Mindfulness for Beginners

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.

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.

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.

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.

This book is not my favorite. I feel like the author didn't do a good job of making his point or getting the audience to understand the subject matter.

No.

The narrator was very flat, monotone, and a bit boring. The book kept losing my attention. I only kept it because I was looking for some hint of understanding. That is actually all I got: "a hint of understanding."

This book is like a bad movie that you've heard a lot of hype about so you go see and you sit through it but you're pretty disappointed.

No. It's exactly the reading of the book that is so offensive to the ear that the content becomes lost

The story itself, and the book, are fantastic.

Reader salivating & swallowing make it disgusting

I had an extreme repulsion to hearing the reader's body fluid management

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

this audiobook downloaded as a single track. makes it almost unusable. very disappointing. I will not purchase any other content from this site.