More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. He followed that up with 2006's Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual wellbeing.
Now, Coming to Our Senses is being made into 4 smaller books, each focusing on a different aspect of mindfulness, and each with a new foreword written by the author. In the third of these “mini-books,” The Healing Power of Mindfulness (which was originally published as Part V and Part VI of Coming to Our Senses), Kabat-Zinn focuses on the ways mindfulness can change the body and rewire the mind—explaining what we're learning about neuroplasticity and the brain, how meditation can affect the immune system, and what mindfulness can teach us about the end of life. By “coming to our senses”—both literally and…
