Amazon.com In his follow-up to Full Catastrophe Living--a book in which he presented basic meditation techniques as a way of reducing stress and healing from illness--here Jon Kabat-Zinn goes much more deeply into the practice of meditation for its own sake. To Kabat-Zinn， meditation is important because it brings about a state of "mindfulness，" a condition of "being" rather than "doing" during which you pay attention to the moment rather than the past， the future， or the multitudinous distractions of modern life. In brief， rather poetic chapters， he describes different meditative practices and what they can do for the practitioner. The idea that meditation is "spiritual" is often confusing to people， Kabat-Zinn writes; he prefers to think of it as what you might call a workout for your consciousness. This book makes learning meditation remarkably easy (although practicing it is not). But it also makes it seem infinitely appealing. --Ben Kallen From Publishers Weekly Kabat-Zinn's book outlines the Buddhist technique of "mindfulness": a method of living fully in the moment without judgment. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information， Inc. See all Editorial Reviews

喬‧卡巴金博士（Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.）

生於1944年，美國麻省理工學院分子生物學博士、馬薩諸塞州醫學院的榮譽醫學博士，也是禪修指導師、暢銷書作傢。

1979年，卡巴金博士為麻州大學醫學院開設減壓診所，並設計瞭“正念減壓”課程（Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction，MBSR），協助病人以正念禪修處理壓力、疼痛和疾病，獲得多方肯定。

1995年，麻州大學再邀請卡巴金博士設立“正念醫療健康中心”。他開始進行關於身心互動療愈效能的研究與相關臨床應用，希望能藉此有效緩減慢性疼痛與壓力引起種種失調癥狀。

20多年來，卡巴金博士創發的“正念減壓療法”已被醫療、學校、企業、監獄等機構廣為應用，目前美、加等地約有200多傢醫療院所和相關機構都運用正念減壓療法幫助病人。

卡巴金博士對靈性療愈的貢獻良多，獲奬無數，他亦為精神與生命研究所（Mind and Life Institute）的董事，協助推動佛教界領袖與西方科學傢的對話與交流，以期更深刻探索人類的心智、情緒與疾病。