New World Mindfulness
by Mccown, Donald; Micozzi, Marc S.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-12-22
Publisher(s): Healing Arts Pr
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Summary
Mindfulness is not an "exotic" activity nor does it require you to "slow down and find more time." This book presents a history of mindfulness in the West, from the Founders, through Thoreau, to present-day leaders such as Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Author Biography
Donald McCown is assistant professor of integrative health at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and the former director of the Mindfulness at Work program at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine. With Marc Micozzi, McCown is the coauthor of Teaching Mindfulness. He lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. MARC S. MICOZZI, M.D., Ph.D., is adjunct professor of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the founding director of the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine in Washington, D.C. The author and editor of Fundamentals of Complementary Alternative Medicine and coauthor of The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion, he lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and Rockport, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. v |
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Note to Readers on Citations and Language | p. xiii |
| Getting Situated in Time and Space | |
| Mindfulness in Early America | p. 2 |
| Mindfulness in Late America | p. 21 |
| America Went Far to Find What It Left at Home | p. 32 |
| Are You Waiting for an Invitation? | p. 47 |
| Navigating Your Busy Life | |
| You're Never Lost in the Present Moment | p. 68 |
| Gravity: North and South on Your Compass | p. 87 |
| The Breath I: East and "West, Inside and Outside | p. 112 |
| The Breath II: The Breeze across the Inner Landscape | p. 132 |
| The Breath III: The Storms and Stillness of Subjective Experience | p. 150 |
| Disposition: A Map of the Terrain of Your Immediate Experience | p. 169 |
| Putting Down The Guidebook | |
| In Search of the Springs of Life | p. 92 |
| Reclining: There Is a Place Past Sleepiness | p. 198 |
| Sitting: Where Stillness and Change Meet | p. 205 |
| Standing: Opening to the "World | p. 215 |
| Walking: Practice at the Speed of Life | p. 223 |
| Coda A Walk on Mount Misery, a Glimpse of Mount Joy | p. 230 |
| Suggested Reading for Learning and Practice | p. 236 |
| Notes | p. 244 |
| Bibliography | p. 254 |
| Index | p. 267 |
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