Come to your senses with the definitive guide to living a meaningful
life from a world expert in the connection between mindfulness and
physical and spiritual wellbeing.
[The] journey toward health and sanity is nothing less than an
invitation to wake up to the fullness of our lives as if they actually
mattered . . . --Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the Introduction
Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday
life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go,
There You Are. Now, with Coming to Our Senses, he provides the
definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and
our physical and spiritual wellbeing. With scientific rigor, poetic
deftness, and compelling personal stories, Jon Kabat-Zinn examines the
mysteries and marvels of our minds and bodies, describing simple,
intuitive ways in which we can come to a deeper understanding, through
our senses, of our beauty, our genius, and our life path in a
complicated, fear-driven, and rapidly changing world.
In each of the book's eight parts, Jon Kabat-Zinn explores another facet
of the great adventure of healing ourselves -- and our world -- through
mindful awareness, with a focus on the sensescapes of our lives and how
a more intentional awareness of the senses, including the human mind
itself, allows us to live more fully and more authentically. By coming
to our senses -- both literally and metaphorically by opening to our
innate connectedness with the world around us and within us -- we can
become more compassionate, more embodied, more aware human beings, and
in the process, contribute to the healing of the body politic as well as
our own lives in ways both little and big.
