AS COCREATOR of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, Jon Kabat-Zinn is famed as the pioneer of the secular mindfulness movement. In his new book, Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life (Sounds True), he guides us through evidence-based practices to address even intense physical pain and suffering. (You can even access audio instruction by the author himself.) If your doctor has told you you’re going to have to “live with” a condition of suffering, this book will explain how to do that. Kabat-Zinn writes with remarkable empathy and compassion, directing us toward our innate capacities for healing and transformation.
Buddhist scholar and author Paula Arai’s (Shambhala) gently reorients the reader