Books by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Search Inside Yourself

by Daniel Goleman, Chade-Meng Tan, Jon Kabat-Zinn
333 pages - - 3 MB New!

“Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)” is an invaluable guide to achieving your own best potential. Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman and Jon Kabat-Zinn are the authors of this beautiful book. It is a business book, but the material could easily be used for any situation that involves dealing with difficult people, including marriage. This book is written in a straightforward style, easy to digest for the newcomer. It is an excellent book that takes an engineering perspective to mindfulness. It makes one of the more compelling cases for committing to meditation as a lifestyle. Part anecdotal, part scientific, part humorous, Chade-Meng Tan did his absolute best to make mediation appealing to a broad audience. There are some very useful practical tips in the book that one can bring to practice for a better life, work, healthy relationship, de-stress and world peace around you. When it comes to mindfulness training in a corporate setting this book pioneered a new path to developing EI. After 10 years this programme continues to be the most popular and highly rated programme at Google and since establishing the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, it has spread well beyond Google. At SAP they’ve trained 6,500 people across 20 global locations and have a waitlist of 5,500. To conclude, Meng has managed to de-mystify mindfulness meditation and explain how and why is so necessary to keep us all sane in the modern world.

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Mindfulness for Beginners

by Jon Kabat-Zinn
333 pages - - New!

An Invitation to the Practice of MindfulnessWe 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 Mindfulness for Beginners 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.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.Beginning and long-time 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:Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulnessThe value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over againHow our thoughts "self-liberate" when touched by awarenessMoving beyond our "story" into direct experienceStabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activitiesThree fundamental mental factors that cause sufferingHow mindfulness heals, even after the factReclaiming our wholeness, and moreThe 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. Mindfulness for Beginners 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.

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Wherever You Go, There You Are

by Jon Kabat-Zinn
333 pages - - New!

When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over 750,000 copies to date. Ten years later, the book continues to change lives. In honor of the book's 10th anniversary, Hyperion is proud to be releasing the book with a new afterword by the author, and to share this wonderful book with an even larger audience.