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Guided Mindfulness Meditation by Jon Kabat Zinn

Perhaps no other person has done more to bring mindfulness meditation into the contemporary landscape of America than Jon Kabat-Zinn. Through a number of research studies, and through Kabat-Zinn’s pioneering work at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he is founder of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic, mindfulness is finally being recognized as a highly effective tool for dealing with stress, chronic pain, and other illnesses.

Today, with a four-part home training course, Jon Kabat-Zinn offers listeners the definitive mindfulness meditation practice on CD. “We are not trying to actively achieve a state of deep relaxation—or any other state for that matter—while practicing mindfulness,” he teaches. “But interestingly, by opening to an awareness of how things actually are in the present moment, we often taste very deep states of relaxation and well-being—of both body and mind.”

Join the best-selling author of Coming to Our Senses (Hyperion, 2005) and Wherever You Go, There You Are (Hyperion 1995) to develop and deepen your personal mindfulness practice, and to taste the universal aspects of stillness, clarity, wisdom, compassion, and well-being that Guided Mindfulness Meditation offers.

4 CDs, 2.75 hours, $29.95

 


PEBBLES AND PEARLS: Meditations with Jon Kabat-Zinn. Across America, Jon Kabat-Zinn is known as the clinical researcher and teacher who dared to bring mindfulness practice out of the meditation hall and into the most prestigious pain management center in the country. On Pebbles and Pearls, Kabat-Zinn turns his attention to another challenge – how ordinary people can use meditation in the arenas of the workplace and the family. Join him as he shares how to use the office as a meditation center; advice on mindful parenting; grounding yourself in your body; how to work with overwhelming emotions; and much more. Audio Wisdom.. 2 hours, 2 cassettes,Order: #AB00138, $17.95


New! INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE : An Introduction to the Art and Science of Healing (CASSETTES) Andrew Weil On Dr. Andrew Weil’s Integrative Medicine, listeners join Dr. Weil and a group of extraordinary physicians as they fast forward us to the future of medicine: a powerful integration of alternative and conventional methods that will optimize our health, enhance our longevity, and take the fear out of going to the doctor. Dr. Weil’s Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona has already trained the first physicians who embody this approach to healing, and now all listeners in search of better health can learn with them on this unprecedented new collection.

Six informative live sessions include: Creating the Future – Andrew Weil, MD The Integrative Imperative – Tracy Gaudet, MD The Mind/Body Continuum – Victoria Maizes, MD Nutrition: Food for Thought – William Benda, MD Botanical Medicine – Robert Lutz, MD Chinese Medicine – Opher Caspi, MD Complete with a 23-page study guide including a unique health-history form and suggestions for further reading, Dr. Andrew Weil’s Integrative Medicine describes an innovative approach to healthcare – a revolutionary change that has already begun. 4 hours, 3 cassettes, $24.95

 


New Release! MEDITATION FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH: How to Use Mindfulness and Breathing to Heal Your Body and Refresh Your Mind (CASSETTE) Andrew Weil and Jon Kabat-Zinn The same ability that helps ordinary men and women achieve extraordinary success is also the secret to optimizing your life span, letting go of stress, and even enhancing your body¹s self-healing powers. In Meditation for Optimum Health, you will join best-selling authors Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn for a practical introduction that makes it simple to enjoy the life-changing benefits of meditation ­ even if you¹ve never tried it before.

How does meditation work? Can anybody do it? What do I need to get started? Is it religious? Does it have the power to heal?

In alternating sessions, Dr. Weil and Dr. Kabat-Zinn give you straight answers to the most common questions about meditation, and dispel the myths and misconceptions surrounding this time-honored practice. By learning to cultivate the power of your attention through daily practice, you can harness the full potential of your mind, and use it to enrich every dimension of your life.

