Please read the Jon Kabat-Zinn passage: Mindfulness for the Beginners (reclaiming the present moment and your life). See attachment What did you learn from it and why? How can you incorporate this...

JoN KaBat-ZINN MINDFULNESS for BEGINNERS reclaiming the present moment — and your life Boulder, Colorado Sounds True, Inc. Boulder, CO 80306 Copyright © 2012 Jon Kabat-Zinn Sounds True is a trademark of Sounds True, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book or CD may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the author and publisher. Published 2012 Cover and book design by Karen Polaski Cover photo © Olga Lyubkina/Shutterstock Created with an evaluation copy of Aspose.Words. To discover the full versions of our APIs please visit: https://products.aspose.com/words/ Created with an evaluation copy of Aspose.Words. To discover the full versions of our APIs please visit: https://products.aspose.com/words/ Created with an evaluation copy of Aspose.Words. To discover the full versions of our APIs please visit: https://products.aspose.com/words/ Beginner’s Mind it tends to be a momentous occasion to intentionally stop all your outward activity and, just as an experiment, sit or lie down and open to an interior stillness with no other agenda than to be present for the unfolding of your moments — perhaps for the first time in your adult life. The people I know who have incorporated the practice of mindfulness into their lives remember quite vividly what drew them to it in the first place, including the feeling tone and life circumstances that led up to that moment of beginning. I certainly do. The emotional topology of the moment of beginning — or even of the moment of realizing that you want to connect with yourself in such a way — is rich and unique for each of us. Suzuki Roshi, the Japanese Zen Master who founded the San Francisco Zen Center and touched the hearts of so many, is famous for having said, “In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Beginners come to new experiences not knowing so much and therefore open. This openness is very creative. It is an innate characteristic...