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"The cultivation of mindfulness is an invaluable means of appreciating the present moment and healing the body. This discipline also opens our senses and gives us a way to cope with the distress and dissatisfaction of our lives and move toward the creation of a better world. That's the important message of Coming to Our Senses, the opus magnum of one of the pioneers of mind/body medicine.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, leads workshops on stress reduction and mindfulness for doctors and other health professionals and for lay audiences worldwide. He is uniquely qualified to explain why "meditation is not for the faint-hearted nor for those who routinely avoid the whispered longings of their own hearts."

Source: Spirituality and Health