Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Rather, it is bearing in mind what is most important to you so that it is not lost or betrayed in the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind’s endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
You can bring together the body's various systems to fine tune the body and mind in order to navigate life's ups and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, “Am I awake?,” “Where is my mind right now?” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“It is not that mindfulness is the “answer” to all life’s problems. Rather, it is that all life’s problems can be seen… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“From the perspective of the consciousness disciplines, our ordinary state of waking consciousness is severely suboptimal. Rather than contradicting the Western paradigm,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“It is only when the mind is open and receptive that learning and seeing and change can occur.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Symptoms of illness and distress, plus your feelings about them, can be viewed as messengers coming to tell you something important about… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Meditation means cultivating a non-judging attitude toward what comes up in the mind, come what may.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The mind states of liking and disliking can take up permanent residency in us, unconsciously feeding addictive behaviors in all domains of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
When people say "Let it go," what they really mean is "Get over it," and that's not a helpful thing to say.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
When your alarm goes off and you jump out of bed, what is the nature of the mind in that moment? Are… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Above all, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is and knowing something about how it is in this moment.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't know how… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
