Mindfulness para principiantes / Mindfulness for Beginners

Una brillante introducción a la práctica del mindfulness.

Mindfulness para principiantes es una invitación para que el lector modifique su relación con el modo en que piensa, siente, ama, trabaja o juega; y despierte y encarne de forma plena lo que realmente es.

Los meditadores principiantes (pero también los avezados) descubrirán en estas páginas un valioso compendio de las prácticas y actitudes fundamentales que Jon Kabat-Zinn ha desarrollado tras décadas de investigación, enseñanza y práctica. A destacar:

· la importancia de conectar con nuestro cuerpo y nuestros sentidos;

· ir más allá de nuestra «historia» y conectar con la experiencia directa;

· estabilizar nuestra atención y presencia en medio de las actividades cotidianas;

· los factores mentales fundamentales que provocan sufrimiento;

· por qué corazón pleno ( heartfulness) es sinónimo de mindfulness.

Mindfulness para principiantes proporciona las respuestas apropiadas para lograr que conectemos de un modo más claro, duradero y amoroso con nosotros mismos y el mundo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

An Invitation to the Practice of Mindfulness

We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives. With Mindfulness for Beginnersyou are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play―and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are.

Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways: as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding “lesson-a-day” primer on mindfulness practice.
Beginning and long-time meditators alike will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found most useful with his students, including:

• Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulness
• The value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over again
• How our thoughts “self-liberate” when touched by awareness
• Moving beyond our “story” into direct experience
• Stabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activities
• Three fundamental mental factors that cause suffering
• How mindfulness heals, even after the fact
•Reclaiming our wholeness, and more

The prescription for living a more mindful life seems simple enough: return your awareness again and again to whatever is going on. But if you’ve tried it, you know that here is where all the questions and challenges really begin. Mindfulness for Beginners provides welcome answers, insights, and instruction to help us make that shift, moment by moment, into a more spacious, clear, reliable, and loving connection with ourselves and the world.