The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. One of my ...

One of my favorite meditations is "The Mountain Meditation" by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It encourages us to seek inner stability and peace, even in the face of unpredictable change and chaos. Here is an ...

“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 ...

It’s been 30 years since Jon Kabat-Zinn launched his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. What began as a bit of a lark—an attempt by a ...

Molecular biologist and author Jon Kabat-Zinn was a pioneer in applying the Buddhist concept of mindfulness to Western medicine and secular society. But he doesn’t consider himself a Buddhist.

For nearly 50 years, Jon Kabat-Zinn has guided millions from all walks of life to explore and embrace mindfulness. By skillfully combining science-backed practices with Zen meditation philosophies, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trish Magyari, a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course instructor, explains how to do the body scan meditation. Back in 1979, a biologist at the University of Massachusetts named Jon Kabat-Zinn ...

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 ...