New World Mindfulness

by Mccown, Donald; Micozzi, Marc S.

• ISBN13: 9781594774249
• ISBN10: 1594774242
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-22
• Publisher: Healing Arts Pr

Summary

Mindfulness is not an "exotic" activity nor does it require you to "slow down and find more time." This book presents a history of mindfulness in the West, from the Founders, through Thoreau, to present-day leaders such as Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Author Biography

Donald McCown is assistant professor of integrative health at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and the former director of the Mindfulness at Work program at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine. With Marc Micozzi, McCown is the coauthor of Teaching Mindfulness. He lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. MARC S. MICOZZI, M.D., Ph.D., is adjunct professor of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the founding director of the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine in Washington, D.C. The author and editor of Fundamentals of Complementary Alternative Medicine and coauthor of The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion, he lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and Rockport, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Note to Readers on Citations and Language	p. xiii
Getting Situated in Time and Space
Mindfulness in Early America	p. 2
Mindfulness in Late America	p. 21
America Went Far to Find What It Left at Home	p. 32
Are You Waiting for an Invitation?	p. 47
Navigating Your Busy Life
You're Never Lost in the Present Moment	p. 68
Gravity: North and South on Your Compass	p. 87
The Breath I: East and "West, Inside and Outside	p. 112
The Breath II: The Breeze across the Inner Landscape	p. 132
The Breath III: The Storms and Stillness of Subjective Experience	p. 150
Disposition: A Map of the Terrain of Your Immediate Experience	p. 169
Putting Down The Guidebook
In Search of the Springs of Life	p. 92
Reclining: There Is a Place Past Sleepiness	p. 198
Sitting: Where Stillness and Change Meet	p. 205
Standing: Opening to the "World	p. 215
Walking: Practice at the Speed of Life	p. 223
Coda A Walk on Mount Misery, a Glimpse of Mount Joy	p. 230
Suggested Reading for Learning and Practice	p. 236
Notes	p. 244
Bibliography	p. 254
Index	p. 267
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