Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

This is a wonderful video. The awareness, intuition and mindfulness that is spoken about is our true nature - the real us. Meditation is one way of accessing awareness. The thinking that thinks it is us (ego) is what blocks awareness. Another more direct, rapid and permanent way is to center yourself in awareness and verbally deprogram the thinking by talking to it out loud. Train the thinking not to be you but to follow you in what ever you do.

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Great workshop - John Kabat-Zinn is showing us meditation without New Age bull shit. What a nice teacher.
Like this a lot. Thank you !

@webgriet ...Just as an FYI...Kabat-Zinn is a full-on Buddhist teacher. Try 2500 year-old practice rather than new age. What he's done very skillfully is taken the basic practice and principals of Buddhism and applied them outside of the religious/spiritual context.

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love this clip....Jon Kabat zinn is awesome....WE NEED MORE GUIDED MEDITATION VIDEOS doctor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i watched that in 3 parts.. that was way too long for one sitting..

I've been practicing Zen for about 8 years and Jon Kabat-Zinn's style of mindfulness meditation too - I'm training to teach it. They are closely related, but not exactly the same.

Both JKZ and Zen teach that our thoughts are not facts. We identify very strongly with our thoughts, believing them as reality. Zen does not teach us not to think, but to recognise that our thoughts are exactly what they are - thoughts.
Critical thinking is healthy.

I found this video very interesting. It is a breath of fresh air to learn about an alternaive perspective of living, and to be able to practice it too. Mindfulness meditation helped to ground me in this very busy and often confusing existence. We can all go on attending to every thought and every demand in this lifetime or we can make choices on whether to respond and how we respond. Thank you for this lecture Google. You are blessed to have a workplace that values psychological development.