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Melvin McLeod
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Editor-in-Chief, Lion's Roar (magazine)
United States
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By Melvin McLeod Verified, Jon Kabat-Zinn| Lion's Roar Verified Melvin McLeod: When did you start practicing meditation? Jon Kabat-Zinn: My first experience of formal practice—or even learning about it—happened one day in 1965. I was a molecular biology student in the laboratory of Salvador Luria, a soon to be Nobel Laureate, and I was depressed out of my mind over the Vietnam War.
By Jon Kabat-Zinn, Melvin McLeod Verified| Lion's Roar Verified Melvin McLeod: How Do you define mindfulness? Jon Kabat-Zinn: Nowadays, the word mindfulness is used in a lot of different contexts. To some degree, its deep meaning has been obscured through becoming so popular in the mainstream world. That itself is not necessarily a bad thing. But it is best if one’s understanding of mindfulness comes out of one’s attempts to cultivate it in one’s life. The way I use the word, it basically means pure awareness.
By Melvin McLeod Verified, Jon Kabat-Zinn| Lion's Roar Verified Melvin McLeod: When did you start practicing meditation? Jon Kabat-Zinn: My first experience of formal practice—or even learning about it—happened one day in 1965. I was a molecular biology student in the laboratory of Salvador Luria, a soon to be Nobel Laureate, and I was depressed out of my mind over the Vietnam War.
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Lion's Roar (magazine)