You will learn how meditation can actually unify your mind and body¹s many related functions ­ and help you start enjoying the best health of your life. Complete with real-life examples, and a proven program of step-by-step meditations to get you started, here is the perfect introduction to the oldest and most effective system for feeling better, naturally: Meditation for Optimum Health. 2 1/2 HOURS, 2 CASSETTES, $19.95

Meditation For Optimum Health: How to Use Mindfulness and Breathing to Heal Your Body and Refresh Your Mind. 2 1/2 HOURS, 2 CDS $24.95

 


Insight Meditation: 12 Month Meditation Correspondence Course by Sharon Salzburg and Joseph Goldstein. This the the premiere meditation course thousands of people have benefited from..

When you seek to live a spiritual life, what matters most is not what you know, but the actions you take. How do you best embody the spiritual principles that uplift you and those whose lives you touch? On Insight Meditation, you will learn one of the world's great contemplative practices, as it was taught by the Buddha himself and then passed "candle to candle" for over 2,500 years.

Based on the curriculum developed at the Insight Meditation Society's retreat center in Bar, Massachusetts, this audio correspondence course is presented by IMS cofounders Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, who are among the West's most respected meditation teachers.

Students will learn with a qualified meditation instructor how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice. As each lesson unfolds and the principles of mindful living are revealed, students learn to see past the illusion of life's obstacles and move toward an awakened mind state - the true freedom we seek to achieve. Now you can experience this rich and sacred retreat environment in your own home, with these same masterful instructors.

You will receive a complete 90-page workbook created expressly for the Insight Meditation course. Organized to accompany the audio curriculum, your workbook features exercises that you complete and return to your insight meditation instructor. Easy to follow and a pleasure to learn from, this unique resource comes with your 12 audio tapes - it is available nowhere else.

Over 18 hours of personal instruction in daily meditation practice spread out over 12 months. Using this method, you can build up a gradual, and progressive level of skill in the art of meditation.

INSIGHT CURRICULUM:

  • LESSON 1: The insight tradition; how happiness arises; the power of mindfulness; the five precepts for ethical living; six aspects of correct posture; eight breathing exercises.
  • LESSON 2: "Bare attention' and awareness in the present moment; working with thoughts during practice; traditional walking meditation — "mindfulness in motion"; seven walking meditations.
  • LESSON 3: The five hindrances to mindfulness; understanding attachment to desire and aversion; "working with Pain."
  • LESSON 4: Working with sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt; the antidotes to the hindrances; Mara, the tempter; four exercises for working with hindrances.
  • LESSON 5: Concepts and reality; myths of time, place, and self; six exercises for mindful eating; the roots of mind; "wrong view."
  • LESSON 6: The truth of suffering; painful experience, change, and conditionally; seven exercises for working with emotional states; the Four Noble Truths.
  • LESSON 7: How we create delusion; "wise attention" and freedom from delusion; "clear seeing"; working with thoughts and images; exercises for recognizing delusion.
  • LESSON 8: The awakened mind; karma defined; intention and action; self and karma; the Four Heavenly Abodes; the Six Realms of Existence; seven exercises for working with intention.
  • LESSON 9: Equanimity as a spiritual force; conditioning, pleasure, and pain; the Eight Vicissitudes; the Six Sense Doors; eight exercises for working with pleasant and unpleasant feelings.
  • LESSON 10: Saddha; the nature of faith and wisdom; the five spiritual powers; testing faith yourself; "Big Mind" exercise.
  • LESSON 11: Metta,or loving-kindness; distortion of "self" and "other"; strength without anger; benefits of loving-kindness; eight Metta exercises.
  • LESSON 12: Bringing meditative awareness into your everyday life; lessons of daily sitting; the three fields of training; eight exercises for taking practice to the world.

    18 hours, 24 CD's in binder, $198.00

 


Prayers, Mantrams and Invocations gathered by Torkom Saraydarian and the staff of AEG. This text represents the most comprehensive and diverse collection of prayers and mantra from every major spiritual and religious tradition. Many of these are rare prayers and difficult to find. This collection has taken three decades to compile. A total of 106 prayers and mantra collected from many sacred writings. A perfect companion to use during your times of meditation and prayer. 109 pages, spiral bound.Included is a set of 5 prayer flags, with an explanation of the meaning of the flags, $20.95

Prayer Flags are inspiring, beautiful and a source of blessedness and auspicious wishes. You may wish to acquire some for your home, school, retreat or practice center.



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