Wherever You Go, There You Are : Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

by Kabat-Zinn, Jon

• ISBN13: 9781401307783
• ISBN10: 1401307787
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-05
• Publisher: HYPERION

Summary

Re-released on its tenth anniversary of publication, this book presents meditation as a natural activity that can be practiced anytime and anywhere, without props or trappings.

Author Biography

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in various venues around the world. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria.

His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers' PBS Special, Healing and the Mind and in the book of the same title, as well as on Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Oprah's Super Soul Sunday, as well as NPR. he has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession, prisons, and professional sports.

He is the author of numerous bestselling books about mindfulness and meditation: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness; and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness. He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting; and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness Overall, his books have been translated into over thirty languages.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
PART ONE The Bloom of the Present Moment	1	(102)
What Is Mindfulness?	3	(5)
Simple but Not Easy	8	(3)
Stopping	11	(3)
This Is It	14	(3)
Capturing Your Moments	17	(1)
Keeping the Breath in Mind	18	(3)
Practice, Practice, Practice	21	(1)
Practice Does Not Mean Rehearsal	22	(2)
You Don't Have to Go Out of Your Way to Practice	24	(2)
Waking Up	26	(3)
Keeping It Simple	29	(1)
You Can't Stop the Waves but You Can Learn to Surf	30	(3)
Can Anybody Meditate?	33	(2)
In Praise of Non-Doing	35	(3)
The Non-Doing Paradox	38	(2)
Non-Doing in Action	40	(4)
Doing Non-Doing	44	(3)
Patience	47	(6)
Letting Go	53	(2)
Non-Judging	55	(3)
Trust	58	(3)
Generosity	61	(4)
You Have to Be Strong Enough to Be Weak	65	(3)
Voluntary Simplicity	68	(4)
Concentration	72	(3)
Vision	75	(6)
Meditation Develops Full Human Beings	81	(6)
Practice as a Path	87	(6)
Meditation: Not to Be Confused with Positive Thinking	93	(3)
Going Inside	96	(7)
PART TWO The Heart of Practice to Sitting Meditation	103	(68)
Taking Your Seat	106	(1)
Dignity	107	(2)
Posture	109	(3)
What to Do with Your Hands	112	(5)
Coming Out of Meditation	117	(4)
How Long to Practice?	121	(6)
No Right Way	127	(4)
A What-Is-My-Way? Meditation	131	(4)
The Mountain Meditation	135	(6)
The Lake Meditation	141	(4)
Walking Meditation	145	(4)
Standing Meditation	149	(2)
Lying-Down Meditation	151	(6)
Getting Your Body Down on the Floor at Least Once a Day	157	(3)
Not Practicing Is Practicing	160	(2)
Loving Kindness Meditation	162	(9)
PART THREE In the Spirit of Mindfulness	171	(100)
Sitting by Fire	173	(3)
Harmony	176	(3)
Early Morning	179	(6)
Direct Contact	185	(3)
Is There Anything Else You Would Like to Tell Me?	188	(3)
Your Own Authority	191	(4)
Wherever You Go, There You Are	195	(6)
Going Upstairs	201	(3)
Cleaning the Stove While Listening to Bobby McFerrin	204	(2)
What Is My Job on the Planet with a Capital J?	206	(5)
Mount Analogue	211	(2)
Interconnectedness	213	(4)
Non-Harming-Ahimsa	217	(3)
Karma	220	(6)
Wholeness and Oneness	226	(4)
Eachness and Suchness	230	(3)
What Is This?	233	(3)
Selfing	236	(5)
Anger	241	(2)
Cat-Food Lessons	243	(4)
Parenting as Practice	247	(10)
Parenting Two	257	(3)
Some Pitfalls Along the Path	260	(3)
Is Mindfulness Spiritual?	263	(8)
Afterword	271	(6)
Mindfulness Meditation Practice CDs	277