Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Digital audiobook, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

158

Genres

Mind and Body

Religion & Spirituality

Publication

Hyperion AudioBooks (2005)

Description

As stress continues to exact a toll on everyday life, people are increasingly turning to meditative methods, tested by science, to relieve its ill effects and become more focused, healthy, and proactive. Kabat-Zinn is a leader of the mind/body revolution in medicine and health care, demystifying it and bringing it into the mainstream. This book offers insight into how to use the five senses -- touch, hearing, sight, taste, and smell, plus awareness itself -- as a path to a healthier, saner, and more meaningful life.

User reviews

LibraryThing member WalkerMedia

Kabat-Zinn has been healing countless individuals with intractable chronic pain and depression, and his technique has been a modification of Buddhist meditation. Clearly he has helped many for whom the essence of life was suffering, and I appreciated reading how he put his beliefs to practice.

I am

not a Buddhist, but I was once drawn to practices from Eastern religion and continue to have discussions with some who are trying to learn its lessons. I agree to this day that a fixation on lack and a demand for change can be destructive forces. Unfortunately this book took a turn in the middle that harmed the credibility of the author somewhat. Once the book turned from self-healing to world-healing, there was a move from mindfulness toward strong aversion. I'm not judging the righteousness of his anger, merely the fit of that anger within his belief system. I didn't get a consistency of philosophy from the beginning to the end of this book. It undercuts the credibility of the author in a serious way. For that, I recommend that others who wish to read his worthy insights begin with another of his works.

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LibraryThing member basile14

The book that needs to be read by everyone without excpetion
Should be teach in every class in every family
Fantastic

LibraryThing member Your_local_coyote

I enjoyed this book but found it difficult to finish reading. I seemed to have difficulty internalizing the messages.

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