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Falling Awake

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Publisher's summary

Think you have no time for mindfulness? Think again.

"Thoughtful and provocative.... The relevance of this work is unquestionable, as it leaves us inspired and optimistic that true healing really is possible" (Sharon Salzberg).

For four decades, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream. Today millions of people have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as part of their everyday lives. But how do you actually go about meditating? What does a formal meditation practice look like? And how can we overcome some of the common obstacles to incorporating meditation into daily life in an age of perpetual self-distraction?

Falling Awake directly answers these urgent and timely questions. Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book titled Coming to Our Senses, it has been updated with a new foreword by the author and is even more relevant today. Science shows that the tangible benefits of a mindfulness meditation practice are impossible to ignore. Kabat-Zinn explains how to incorporate them into our hectic, modern lives. Listen for a master class from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.

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©2018 Jon Kabat-Zinn (P)2018 Hachette Audio
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Excellent!

This book is a step by step guide with insights on starting or building a meditation practice. I have no doubt I will refer back to it time and time again.

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Learning what is False in order to wake up to what is Truth

In this book, Kabat-Zinn reminds me that to be aware requires me to focus my thinking and not to continue to just "go with the flow" of how I've learned to go through life. I am learning how to let go of control as a way of learning how to control my wandering mind. Everything I thought I knew is backwards . . . and, in fact, the opposite is actually what is real.

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Can be life changing

I liked the relaxed focus i received while listening. I will listen to it again for points to incorporate into my thinking.

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not what I expected

it is just not what I expected - looking for more a story line .

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