More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we think about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are.

He followed that up with 2005s Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness & our well-being on every level, physical, cognitive, emotional, social, planetary, & spiritual.

Now, the original text of Coming to Our Senses is being repackaged into 4 smaller books, each focusing on a different aspect of mindfulness, & each with a new foreword written by the author.

In this second of these books, Falling Awake (which was originally published as Part III & Part IV of Coming to Our Senses), Kabat-Zinn focuses on the "how" of mindfulness
- explaining how meditation brings us into intimate relationship with all our senses, how to establish a formal meditation practice, & how to overcome some of the common obstacles to incorporating meditation into daily life in an age of perpetual self-distraction.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780349421094
• Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 184
• Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 x 1.5cm














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