Jon Kabat-Zinn, Creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
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How John Kabatzan Made Meditation Easier
If you're meditating today odds are it is indirectly or directly because of John Kabatzan. He's an MIT trained scientist who many decades ago had the brilliant idea to take Buddhist meditation and teach it in a fully secular way through something called mindfulness based stress reduction, MBSR. And this was a massively consequential move because teaching it in this kind of eight week, the standardized protocol without any religious overtones allowed for what happened next.
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