The foundations of mindfulness : how to cultivate attention, good judgment, and tranquility

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Some useful terms -- The standard meditation practice -- Anxiety and the overactive mind -- The breath meditation -- The miraculous sigh -- The bodyscan -- Controlling thought -- Why focus on the body? -- To sit or not to sit -- Mindful action -- Open monitoring -- Preface to the translation -- The foundations of mindfulness -- The history of translation -- Sati: the analysis of a word -- How the Sutta works -- Emotion at the atomic level -- Painful emotion -- States of mind -- Optimizing emotion -- Embodied thought -- Attention -- Good judgment -- The scientific evidence -- The story of modern mindfulness -- The modern definition -- Using the language -- Endnotes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the author.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	LSC 24.95