Resources

 

MBSR, MBCT and other mindfulness-based health books & manuals:-

 

Full Catastrophe Living  -  How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation.        Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression.     Zindel Segal, Mark Williams & John Teasdale

 

The Mindful Way through Depression – Freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness.      Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal & John Kabat-Zinn

 

The Mindful Way Workbook.  An 8 week programme to free yourself from Depression and Emotional Depression.          John Teasdale, Mark Williams & Zindel Segal

 

Mindfulness – a practical guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World.       Mark Williams & Danny Williams

 

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy.         Rebecca Crane

 

Heal Thy Self  - Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine.         Saki Santorelli

 

Mindfulness and Mental Health  - Therapy, Theory and Science.     Chris Mace

 

Mindfulness in Eight Weeks.      Michael Chaskalson

 

The Mindful Way through Anxiety  - Break Free from Chronic Worry and Reclaim your Life.  Susan Orsillo & Lizabeth Roemer

 

Calming Your Anxious Mind – how mindfulness & compassion can free you from anxiety, fear & panic.      Jeffrey Brantley

 

Daily Meditations For Calming Your Anxious Mind.       Jeffrey Brantley & Wendy Millstine

 

Mindfulness for Health – a practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing.       Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman

 

The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety – A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias & Worry Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.       John Forsyth & Georg Eifert

 

The Mindfulness Workbook – A beginner’s guide to overcoming fear & embracing compassion.          Thomas Roberts

 

Mindful Eating – A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food.       Jan Chozen Bays

 

Mindfulness and Psychotherapy.           Edited by Christopher Germer, Ronald Siegal and Paul Fulton

 

 

Popular Mindfulness:

 

Wherever You Go There You Are – Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life.    Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Everyday Blessings - The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.         Myla & Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Mindfulness  -  A Practical Guide.       Tessa Watt

 

Emotional Intelligence – Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.             Daniel Goleman

 

The Power of Now – A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment.        Eckart Tolle 

 

The Mindfulness Manifesto – How Doing Less and Noticing More Can Help Us Thrive in a Stressed-Out World.             Jonty Heaversedge &  Ed Halliwell 

 

Sane New World – Taming the Mind.      Ruby Wax

 

Thrive.    Ariana Huffington

 

Awakening Joy – 10 Steps to Happiness.      James Baraz & Shoshana Alexander  

 

Life Happens – Waking up to yourself and your life in a mindful way.              Cheryl Rezek

 

Mindfulness for busy people – turning Frantic and Frazzled into calm and composed.            Michael Sinclair & Josie Seydel 

 

The Little Book of Mindfulness  - 10 Minutes a Day to Less Stress, More Peace.       Patrizia Collard

 

The Mindful Geek.       Michael W. Taft

 

Dancing with Elephants      Jarem Sawatsky

 

The Little Book of Being     Diana Winston   

    

           

Compassion & Mindfulness:

 

The Compassionate Mind – A New Approach to Life’s Challenges.         Paul Gilbert

 

Mindful Compassion – Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform Our Lives.   Paul Gilbert & Choden

 

The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion – Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions.    Christopher Germer

 

Loving–Kindness – The Revolutionary Art of Happiness.      Sharon Salzberg

 

Self Compassion - stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.       Kristin Neff

 

The Self-Acceptance Project - How to be Kind & Compassionate Toward Yourself in Any Situation.   Edited by Tami Simon

 

Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living.      Erik van den Brink & Frits Koster

 

A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living       Erik van den Brink & Frits Koster   

 

The Compassionate Mind Workbook  - A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self.    Chris Irons and

Elaine Beaumont

 
Trusting the Gold - Learning to Nuture Your Inner Light.   Tara Brach 

 

Mindfulness & Neuroscience:

 

Looking for Spinoza – Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain.      Antonio Damasio

 

Buddha’s Brain - the practical neuroscience of happiness, love & wisdom.      Rick Hanson & Richard Mendius

 

Just One Thing – developing a buddha brain one simple practice at a time.        Rick Hanson

 

Hardwiring Happiness - How to reshape your brain and your life.    Rick Hanson

 

Resilient - Find your Inner Strength.         Rick Hanson

 

Neurodharma - 7 steps to the highest happiness.            Rick Hanson

 

Mind, Brain and the Path to Happiness – A guide to Buddhist mind training and the neuroscience of meditation.                   Dusana Dorjee

 

Mind, Brain & Body:

 

The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.      Oliver Sachs

 

Gratitude.    Oliver Sachs   

 

Trauma and Memory - Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory.         Peter A. Levine

 

The Body Keeps the Score - Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma.       Bessel Van Der Kolk

 

The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy.       Deb Dana

 

Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve - Self-help exercises  for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and Autism.

