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Summary

In this new online program, StreetSmart Wisdom: Mindfulness In The Digital Age, Jon Kabat-Zinn, scientist, author, and Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Steve Stein, Publisher at BetterListen/WisdomFeed, discuss the ever-growing importance of mindful living in the 21st century.This StreetSmart Conversation features two native streetwise New Yorkers in a far-ranging informal conversation that touches on topics as diverse as:A Digital SabbathWhat does it even mean for any of us to “do the right thing?”The Science of Mindfulness
Mindful ParentingCoping with nitty gritty everyday challenges to living mindfully in this world of perpetual digital distraction.Toward the end, Jon leads the listener in a 10 minute guided mindfulness practice.WisdomFeed’s mission is to help decipher the teachings and ideas of distinguished thought-leaders, speakers and authors and then bring the messages down to 'street level' and make these vital concepts accessible to every day people.To that end, Jon and WisdomFeed are donating a significant portion of the revenue from every sale of this program to support the Sangha & Diversity Initiative of the New York Insight Meditation Center (NYInsight), a project dedicated to undoing racism and creating a truly inclusive Community.This program has an informal conversational quality and covers a wide range of topics. It is hoped that professionals and laypeople, newcomers to mindfulness as a meditation practice and as a way of being, as well as graduates of MBSR programs and long-term mindfulness meditation practitioners, will find it interesting and inspiring.

Duration: about 2 hours (01:37:53)
Publishing date: 2020-01-21; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Body, Mind & Spirit