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

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    Ten years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Now, with Coming to Our Senses, he provides the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual well-being. With scientific rigor, poetic deftness, and compelling personal stories, Dr. Kabat-Zinn examines the mysteries and marvels of our minds and bodies, describing simple, intuitive ways in which we can come to a deeper understanding, through our senses, of our beauty, our genius, and our life path in a complicated, fear-driven, and rapidly changing world.

    Throughout this program, Kabat-Zinn explores various facets of the great adventure of healing ourselves - and our world - through mindful awareness, with a focus on the "sensecapes" of our lives and how a more intentional awareness of the senses, including the human mind itself, allows us to live more fully and more authentically. By "coming to our senses" - both literally and metaphorically, by opening to our innate connectedness with the world around us and within us - we can become more compassionate, more embodied, more aware human beings, and in the process, contribute to the healing of the body politic as well as our own lives in ways both little and big.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9781478927907
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    • 5/5
      The book that needs to be read by everyone without excpetionShould be teach in every class in every familyFantastic
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this book but found it difficult to finish reading. I seemed to have difficulty internalizing the messages.
    • 3/5
      I gave this one the old college try, but it's just not working for me. I actually think it's a fine book, with some really insightful gems, like the excellent and succinct description of Buddhism in the "Dharma" chapter and this passage about individual experience:

      "Since awareness at first blush seems to be a subjective experience, it is hard for us not to think that we are the subject, the thinker, the feeler, the seer, the doer and as such, the very center of the universe, the very center of the field of our awareness. Perceiving thus, we take everything in the universe, or at least our universe, quite personally." (169)

      That passage in particular has caused a small but significant shift in how I look at the world. The trouble is that Kabat-Zinn uses an awful lot of words. There's a lot to read between the gems, and I find myself getting...bored. Perhaps part of this is because I've already read Full Catastrophe Living, and I've not found much that's particularly new in Coming to Our Senses. Or it could just be that I'm not in a nonfiction mood or that I really just want to "do" mindfulness rather than read about it right now. Whatever it is, I'm going to read the section on healing the body politic, and maybe jump here and there, but when I go to library day after tomorrow, I'm going to be taking this one back, no matter how much I've left unread.

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