Mindfulness for Beginners

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

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 non-judgmentally" could improve your health? Again, according to Dr. Kabat-Zinn, it can.

In Mindfulness for Beginners, this internationally known scientist, best-selling 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, Zorba's "full catastrophe"

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.

©2006 Jon Kabat-Zinn (P)2006 Sounds True

Not a medatition book

This is not a meditation book but rather a 2 hr explanation of mindfulness. In my mind anything that takes 2 hrs to explain is not necessary. I do believe the medication can work miracles. We need books on mastering meditation not definistions.

very helpful tool towards calming my mind

the slow even tone of the narrator and the content of the book was filled with helpful tools in order to lead me towards mindfulness and what it takes for me to obtain it.

Excellent starting spot for beginners

Of course as the founder of MBSR, Kabat-Zinn understands what is known and unknown and what the experiences are of a person who is new to not only meditation but mindfulness as well. He does a good job expelling the hoodoovoodoo that many westerners feel about both topics and explaining what it is. A very high impact two hours. Well well wort the time and it is read with such passion and energy.

The Basics are not so basic

Where does Mindfulness for Beginners rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Really enjoyed this book, however, will have to listen to it 2-3 times.

What did you like best about this story?

The simplicity along with some very foreign concepts.

What about Jon Kabat-Zinn’s performance did you like?

He has a great voice and is really easy to listen to.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

Great book and narration

Have listened to this several times - love it! The narrator does a great job

Great introduction to meditation

Jkz is compelling. I wish the actual meditation practice in part two could have been longer or touched on those meditations contained in his book, wherever you go there you are.

helpful with pain of a divorce

JKZ voice and cadence in the audio book was very helpful to bring relaxation and awareness to my being.

Mindfullness

I wish the meditations were different chapters so i could easily go back to them.

good but 2 Short loud jarring noises at the start

I often listen to this at night. Unfortunately it begins with two very loud jarring noises right at the beginning which is upsetting to my partner when he is sleeping. You can work around this of course - if you remember.

The first noise is the standard "this is Audible" in an unnecessarily loud voice. I find this common with most of the audible books. The second noise is some kind of horn or something that goes on for a short time.
Other than that it's very peaceful and soothing

Profound

I've listened to this every week since I downloaded it a few months ago, and find it extremely helpful in relaxation and keeping me grounded. I love the tone and cadence of it; it less like a reading and more like an impassioned conversation with a friend. He removes the religious and new-age-y connotations from meditation, and explains how awareness fits in with thoughts, senses, mind and body.