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Jon Kabat-Zinn Random Quote Generator

Anita — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:50:39 +0000

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This is an ongoing project and more quotes are added from time to time. If are looking to learn more about Jon Kabat-Zinn see Pointing To: Jon Kabat-Zinn Videos And Articles. Thanks -Anita

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Just As It Already Is

Anita — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:35:08 +0000

February is here and I'm inevitably thinking about Jody even more than I already do. He was born this month on the 26th, I still remember that day in a tiny Jakarta hospital: Our Dad was sitting in a chair in front of me pale and looking like he was going to puke his guts out with worry. His first son. And I was sitting, or standing, or pacing, or whatever to try and take in with my five year old mind what that day really meant. And after Jody died I struggled to understand what that really meant too. He died, he was gone, but what did that mean exactly? My mind was frozen with shock and terror at even the idea of it. After the memorial here in Anchorage everyone went their separate ways to face grief in their own way. I went home and lay on the couch. And layed and layed. Jennifer had to be the one to hold things together, going to work to do her usual job and then having to do all the things I do around the house too. She was exhausted and grieving but still so desparately doing everything possible to help me. But I just layed there on the couch. At night I would have vivid terrifying nightmares about Jody's life and death but during the day I was...frozen. I remember thinking wakeupwakeupwakeup all day long but...nothing, and being hooked up to the computer like it was some sort of life support machine. Before going to work Jennifer would push the computer in front of me and turn it on and put my arm on the tray where the mouse was lol. The small amount of time I wasn't totally out of my mind and zoning I just clicked random links on Reddit or YouTube. It was something. After a while this started to really work. I mean, I was finally able to spark up my mind and think coherent thoughts, even if it was just about lolcats or random tech stuff or bmx videos. Even if it was just for short amounts of time I mean fuck I was thinking something at least. Soon (okay months later) I became a pro at filling my brain with all sorts of interesting but not really relevant to my life distracting activities. Anything not to have to think about what it meant that Jody was gone. It seems like the human mind can be set on autopilot and exist in a whole other world, not even being aware of the ground we walk on or the rooms we live in. Some people end up spending their entire lives like that but I didn't want to. I had a beautiful, loving wife who was working herself to exhaustion trying to make sure I was okay. I knew that I could easily miss out on years of our future life if I didn't get it together and come back to reality. There's a lot to be said for being where you actually are even if you're facing great tragedy. First I had to get past the horror and shock of Jody's death. Then I had to snap out of the avoidance and distraction habits I'd got into. Finally I had to make a strong effort to really concentrate on seeing things as they actually are. Does that sound ridiculously easy? It's harder than you might think. This is the month that Jody started life.

-------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a good video about seeing things as they actually are esp during times of grief and loss. And why you would even want to do that :).

Here's a transcript for people who can't access the video: (Jon Kabat-Zinn) What if you already are complete? What if it just doesn't get any better than this? And I'm not just talking about some pie-in-the-sky thing I'm talking about even if you had some terrible situation that you were dealing with? Either a health problem with yourself or somebody that you loved, or a loss in your life? Or anything like that. Still, what if it were possible to hold the whole of it in awareness and allow it to be just as it already is? That would be an incredible radical act. It would be an incredibly radical act and it would be really an act of profound wisdom. Because we would see struggling to sort of deny the way things actually are, but actually investigate things as they actually are. And you might find that inside the sadness, the grief, the despair lies something else too. Lies some kind of beauty, some kind of humanity, human understanding that understands that things are impermanent that nothing stays the same. That there is loss, that it's not possible to control the whole universe, that even in terms of our bodies that this is something that is to a large extent a mystery. But it's not all ugly it's not all black. Even in the midst of utter darkness there's this other element. Of beauty, of symmetry, of the natural world.

More: Pointing To: Jon Kabat-Zinn Videos And Articles

Pointing To: Jon Kabat-Zinn Videos And Articles

Anita — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:23:42 +0000

A collection of speeches, interviews, and articles by or including Jon Kabat-Zinn. This page is in a very early stage right now but there's still some amazing stuff here...

'Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.'

Jump to Videos. Jump to Audio. Jump to Articles. Jump to Organizations. Jump to Books. Jump to Social Media. Jump to Poetry. Jump to Quotes.

Videos:

Mindfulness Stress Reduction And Healing Coming to Our Senses with Jon Kabat-Zinn Center For Mindfulness Keynote Address Excerpt Talk Excerpt Video Of Interview On XM Radio Part 1 Video Of Interview On XM Radio Part 2 What is mindfulness? 'Here's the secret (about the Stress Reduction Clinic), it was never about stress reduction...' Cultivating Intimacy With The Full Spectrum Of What It Means To Be Human Drop Into Being: Non-judgemental Awareness And Discovery The Importance Of Cultivating Balance A brief talk about the science of mindfulness. Obama: A Mindful President 'Compassion naturally arises out of mindfulness.' 'The knowing itself is inherently compassionate.' Q: As a culture are we moving in a mindful direction? On how to foster the meeting of minds and hearts.

Audio: Science Of Mindfulness (Interview With Jon Kabat-Zinn)

Articles: Why Even Bother? The Importance of Meditation Coming to Our Senses: A Conversation with Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindful Parenting Wikipedia Entry (Short Bio) How To Become A Mindful Parent The Healing Power of Mindfulness: Living Your Life as if it Really Matters (Transcript) What is my job on the planet with a capital J?

Books: Full Catastrophe Living Coming To Our Senses Guided Mindfulness Meditation (Audiobook) Mindfulness For Beginners (Audiobook) Arriving At Your Own Door Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work Of Mindful Parenting Letting Everything Become Your Teacher Mindfulness Meditation For Pain Relief (Audiobook) Pebbles And Pearls (Audiobook) Clinical Handbook Of Mindfulness

Organizations: Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society Mind And Life Institute

Social Media: The Mind And Life Institute On Facebook The Mind And Life Institute On Twitter

Poetry: A Taste Of Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn Have you ever had the experience of stopping so completely, of being in your body so completely, of being in your life so completely, that what you knew and what you didn't know, that what had been and what was yet to come, and the way things are right now, no longer held even the slightest hint of anxiety or discord, a moment of complete presence beyond striving, beyond mere acceptance, beyond the desire to escape or fix anything or plunge ahead, a moment of pure being, no longer in time, a moment of pure seeing, pure feeling, a moment in which life simply is, and that is-ness grabs you by all your senses, all your memories, by your very genes, by your loves, and welcomes you home, that is a taste of mindfulness.

Love after Love by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Me from Myself — to banish by Emily Dickinson Me from Myself—to banish— Had I Art – Impregnable my Fortress Unto All Heart – But since Myself — assault Me – How have I peace Except by subjugating Consciousness? And since We’re mutual Monarch How this be Except by Abdication – Me — of Me?

I Am Not I (excerpt) by Juan Ramirez I am not I I am this one standing beside me who I do not see Who I sometimes manage to visit But at other times I forget

(no title) by unknown One day I turned my head for a moment And it became my life.

Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes: Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

...if you’re not cultivating mindfulness, you're cultivating reactivity.

Those are interesting moments if we are willing to stand inside them.

And medicine, from the very beginning, has really always been about the embracing of the person who is suffering with compassion and with empathy and with the intention to serve from the deepest place of one’s self as a healer or as a physician, as a teacher. That means in some way, recognizing the sacred privilege of being able to work with people who are in pain and suffering. And do what it is we can for them, using all of our greatest diagnostic methodologies and treatment interventions, but at the same time recognizing that we are dealing with a whole human being, and that our first calling is to at least do no harm. And, if we don’t recognize the person as a whole human being, we’re already in some way doing harm.

'What is my job on the planet?' is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it.

For the full list of Jon Kabat-Zinn quotes see the Jon Kabat-Zinn quotes page.