
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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The Importance of Mindfulness in Health Care
I was like asking myself for a period of 10 years after I got my PhD what is my job on the planet with a capital J meaning in other words what would I love so much I'd pay to do it redefine work that way. After about 10 years I had an insight on mindfulness retreat at the Insight Meditation Society in Barry Mass which I know you know well sitting on a you know 10 day two week retreat and on the 10th day it would stall all those 15 years of practice at that point just came together. What came was a kind of instantaneous recognition of the possibility of taking this into hospitals where people are suffering like hospitals function. The Buddhist term for suffering anguish the human condition
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