Table of Contents
New Foreword Jon Kabat-Zinn ix
Part 1 Healing Possibilities: The Realm of Mind and Body 1
Sentience 3
Nothing Personal, But, Excuse Me…Are We Who We Think We Are? 10
Even Our Molecules Touch 21
No Fragmentation 26
No Separation 28
Orienting in Time and Space: A Tribute to My Father 30
Orthogonal Reality-Rotating in Consciousness 38
Orthogonal Institutions 44
A Study in Healing and the Mind 52
A Study in Happiness-Meditation, the Brain, and the Immune System 64
Homunculus 72
Proprioception-The Felt Sense of the Body 85
Neuroplasticity and the Unknown Limits of the Possible 89
Part 2 Arriving At Your Own Door 103
"I Can't Hear Myself Think!" 105
I Didn't Have a Moment to Catch My Breath 107
The Infidelity of Busyness 111
Interrupting Ourselves 116
Filling Up All Our Moments 122
Attaining Place 127
You Can't Get There from Here 131
Overwhelmed 150
Dialogues and Discussions 153
Sitting on the Bench 157
You Crazy! 163
Phase Changes 165
You Make, You Have 170
Any Ideal of Practice Is Just Another Fabrication 175
You Want to Make Something of It? 177
Who Won the Super Bowl? 181
Arrogance and Entitlement 188
Death 194
Dying Before You Die 199
Dying Before You Die-Deux 205
Don't Know Mind 208
Arriving At Your Own Door 210
Acknowledgments 213
Related Readings 217
Credits and Permissions 225
Index 230
About the Author 236
Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practices with Jon Kabat-Zinn 238