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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life Hardcover – January 13, 1994
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- Print length278 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHyperion
- Publication dateJanuary 13, 1994
- Grade level8 and up
- Reading age13 years and up
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101562827693
- ISBN-13978-3548221298
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- Publisher : Hyperion; First Edition (January 13, 1994)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 278 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1562827693
- ISBN-13 : 978-3548221298
- Reading age : 13 years and up
- Grade level : 8 and up
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #689,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,661 in Stress Management Self-Help
- #4,584 in Meditation (Books)
- #7,047 in Happiness Self-Help
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Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and author of numerous books, including Full Catastrophe Living, Arriving at Your Own Door, and Coming to Our Senses.
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Wherever You Go, There You Are is written from a mostly secular / scientific point of view. The author Kabat Zinn does reference the Buddhist roots of mindfulness, but the book is not religious nor is Kabat Zinn a monk. He is the creator of a mindfulness-based stress reduction program at the stress reduction clinic at the University of Massachusetts medical center.
Stress is a huge problem for many people and having stress management and coping tools could not be more important for so many reasons. I work in the health and fitness field and mindfulness is especially valuable to people who are endeavoring to eat for health and weight loss and avoid eating mindlessly or for emotional reasons. Mindful eating is a valuable skill to have.
Mindfulness in daily living - being fully in the present moment - as well as mindfulness meditation and the focus on the breath are among the best of the stress management tools. As Stanford psychologist Kelly McGonigal has said, "Stress is the enemy of willpower." Meditation and even simple breathing exercises can reduce stress and improve self control
As a fitness coach I teach my clients and readers the importance of mental training, not just physical training. Most people, especially those only exposed to sports psychology, usually think of mental training as goal setting, controlling self-talk or using affirmations and visualization. But we could also say that mindfulness meditation is the original and oldest type of mental training, as this passage from the book explained:
"Im told that in Pali, the original language of the Buddha, there is no one word corresponding to our word "meditation," even though meditation might be said to have evolved to an extraordinary degree in ancient Indian culture. One word that is frequently used is bhavana. Bhavana translates as "development through mental training." To me, this strikes the mark - mediation really is about human development."
I highly recommend this book. It may be the singe best place to start learning about mindfulness. It's a full length book at about 270 pages, but it's easy to read and has short chapters, most about 2 to 5 pages long.
This was first written in 1994 and I still have that original paperback. I picked up the newer anniversary version (2010) for my kindle because it was inexpensive and I wanted to see what was in the update. I know more scientific evidence about mindfulness and meditation has been discovered recently, but this is not the kind of information or practice that goes out of date. After all, it's thousands of years old.
But I suppose that the mileage will vary widely depending on how well seasoned you are to understand the meaning of the words. If you are famililiar with Buddhist or some oriental traditions and culture, you will appreciate the reading a lot. Those quotes from Thoreau, Li Po, Kabir among others, gave me totally different understandings than before I read the book. I had read 'Walden' but I did not get the meanings or his intentions back then when I saw the words like "Only that day dawns to which we are awake." What is interesting is that Dr. Kabat-Zinn's book almost automatically makes me introduced to a fuller meaning of the quotes, allowing me to respond, 'oh..why didn't I know it before?'
So personally this book was one of those life-changing books that helped me go deeper with the meaning of my life.
Thanks a lot Dr. Kabat-Zinn.
This is a book that defines meditation as awareness of yourself in the immediate present. It is not mystical, spiritual, or religious. It explains thinking as an epiphenomenon of the mind and the self as an ever changing nonentity linked to situations. We tend to think in the past and the future ignoring the sensations of the moment that we are actually in. By taking time to be mindful of our breadth, a pleasant image, or a compassionate idea, for five, fifteen, or even forty-five minutes a day we can reinforce a mindset to actually witness our connectedness to the universe and to discern an objective sense of the truth without the bias of selfish judgments and personal tastes.
Mindfulness may help us to correct the direction of our lives (karma) toward relieving suffering and not causing the suffering of others (ahimsa). It provides a new way of being alive instead of trying to be something that you are not already. But like charity recommended in the Talmud, do not do it for self-aggrandizement or to impress others. It is strictly a personal effort. Mindfulness does not stop the vicissitudes of your life, but it helps you to cope with them. The apt metaphor is “You Can’t Stop the Waves but you Can Learn to Surf”.
Contrary to common opinion, mindfulness is not shutting-off from the world but it is seeing the world more clearly. It involves concentration (samadhi) rather than relaxation. And it is not a way of doing. If someone hits you with a stick, rather than hitting back, you consider the chain of events that may have led to the hit. Maybe you should be angry at the hitter’s parents or the lack of compassion in the hitter’s upbringing. Notice how all events are connected. What may look like a show of strength may actually be weakness.
Consider being soft when your impulse is to be hard. Mindfulness is openness, curiosity, availability, engagement. You can meditate sitting, standing, or even walking. The right way is the way that you choose to do it. Peter Matthiessen has written: The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.
Mindfulness makes us aware of choices that we did not know we had. When you stop outward activity with a decision to sit, you may break the flow of bad karma and open the possibility of replacing it with good karma.
The current edition of the book adds at the end: We all are. Perfectly what we are, including all our imperfections and inadequacies. The question is: can we be with it? Can we sit with it? Can we know it? Can we embrace our own wholeness and embody it, here, where we already are, in the very situations, good, bad, ugly, lost, confusing, heart-rending, terrifying, and painful, that we find ourselves in?
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