Psychological
What if stress isn't the problem?
Here's what's counterintuitive about Kabat-Zinn's work: the program he built isn't really about reducing stress. It's about changing your relationship to it. The stress stays. You change.
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.— Jon Kabat-Zinn
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Pioneer
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor of medicine emeritus who created the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, bringing meditation into mainstream healthcare.
Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn: Defining Mindfulness, summarised and reframed by Insights.
Part of these journeys
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