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12 Science-Based Benefits of Meditation

By Matthew Thorpe, Rachel Link — 2020

Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its many health benefits.

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Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important

Jon Kabat-Zinn is regarded as “one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you’ll ever encounter” (Jack Kornfield). He has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream for decades.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
2025
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4 Ways to Stop an Anxiety Spiral | Super Soul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

Often, we let worrisome thoughts accelerate into a maelstrom of what-ifs until we're sucked into a vortex of negative thinking. Here, thought leaders like Jon Kabat-Zinn, Brené; Brown, Michael Singer and Eckhart Tolle reveal their secrets to stopping anxiety before it spirals out of control.

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Oprah Winfrey
2018
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Jon Kabat Zinn: Some Reflections and Guidance on the Cultivation of Mindfulness

Some reflections and guidance on the cultivation of mindfulness and its moment-by-moment integration in life unfolding.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
2014
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The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress

Imagine an 8-week program that can help you overcome depression, anxiety, and stress—by simply learning new ways to respond to your own thoughts and feelings.

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John Teasdale, Mark Williams, Zindel V. Segal
2014
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A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times

When the path ahead is dark, how can we keep from stumbling? How do we make our way with courage and dignity? “Inside each of us is an eternal light that I call ‘the One Who Knows,’ ” writes Jack Kornfield.

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Jack Kornfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn (foreword)
2014
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Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life

We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
2025
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Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

The definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual wellbeing.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
2006
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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness (Revised Edition)

Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thich Nhat Hanh (preface)
2013
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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

A simple and straightforward introduction to Buddhist meditation practice from one of the country’s leading authorities on stress-reduction techniques, Dr. Kabat-Zinn has taught this two-thousand-year-old Buddhist method of relaxation to thousands of patients.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
2025
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