Mindfulness Resources

Mindfulness Resources
1. Courses you can attend
a) Aberystwyth:
“Mid Wales Mindfulness “ 2 courses (8 weeks each)
http://morussiwan.wix.com/mindfulness-midwales
go through whole webpage.
b) London:
“Mindfulness for health & wellbeing” 8 week course
c) Elsewhere…please google!
2.
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b)
c)
On-line courses: there are many..
Be Mindful play Mark Williams video / the course / testimonals/ cost
Headspace 10 mins for 10days free then good value.
Breathworks Vidyamala Burch
Breathworks has Mindfulness for health conditions see video at http://vimeo.com/85791422
Excellent at 2:38mins
d) Mindful way through anxiety American book with audio exercises
3. Testimonals
See YouTube: YourUniverseYoga Mindfulness for Health & Wellbeing - Feedback &
Testimonials
4. Websites (including guided meditations)
a) Mindfulness for Students An excellent Oxford Univ based website- recommended. Has
excellent Free Guided Meditations
b) Get self-help Full of many very helpful worksheets, valuable information. CBT orientated
with information on mindfulness and many links to mindfulness sites / downloads. UK
c) Free mindfulness Project UK based. Many free guided meditations.
d) Padraig O’Morain.com Many free excellent guided meditations. Republic of Ireland
e) Free guided meditations from UCLA, California
f) Anxiety Coach CBT based approach to working with anxiety (strong mindfulness themes
even if not explicitly saying so! See “The Anxiety Trick”). American.
5. Books
a) Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Prof Mark Williams and
Dr Danny Penman
b) The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
(includes Guided Meditation Practices CD)Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, Jon
Kabat-Zinn
c) The Miracle Of Mindfulness: The Classic Guide to Meditation By ThichNhatHanh
d) Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life By Jon KabatZinn
e) The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and
Emotions By Christopher K Germer
f) Mind Calm: The Modern-Day Meditation Technique that Gives You 'Peace with Mind'The
Power of Now By Eckhart Tolle
g) Mindfulness for Health: A practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring
wellbeing By Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman
6. Apps
a) Mindfulness App I
b) Mindfulness App II
c) Headspace
7. Dyslexia .Mindfulness for Dyslexia
http://mindfulnessforstudents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Dyslexia-ReviewArticle.pdf
5 senses drill
1. Pause what you are doing for a moment and take one or two deep breaths to help bring you into
the present moment.
2. Look around you, and silently name three things that you see in your immediate vicinity
2. Now opening to the sounds around you, silently note and name three things that you can hear
right now
3. Bringing your attention to your body, silently name three sensations that you can feel in this
moment (maybe warmth, tingling, contraction, coolness….. .)
4. Bringing your attention to smell and taste, what do you notice in your immediate awareness
when you bring your attention to these senses- lightly name what you experience.
5. Take one or two breaths to finish this mindfulness exercise.
Repeat this exercise every now and then to deliberately bring your awareness to what is
happening in the present moment
Just to fill the page…..here’s a quote:
Mindfulness can be described as paying attention to what we are experiencing, and doing so with
a particular attitude: one of curiosity, openness, acceptance and warmth. Simply observing what
we are experiencing right now, and bring a warm curiosity to whatever arises. In formal
mindfulness practices, our intention is often to centre our awareness on one particular experience,
such as the sensations involved in breathing or the sounds that we can hear, or to widen our
awareness to incorporate a range of experiences simultaneously, or to watch where our attention
goes without getting caught up in particular experiences. Mindfulness is also something that we
can bring to any aspect of our daily life, cultivating the same qualities of curiosity, awareness and
warmth. (www.freemindfulness.org)
One more… sorry I don’t know the source:
At the first meditation retreat that I ever attended, in the late 1970s, I asked one of the teachers in
an interview what to do with the wealth of unconscious perceptions and insights that arose during
my meditations. "Don't do anything," he advised me, "just let go of it." I later learned this was a
central dimension of the Buddhist method.
This can be tremendously useful advice. Most people spend an inordinate amount of time
obsessing about the past and fearfully anticipating the future.
Accurate as at February 2015