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Mindfulness guru comes to South Africa
iAfrica.com, South Africa - Apr 11, 2008
For information on Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn's tour, go to www.mindfulness.org.za or contact Karin on +27 76 101 1727. For details on the UCT GSB leadership retreat ...
LIVING WELL: Mindfulness therapy offers new tool to fight depression
Packet Online, NJ - Apr 17, 2008
Since Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., first introduced us to the benefits of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, we have seen an expansion of mindfulness- based ...
Calendar for May 3
Fremont Bulletin,  United States - May 2, 2008
... day on June 25 from 10 am-3 pm The class, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, has helped participants cope more effectively with the challenges they face. ...
Got stress?
American Chronicle, CA - Apr 21, 2008
There is also the very excellent mindfulness training. Jon Kabat Zinn (www.mindfulnesstapes.com) as well as Thich Nhat Hanh have video samples of their ...
Dalai Lama talk at Mayo Clinic available online
Post-Bulletin, MN - Apr 18, 2008
Other presentations given Wednesday, including those by mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn and Zen master Roshi Joan Halifax, are also available online.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course
Peterborough Examiner, Canada - May 1, 2008
... 2008 MBSR is a secular practice of mindfulness researched and developed by Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn, Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts ...
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The clinical use of mindfulness meditation for the self-regulation of chronic pain -
J Kabat-Zinn, L Lipworth, R Burney - Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1985 - Springer
... Jon Kabat-Zinn, ',2 Leslie Lipworth, 3 and Robert Burney 4 ... pain patients were trained
in mindfulness meditation in a ... body image, inhibition of activity by pain ...

Three-year follow-up and clinical implications of a mindfulness meditation-based stress reduction … -
JJ Miller, K Fletcher, J Kabat-Zinn - General Hospital Psychiatry, 1995 - Elsevier
... Address reprint requests to: Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D ... The informal mindfulness techniques
(such as mindful ... ness of eating, routine activities, stress reactivity ...

Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Context: Past, Present, and Future -
J Kabat-Zinn - Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 2003 - Blackwell Synergy
... Jon Kabat-Zinn 1. ... performance" is always this moment unfolding (Kabat-Zinn, 1994). ...
However, mindfulness meditation practice, whether within the various Buddhist ...

[BOOK] Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
J Kabat-Zinn - 1990 - Delacorte Pr

Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation -
RJ Davidson, J Kabat-Zinn, J Schumacher, M … - Psychosomatic Medicine, 2003 - Am Psychosomatic Soc
... Richard J. Davidson, PhD , Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD , Jessica ... Katherine Bonus, MA and
John F. Sheridan ... clinical training program in mindfulness meditation applied in ...

[BOOK] WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE: MINDFULNESS MEDITATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
J Kabat-Zinn - 1994 - books.google.com
... there you are : mindfulness meditation in everyday life / Jon Kabat-Zinn. ... Rosenberg,
John Miller, Danielle Levi Alvares, Randy ... ing mindfulness and concentration ...

… does cognitive therapy prevent depressive relapse and why should attentional control (mindfulness) … -
JD Teasdale, Z Segal, JMG Williams - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1995 - Elsevier
... 32 JOHN D. TEASDALE et al. ... MINDFULNESS MEDITATION ASAGENERICSTRESS-REDUCTION PROCEDURE
Kabat-Zinn (1990) provides a detailed description of a stress-reduction ...

[PDF] Prevention of Relapse/Recurrence in Major Depression by Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy -
JD Teasdale, ZV Segal, VA Ridgeway, JM Soulsby - Prevention, 2000 - steveshealyphd.com
... Electronic mail may be sent to john.teasdale@mrc-cbu ... by Kabat-Zinn and colleagues
(eg, Kabat- Zinn, 1990 ... Increased mindfulness is relevant to the prevention of ...
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Mindfulness-based stress reduction and health-related quality of life in a heterogeneous patient … -
DK Reibel, JM Greeson, GC Brainard, S Rosenzweig - General Hospital Psychiatry, 2001 - Elsevier
... Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, in ...
Kabat-Zinn et al ... small and large group discussions, and mindfulness skill-building ...

[BOOK] Everyday Blessing: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
M Kabat-Zinn, J Kabat-Zinn - 1997 - books.google.com
... Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life ... Page 5.
Copyright ? i997, Myla Kabat-Zinn and Jon Kabat-Zinn All rights reserved. ...

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MINDFULNESS

Watching other people grow older often isn't pretty but it can always be instructive.

I say other people, because it is extremely difficult to see ourselves.  I notice, for example, that when I'm in an audience at a classical concert and look around, I'm likely to think, "Hmm, everybody here is older. Too bad more younger people don't come."  Younger people like me is what I'm thinking.  Talk about delusions!

Who hasn't said, at one time or another, "I don't want to be like my mother (or father) when I get old"?  We usually mean, "I don't want to get set in my ways," or "I don't want to become boring," or "I don't want to look like that."  But once in a while we catch a glimpse of ourselves in a mirror, and wince, because we see signs that we haven't escaped our deepest fears. Most of us look away immediately.  Denial has its uses, after all.

So here is the Big Question?  As we age, how, exactly, do we avoid becoming what we don't want to become? 

The simple answer is that we have to cultivate Mindfulness.  For people of my generation the term was Awareness.  I recently read The Secret (yes, it is one of my guilty pleasures) and was bemused to find this was an essential message of the book.  The new brain research I'm reading, books like Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, come to the same conclusion.  Other names for this are The Perennial Philosophy and The Tao (The Way).

So Mindfulness is clearly not a new idea.  But if it has been described as The Way in so many different sources, why don't we all live in this Way? Maybe you do.  If you don't, what is your reason?

I know mine:  The Way isn't easy; it takes training and effort, and I can be a very scattered person.  I have moments and pockets of time when I am disciplined and focused.  But there are lots of other hours when I fritter away Time as if it were not the most precious commodity I have.  I avoid knowing--being mindful--that the time I before me is much less than the time behind me.   That is probably the most foolish thing I do with my life.

Too much reality can paralyze us; that's why denial exists.  But too much denial can impoverish us if we close our eyes and pretend the future stretches infinitely, so we can afford to wait to do the things that would truly enrich our lives with meaning and allow us to leave a legacy for coming generations that will enrich them as well.

I do believe that Mindfulness is worth fighting for.  I fight for it every day, in every way I can think of.  I've taken the VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire (it's free; try it!) and try using my top strengths regularly to expand my ability to stay Aware, so that my time and energy are used more and more for things of real value.   

These can be large and small.

Whatever you or I choose to spend time on has to be our own choice, but I urge you to reflect on your choices and learn to discriminate among choices that are truly life-enhancing and those that are simply habits of mind.  So much is being learned about what contributes best to human well-being.   Read, listen, observe, and talk with friends and family about what you're discovering.

Share this wealth with others.  It's too important to keep to yourself.
 
 
 
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