Jon Kabat-Zinn, an MIT-trained molecular biologist, began meditating in 1966, when the practice was primarily the province of hippies and gurus, not scientists. Now, thanks in large part to his ...

Jon Kabat-Zinn: "I didn’t encounter any kind of pushback in the medical world around what I was doing or in the more mainstream world. Certainly, athletes know right from the get-go, that their ...

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn back in 1979. In the decades since, MBSR--and mindfulness in general--have become an accepted part of ...

“You can’t figure it out by thinking,” Jon Kabat-Zinn advised Anderson Cooper on embracing the present moment through mindfulness. “It’s more of a way of being.” Kabat-Zinn, the founder of mindfulness ...

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Back in 1979, a biologist at the University of Massachusetts named Jon Kabat-Zinn had an idea. He was trained in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhist meditation, and he had a hunch that if he ...

In 1979, a report from the Surgeon General inspired Jon Kabat-Zinn to action. The U.S. "Healthy People" report chronicled Americans' struggles with chronic diseases, connecting poor health with ...

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He gives public talks and workshops throughout the ...

NYC commuters during a Meditation Moment in Times Square in celebration of the Westin Well-being Movement (partnered with Headspace) launch on March 20, 2014 in New York City. (Neilson Barnard/Getty ...