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Mindfulness for Beginners
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LENGTH2 hrs and 26 mins
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RELEASE DATE06-14-06
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Program TypeSpeech
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Publisher's Summary
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:
"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
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ArtC Philipsburg, PA, United States 03-05-10 Member Since 2007Mysteries, classics, non-fiction, time travel, Bounty hunters, grim reapers... anything but vampires, please!
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"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.
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"Content great - presentation poor"
The content is distilled John Kabat Zinn and is wonderful, delivery is sadly lacking and the reason I have discontinued with audible. Track 1 & Track 2 ?? Thats it... unfortunately i don't have the time or the "mindfullness" to waste so many moments of my life finding the sections of the piece I want to listen too.
13 of 19 people found this review helpful -
"terrible narration"
Usually I'm a big fan of the author narrating their book because they can convey their excitement about the topic and stress the things they see as most important. With this one however I didn't make it past the 10 minutes mark. The narrator/author makes an overly soft-spoken attempt at ethereal enlightenment that is really just the whispered condescension of someone who doesn't like kids talking to a 5 year old. I felt like I was in a really, really bad and stereotypical yoga class. If Saturday Night Live did a spoof on these types of books this is exactly the narration they would use.
8 of 14 people found this review helpful -
Vickie Chattanooga, TN, United States 08-10-11 Member Since 2009
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"Yawn"
If you have ever read so much as an article on meditation, you are past what this book offers.
I completely agree with Jane of Hopewell, VA in her review. This feels like a parody of a meditation session. If you can listen to "Track 1" without wanting to throttle this guy and tell him to spit it out, you are past what it is "teaching." Otherwise, like me, you might have to go ride your stationary bike to work off the irritation of wanting to throttle the guy and tell him to spit it out.
Also, I do not like the format at all. But, it is my fault that I am so ignorant of my Zen thingy that I don't even know how to effectively set a bookmark to find a meditation session that appeals to me, if I could stand to listen to the contemplation of a raisin first.
You can get better for free on some websites.
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Brian J. Boerman Folsom, CA, USA 04-29-13 Member Since 2005
yet another audiophile
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"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
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"Great book and narration"
Have listened to this several times - love it! The narrator does a great job
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"disappointed"
this audiobook downloaded as a single track. makes it almost unusable. very disappointing. I will not purchase any other content from this site.
8 of 39 people found this review helpful