Befriending Your Mind, Befriending Your Life: Mindfulness and the Endless Adventure of Growing into Yourself, Jon Kabat-Zinn. This excerpt comes from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s keynote presentation at the Feb 2013 Bridging Hearts and Minds of Youth from the UCSD Center for Mindfulness at the University of California San Diego School of Medecine.
The BBC Breakfast Programme ran a report on the emergence of Mindfulness in UK schools as a means of reducing curriculum and exam stress amongst teenagers. For more information please contact The Mindfulness in Schools Project, the UK’s leading organisation in this field. The piece was aired on Wednesday 27 March, 2013
Mindfulness for Life Interviews Jon Kabat-Zinn on how we can access and move towards the felt sense of our experience by attending to what is present in this moment, whether pleasant or unpleasant, good bad or ugly. This video segment also gives some background to the choice of title of his first book, Full Catastrophe …
In honour of John Kabat-Zinn’s forthcoming trip to the UK, I thought I’d post a series of mini-interviews that he recorded back in January 2013. If you want to see him in the flesh there are still tickets available to see him in London on the following dates. 27th March – International Mindfulness in Schools …
An engaging and entertaining TED talk on mindfulness by the irrepressible Andy Puddicombe, a former buddhist monk and the voice of Headspace, an organisation dedicated to demystifying the experience of meditation and getting as many people in the world as possible to take 10 minutes out of their day for the specific purpose of ‘doing …
This documentary from Jon Kabat- Zinn, the creator of the 8 week Mindfulness Based Stress reduction (MBSR) programme, was made in 1999 to commemorate 20 years of work done at the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre. Some 14 years later, the Stress Reduction Clinic has grown and expanded into the …
Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a philosopher, writer, and speaker. He wrote over twenty books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, and the pursuit of happiness, relating his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religions and philosophies. He also gave many lectures, …
A key component of mindfulness is the practice of bringing our awareness into the mundane, so that the stuff of everyday experience which lies between the extremes, becomes transformed by the quality of our attention. When we pause and look deeply enough to notice, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The video below by Dietrich Ludwig truly …