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Mindfulness Diverse Perspectives on Its Meanings, Origins and Applications

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ISBN-10: 0415636477

ISBN-13: 9780415636476

Edition: 2013

Authors: J. Mark G. Williams, Jon Kabat-zinn

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Mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions have become increasingly common. New paradigms are emerging from a confluence of two powerful and potentially synergistic epistemologies: one arising from the wisdom traditions of Asia and the other arising from post-enlightenment empirical science. This book presents the work of internationally renowned experts in the fields of Buddhist scholarship and scientific research, as well as looking at the implementation of mindfulness in healthcare and education settings. Contributors consider the use of mindfulness throughout history and look at…    
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List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 2/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 314
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Featured in Bill Moyer's PBS Special Healing and the Mind, Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. is executive director at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He is the founder and former director of the UMMC Stress Reduction Clinic and an associate professor of medicine in the division of preventive and behavioral medicine. Using mindfulness meditation, Kabat-Zinn works to help people reduce stress and deal with chronic pain, and a variety of illnesses, particularly breast cancer. He was a trainer for the 1984 U.S. Men's Olympic Rowing Team and is especially interested in reducing the stress-related problems in the inner city and…    

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Notes on Contributors
Preface
Mindfulness: diverse perspectives on its meaning, origins, and multiple applications at the intersection of science and dharma
What does mindfulness really mean? A canonical perspective
Is mindfulness present-centred and non-judgmental? A discussion of the cognitive dimensions of mindfulness
The construction of mindfulness
Toward an understanding of non-dual mindfulness
How does mindfulness transform suffering? I: the nature and origins of dukkha
How does mindfulness transform suffering? II: the transformation of dukkha
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: culture clash or creative fusion?
Compassion in the landscape of suffering
Meditation and mindfulness
The Buddhist roots of mindfulness training: a practitioners view
Mindfulness and loving-kindness
Mindfulness in higher education
'Enjoy your death': leadership lessons forged in the crucible of organizational death and rebirth infused with mindfulness and mastery
Mindfulness, by any other name…: trials and tribulations of sati in Western psychology and science
Measuring mindfulness
On some definitions of mindfulness
Some reflections on the origins of MBSR, skillful means, and the trouble with maps
Index