Mindfulness Resources
Article: New York Times – The power of concentration
Article: Scientific American – The neuroscience of meditation
Article: Los Angeles Times – Mindfulness therapy is no fad, experts say
Article: Forbes – Eat, Smoke, Meditate: Why Your Brain Cares How You Cope
Article: Harvard Business Review – Mindfulness for People Who Are Too Busy to Meditate
Article: Parade Magazine – The No. 1 Health-Booster in 2015
Article: Mindfulness
Article: Now’s the moment for mindfulness
Article: Exercising Your Mind May Improve Your Life
Article: Meditation: Push-Ups for the Brain
Article: Seven Reasons You Should Meditate
Article: Mindfulness Meditation Benefits: 20 Reasons Why It’s Good For Your Mental And Physical Health
Article: Stressed Out? Try Mindfulness Meditation
Article: Does Mind-Wandering Make You Unhappy?
Article: How to focus a wandering mind
Article: The Mindful Way
Article: Mindfulness: Finding ways to calm the busy brain
Article: 4 scientific studies on how meditation can affect your heart, brain and creativity
Article: Meditation can bring health benefits (Can aid function in aging brains, research suggests)
Video: Segment on CBS 60 Minutes by Anderson Cooper on Mindfulness (2014)
Video: Segment on Yahoo News (2015)
Video: Trailer for Congressman Tim Ryan’s book, A Mindful Nation
Video: Free the Mind (Official U.S. Trailer
Video: The Mindfulness Movie (Official U.S. Trailer
Video: Free the Mind (Official U.S. TrailerVideo: Free the Mind movie review
Video: Narrated slide show describing the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and benefits
Video: ABC News 2011 4-Part Special (separate videos playing in succession)
Video: Fox News 2011 Special on a cardiologist who conducts mindfulness group for health benefits
Video: Canadian 2011 television special on Mental Health benefits of Mindfulness
Video: BBC reporter tried mindfulness meditation and talks about his experience & an interview with Dr. Danny Penman (12 min)
Video: Video of talk show interview about mindfulness, followed by option for longer 29 minute version
Video: Ted Talk: Shannon Paige- who beat depression and cancer with mindful yoga
Video: Ted Talk – Andy from Headspace talks about practical meditation
Video: Short video about the practical benefits and methods of mindfulness
Video: PBS Special Highlights a Mindfulness Meditation Class
Specific Studies
Article: New York Times – How Meditation Might Boost Your Test Scores
Article: Forbes – The ‘New’ Benefits Of Mindfulness: Improved Memory, Focus, And GRE Scores
Article: Forbes – For Depression Treatment, Meditation Might Rival Medication
Article: CNN – Can meditation really slow aging?
Article: Forbes – Just A Few Minutes Of Meditation May Reduce Stress, Study Finds
Article: Meditation Could Improve Empathy, Study Suggests
Article: Mindfulness Linked With Emotional Well-Being And Improved Sleep, Study Finds
Article: Meditation Influences Emotional Processing Even When You’re Not Meditating: Study
Article: Mindfulness Helps Us Understand Our True Personalities, Study Says
Article: Study Shows Meditation Increases Compassion, Love and Forgiveness
Article: Art Therapy And Mindfulness Training Lower Stress In Breast Cancer Patients: Study
Article: Compassion Meditation May Improve Physical and Emotional Responses to Psychological Stress.
Mindfulness, Business & Performance
Article: Harvard Business Review – Mindfulness Can Literally Change Your Brain
Article: New York Times – O.K., Google, Take a Deep Breath
Article: Mindfulness, Meditation, Wellness and Their Connection to Corporate America’s Bottom Line
Article: 10 Big Companies That Promote Employee Meditation
Article: Mindfulness at Work: Eastern Wisdom for Western Business
Article: The Mind Business
Article: Google Teaches Employees To ‘Search Inside Yourself
Article: The Game Changer
Article: Enlightenment Engineering: Meditation and mindfulness are the new rage in Silicon Valley. And it’s not just about inner peace—it’s about getting ahead
Video: Mindfulness and corporate America
Video: British 2013 TV report on how mindfulness is being embraced by corporations due to its stress-reduction and profitability
Video: 29 minutes segment on how businesses are embracing mindfulness because of the profitable effects
Mindfulness & the Military
Article: Marines expanding use of meditation training
Article: Meditating Marines: Military tries mindfulness to lower stress
Article: Meditation May Boost Mood and Mental Toughness
Video: A Mindful Nation: Mindfulness and the Military
Video: Mindfulness Meditation in Military
Mindfulness & Children
Website: Mindful Schools
Website: Mindfulness in Schools Project
Website: Peace in Schools: Bringing Mindfulness to Teens
Article: Mindfulness practices buoy students in Sacramento’s Einstein Middle School
Article: UCLA Mindfulness and Schools Information Resource
Article: Eight Tips for Teaching Mindfulness in High School
Article: Mindfulness in Education Research Highlights (Research Summary)
Article: Mindful Kids, Peaceful Schools (Research Summary)
Article: Why does the Government want to teach mindfulness in schools?
Article: Should Schools Teach Kids to Meditate?
