Tips
Please join me in discovering mindfulness through these recommended books.
Mindfulness Meditation Bibliography
Albers, S. (2008). Eat, drink, and be mindful: How to end your struggle with mindless eating and start savoring food with intention and joy. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
Bauer-Wu, S. (2011). Leaves falling gently: Living fully with serious & life-limiting illness through mindfulness, compassion, & connectedness. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
Boorstein, S. (2007). Happiness is an inside job: Practicing for a joyful life. New York: Ballantine Books.
Carlson, L. E., & Speca, M. P. (2010). Mindfulness-based cancer recovery: A step-by-step MBSR approach to help you cope with treatment & reclaim your life. Oakland, CA: New Harbringer.
Chödrön, P., & Oliver, J. D. (2012). Living beautifully with uncertainty and change. Boston: Shambhala. (Pema Chodron)
Gawande, A. (2014). Being mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end. New York, NY: Metropolitan.
Hanh, T. N. (1991). Peace Is Every Step. Toronto: Bantam Books.
Hạnh, N. (2001). Anger: Wisdom for cooling the flames. New York: Riverhead Books.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1991). Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness. New York, NY: Pub. by Dell Pub., a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub. Group.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1994). Wherever you go, there you are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life. New York: Hyperion.
Lama, D. (2001). Ethics for the new millennium. New York: Riverhead Books.
Nakazawa, D. J. (2013). The last best cure: My quest to awaken the healing parts of my brain-- and get back my body, my joy, and my life. New York, NY: Hudson Street Press.
Oliver, M. (1992). New and selected poems. Boston, MA: Beacon.
Ryan, T. (2012). A mindful nation: How a simple practice can help us reduce stress, improve performance, and recapture the American spirit. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House.
Salzberg, S. (2008). The kindness handbook: A practical companion. Boulder, CO: Sounds True.
Sanford, M. (2006). Waking: A memoir of trauma and transcendence. Emmaus, PA: Rodale.
Santorelli, S. (1999). Heal thy self: Lessons on mindfulness in medicine. New York: Bell Tower.
Steingraber, S. (1997). Living downstream: An ecologist looks at cancer and the environment. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing.
Other Resources:
The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society
mindfulness@umassmed.edu
Worcester, MA Jon Kabat-Zinn’s
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction; online classes and professional training
Mindful – magazine about Mindfulness
www.mindful.org/charter
or call 1-800-492-1675
Sounds True
Offers many recordings of books and music on meditation and other related topics
HealthSource
- University of Vermont Medical Center resources, classes, podcasts & more