Jon Kabat-Zinn "As Good As It Gets"

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Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and mindfulness meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness practices, especially mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, and founder (in 1979) and former director of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic. Prominently featured in the Bill Moyer's PBS special Healing and the Mind in 1993, the clinic and its research has continually demonstrated that most participants in its programs achieve long-lasting improvements in both physical and psychological symptoms, as well as major positive changes in health attitudes and behaviors. More than 200 medical institutions nationwide and abroad now use the clinic's mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) model to teach mindfulness meditation.

Jon Kabat-Zinn received his doctorate in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 with the Nobel Laureate in physiology and medicine, Salvador Luria. Kabat-Zinn's research between 1979 and 2002 focused on mind/body interactions for healing; on various clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training for people with chronic pain and/or stress-related disorders; on the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the brain and how it processes emotions, particularly under stress, and on the immune system; and on the use and effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness meditation with women with breast cancer and men with prostate cancer; on patients undergoing bone marrow transplant; with prison inmates and staff; in multicultural settings; and on stress in various corporate settings and work environments.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is a Founding Fellow of the Fetzer Institute, a Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the founding convener of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, a network of deans, chancellors, and faculty at major United States medical schools engaged at the creative edges of mind/body and integrative medicine. He also serves on the board of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between the Dalai Lama and Western scientists and scholars to promote deeper understanding and harnessing, for beneficial purposes, different ways of knowing and probing the nature of the mind, emotions, and reality.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is author of Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; and Coming to Our Senses. He is also coauthor, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings.

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[Santiagojimenezb]

I have insulin dependent diabetes, and when you let it be in your awareness, you realize that accepting what is, gives you freedom, and the cause of suffering is not that we don't have what we want (like perfect health), but that we refuse to see reality as it is, if we have the courage and wisdom to see it as it is, we don't suffer. Thank you for this wonderful post.

[itsonelouder1]

Accept what is, no matter what form it takes. On the surface of things, the mind can interpret that acceptance as a passive, resigned state of being. However, the opposite is true. Action may result from that acceptance, it may not. But if action is required it will flow spontaneously and be of a higher quality than any action that flows from non-acceptance of what is. Why argue with "what is", it already "is".

[IronChariots]

"Let Nature deal with matter, which is her own, as she pleases; let us be cheerful and brave in the face of everything, reflecting that it is nothing of our own that perishes."

[tankman1962]

Life is temporary and we need to realise we own nothing, everything on this earth is owned by the earth. ownership is an illusion. If we accept that life is temporary why dont we make the most of it.

[basilma]

My gosh, Jon is Howard Zinn's son-in-law.

[stresshantering]

Mindfulness concepts

[mrmike9959]

this is bloody brilliant. I can't express just how much this attitude has helped me recently. When the denial stops, the world seems beautiful once more.

[canonman223]

It brings peace

[geraldruzkalukaniuk]

So What.

[ravkes]

@andrewkvb : What is reality?

[JSantana319]

@Santiagojimenezb Hey Santiago, have you seen any videos on raw food diets? I recommend for you to watch the video called "Food Matters" I like when you point the fact that it's not what's happening that's making us suffer and it's resisting what is happening at this very moment that makes us suffer. Mindfulness is truly amazing :)

[Solefear]

a good point. acceptance