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Jon Kabat-Zinn - The Heart of Mindfulness

Mind & Life

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Wendy Hasenkamp talks with John Cabot-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction. MBSR is an eight-week meditation training that has been pivotal in introducing mindfulness to Western audiences. We talk about adapting Buddhist practices for Western audiences and the ways that mindfulness has been taken up now in our society. Also get into the challenges of repeatability in scientific studies of meditation.

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