Friday, September 18, 2009

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founder and director of the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society. He has become famous for using mindfulness meditation to help people cope with stress, pain and illness. Kabat-Zinn also conducts meditation retreats at the Center For Mindfulness. Over 200 medical centers and clinics in the US and elsewhere now use mindfulness to assist healing in patients. I think the Buddha would smile if he knew that his most precious discovery, mindfulness, were being used by medical professionals to alleviate suffering. Watch this interesting talk by Prof. Kabat-Zinn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc
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5 comments:

  1. BuddhaSeptember 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM

    Quite Nice...
    I wish to forward this Link to my friends so that they get familiar with non Doing
    Metta

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  2. lzblueSeptember 18, 2009 at 10:37 PM

    ...tuning your mind daily like tuning an instrument before you start the orchestra... A genius metaphor.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM

    Thank you, this is extremely helpful.

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  4. MamunJune 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM

    Nice post

    overcoming stress pain and illness

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  5. UnknownJanuary 9, 2013 at 10:29 AM

    JON KABAT-ZINN, PH.D., is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. mindfulness

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