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Coming to Our Senses Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Come to your senses with the definitive guide to living a meaningful life from a world expert in the connection between mindfulness and physical and spiritual wellbeing. "[The] journey toward health and sanity is nothing less than an invitation to wake up to the fullness of our lives as if they act...

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This book was mentioned in a list of books written by John Kabat-Zinn, along with "Full Catastrophe Living" and "Wherever You Go, There You Are".

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John has written many books including full catastrophe living wherever you go there you are which was first published 30 years ago and his latest mindfulness meditation for pain relief.

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This book was mentioned in a list of books written by John Kabat-Zinn, along with "Full Catastrophe Living" and "Wherever You Go, There You Are".

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John has written many books including full catastrophe living wherever you go there you are which was first published 30 years ago and his latest mindfulness meditation for pain relief.

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This title was mentioned in a list of Jon Kabat-Zinn's books that preceded the mention of his newest work.

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John has written many books including full catastrophe living wherever you go there you are and coming to our senses.

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The speaker referenced this book in connection with the Buddha's instruction to a grieving man to "come to your senses," suggesting it relates to being present with one's experience.

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It reminds me of John Kabat-Zinn's book Coming to Our Senses I think it's called

On Being with Krista Tippett

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On Being with Krista Tippett

This book was Krista Tippett's favorite of Jon Kabat-Zinn's works. It was described as containing a lot of his personal story and aiming to demystify meditation.

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I put a lot of my own personal story into coming to our senses

— Episode: Jon Kabat-Zinn — Opening to Our Lives

Episode: Jon Kabat-Zinn — Opening to Our Lives

This book was Krista Tippett's favorite of Jon Kabat-Zinn's works. It was described as containing a lot of his personal story and aiming to demystify meditation.

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I put a lot of my own personal story into coming to our senses

I want people to understand that when they come to meditation that it doesn't mean that you give up being a person and you become some kind of, I don't know, transparent, weirdo

Episode: [Unedited] Kabat-Zinn and Krista Tippett

The author mentioned writing this book a few years prior to the interview, and it was described as including his personal story about how he came to meditation, explaining it in a way to help people understand that meditation does not mean giving up being a person. He used it to illustrate how meditation changes one's relationship with their self-identity and to demystify the practice.

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Yeah. Both literally and metaphorically.

I put a lot of my own personal story into coming to our senses and some of it's actually in various books because I want people to understand that when they come to meditation that it doesn't mean that you give up being a person and you become some kind of, I don't know, transparent weirdo stories.

In fact, I stay away from even the words spiritual.

So it's not so much that I'm into demystifying meditation as it is as I'm into trying to make it so common sense to people that they will slap the side of the head and say, well, of course, why the hell didn't I know that like 30 years ago?

You're your beautiful long book that you were just a couple of years you know coming to our senses and you've pointed out that that for the Buddha that you know the mind is also a sense and it is all about being body so talk to me about that and how that Can make a difference in a moment like this where the world around us is so frightening.

Episode: Jon Kabat-Zinn — Opening to Our Lives

The speaker described it as their favorite book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, focusing on healing through mindfulness; the speaker mentioned including a lot of personal stories in it, and using it to demystify meditation.

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I'd like to start with you, you know, I interview theologians and scientists and artists and physicians, all kinds of people. I always start the interview by asking whether there was a religious background to your life, into your child or well I suppose there was some background that could be called religious, you know,

And the story which I wrote up in coming to our senses in part because I put a lot of my own personal story into coming to our senses and some of it's actually in various books because I want people to understand that when they come to meditation that it doesn't mean that you give up being a person and you become some kind of, I don't know, transparent, weirdo, so it's but that you change your relationship to who you think you are as a person and in particular to the story of who you are or think you are.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake

Episode: [Unedited] Kabat-Zinn and Krista Tippett

The author discussed his book, explaining that he included a lot of his personal story in it to help people understand that meditation does not require them to give up being a person. He also mentions that the book explores how meditation can change one's relationship with their identity.

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I wrote this book a few years ago called Coming to our Senses and I meant it. Yeah. Both literally and metaphorically.

I put a lot of my own personal story into coming to our senses and some of it's actually in various books because I want people to understand that when they come to meditation that it doesn't mean that you give up being a person and you become some kind of, I don't know, transparent weirdo stories.

In the sense where seeing the fallout from years of not really being in touch with the full dimension. And with the full dimensionality of what we were doing.

You're very beautiful long book that you were just a couple of years you know coming to our senses and you've pointed out that that for the Buddha that you know the mind is also a sense and it is all about being body so talk to me about that and how that Can make a difference in a moment like this where the world around us is so frightening.

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