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Explore the Power of Mindfulness in Your Everyday LifeThis is Jon Kabat-Zinn’s most comprehensive audio program on mindfulness. It combines gentle guidance with conversational narratives weaving together science, poetry, and the art of living—all in the service of deepening your appreciation of the “workability” of the present moment, no matter how hard or challenging your circumstances.This moment, when held in awareness with gentleness and self-compassion, has the potential for catalyzing, healing, and transforming your life. Mindfulness meditation is both a discipline and an adventure. This program accompanies you on that adventure as you become your own most trusted friend and guide. With a spirit of humor and exploration, Jon Kabat-Zinn invites us to learn and cultivate various applications of mindfulness in everyday living, just as you might cultivate a garden. These include:Making use of your senses to amplify perceptual awareness, embodied presence, mental clarity, and contentment in the timeless present we call nowRecognizing emotional patterns that trigger suffering and learning ways to restore emotional balanceRealizing how each moment can be a “branch point”—a portal into a new way of being that invites you to enterPractical ways for bringing greater mindfulness and heartfulness into your relationships, work, and parentingStep-by-step guidance through basic mindfulness practices including mindfulness of breathing and body sensations, mindful eating, gentle yoga, and lovingkindnessAdventures in Mindfulness will teach you how to befriend yourself as you are in this moment, in your fullness, and rediscover your intrinsic beauty and wholeness.Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is the developer of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), used today in medical centers and hospital clinics around the world, and the founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and of its Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. He is the author of Mindfulness for Beginners and other bestselling books.HighlightsFree yourself from “auto-pilot” and find a new sense of freedom and vitalityBreathing, a gateway to mindfulnessMovement-based meditations, yoga, and body-scanning practiceA lovingkindness meditation sessionResponding to stress instead of reacting: how to bring mindful presence to difficult situationsOpening into stillness, wholeness, and interconnectednessTwelve immersive sessions on seven CDsNote: Originally released as Mindfulness Meditation by Nightingale-ConantContents Audio download (6 hours, 38 minutes)Date Published September 01, 2012