Jon Kabat-Zinn on How to Find Peace & Achieve Your True Self

The Cathy Heller Podcast with Cathy Heller

Cathy Heller | QCODE

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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How can you give yourself the gift of awareness? Jon Kabat-Zinn, scientist, author, meditation teacher, professor, and founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic discovered the power of meditation in his 20s and began on a mission to spread meditation and mindfulness as far as possible. He teaches you how to be present in any moment, what awareness really means, how to practice radical self love, and how to give your heart back to yourself. - Join Cathy's Quilt Membership and get 25% off your first month with code "peace" at cathyheller.com/quilt - Get Jon Kabat-Zinn's book, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life https://jonkabat-zinn.com/offerings/books/ Shoutout to our podcast students! - Robin Hackney's podcast, Spandex & Wine - Lisa Dorn's podcast, Unleash Your Inner Radiance - Christina Sommers podcast, Loving Your Life Again - Nina Glazer's podcast, Fierce Inner Alchemy

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0:00.0	you can take up residency in the present moment.
0:03.4	And it's not about feeling good or having some wonderful,
0:08.0	calm, insightful experience, but as you engage in this radical act, which I call a radical act of one sanity because it's just stopping and dropping into the present moment, which is your life.
0:21.0	And so when you do that, it's a very radical act of sanity but it's also a
0:26.7	radical act of love. It's love of the miracle of being alive in this moment. imagination.
0:43.0	Anything is possible.
0:46.0	This is all imagination.
0:50.0	Hey guys, it's Kathy Heller.
0:54.0	Welcome back to the Kathy Heller Podcast.
0:57.0	How are you doing?
0:58.0	It's a few days in to 2024.
1:01.0	How's your heart? How are you? This has been a hard few weeks for me. I mentioned to you.
1:10.8	My dad is sick, but there's other things coming up.
1:16.7	I just feel like the more willing I am to really be awake, you realize how much you've been holding on to your whole life that kind of gets stored up.
1:27.6	And sometimes you're in situations and you're like, why am I creating this moment where I'm like reliving this pain that I've had since I'm like seven years old?
1:41.5	And my husband and I had this amazing conversation yesterday and he was so
1:46.2	kind and he showed me such grace and he was holding my hand and he's like I am here and I can see when you're sort of
1:58.7	lost at sea and you're just in it and I think it just takes tremendous kindness and
2:08.9	and courage for someone to love you and be willing to stick and sit beside you even when you're just pushing
2:21.5	them away. So I feel really grateful for that.
2:25.0	And I'm staying a few extra days
2:28.0	in Florida to spend some time with my dad
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