The Bottom Line
I recommend Coming to Our Senses to anyone who has read one of Kabat-Zinn's other books and found it helpful. It is also a good introduction to mindfulness, but the extension of mindfulness into politics and ecology may bother some.
Pros
- Written for a wide audience.
- Applies 'mindfulness' to more than just an individual's life.
Cons
- You may not agree with his politics.
Description
- An excellent introduction to mindfulness for a wide audience.
- As always, his prose is poetic at times.
- Are there really 600 more pages worth to be written about mindfulness?
Guide Review - More on mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn's earlier books on mindfulness were written for particular audiences. Wherever You Go There You Are was written as an introduction to mindfulness meditation; and Full Catastrophe Living was written for people who have a chronic illness. Coming to Our Senses is for both audiences.