Jon Kabat-Zinn's Profile
Brief about Jon Kabat-Zinn: By info that we know Jon Kabat-Zinn was born at 1944-06-05. And also Jon Kabat-Zinn is American Educator.
Some Jon Kabat-Zinn's quotes. Goto "Jon Kabat-Zinn's quotation" section for more.All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
Tags: Addiction, Stress, SufferingBreathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
Tags: Focus, Mind, TrainingEven before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
Tags: Internet, Smart, WaysMindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
Tags: Fact, Irrelevant, PowerfulMost people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
Tags: Particular, Special, WrongPaying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
Tags: Attention, Human, UniversalWriting can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
Tags: Incredible, Practice, WritingI was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.
Tags: Fight, School, ToughIn Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
Tags: Kindness, Mind, WiseMindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
Tags: Happen, Life, LoveMost people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.
Tags: Force, Mind, RealizeMy father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.
Tags: Father, Mother, ParentsOne way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
Tags: Body, Mind, TechnologySometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.
Tags: Experience, Game, MindThe mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.
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