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The Power of Mindfulness Practice
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The practice of Western Mindfulness is nearly synonymous with the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn. For over 38 years, the originator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction has translated and distilled the tenets of Eastern Buddhism to help thousands cultivate inner resources and fully engage with the present moment. In the following interview with Networker Editor Rich Simon, Kabat-Zinn debunks popular myths about Mindfulness, explains how it’s much more than just a spiritual concept, and shares how each of us can reclaim our lives from the limiting identities we ascribe ourselves, fully embracing embodied awareness in the present moment.
Featured in Bill Moyer's PBS Special, "Healing and the Mind", Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., 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 in prison populations.
Kabat-Zinn's books include: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (1994) and Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (1997), which was co-authored with his wife, Myla.
