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About Jack Kornfield & Daniel J. Siegel, MD (foreword)

In clinical psychology and well-being, mindfulness is the cognitive skill of, or state reached by, intentionally maintaining moment-by-moment awareness of bodily sensations, feelings, thoughts, and immediate surroundings with a non-judgmental or equanimous attitude, counteracting [the mind's] automatic rumination and cognitive elaborations on one's experiences. The term mindfulness derives from the Pali word sati, a significant element of Buddhist traditions, and it incorporates elements from Theravada, Chan, and Tibetan Buddhist meditation techniques.

Mindfulness is a secularized form of meditation, the product of a mutual syncretism between eastern spiritual traditions influenced by western esotericism and religion, and western traditions and psychology influenced by these syncretized eastern traditions. In 1975 it was introduced in western medicine by Herbert Benson, and integrated in the 1970s and 1980s into health-programs and psychotherapy by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Zindel Segal, and Mark Williams. They and others in clinical psychology and psychiatry have developed a number of therapeutic applications based on mindfulness interventions for helping people experiencing a variety of psychological conditions. Since the 1990s, secular mindfulness meditation has gained a broad popular acceptance in the West.

Clinical studies have documented mental health benefits of mindfulness as well as physical health benefits in different patient categories and in healthy adults and children. Mindfulness research has also long attracted criticism, particularly in its early decades, due to concerns about limited methodological rigor. More recent research, however, has become substantially more rigorous, employing randomized controlled trials, active control groups, and stronger…

On FindMyTBR we track 1 book by Jack Kornfield & Daniel J. Siegel, MD (foreword), 1 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.