Book
Kabat-Zinn J. Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness. New York: Hyperion; 2005.
Why we cite it
Provides the comprehensive mindfulness framework from the founder of MBSR, extending his earlier work to explore how attention and awareness transform all aspects of daily experience — including eating. Directly relevant to the project because Kabat-Zinn’s work is the foundation upon which mindful eating practices are built, and this book articulates the broader philosophy of bringing present-moment awareness to everyday activities rather than treating mindfulness as a separate meditation exercise.
About the author
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). He holds a PhD in molecular biology from MIT (1971), earned under Nobel Laureate Salvador Luria. In 1979 he founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at UMass, where he developed the 8-week MBSR program that brought mindfulness into mainstream Western medicine. He is the founding director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at UMass. He has authored 15 books, in print in over 45 languages.
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