{"product_id":"the-healing-power-of-mindfulness-a-new-way-of-being-9780316411769","title":"The Healing Power of Mindfulness: A New Way of Being","description":"\u003cb\u003eDiscover how mindfulness can help you with healing.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn showed us the value of cultivating greater awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, \u003ci\u003eWherever You Go, There You Are\u003c\/i\u003e. Now, in \u003ci\u003eTheHealing Power of Mindfulness\u003c\/i\u003e, he shares a cornucopia of specificexamples as to how the cultivation of mindfulness can reshape your relationship with your own body and mind--explaining what we're learning about neuroplasticity and the brain, how meditation can affect our biology and our health, and what mindfulness can teach us about coming to terms with all sorts of life challenges, including our own mortality, so we can make the most of the moments that we have. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book titled \u003ci\u003eComing to Our Senses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Healing Power of Mindfulness \u003c\/i\u003e features a new foreword by the author and timely updates throughout the text. If you are interested in learning more about how mindfulness as a way of being can help us to heal, physically and emotionally, look no further than this deeply personal and also \"deeply optimistic book, grounded in good science and filled with practical recommendations for moving in the right direction\" (Andrew Weil, MD), from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Kabat-Zinn, PhD\u003c\/b\u003e, is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in various venues around the world. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers' PBS Special, \u003ci\u003eHealing and the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e and in the book of the same title, as well as on \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eOprah Winfrey Show\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOprah's Super Soul Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as NPR. he has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession, prisons, and professional sports. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He is the author of numerous bestselling books about mindfulness and meditation: \u003ci\u003eFull Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eArriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of \u003ci\u003eEveryday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting\u003c\/i\u003e; and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of \u003ci\u003eThe Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness Overall\u003c\/i\u003e, his books have been translated into over thirty languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50655378243858,"sku":"9780316411769","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba78fd52-388b-4be7-873d-a5193f60fa4d.jpg?v=1733380153","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-healing-power-of-mindfulness-a-new-way-of-being-9780316411769","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}