Tag: meditation
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West Meets East
Read more: West Meets EastRonald Siegel wrote this long article about mindfulness and psychotherapy for the clinician-readers of Psychotherapy Networker. Doesn’t mean you can’t give it a look. A sample: [M]indfulness is the opposite of experiential avoidance…It allows us to feel the urge to have an alcohol drink arise and pass rather than heading to the bottle, to get on the…
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Guided Meditations
Read more: Guided MeditationsAnother source of free guided mindfulness meditations emerges: Spotify. Here are a few collections that showed up in a search there. Plenty more where these came from. Enjoy. Judith Day – Introduction To Mindfulness Meditation Jon Kabat-Zinn – Mindfulness Meditation For Pain Relief Richard K. Nongard – Mindfulness Meditation Techniques: Guided Meditations to Help You…
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Peace is Every Step
Read more: Peace is Every StepFrom the recommended reading list, Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh, a short, simple call to mindfulness, personal and political. In the book, some nice suggestions about mindfulness practice, including these lines to silently try out during mindfulness meditation: Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Worth a shot for the…
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Meditation Brain Changes
Read more: Meditation Brain ChangesHow Meditation May Change the Brain (NYT): [S]cientists say that meditators…may be benefiting from changes in their brains. The researchers report that those who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray-matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress.
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MBSR, Year One
Read more: MBSR, Year OneOn my blog at Psychology Today, a brief interview with Trudy Goodman about the dawn of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in anticipation of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s UCLA appearance this Wednesday. Full Catastrophe Living (pictured) is Kabat-Zinn’s big book of MBSR. If you’re just curious and testing out mindfulness, you might try Wherever You Go, There You Are…