Recommended resources

As well as continuing to cultivate your meditation practice and continuing to apply mindfulness in your life, you may be interested in exploring the following resources to learn more about it.

Mindfulness

• Center for Mindfulness (Founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn)

• Kristin Neff (Self-compassion researcher)

• Smiling Mind (free mindfulness app)

• mindful.org

• The Mindfulness Initiative

• A collection of free Mindfulness apps

Your mental health

• National Mental Health Commission: 24 Hour Emergency Services in Australia

• spur: Mental health support: Links to various crisis counselling services and information networks around the world.

• Befrienders Worldwide: Volunteer action to prevent suicide

• NHS mental health helplines: Helplines in the UK

• Mental Health Hotline Numbers and Referral Resources: Helplines in the US

Videos

• Richard Chambers at TEDxUniMelb

• Jon Kabat-Zinn at Google

• Matthieu Ricard

• Kristin Neff TED

• Tara Brach

• Room To Breathe: Documentary on mindfulness in schools

• The Connection: Documentary and ebook on the mind-body relationship

• Oxford Mindfulness Centre YouTube Channel

• Andy Puddicombe’s TED Talk – “All it takes is 10 mindful minutes”

• ‘Mindfulness and Chronic Pain’ featuring Jon Kabat-Zinn – UMNCSH

• ‘Neuroplasticity’ – Sentis

Books

We have provided links to these books available online, but we encourage you to request them through your local bookseller.

• Mindfulness for Life by Dr Craig Hassed and Dr Stephen McKenzie

• Mindful Learning: Reduce stress and improve brain performance for effective learning by Dr Craig Hassed and Dr Richard Chambers

• Mindful Relationships: Creating genuine connection with ourselves and others by Dr Richard Chambers and Margie Ulbrick

• The Mindful Home by Dr Craig and Deirdre Hassed

• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn

• Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame by Tara Branch

• Self Compassion by Kristin Neff

• Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson

• Know Thyself: The Stress Release Programme by Craig Hassed

• Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman

• Mindfulness for Health: A Practical Guide to Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress and Restoring Wellbeing by Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman

• Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman

• Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body and Your Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn

• ‘Physician Hurt, Then Heal Thyself’ in The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge

• Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David

Newsletters and articles

• American Mindfulness Research Association (for a monthly digest of new research)

• How the Brain Can Change Your Experience of Pain