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the_schaef's review
4.0
This book is somewhat clinical, but don’t let that be a deterrent. Jon Kabat-Zinn, with a history of meditation and the founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, provides compelling support for engaging in and sustaining a daily practice of meditation. He provides research supported information on its benefits as well as practical ways to incorporate it into our lives. This book is written in an easy manner to read - not as a research paper. For anyone curious about or considering incorporating mindfulness practices, this is a great place to start or to further one’s practice.
opson's review
5.0
All-encompassing book about the holistic living.
Highly recommend the second chapter about the tenants of mindfulness practise.
Highly recommend the second chapter about the tenants of mindfulness practise.
lsparrow's review against another edition
5.0
A book to come back to. I started this book the day before I dislocated my knee - what a great time to listen to this book!! I had started this book as a review of mindfulness and to see if this would be a book I might recommend to clients.
it was what I needed and definitely something to come back to and recommend.
it was what I needed and definitely something to come back to and recommend.
somanybookstoread's review
5.0
"When you walk the path of awareness, you are bringing a systematic consciousness to the experience of living that only makes living more vibrant, more real. The fact that no one ever taught you how to do this or told you that it was worth doing is immaterial. When you are ready for this quest, it finds you." -JKZ
This book was assigned reading during the first semester of my Master's degree in Mindfulness Studies. It is a foundational, groundbreaking book that will be an ongoing part of my practice and part of my life. I highly recommend reading this book to anyone who is interested in understanding the benefits of mindfulness and how to begin a mindfulness practice. Although it is a big book, it is extremely approachable and easy to read. Instruction, theory, and anecdotes weave together seamlessly in this important body of work.
This book was assigned reading during the first semester of my Master's degree in Mindfulness Studies. It is a foundational, groundbreaking book that will be an ongoing part of my practice and part of my life. I highly recommend reading this book to anyone who is interested in understanding the benefits of mindfulness and how to begin a mindfulness practice. Although it is a big book, it is extremely approachable and easy to read. Instruction, theory, and anecdotes weave together seamlessly in this important body of work.
ekfmef's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
1.0
It's horrible how a beautiful philosophy and way of life gets reduced to a vehicle for the biopsychosocial model.
Only read this book if you have a morbid curiosity for the history of medicine (like I do). Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the founders of the BPS model and it is fascinating to read how he appropriated several Buddhist and Hinduist practices to provide a treatment modality that suits that model even better than regular cognitive behavioral therapy. But yeah, if you have ME or another ununderstood disease, steer well clear of the bullshit contained within this book.
Yes, bullshit. You can't reason your way out of survivor bias, selection bias, inappropriate control groups, non standardization of interventions -- or even, non significant differences (such as with the telomere study).
Full disclosure: yes, I do meditate.
Only read this book if you have a morbid curiosity for the history of medicine (like I do). Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the founders of the BPS model and it is fascinating to read how he appropriated several Buddhist and Hinduist practices to provide a treatment modality that suits that model even better than regular cognitive behavioral therapy. But yeah, if you have ME or another ununderstood disease, steer well clear of the bullshit contained within this book.
Yes, bullshit. You can't reason your way out of survivor bias, selection bias, inappropriate control groups, non standardization of interventions -- or even, non significant differences (such as with the telomere study).
Full disclosure: yes, I do meditate.
craftygoat's review against another edition
4.0
Didn't realize the audiobook was abridged til I was done with it. (Grabbed the hard copy from my library to make some notes and it looks like the audiobook covered the good stuff.) This is an older book, so naturally there are more recent ones that do a better job of covering the latest mindfulness research. I'm not sure there was anything here about mindfulness that I haven't read elsewhere, but I did like Kabat-Zinn's teaching approach. I liked the format of the book - he started with the practical information, then went into the background in the second half. His problem-solving sections are helpful. The recommended weekly schedule made it all seem more doable - I'm on week 2 of trying that out now. So overall, an oldie but a goodie, especially if the author's teaching style works well for you - as it did for me.
jennog's review
5.0
Thorough overview of everything you need to know about mindfulness. Explains everything and fills in all the gaps that your therapist or mindfulness apps left out. Only book you’ll ever need on the subject if you ever only had to pick one!