Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

WhenWherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over 750,000 copies to date. Ten years later, the book continues to change lives. In honor of the book's 10th anniversary, Hyperion is proud to be releasing the book with a new afterword by the author, and to share this wonderful book with an even larger audience.Review". . . add my name to . . . [the] infinite list of grateful people who have discovered the transformative power of your work." --Nicole Krakora". . . your book has been of great help . . . [it] show[ed] how to begin the internal healing I so deeply crave." --Ruth Stephens, RN"I have . . . read it many times and refer to various sections quite frequently . . . What a life saver you are." --Jo EricksonAbout the AuthorJon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in various venues around the world. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria.His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers' PBS Special,Healing and the Mind and in the book of the same title, as well as onGood Morning America, theOprah Winfrey Show, andOprah's Super Soul Sunday, as well as NPR. he has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, and psychology, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations, the legal profession, prisons, and professional sports.He is the author of numerous bestselling books about mindfulness and meditation:Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness; andArriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness. He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, ofEveryday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting; and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, ofThe Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness Overall, his books have been translated into over thirty languages.