Mindfulness Meditation

We all spend much of our lives unconsciously absorbed in a future that hasn't happened yet or in a past that is already gone — and in the process, spend much of the day out of touch with the present moment, which is the only time we ever get in which to live or act. We can easily miss out on the opportunities that the present moment is constantly offering us.

Mindfulness Meditation is about learning to experience life fully as it unfolds — moment by moment. Meditation is not about making your mind blank or escaping what you are feeling. Author Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn wants you to understand that meditation is an invitation to wake up, experience the fullness of your life, and transform your relationship with your problems, your fears, and any pain and stress — so they don't wind up controlling you.

Through the practice of mindfulness, you can learn to develop greater calmness, clarity, and insight in facing and embracing all your life experiences — even life's trials — turning them into occasions for learning, growing, and deepening your own strength and wisdom.

In this program, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn shows you how to:

• Access your own deep inner resources for learning, growing, and healing
• Enrich your experience of everyday living by being fully present in the moment
• Reduce stress by responding creatively rather than reacting mindlessly
• Bring greater clarity and understanding to everything you do
• Function more effectively within your apparent limitations by cultivating your fundamental strengths
• Reestablish contact with your physical body to heighten and expand experiences of pleasure and vitality
• Reduce or overcome addictive or self-destructive behavior patterns
• Develop a strong daily meditation practice

Mindfulness Meditation can give you back a high degree of control in your life, beyond the automatic actions and reactions that so often drive our behavior. Begin listening today, and discover what it's like to see the world you actually have, not the one you think you are missing, and to live the life that is yours to live — in its fullness, moment by moment and day by day.