Mindfulness
How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body
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Mindful Parents Raise Less Stressed-Out Kids
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The Secrets of ‘Joy’ – How Imaginary Play Can Lead to Genius
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5 Minute Morning Meditation with Susanne Kempton
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8 Mindful Practices for Parents
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Metta Meditation with Sharon Saltzberg
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Mindfulness: How and Why it Works
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Practicing gratitude/calmness and serenity
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About quantum physics/mechanics.
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About brain development and music instruction
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Mindful of Our Teens
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The Unsafe Child: Less Outdoor Play is Doing More Harm Than Good
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Resources
Books
- Altman, Donald, One Minute Mindfulness
- Begley, Sharon, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain
- Bertin, Mark, The Family ADHD Solution: A Scientific Approach to Maximizing Your Child’s Attention While Minimizing Parental Stress
- Boorstein, Sylvia, Happiness is An Inside Job
- Chodron, Pema, Practicing Peace In Times of War and Turning the Mind into an Ally
- Epstein, Mark, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart
- Fields, Richard, A Year of Living Mindfully: 52 Quotes and Weekly Mindfulness Practices
- Gunaratana, H., Mindfulness in Plain English
- Huffington, Ariana, Thrive
- Kabat-Zinn, Jon, Full Catastrope Living
- Kabat-Zinn, Jon, Wherever You Go, There You Are
- Kaiser Greenland, Susan, The Mindful Child
- Kornfeld, Jack, Meditation for Beginners (CD too)
- Lantieri, Linda, Building Emotional Intelligence (CD too)
- Martin, William, The Parents Tao Te Ching
- Mipham, Sakyong, Running with the Mind of Meditation
- Mattieu, Riccard, Why Meditate
- Rubins, Gretchen, Better Than Before, Mastering the Habits of our Everyday Lives
- Salzberg, Sharon, Happiness (CD too)
- Seigel, Dan, Mindsight
- Seigel, Dan, Parenting from the Inside Out
- Seigel, Dan, The Whole Brain Child
- Seigel, Dan, No Drama Discipline
- Snel, Elise Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Excercises for Kids (Book and CD)
- Willard, Christopher, Child’s Mind
Meditation CD’s
- Kabat-Zinn, Jon, (Many different guided meditation CD’s)
- Various artists from Benson Henry Institute:
- Guided Relaxations to Help Calm your Mind and Heal your Body
- Peg Balm, Building a Meditation Practice
- Leslee Kagan, Healing Meditations
- Salzberg, Sharon, Unplug or Happiness
- Saltzman, Amy, Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness for young children/teens
- Snel, Elise : Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Excercises for Kids (Book and CD)
Websites
- www.childmind.org (great articles on parenting, development, and childhood mental health, cutting edge treatment, assessment and research in childhood mental health)
- www.bensonhenryinstitute.org (articles and guided meditation CD’s, training for professionals, mind body treatment, research)
- www.soundstrue.com (free guided meditations)
- www.innerresilience-tidescenter.org (Linda Lantieri’s program-school based mindfulness and social emotional learning)
- www.calm.com (App with numerous meditations)
- www.collective-evolution.com (articles, videos,live events – concsiousness,news, health,science/tech,spirituality in a non-new-agey way)
- www.tinybudda.com (articles,blog,resource for peace and happiness! authentic stories, mindfulness)
- www.hlfinc.org (Holistic Life Foundation Inc. Ali and Atman Smith and Andres Gonzales – inner city mindfulness/yoga based after school program – training and development)
- www.elephantjournal.com (dedicated to the mindful life)
- www.ted.com
- www.simplicityparenting.com/
Journal
- Mindful in print and online www.mindful.com
- www.themindfulword.org
App’s
- Headspace
- Insight Meditation Timer
- Mindfully Me
- Take a Chill
- Calm
- Breathe
- Take a break!
