Author: Christine Toomey
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an American pioneer in the field of mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn, a medical professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Kabat-Zinn's initial focus was to find a way of helping patients handle long-term chronic pain and illness. As a student of Zen, he realized how effective the Buddhist practice of mindfulness could be in helping treat chronic medical conditions and, in the 1970s, set about adapting teachings on mindfulness to develop a structured secular eight-week program for his patients, which combined both meditation and hatha yoga. The program, which came to be known as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR, has since become so popular it has spread around the world as a highly effective way of helping people, whether book-quote