Article: Mindfulness Programs In Schools Reduce Symptoms Of Depression Among Adolescents: Study
Article: School Mindfulness Programs May Reduce Stress — And Make Teens Happier, Study Finds
Article: ‘Mindful Moments’ Program Has High School Students Begin And End Each Day With Meditation (VIDEO)
Article: Why Teaching Mindfulness Benefits Students’ Learning
Article: The education of character: Carefully Considering Craisins
Article: Mindfulness Programs In Schools Reduce Symptoms Of Depression Among Adolescents: Study
Video: Mindful Schools In-Class Instruction
Video: iBme Mindfulness Programs Transform an Oakland Public High School
Video: Mindfulness In Schools – BBC World News
Video: About Modern Mindfulness for Schools
Video: Mindfulness: Learning to Stop the Stress (NBC Washington News)
Video: Mindup Program for Children
Video: Building better brains
Video: Children talking about the benefits of mindfulness
Video: Mindful Schools, Compassionate Schools
Video: ABC news report on mindfulness in local school
Mindfulness and the Brain
Overviews
Article: Harvard Business Review – Mindfulness Can Literally Change Your Brain
Article: Your Brain on Mindfulness Meditation
Article: How Meditation May Change the Brain
Article: Want a Happier Brain? Try Mindfulness
Article: Your Brain on Meditation
Article: This is Your Brain on Mindfulness
Article: Mindfulness Meditation and the Brain
Article: Mindfulness Training and the Compassionate Brain
Article: Brain activity and meditation (wikipedia.com)
Article: Health benefits of meditating on compassion to increase happiness and empathy
Article: How To Rewire Your Brain for Positivity and Happiness
Article: How the neuroscience of meditation rewires the brain for love
Article: What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate
Article: Meditation leads to an effective use of the brain
Article: Your Brain on Meditation
Article: This is Your Brain on Meditation
Article: Can Meditation Permanently Change Your Brain? (Contemplative Neuroscientists Think it Can)
Article: Mindfulness meditation: A mental workout to benefit the brain
Article: The science behind meditation, and why it makes you feel better
Article: How Does a Mindful Practice Do Anything?
Article: The Brain: How the Brain Rewires Itself
Video: How mindfulness increases compassion in the brain
Video: Mark Williams talks about the brain processes that create the benefits of mindfulness
Video: Neuroscientist Sara Lazar gives 8 minute talk on how meditation can shape the brain
Video: Rick Hanson: Understanding Neuroplasticity
Video: Dan Rather 6-Part report on neuroplasticity and changing your brain through meditation
Video: Richard Davidson on CBS news discussing neuroplasticity Headspace Animation: Mind
Headspace Animation: Blue Sky
Headspace Animation: Effort
Video: Brain Plasticity – The Story of Jody
Video: Panel discussion with Kabat-Zinn and Davidson about mindfulness and neuroplasticity (1hr.14min)
Video: Summary of neuroscientist Britta Holzel’s research on brain changes resulting from mindfulness training
Video: Ted Talk: Neuroscientist Catherine Kerr talks about the Mechanisms of Mindfulness
Video: Ted Talk: Willoughby Britton – Why A Neuroscientist Would Study Meditation
Video: Ted Talk – Neuroscientist Dan Siegel talks about mindfulness and neural integration
Video: Short animation showing how neural plasticity occurs (5 min)
Video: Short video discussing and illustrating how neuroplasticity occurs (5 min)
Video: Jon Kabat Zinn discusses the application of mindfulness (20 min)
Video: Ted Talk – Matt Killingsworth talks about happiness and his research on mind-wandering
Specific Studies
Article: ‘Mindful’ Meditation Tied to Healthy Brain Changes: Study
Article: Mindfulness Meditation Changes Brain Structure in Eight Weeks
Article: Mindfulness Meditation Linked With Positive Brain Changes, Study Suggests
Article: University Of Wisconsin Study Reports Sustained Changes In Brain And Immune Function After Meditation
Article: ‘Mindful’ Meditation Tied to Healthy Brain Changes: Study (Differences seen in white matter with ‘integrated body-mind training’)
Article: Emory Researchers Study the Effects Of Zen Meditation On The Brain
Article: Meditation Associated with Increased Grey Matter in the Brain
Article: Compassion Meditation Changes the Brain
Article: Why meditation helps you focus: Mindfulness improves brain wiring in just a month
Article: Brain can be trained in compassion, study shows
Article: Stanford studies monks’ meditation, compassion
Article: How to Train the Compassionate Brain
Article: Meditation Stimulates Long-Lasting Brain Changes
Article: Meditation’s Positive Residual Effects
Article: Compassion can be trained
Article: Study Shows the Brain Can Be Trained in Compassion with Meditation
Article: What Can 11 Hours of Meditation Training Do? It can Rewire Your Brain
Article: Meditation May Increase Gray Matter
Article: Meditation’s Effects on Emotion Shown to Persist
Article: Meditation’s Antianxiety Effects Visible on Brain Imaging
Article: Meditation Beats Anxiety By Activating Certain Brain Regions, Study Finds
Article: Brain Waves and Meditation
Article: Mindfulness Meditation: How It Works In The Brain
Article: Is meditation the push-up for the brain?
Article: Evidence Builds that Meditation Strengthens the Brain, UCLA researchers say
Article: Meditation Appears to Produce Enduring Changes in the Emotional Processing in the Brain
Article: Compassion Meditation May Boost the Neural Basis of Empathy, Study Finds
Article: “Mindful” Meditation Tied to Healthy Brain Changes: Study
Article: Eight Weeks of Mindfulness Meditation can Rewire the Brain and Control Depression Symptoms
Article: Study Reveals Benefits of Meditation
Article: Anxious? Activate Your Anterior Cingulate Cortex With a Little Meditation