UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22
Guided Meditations
http://www.audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1835/
Meditation
“Secular meditation in the West
A collective meditation in Sri Lanka
As stated by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a U.S. government entity within the National Institutes of Health that advocates various forms of Alternative Medicine, “Meditation may be practiced for many reasons, such as to increase calmness and physical relaxation, to improve psychological balance, to cope with illness, or to enhance overall health and well-being.”[136]
Sound-based meditation
After the wave of interest in Transcendental Meditation in America and Europe in the 1960s, several secular alternatives emerged. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School conducted a series of clinical tests on meditators from various disciplines, including the Transcendental Meditation technique and Tibetan Buddhism. In 1975, Benson published a book titled The Relaxation Response where he outlined his own version of meditation for relaxation.[137] Also in the 1970s, the American psychologist Patricia Carrington developed a similar technique called Clinically Standardized Meditation (CSM).[138] In Norway, another sound-based method called Acem Meditation developed a psychology of meditation and has been the subject of several scientific studies.[139]
Biofeedback has been used by many researchers since the 1950s in an effort to enter deeper states of mind.[140][141]
Mindfulness
Main article: Mindfulness
Over the past 20 years, mindfulness-based programs have become increasingly important to Westerners and in the Western medical and psychological community as a means of helping people, whether they be clinically sick or healthy.[142] Jon Kabat-Zinn, who founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in 1979, has defined mindfulness as ‘moment to moment non-judgmental awareness.'[143]:626 Several methods are used during time set aside specifically for mindfulness meditation, such as body scan techniques or letting thought arise and pass, and also during our daily lives, such as being aware of the taste and texture of the food that we eat.[144] Scientifically demonstrated benefits of mindfulness practice include an increase in the body’s ability to heal and a shift from a tendency to use the right prefrontal cortex instead of the left prefrontal cortex,[145] associated with a trend away from depression and anxiety, and towards happiness, relaxation, and emotional balance.[146]
Jacobson’s Progressive Muscle Relaxation was developed by American physician Edmund Jacobson in the early 1920s. In this practice one tenses and then relaxes muscle groups in a sequential pattern whilst concentrating on how they feel. The method has been seen to help people with many conditions especially extreme anxiety.[147]
As a result of the popularity in participation of mindfulness, conferences such as Wisdom 2.0 have arisen.[148][149][150] Mindfulness has entered the secular world in many ways allowing to to reach many different groups of people.[151]
Mental silence
Sahaja yoga meditation is regarded as a mental silence meditation, and has been shown to correlate with particular brain and brain wave activity.[152][153][154] Some studies have led to suggestions that Sahaja meditation involves ‘switching off’ irrelevant brain networks for the maintenance of focused internalized attention and inhibition of inappropriate information.[155] Sahaja meditators scored above peer group for emotional wellbeing measures on SF-36 ratings.[156]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation
All About Meditation
https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/meditation
Headspace
“Headspace is meditation made simple. Learn online, when you want, wherever you are, in just 10 minutes a day.”
https://www.headspace.com
Sahaja Yoga Meditation Online
“Sahaja Yoga Meditation online course will take you on a journey in which you will learn the first steps towards the purest form of meditation, Sahaja Yoga Meditation. All knowledge and experience are introduced through videos and audio guided meditations. All the images, music and sounds of nature are so chosen to help guide you and to give you a feeling of peace.
Make some time if you want to experiment at home. Because what you could find is something which can give your life a new dimension, a new meaning.”
http://www.onlinemeditation.org/
Mindfulness for Busy People: Turning from frantic and frazzled into calm and composed Paperback, by Michael Sinclair
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0273789902/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
One-Moment Meditation: “How to Meditate in a Moment”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6eFFCi12v8
Zen and the Art of Running: The Path To Making Peace With Your Pace
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zen-Art-Running-Making-Peace/dp/1598699601
Find Zen Through Running: To achieve bliss as a runner, you need to tame your “monkey mind.”
http://www.runnersworld.com/sports-psychology/find-zen-through-running
The Zen of Running, and 10 Ways to Make It Work for You
http://zenhabits.net/the-zen-of-running-and-10-ways-to-make-it-work-for-you/
The Zen of Running, Fred Rohé
http://www.naturalhealthyellowpages.com/health_ebooks/the_zen_of_running/zenofrunning-672gxrtekj78q2.pdf
Mindfulness a ‘fantastic way of dealing with our stressful responses’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pps6c
Mindfulness and Depression
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013wyrn
The Free Mindfulness Project
http://www.freemindfulness.org/download
Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World
http://franticworld.com/free-meditations-from-mindfulness/
Free Guided Meditations
http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22
Mindful Self-Compassion, Christopher Germer
http://www.mindfulselfcompassion.org/meditations_downloads.php
Understanding mindfulness
http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/2015/oct/23/understanding-mindfulness-mark-williams-masterclass
Dr. Ron Siegel: “The Science of Mindfulness”, Talks at Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPlG_w40qOE
Dr. Ron Siegel: “The Science of Mindfulness”, Talks at Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPlG_w40qOE
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The Science of Mindfulness: A Research-Based Path to Well-Being
http://www.thegreatcourses.co.uk/courses/the-positive-mind-mindfulness-and-the-science-of-happiness.html
Calmness, Productivity, and other links
5 Essential Apps for a Zen-Like Calm Lifestyle, by productivity Ninja
http://thinkproductive.co.uk/5-essential-apps-for-a-zen-like-calm-lifestyle/
Apps to help you drink less, exercise more and stop smoking
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/30/apps-drink-less-exercise-more-stop-smoking
The 7 Habits of Calmness
“1. A calm morning ritual.
2. Learn to watch your response
3. Don’t take things personally
4. Be grateful
5. Create stress coping habits
6. Single-task
7. Reduce noise”
http://zenhabits.net/calm/
5 Essential Apps for a Zen-Like Calm Lifestyle
“1. Headspace
2. Spotify
3. Sleep Cycle
4. Daily Yoga
5. Toodledoo / Todoist / Evernote / Second-Brain app of your choice”
http://thinkproductive.co.uk/5-essential-apps-for-a-zen-like-calm-lifestyle/
How to Practice Mindfulness Throughout Your Work Day
https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-practice-mindfulness-throughout-your-work-day?cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-management_tip-_-tip_date&referral=00203&utm_source=newsletter_management_tip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tip_date
Mindfulness Bell – A 5 Minute Mindfulness Meditation
Emotion, Stress and Health: Crash Course Psychology #26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KbSRXP0wik
Happiness is all in your mind: Gen Kelsang Nyema at TEDxGreenville 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnLoToJVQH4
How Meditation Changed My Life | Mamata Venkat | TEDxWayPublicLibrary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snkr-1C2e7U
Meditation: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life: Bodhin Kjolhede at TEDxFlourCity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upNONoxskiw
One-Moment Meditation: “How to Meditate in a Moment”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6eFFCi12v8&t=5s