"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."--Provided by publisher.

In this book, Kabat-Zinn focuses on how mindfulness really can be a tool to transform the world. He explains how democracy thrives in a mindful context, and why mindfulness is a vital tool for both personal and global understanding and action in these tumultuous times.

"Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work... shows you how to use medically proven mind-body approaches derived from meditation and yoga to counteract stress, establish greater balance of body and mind, and stimulate well-being and healing. By engaging in these mindfulness practices and integrating them into your life from moment to moment and from day to day, you can learn to...

Meditation innovator Jon Kabat-Zinn delivers a guide to accomplishing effective mindfulness meditation that features a four-part tutorial. In time, users will be able to achieve greater relaxation and awareness

Maps out a simple path for cultivating mindfulness in one's own life; it speaks to those coming to meditation for the first time and to longtime practitioners, to anyone who cares deeply about reclaiming the richness of his or her moments--Jacket.

Program was conceived as a way to reach out to patients lying in bed in the hospital and inviting them to experiment inwardly, with Jon's guidance, in bringing mindful awareness to their present-moment circumstances, utilizing the occasion of having to lie in bed for some time to do something for him or herself to promote healing of the mind and body, as a vital complement to whatever the health care system and one's doctors are doing by way of medical...

A record of the thirteenth Mind & Life Institute conference in November 2005, with conversations between the Dalia Lama and leading meditation researchers exploring the convergence of ancient meditative practices and modern medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.