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Youtube: Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Hi,
Youtube links of Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc
Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Kabat-Zinn starts talking around 1 21.

2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXFxi2ZXT0
Jon Kabat-Zinn: Coming to Our Senses

3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU7vK...eature=related
Life is right now - Jon Kabat-Zinn on Mindfulness
He starts this one by talking about science.

Quote:

. . . The brain is an organ that changes in relationship to experience. . .
" ....which means we have a lot more freedom to transform our organism and our life experience and attain some degree of profound well-being and satisfaction than we ever thought. . . .

Mindfulness is a way to live your life as if it really mattered. That involves being in the present moment with open hearted presence and kindness towards yourself. . .
Well all of us are very busy. How to we bring mindfulness into our life? The way to do it is anyway we can that feels right to us. So there is no one right way to do this. But certain ways in which we cultivate awareness can be very valuable.
One thing that we might bring our awareness to is the body and just the sense of remembering to feel our lives in the body as opposed to only in the head.

thanks. i actually ran into his stuff on youtube. i've been on youtube a fair bit lately. :o

Research on mindfulness meditation and science: abstract

HI,
I ran across this while looking for something else so I want to put it here. I like that imaging is getting better at showing us what is happening in the brain.

How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective
http://pps.sagepub.com/content/6/6/5...%3bssource=mfr

Quote:

Evidence suggests that mindfulness practice is associated with neuroplastic changes in the anterior cingulate cortex, insula, temporo-parietal junction, fronto-limbic network, and default mode network structures. The authors suggest that the mechanisms described here work synergistically, establishing a process of enhanced self-regulation.