Opening to Our Lives: Jon Kabat-Zinn's Science of Mindfulness
Sunday, January 13, 5:30 pm, 618 Locust Street
This Sunday we will gather to hear, experience and discuss a recent On Being interview between host Krista Tippett and guest Jon Kabat-Zinn. Kabat-Zinn has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinary and extreme stresses of our time - from economic peril, to parenting, to life in a digital age. According to the show's description, "scientist and author Jon Kabat-Zinn has changed Western medicine through his work on meditation and stress. He's clinically demonstrated the benefits of ancient traditions of mindfulness and meditation. And he's adapted these for people who are healthy or living with chronic illness, for Olympic athletes and corporate cultures."
The blog post goes on to say, "In this week's podcast, Jon Kabat-Zinn offers wise perspective on inhabiting the ordinary and extreme stresses of our lives. Technology may function 24/7, he points out, but our minds and bodies do not. He has practical and spiritual tools accessible to everyone - for slowing down time and 'opening to our lives.'"
Our offering recipient has yet to be determined. Because this is the second Sunday of the month, we will not share a potluck meal.
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