Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
About This Book
The most accessible and widely read introduction to mindfulness meditation by the scientist who brought it into mainstream medicine through his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. Kabat-Zinn presents mindfulness — the moment-to-moment awareness cultivated by deliberately paying attention to present experience without judgment — as a universal human capacity available to anyone regardless of religious background, and shows how it can be practiced in every ordinary activity.
What You'll Learn
Mindfulness is simply the awareness that arises when you pay attention to the present moment on purpose, without judgment — nothing exotic or religious, simply a return to direct experience before the mind's commentary turns it into a story. The greatest obstacle to mindfulness is not lack of time but the habit of operating on "automatic pilot" — doing things so habitually that we are rarely actually present for our own lives. Wherever you are is the perfect place to practice — there is no ideal condition for mindfulness that is not available right here and right now.
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