![]() Our minds are hardened due to fossil ideas, dogmas, and obsolete definitions, and scales and measures that are no more valid. What a beautiful message from a stunningly simple example! We are all prisoners of our nine dots. the problem of nine dots teaches us that we may have to expand beyond our habitual, highly conditioned ways of seeing, thinking, and acting in order to solve, resolve, or even dissolve certain kind of problems.” Kabat-Zinn writes, “The problem of the nine dots suggests that we may need to take a broader view of certain problems if we hope to solve them. The solution lies in extending the lines beyond the 3×3 matrix. Most people are stuck after drawing three lines. The task is to connect all nine dots by four straight lines without lifting the pencil off the paper. In Chapter 12 of the book, titled Glimpses of Wholeness, Delusion of Separateness, Kabat-Zinn brings in the famous problem of nine dots. Historically, mindfulness is related to Buddhism, but Kabat-Zinn presents it as “cognitive therapy” providing a powerful theoretical rationale and citing clinical validation over decades of its application. Making the acceptance of this fact the cornerstone of one’s life, according to the book, one must assume full responsibility for whatever has happened and respond rather than run away with excuses and pretend that all is well by living in a bogus manner, a sham of a life. Kabat-Zinn says that every life is a catastrophe – struggle, hardships, uncertainties, failures, betrayals, and wrongs done – and every person on the planet has his or her own unique version. Zorba says, as if growling, “Am I not a man? And is not a man stupid? I’m a man, so I’m married. In one scene in the film, the young man asks Zorba if he is married. There is a young Greek young man in the film who seeks guidance from a mysterious elderly man Alexis Zorba, played by Anthony Quinn (1915 –2001). “Catastrophe” in the title of the book does not have the usual meaning of disaster but conveys what Kabat-Zinn calls “the poignant enormity of our life experience.” He explains that he chose this title from the Academy Award-winning 1964 film Hollywood film Zorba the Greek. It dives deep into explaining the fundamentals of mindfulness in an impeccable scientific manner. ![]() The more than 600-page book presents the details of an 8-week course known as Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) offered through the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts that Kabat-Zinn founded in 1979. I have read the 25 th anniversary issue, published in 2013. 1944), a very readable and practical book on mindfulness, published in 1990. I have immensely enjoyed reading Full Catastrophe Living by Dr.
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