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Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off. It is seeing clearly and

deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.

owing about who that is. It

is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not,

namely the path that is your life.

out having to seek or hold on to or reject

an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we

are on and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens,

what we learn, and how we feel along the way.

Th B abat-Zinn

• It is a commonly held view that meditation is a way to shut off the pressure
  of the world or of your own mind, but this is not an accurate im


• Meditation is simply about being yourself and kn


• Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being
  complete in this moment, with
  anything.


• How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in
  our hearts makes

e est Way to Get Started with Jon K

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book to Full Catastrophe Living, in which he presented basic meditation
techniques as a way of reducing stress and healing from illness.

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To Dr. Kabat-Zinn, meditation is important because it brings about a state of
mindfulness,” a condition of “being” rather than “doing” during which you pay

, a Way of
living, a Way of
harmony with things as they are. Mindfulness means paying attention in a
particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally.”

Wherever You Go, There You Are contains brief, clear chapters on different
meditative practices and what they can do for you. Dr. Kabat-Zinn explains that

c mend that you get started with Dr. Kabat-Zinn’s book, Wherever You Go,

You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. This is the follow-up

In Wherever You Go, There You Are, Dr. Kabat-Zinn outlines the Buddhist
technique of “mindfulness,” a method of living fully in the moment without
judgment. This book is a great primer on meditation and mindfulness; you don’t
have to be a Buddhist or want to be a Buddhist to practice meditation or to r
this book.

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attention to the moment rather than the past, the future, or the multitudinous
distractions of modern life. Meditation, he tells you, “is a Way of being
listening, a Way of walking along the path of life and being in