"The Stars of Our Own Movie" by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Watch this 3-minute video by Jon Kabat-Zinn, a pioneer in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is renowned for integrating mindfulness practices into mainstream medicine to promote mental and physical well-being.

Quotable Moments

“We’re trained enormously in thinking, logical thinking, discursive thinking, analytical thinking, deductive thinking, and we’ve become really fantastic thinkers, but sometimes have you noticed that our thinking drives us crazy? We can’t shut if off at night, we go to bed and we’re thinking about what’s going to happen tomorrow, some big deal tomorrow and we can’t go to sleep, we’re upset about this or that, so in a sense we actually don’t know our own minds, we don’t have any intimacy with our own minds, and meditation, in Tibet, the word for “meditation” is “familiarization”. It means cultivating intimacy with the full spectrum repertories of what it means to be human.”