Psychological
What if your past doesn't have to follow you into this moment?
Most of the time, the weight people carry isn't from what's happening right now. It's from a running narrative about who they've been, what went wrong, and what that means. Kabat-Zinn points out something easy to miss: that story is always about the past. And this moment is not the past.
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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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: Mindfulness, Stress Reduction, and Healing, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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