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Sep 2018
9m 28s

A Walking Meditation with Jon Kabat-Zinn

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About this episode

Take a guided walk to help savor your day. This walking practice isn’t about where you go or how fast you go. It’s about staying consistently in the present moment and embracing mindfulness with each step. 

Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as well as the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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