Articles and Videoclips on Mindfulness
“How to Make Stress Your Friend” – Ted Talk by Kelly McGonigal
Kelly is a psychologist specializing in health medicine. In this video clip, she explains how
changing about how you feel about stress can make you healthier. When you change the
way you think about stress, you can change your bodies response to it, so how you think
about stress really matters!
Kelly is a psychologist specializing in health medicine. In this video clip, she explains how
changing about how you feel about stress can make you healthier. When you change the
way you think about stress, you can change your bodies response to it, so how you think
about stress really matters!
Mindfulness Practice – STOP (videoclip and practice)
STOP: A Short Mindfulness Practice by Susan Bauer-Wu
Susan Bauer-Wu describes how mindfulness can counteract a disproportionate stress
reaction and introduces you to STOP, which you can use literally anywhere, anytime, to
ground you and help you to be more resilient and effective in the face of difficult situations.
STOP: A Short Mindfulness Practice by Susan Bauer-Wu
Susan Bauer-Wu describes how mindfulness can counteract a disproportionate stress
reaction and introduces you to STOP, which you can use literally anywhere, anytime, to
ground you and help you to be more resilient and effective in the face of difficult situations.
STOP: One Minute Breathing Space
https://palousemindfulness.com/docs/STOP.pdf
Why We Find It Hard to Mediate – by Ed and Deb Shapiro (2011 Mindful Magazine)
“What is about something as simple as sitting still and watching our breath that evokes
panic, fear and hostility? No matter how many reports there are proving the mental,
emotional and physical value of being quiet, there seems to be an even greater number who
refuse to give it a try….”
https://palousemindfulness.com/docs/why-we-find-it-hard.pdf
“What is about something as simple as sitting still and watching our breath that evokes
panic, fear and hostility? No matter how many reports there are proving the mental,
emotional and physical value of being quiet, there seems to be an even greater number who
refuse to give it a try….”
https://palousemindfulness.com/docs/why-we-find-it-hard.pdf
7 Myths of Meditation – by Deepak Chopra (The Huffington Post, 2013)
“In the past 40 years, meditation has entered the mainstream of modern Western culture,
and been prescribed by physicians and practiced by everyone from business executives,
artists and scientists to students, teachers, military personnel, and – on a promising note –
politicians.
Despite the growing popularity of meditation, prevailing misconceptions about the practice
are a barrier that prevents many people from trying meditation and receiving its profound
benefits for the body, mind and spirit. Here are seven of the most common meditation
myths dispelled….”
https://chopra.com/articles/7-myths-of-meditation
“In the past 40 years, meditation has entered the mainstream of modern Western culture,
and been prescribed by physicians and practiced by everyone from business executives,
artists and scientists to students, teachers, military personnel, and – on a promising note –
politicians.
Despite the growing popularity of meditation, prevailing misconceptions about the practice
are a barrier that prevents many people from trying meditation and receiving its profound
benefits for the body, mind and spirit. Here are seven of the most common meditation
myths dispelled….”
https://chopra.com/articles/7-myths-of-meditation
Mastering Your Own Mind – by Katherine Ellison (Psychology Today, Sept 2006)
“Distracted? Angry? Envious? There’s growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation –
even love – are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it’s
time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain….”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200609/mastering-your-own-mind
“Distracted? Angry? Envious? There’s growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation –
even love – are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it’s
time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain….”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200609/mastering-your-own-mind
Your Mind: Friend or Foe? - by Jack Kornfield
“Listen to your thoughts with mindful awareness. You will see the evanescent nature of
thoughts, that they are fleeting ideas, all impermanent. And then you can begin to realize
that just because you have a thought doesn’t mean you have to believe it - much less act on
it – and certainly not get caught up in the whole stream of them. You can release the mind
of some of its more dangerous patterns. Observing the mind with mindfulness brings
liberation…”
https://jackkornfield.com/your-mind-friend-or-foe
“Listen to your thoughts with mindful awareness. You will see the evanescent nature of
thoughts, that they are fleeting ideas, all impermanent. And then you can begin to realize
that just because you have a thought doesn’t mean you have to believe it - much less act on
it – and certainly not get caught up in the whole stream of them. You can release the mind
of some of its more dangerous patterns. Observing the mind with mindfulness brings
liberation…”
https://jackkornfield.com/your-mind-friend-or-foe