Stanley Rosenberg

 

Am I Dreaming? The Science of Altered States, from Psychedelics to Virtual Reality, and Beyond.        James Kingsland

 

How to Change Your Mind - The New Science of Psychedelics.           Michael Pollan

 

 

 

Mindfulness: Buddhism/ Spiritual approaches/ Further Horizons:

 

 

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Informal talks on Zen Meditation and Practice.          Shunryu Suzuki

 

Mindfulness – A Practical Guide to Awakening.        Joseph Goldstein

 

Insight Meditation – The Practice of Freedom.        Joseph Goldstein

 

The Miracle of Mindfulness – A Manual Of Meditations.          Thich Nhat Hanh  

 

Anger – Buddhist wisdom for cooling the flames.        Thich Nhat Hanh  

 

The Long Road Turns To Joy - A Guide to Walking Meditation.          Thich Nhat Hanh

 

The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh.        Ed. Melvin McLeod 

 

A Path With Heart - The classic guide through the perils and promises of spiritual life.        Jack Kornfield

 

The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West.        Jack Kornfield

 

When things fall apart  - heart advice for difficult times.          Pema Chödrön

 

Start where you are - how to accept yourself and others.      Pema Chödrön   

 

Welcoming the unwelcome - wholehearted living in a brokenhearted world.       Pema Chödrön

 

Untangling Self - A Buddhist Investigation of Who We Really Are.       Andrew Olendski             

 

Simple Kindness.          Ajahn Candasiri

 

Living `Presence – A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self.       Kabir Edmund Helminski

 

Man's Search for Meaning.                     Victor E. Frankl

 

A Force for Good – The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World.              Daniel Goleman

 

Mindfulness – Diverse Perspectives on its Meaning, Origins and Applications.

Editors: Mark Williams & Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Coming to Our Senses – Healing `Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness.       Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Living like  Crazy.       Paul Gilbert

 

The Four Agreements - A Toltec Wisdom Book.     Don Miguel Ruiz

  

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius       Translated by Martin Hammond

 

Essentials.       David Whyte  

 

Ecopsychology - Restoring the Earth through Healing the Mind.     Edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes & Allen D. Kanner       

 
Isla Negra - A Notebook -  Pablo Neruda       A Bi-Lingual Edition Translated by Alastair Reid

 

You Belong - A Call for Connection.           Sebene Selassie

 

The Joyful Environmentalist.              Isabel Losada 

 

The Little Book of Being - Practice and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness.           Diana Winston 

 

Quicksand.                Henning Mankell

 

One Blade of Grass.                Henry Shukman

 

Depth Psychology and Climate Change - The Green Book.               Ed. Dale Mathers

 

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet.                   Thich Nhat Hanh

 

This is Water - Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life.      David Foster Wallace

 

Falling Open in a World Falling Apart.             Amoda Maa

 

Zen in the Art of Helping.                David Brandon 

Insight Dialogue - The Interpersonal Path to Freedom.       Gregory Kramer

 

Through Forests of Every Colour - Awakening with Koans.

Joan Sutherland 

 


Mindfulness &  Health through Yoga, Tai Chi and other Embodied Practices :

 

Mindfulness Yoga – The Awakening Union of Breath, Body and Mind.      Frank Jude Boccio

 

Yoga & Psychotherapy - The Evoltion of Consciousness.        Swami Rama, Rudolph Ballentine & Swami Ajaya

 

The Book of Yoga - The Complete Step-by-Step Guide - The Sivananda Yoga Centre.        Lucy Lidell, Narayani & Giris Rabinovitch

 

Yoga Therapy for Fear - Treating Anxiety, Depression and Rage with the Vagus Nerve and Other Techniques.          

Beth Spindler

 

Embodied Meditation - Mindfulness, The Body, and Daily Life.        Mark Walsh & Karin Van Maanen      

 

 

Mindfulness related CDs/audio books/apps

 

Guided Mindfulness Meditation: Series 1, 2 & 3.        Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief.       Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Mindfulness for Beginners.         Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

You Are Here.         Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Self-Directed Brain Change.         Rick Hanson

 

Noble Heart:   A self- guided retreat on befriending your obstacles.   (CD collection and Audio)      Pema Chodron

 

Embracing The Unknown:  Life Lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  (Audio)      Pema Chödrön

 

The Fearless Heart.   (Audio)     Pema Chödrön

 

Waking Up.  (App)       Sam Harris

 

Radical Self-Acceptance.  (Audio)       Tara Brach

 

Nourishing Intimacy.    (Audio)         Tara Brach

 

Mindfulness Daily  (Sounds True)    (Audio/App)      Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach   

 

Befriending the Nervous System      (Audiobook)             Deb Dana

 

Websites & email addresses:

 

www.bangormindfulness.org 

www.oxfordmindfulness.org  

www.mindfulselfcompassion.org  (Christopher Germer)

www.mindandlife.org  (science of meditation & compassion)

wwwshambhala.org/teachers/pema (Pema Chodron)

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www.umassmed.edu/cfm/index.aspx (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

www.sharonsalzberg.com 

www.iamhome.org, www.plumvillage.org (Thich Nhat Hanh)

www.soundstrue.com (audiovisual material)

www.dharmaseed.org (talks from insight meditation retreats)

www.mindfulnesseds.com (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

www.christianmindfulness.co.uk      (for materials developed by Richard Johnson (Director), based in Scotland) 

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   (for Wise Brain Bulletin and Just One Thing (JOT))

www.rickhanson.net

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.     (for articles from Mindful Magazine)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.     (for Dr Goldstein’s mindfulness practices ancourses

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.     (for Self-Compassion practices by Kristin Neff etc)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.       (for articles dealing with “Buddhist wisdom for our time”)

mindfulnessassociation.net ( for Roger Keyes' poem 'Hokusai Says')

praxiscet.com

stephenporges.com

tarabrach.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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