Falling Awake: How to Practice Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Think you have no time for mindfulness? Think again.

"Thoughtful and provocative.... The relevance of this work is unquestionable, as it leaves us inspired and optimistic that true healing really is possible" (Sharon Salzberg). For four decades, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream. Today millions of people have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as part of their everyday lives. But how do you actually go about meditating? What does a formal meditation practice look like? And how can we overcome some of the common obstacles to incorporating meditation into daily life in an age of perpetual self-distraction?

Falling Awake directly answers these urgent and timely questions. Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book titled Coming to Our Senses, it has been updated with a new foreword by the author and is even more relevant today. Science shows that the tangible benefits of a mindfulness meditation practice are impossible to ignore. Kabat-Zinn explains how to incorporate them into our hectic, modern lives. Read on for a master class from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.

• The Healing Power of Mindfulness: A New Way of Being
• Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important
• Mindfulness for All: The Wisdom to Transform the World
• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
• Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life(Book & CD))
• Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
• Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
• Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 1: A Complete Guided Mindfulness Meditation Program from Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness
• Letting Everything Become Your Teacher: 100 Lessons in Mindfulness