Some Additional Resources for Meditation and Mindfulness
Hi Everyone,
I hope you all had a safe and pleasant Halloween. At my house we had far fewer trick or treaters this year than in past years…I’m guessing all the rain had something to do with our small turnout. It was really coming down!!
Here is one of my favorite definitions of mindfulness:
"Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally." Jon Kabat-Zinn
A New Mindfulness Meditation Course
As a follow-up to my last blog post on using mindfulness to manage an anxious mind, I thought I would furnish some additional resources for how to learn more about mindfulness and if you’re interested in becoming more mindful, how you might begin to develop a mindfulness practice. In a rather fortunate coincidence, a colleague of mine (Elise Gibbs, PsyD; www.drelisegibbs.com) has just published an online course on mindfulness. She confesses that at first she was rather turned off by the idea of mindfulness, but in her training as a clinical psychologist she was repeatedly exposed to the concept and eventually learned to appreciate and use mindfulness in her own life and now teaches it to her clients.
You can access her course at Mindfulnesshaters.teachable.com and she is selling the course for $100. As you can perhaps see from the title of the course, at first she wasn’t a big fan of mindfulness but eventually came to better understand how it can be beneficial and now is a big fan. Here is how she describes the course:
“The 10-week mindfulness course
designed specifically for folks who struggle with it.
Do you feel like meditation simply does not work for you?
Are you in a frustrating cycle of dropping the habit?
Has mindfulness practice been on your to-do list forever?
This course was made for you!”
I’ve been able to preview the course and I think it’s very good.
Two Recent Podcasts: one on Meditation and one on OCD
As readers of this blog probably already know, I’m a big fan of podcasts and one of my all time favorites is the Hubermanlab.com podcast produced by Andrew Huberman, PhD (he is a neuroscientist and tenured professor at the Stanford School of Medicine). And coincidentally he just published a podcast on meditation: How and Why to Meditate. And FYI he also recently published an entire podcast on OCD which is well worth listening to.
A Free Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course
A very generous professor from Washington State University, Dave Potter, has published an entire mindfulness meditation training course online at his website: palousemindfulness.com. This course often costs several hundred dollars, but Dave offers his course for free! His course is an online version of the well known Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program that is currently taught all across the country.
Some Recommended Books on Meditation
And in addition to the book I recommended in my last blog post here are a few others you might want to consider if you’re interested in reading more about mindfulness meditation:
Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson
Well that’s it for this week. I hope you’re enjoying and benefiting from my posts and as always, let me know if you have any comments/questions.
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Stay safe,
Dr Bob
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