Mindfulness for Beginners

Explore the Infinite Potential that Lies Within This Very Moment

What if you could profoundly change your life just by becoming more mindful of your breathing? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, you can. What if paying attention on purpose (and nonjudgmentally) could improve your health? Again, according to Dr. Kabat-Zinn—it can.

On Mindfulness for Beginners, this internationally known scientist, bestselling author, and teacher who brought mindfulness meditation into the mainstream of medicine and society gives you immediate access to a practice that can potentially add years to your life, and will certainly enhance the quality of your moments and your years.

Join Dr. Kabat-Zinn to:

Explore five guided meditations that lead you breath-by-breath into the essence of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a program offered in medical clinics and hospitals around the world
• Cultivate the Seven Key Attitudinal Factors of MBSR—qualities of heart and mind that lay the foundation for mindfulness practice and for seeing and accepting things as they are as a first step to working wisely and compassionately with stress, pain, illness, and sorrow as well as life's joys and pleasures
• Free yourself from limiting perspectives, and become more intimate with your own boundless awareness

You're already in the perfect moment for inhabiting this liberating awareness, which is always available, teaches Jon Kabat-Zinn. With Mindfulness for Beginners, he invites you to cultivate mindfulness as if your life depended on it, which it surely does, and experience the magnitude and beauty of who you already are.

Course objectives:

Apply an understanding of the concept of mindfulness
• Utilize simple guided meditations led by Kabat-Zinn
• List the ethical and attitudinal foundations necessary to cultivating mindfulness
• Assess how we can choose where to focus our awareness
• Plan to use mindfulness to help us develop compassion and insight into our true nature

Great start for beginners, but be patient

Overall, it's an easy read for those first hearing about mindfulness and even experienced meditators who appreciate reaffirming.

The quality of reading was imperfect. With odd pauses mid sentence. But since you're supposed to be mindful and non judgmental, it shouldn't be a bother.

Great insights to pick up and spark more interest for further reading.

A great guide

You get out of it what you put in. I like that it’s all about what I can do to empower myself through accountability and reasonable action steps. I recommend to open-minded (including skeptical ones) listeners.

Reader salivating & swallowing make it disgusting

Would you consider the audio edition of Mindfulness for Beginners to be better than the print version?

No. It's exactly the reading of the book that is so offensive to the ear that the content becomes lost

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

The story itself, and the book, are fantastic.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Reader salivating & swallowing make it disgusting

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I had an extreme repulsion to hearing the reader's body fluid management

give this a chance

most memorable moment was definitely the first chapter and last chapter. I was hooked by the first moment. thank you for the vision and language I didn't know I needed

A great book to read over and over

I listen to this book all the time. Mostly at night while preparing to sleep. Thanks