Things We Love

These resources are specific to helping you find and live a conscious life and to introduce you to some people and things that can have a profound impact. We have also selected some incredible articles on Mindfulness.

This is not an extensive list, but an array of very helpful resources.

General Mindfulness Websites

Websites we love

People

Music

Books

Courses/Institutes

Magazines

Movies

Free Online Audio/Videos on Mindfulness (courtesy of Mindful.org)

Mindfulness in mainstream press

Mindful Parenting

Mindful Education

Mindful Eating/Weightloss

Mindfulness and Goals/Success

Mindfulness and living a Conscious Life

Mindfulness in Business

Mindfulness, Meditation and Science


General Mindfulness Websites

Mindful.org

Spirit Rock

ValleyMindfulness.com

Mindful Living Programs

The Mindfulness Center

Mindful Blog 

 

Websites we love

Dailygood.org – A lovely community of optimists, reporting good news, uplifting stories, videos and daily emails.

Notes from the Universe –Always uplifting, inspirational and fun

 

People

John Kabatt Zinn -Spirit Rock

Sharon Salzberg– Teacher and Founder of Insight Meditation

Ruth M. Buczynski, 
The National Institute for the Clinical 
Application of Behavioral Medicine

Patrick Connor – For guidance on finding the spiritual path and incredible retreats.

Mark Thornton – Meditation and spiritual insights for people in the real world.

Kute Blackson – motivation and great wisdom from an exceptional man.

Yogi Cameron – spiritual guidance with an emphasis on the yogic path and ayurveda. This site has great practices and information, all for free.

Arjuna Ardagh – A great teacher and writer of awakening, deeper love and true conscious living.

Elisha Goldstein– Mindfulness Stress Reduction author

 

Music

All albums by:

Snatum Kaur

MitenDeva Premal

Krishna Das

Deuter

Donna De Lory

Amrit Kirtan

Craig Pruess and Ananda

Paranadam

The Monroe Institute

 

Books

Wherever you go, there you are by Jon Kabat-Zinn

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Search Inside Yourself by Chade Meng-Tan

A Mindful Nation by Tim Ryan

The Mindful Manifesto by Jonty Heaversedge

The Artists Way by Julia Cameron

The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo

The Bhagavad Gita by Jack Hawley

The Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell

Truth Shall Set You Free by Swami Purna

Falling into Grace by Adyashanti (and any of his books)

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda

Loving What Is by Byron Katie

Change your Thoughts, Change your Life by Wayne Dyer (and any of his books)

Ask and It is Given by Abraham-Hicks (and any of their books)

 

Courses/Institutes

Vipassana 10 day free silent meditation retreats available all over the world.

Landmark Forum
- premier self help course worldwide. Great introduction for beginners on the path of personal development

Spirit Rock
- Retreat center in Northern California focusing on mindful living

The Path of Love– course based on the teachings of Osho to open the heart

Esalen Institute-center in Big Sur California that attracts great teachers from all around the world

The Optimum Health Institute – This is one of our top recommendations if you are looking to detox, heal, lose weight or learn to live mindfully.

 

Magazines

Mindful Parenting-http://www.mindfulparentingmag.com/

Mindful Magazine– general magazine accessible to everyone

 

Movies

 The Mindfulness Movie

Mindfulness in schools

Room To Breathe

Thrive

The Highest Pass

The Shift

What the Bleep

You can Heal your Life

The Happy Movie

Finding Joe

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

The Tapping Solution

Free Online Audio/Videos on Mindfulness (courtesy of Mindful.org)

Canadian Mental Health Association audio links on the benefits of MBSR 

A “Google Tech Talks” video on “The Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation” 

Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA—mp3 downloads of Mindful Meditations

Sounds True’s interactive guide to meditation

“STOP: A Short Mindfulness Practice” by Elisha Goldstein 

Talk and Guided Meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn at Google 

UCSD’s Guided Audio Files for MBSR practice 

University of Missouri-Columbia Mindfulness Practice Center guided mindfulness practice audio 

Center for Comtemplative Mind and Society guided meditation downloads 

University of Virginia audio and video mindfulness instruction

Discussions on the basics of mindfulness practice

 

Mindfulness in mainstream press

WSJ article on conquering fear and self doubt

Mindfulness meditation in NYTimes

Time magazine on self help

 Newsweek article

 

Mindful Parenting

What does a mindful parent look like

Mindful Parenting

The Mindful Parent – A peer to peer support system for parents interested in how mindful techniques can be applied to parenting

12 Exercises for Mindful Parenting – John and Myla Kabat-Zinn’s approach on using mindfulness as a parenting strategy

Article on mindful parenting by Chuck Barbieri

Article on “How to Mindfully Parent an Autistic Child” by Miriam Mason

 

Mindful Education

Mindfulness in schools

Mindful education

NYT- new focus for classrooms

Goldie Hawn-10 Mindful Minutes book

 Article on the importance of teaching mindfulness to children

Association of Mindfulness in Education

Mindful Schools – integrating mindfulness into education

 

Mindful Eating/Weightloss

 The Mindful Dieter

Mindful eating helps weight loss

 

Mindfulness and Goals/Success

 A Mindful view of New Year’s Resolutions

Mindfulness the secret to success in 2013

Choice-the last of the human freedoms

What does it mean to be mindful?

 

Mindfulness and living a Conscious Life

Facing your stress consciously

The Conscious lifestyle

10 steps for creating a more conscious life

10 reasons why we should live consciously

Bill Clinton turns to meditation to relax

 

Mindfulness in Business

Mindfulness grows in popularity in business

Mindfulness helping to prevent burnout

 

Mindfulness, Meditation and Science

Science and Meditation

How mindfulness can make for better doctors

“Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society” from The Shambhala Sun

The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds Neuroscience research on mindfulness

The Mindful Society  Discussions on people and organizations doing new work in the field of mindfulness

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