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Consumer Health: Mindfulness

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Meditation Apps!

Selected Websites

Center for Spirituality and Healing - University of Minnesota

Monthly webinars on a variety of topics designed to help you take charge of your health and wellbeing.

Greater Good in Action

Science-based practices for a meaningful life, curated by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. Library of research-tested practices that build happiness, resilience, kindness, and connection.

Guided Mindfulness Meditation with Jon Kabat Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society.

How to Meditate

When we meditate, we inject far-reaching and long-lasting benefits into our lives: We lower our stress levels, we get to know our pain, we connect better, we improve our focus, and we're kinder to ourselves. Let us walk you through the basics in our new mindful guide on how to meditate. 

Mindfulness Everyday

At Mindfulness Everyday, we envision a society in which we relate to others, the environment, and ourselves with clarity and compassion. We promote mindfulness practices to enhance positive mental and physical health, compassionate action and resilience by providing stress reduction training and life skills for young people, educators, professional support staff and parents in the schools, and for organizations and members of the community. 

Mindfulness Practice: Mindfulness-Based Stress Release Practice

The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness (CFM) is a multi-faceted program of professional training, education, research, and outreach intended to further the practice and integration of mindfulness and compassion into all aspects of society.  

MindWorks.org

We believe in the basic goodness of all human beings and their ability to discover their mind’s true potential. So we built a network of the best meditation teachers on the planet and incorporated their teachings into an accessible method called the Mindworks Path to Transformation

Reading Club

The NNLM Reading Club is a selection of “ready-to-use” book titles along with free and downloadable materials designed to help libraries support the health information needs in their communities. Through the fun and intimacy of a book club, readers will discuss health and wellness topics important to them and their loved ones as well as discover NIH National Library of Medicine consumer health resources. 

Yoga Meditation Canada

Yoga Meditation Canada offers meditation classes, courses, gatherings, and retreats at a number of locations across Canada. All of our teachers are long-time practitioners of mantra meditation. Their extensive backgrounds enable them to introduce others to the Yoga Lifestyle – meditation, yoga asanas, healthy eating, and a happy balanced life. 

Recommended Videos

Thubten’s Guided Meditation

This is one of the many speakers at the 2017 Change Your World Conference at Eden Court A class in non-religious mindfulness meditation. During this session Thubten explains how to develop a daily mindfulness practice as well as how to integrate it into your daily life, both at work and at home. 

Tai-Chi

Tai-Chi is a good exercise to remove stress and tension from the body and mind. This video will help you to relax and put your mood on calm.

Qigong

This video presents "Eight Pieces of Silk Brocade", the ancient Chinese Qigong exercises. Practiced daily, it can slow down the aging process and improve health. 

Insight Meditation Center

This site is an archive of Dharma talks given by Gil FronsdalAndrea Fella and various guest speakers at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. Each talk illuminates aspects of the Buddha's teachings. 

Freedom from Thinking

This video would show how to keep a balance between our hurly-burly lives to a calm one. 

Relief and Healing

This video will help you to feel relax and it let you will feel at ease. 

Health Guide: Audio Meditations

Here you can find audio meditations. 

Selected Textbooks

Selected Textbooks