Introduction to Mindfulness
- Mindfulness: What Is It and Where Did It Come From
- Mindfulness: Learning to live in the moment – Mayo Clinic Special Report
- 7 Myths of Meditation by Deepak Choprah
- Why We Find It So Hard to Meditate by Mindful Staff
- What Would It Take for You to Be Still by Catherine Price
Benefits
- Benefits of Mindfulness
- The Benefits of Being Present: Mindfulness and Its Role in Psychological Well-being
- This is your Brain on Mindfulness
- Mindfulness Training as a Clinical Intervention: A Conceptual and Empirical Review
- Studying the Well-trained Mind
Free Guided Mindfulness Recordings
Mechanisms of Mindfulness
- Mechanisms of Mindfulness
- Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation
- Neuroscience – Mindfulnet.org
- Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness
Bibliography
- Mindfulness bibliography – 98 pages
Popular Magazines and Books
- Mindful Magazine – Mindful, a popular journal on the mindfulness movement across North America.
Books -Mindfulnet.org
- Fully Present by Susan Smalley and Diana Winston
- 10% Happier by Dan Harris
- Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems by Ron Siegel
- Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- It’s Easier than You Think: A Buddhist Way to Happiness by Sylvia Boorstein.
- Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine by Saki Santorelli
- Calming Your Anxious Mind by Jeff Brantley
- The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hahn
- Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (complete text available online)
- Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation by Larry Rosenberg
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
- The Wisdom of no Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness by Pema Chodron
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema ChodronEveryday Zen: Love and Work by Charlotte Joko Beck.
- Nothing Special: Living Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck.
- A Path with Heart: A guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield.
- Here For Now: Living Well with Cancer by Elana Rosenbaum
- Living Well with Pain & Illness by Vidyamala Burch
- Freedom From Pain: Discovering Your Body’s Power… by Peter Levine and Maggie Phillips
- The Mindful Child by Susan Kaiser Greenland
- Child’s Mind: Mindfulness Practices to Help Our Children by Christopher Willard
- The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids by Lawrence Shapiro and Robin Sprague
- Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy From a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein
- Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective On Wholeness by Mark Epstein
- Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them by Daniel Goleman
Key Scientific Papers
Latest Research (source Rick Hanson’s website and author of Buddha’s Brain – http://www.rickhanson.net/science/key-papers/)
These are fundamental scientific papers – all in the public domain – related to brain science, relationships, well-being, contemplative practice, and related topics. So many breakthroughs are happening these days that it is very exciting. Certainly we need to take it all with a healthy dose of salt, but as John Maynard Keynes once said: When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?
Mindfulness and Meditation
- A Cartography of the Ecstatic and Meditative States
- Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation
- Attentional Modulation of Primary Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Cortices
- Attention Regulation and Monitoring in Meditation
- The Benefits of Being Present: Mindfulness and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being
- The Dynamics of Theravāda Insight Meditation – Insight Analayo
- Effect of Compassion Meditation on Neuroendocrine, Innate Immune and Behavioral Responses to Psychosocial Stress
- How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action from a Conceptual and Neural Perspective
- Long-Term Meditators Self-Induce High-Amplitude Gamma Synchrony During Mental Practice
- Mechanisms of Mindfulness
- Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness
- Meditation Experience Is Associated with Differences in Default Mode Network Activity and Connectivity
- Mental Training Affects Distribution of Limited Brain Resources
- Mindfulness: A Proposed Operational Definition
- Mindfulness Training Alters Emotional Memory Recall Compared to Active Controls: Support for an Emotional Information Processing Model of Mindfulness
- Mindfulness Training as A Clinical Intervention: A Conceptual and Empirical Review
- Mindfulness Training Modifies Subsystems of Attention
- Neurophenomenology and Contemplative Experience
- Psychobiology of Altered States of Consciousness
- Psychobiology of Mindfulness
- Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise
- Short-Term Meditation Training Improves Attention and Self-Regulation
- The Sister of Mindfulness
- Studies of Advanced Stages of Meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist and Vedic Traditions: A Comparison of General Changes
- Studying the Well-Trained Mind
- Thinking About Not Thinking: Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing During Zen Meditation
- The Unique Brain Anatomy of Meditation Practitioners: Alterations in Cortical Gyrification
- Zazen and Cardiac Variability