Tag: Jon Kabat-Zinn

About Mindfulness

This is the beautiful Chinese character for ‘Mindfulness’. The roof-like part at the top means ‘now’ or ‘this’ – in other words ‘presence’. The bottom portion means ‘heart’. This tells us that the seat of consciousness is not in the head, rather it’s in the heart! Isn’t it true that we mistake ‘thought’ for consciousness? […]

Further Reflections on Pain and Suffering

Here’s more on the role of consciousness in the experience of pain and suffering. Dr Elisha Goldstein, in this illuminating extract from an interview on Psychotherapy Networker, describes Jon Kabat-Zinn’s groundbreaking discovery of using Mindfulness to relieve chronic pain. Click her to listen (duration: 1:42)