Jon Kabat-Zinn, Creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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The History of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
I would argue that moment of insight you had and I believe the second floor of one of the buildings that inside meditation society it changed history was a historic moment. challenge them to learn to do something for themselves that no one on the planet could do based on these you know deep meditative practices and see what would happen so that's how mindfulness based stress reduction came about. It allowed me as a skeptical ornery neurotic news reporter in the late 2000s to say oh maybe I would do this this thing that I always thought was weird.
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