Mindfulness for beginners: reclaiming the present moment--and your life

Entering: Beginner's mind -- The breath -- Who is breathing? -- The hardest work in the world -- Taking care of this moment -- Mindfulness is awareness -- Doing mode and being mode -- A grounding in science -- Mindfulness is universal -- Wakefulness -- Stabilizing and calibrating your instrument -- Inhabiting awareness is the essence of practice -- The beauty of discipline -- Adjusting your default setting -- Awareness: Our only capacity robust enough to balance thinking -- Attention and awareness are trainable skills -- Nothing wrong with thinking -- Befriending our thinking -- Images of your mind that might be useful -- Not taking our thoughts personally -- Selfing -- Our love affair with personal pronouns - especially I, me, and mine -- Awareness is a big container -- The objects of attention are not as important as the attending itself -- Sustaining: Mindfulness-based stress reduction -- A world-wide phenomenon --

An affectionate attention -- Mindfulness brought to all the senses -- Proprioception and interoception -- The unity of awareness -- The knowing Is awareness -- Life itself becomes the meditation practice -- You already belong -- Right beneath our noses -- Mindfulness is not merely a good idea -- To come back in touch -- Who am I? Questioning our own narrative -- You are more than any narrative -- You are never not whole -- Paying attention in a different way -- Not knowing -- The prepared mind -- What is yours to see? -- Deepening: No place to go, nothing to do -- The doing that comes out of being -- To act appropriately -- If you are aware of what is happening, you are doing it right -- Non-judging is an act of intelligence and kindness -- You can only be yourself - thank goodness! -- Embodied knowing -- Feeling joy for others -- The full catastrophe -- Is my awareness of suffering suffering? -- What does liberation from suffering mean? --

Hell realms

Liberation is in the practice itself

The beauty of the mind that knows itself

Taking care of your meditation practice

Energy conservation in meditation practice

An attitude of non-harming

Greed: the cascade of dissatisfactions

Aversion: the flip side of greed

Delusion and the trap of self-fulfilling prophecies

Now is always the right time

The "curriculum" is "just this"

Giving your life back to yourself

Bringing mindfulness further into the world

Ripening: The attitudinal foundations of mindfulness practice

Non-judging

Patience

Beginner's mind

Trust

Non-striving

Acceptance

Letting go

Practicing: Getting started with formal practice

Mindfulness of eating

Mindfulness of breathing

Mindfulness of the body as a whole

Mindfulness of sounds, thoughts, and emotions

Mindfulness as pure awareness.