by moment, into a more spacious, clear, reliable, and loving connection with ourselves and the world.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part I  Entering\u003cbr\u003e Beginner’s Mind\u003cbr\u003e The Breath\u003cbr\u003e Who Is Breathing?\u003cbr\u003e The Hardest Work in the World\u003cbr\u003e Taking Care of This Moment\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness Is Awareness\u003cbr\u003e Doing Mode and Being Mode\u003cbr\u003e A Grounding in Science\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness is Universal\u003cbr\u003e Wakefulness\u003cbr\u003e Stabilizing and Calibrating Your Instrument\u003cbr\u003e Inhabiting Awareness Is the Essence of Practice\u003cbr\u003e The Beauty of Discipline\u003cbr\u003e Adjusting Your Default Setting\u003cbr\u003e Awareness:  Our Only Capacity Robust Enough to Balance Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Attention and Awareness Are Trainable Skills\u003cbr\u003e Nothing Wrong with Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Befriending Our Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Images of Your Mind That Might Be Useful\u003cbr\u003e Not Taking Our Thoughts Personally\u003cbr\u003e Selfing\u003cbr\u003e Our Love Affair with Personal Pronouns—Especially I, Me, and Mine\u003cbr\u003e Awareness Is a Big Container\u003cbr\u003e The Objects of Attention Are Not as Important as the Attending Itself\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part II:  Sustaining\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction\u003cbr\u003e A World-Wide Phenomenon\u003cbr\u003e An Affectionate Attention\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness Brought to All the Senses\u003cbr\u003e Proprioception and Interoception\u003cbr\u003e The Unity of Awareness\u003cbr\u003e The Knowing Is Awareness\u003cbr\u003e Life Itself Becomes the Meditation Practice\u003cbr\u003e You Already Belong\u003cbr\u003e Right Beneath Our Noses\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness is Not Merely a Good Idea\u003cbr\u003e To Come Back in Touch\u003cbr\u003e Who Am I?  Questioning Our Own Narrative\u003cbr\u003e You Are More Than Any Narrative\u003cbr\u003e You Are Never Not Whole\u003cbr\u003e Paying Attention in a Different Way\u003cbr\u003e Not Knowing\u003cbr\u003e The Prepared Mind\u003cbr\u003e What Is Yours to See?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part III:  Deepening\u003cbr\u003e No Place to Go, Nothing to Do\u003cbr\u003e The Doing That Comes Out of Being\u003cbr\u003e To Act Appropriately\u003cbr\u003e If You Are Aware of What Is Happening, You Are Doing It Right\u003cbr\u003e Non-Judging Is an Act of Intelligence and Kindness\u003cbr\u003e You Can Only Be Yourself—Thank Goodness!\u003cbr\u003e Embodied Knowing\u003cbr\u003e Feeling Joy for Others\u003cbr\u003e The Full Catastrophe\u003cbr\u003e Is My Awareness of Suffering Suffering?\u003cbr\u003e What Does Liberation from Suffering Mean?\u003cbr\u003e Hell Realms\u003cbr\u003e Liberation Is in the Practice Itself\u003cbr\u003e The Beauty of the Mind That Knows Itself\u003cbr\u003e Taking Care of Your Meditation Practice\u003cbr\u003e Energy Conservation in Meditation Practice\u003cbr\u003e An Attitude of Non-Harming\u003cbr\u003e Greed:  The Cascade of Dissatisfactions\u003cbr\u003e Aversion:  The Flip Side of Greed\u003cbr\u003e Delusion and the Trap of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies\u003cbr\u003e Now Is Always the Right Time\u003cbr\u003e The “Curriculum” is “Just This”\u003cbr\u003e Giving Your Life Back to Yourself\u003cbr\u003e Bringing Mindfulness Further Into the World\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part IV:  Ripening\u003cbr\u003e The Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness Practice\u003cbr\u003e Non-Judging\u003cbr\u003e Patience\u003cbr\u003e Beginner’s Mind\u003cbr\u003e Trust\u003cbr\u003e Non-Striving\u003cbr\u003e Acceptance\u003cbr\u003e Letting Go\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part V:  Practicing\u003cbr\u003e Getting Started with Formal Practice\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness of Eating\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness of Breathing\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness of the Body as a Whole\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness of Sounds, Thoughts, and Emotions\u003cbr\u003e Mindfulness as Pure Awareness","brand":"Sounds True","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158185263344,"sku":"9781604077537","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781604077537_p0.jpg?v=1769902418","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781604077537","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}