Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Reviewed by Dwight Huffman
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Hyperion; 10 edition (January 5, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1401307787
ISBN-13: 978-1401307783
155.9042 Kab Richland Public Library
Look inside link: http://amzn.to/1f6kUGR
If you are curious about what mindfulness is, this is a good place to start. There is a wealth of interesting ideas on how to meditate. He describes simply what meditation is and is not. If you already practice meditation and need some direction for additional work then this is the place. He talks of mindfulness and ways to approach it. The chapters are usually short dealing with some aspect of mindfulness, how to work toward it or some simple practice to increase mindfulness.
The chapters could almost be read one each day as food to mull on during the day. A few chapter titles will convey the flavor of this book:
• Keep It Simple
• You Can’t Stop the Wave but You Can Learn to Surf
• Non-Doing in Action
• What to Do with Your Hands
• Parenting as Practice
• Simple but Not Easy
He frequently quotes Thoreau and his Walden pond days, but also stresses that life goes on and we must find mindfulness in everyday life.
The author is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He was featured in the Bill Moyer’s PBS series ‘Healing and the Mind”.