developing equanimity

developing equanimity

By Gil Fronsdal and Sayadaw U PanditaWINTER 2005

http://tricycle.org/magazine/perfect-balance/

Mind the Bump: Mindfulness and how the brain works

Mind the Bump: Mindfulness and how the brain works

7 Days Kindfulness Course

7 Days Kindfulness Course

Audio Resources for Mindfulness Meditation

http://www.mindful.org/audio-resources-for-mindfulness-meditation/

Audio Resources for Mindfulness Meditation

A collection of free guided meditations.
By Mindful Staff | November 25, 2015

Cultivate Tranquility, Harvest Insight

http://www.lionsroar.com/cultivate-tranquility-harvest-insight/

Cultivate Tranquility, Harvest Insight

BY AJAHN BRAHMAVAMSO| JULY 3, 2016

Meditation stages according to the Thai Forest Tradition

Sharon Salzberg on getting started with meditation

http://www.lionsroar.com/how-to-meditate-sharon-salzberg-on-getting-started/

Sharon Salzberg on getting started with meditation

BY SHARON SALZBERG| AUGUST 15, 2014

Sharon Salzberg explains the ins and outs of a core technique—meditating on the breath.

How to do Mindfulness Meditation

http://www.lionsroar.com/how-to-do-mindfulness-meditation/

How to do Mindfulness Meditation

BY SAKYONG MIPHAM RINPOCHE| MARCH 1, 2016

“Mindfulness practice is simple and completely feasible, says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. “Just by sitting and doing nothing, we are doing a tremendous amount.”

Buddhism and meditation for beginners — a Lion’s Roar guide

http://www.lionsroar.com/beginning-with-buddhism-and-meditation/

Buddhism and meditation for beginners — a Lion’s Roar guide

BY LION'S ROAR STAFF| MARCH 24, 2016

New to Buddhist meditation or Buddhist teachings? Then you probably have a lot of questions — and here you’ll find helpful answers, by way of articles from theLion’s Roar and Buddhadharma magazines. This page is a work in progress; we’ll be adding to it constantly to help you get started with your exploration of Buddhist thought and practice — and keep it going. 

Creating a Good Ground for Meditation

http://www.lionsroar.com/creating-a-good-ground-for-meditation/?utm_source=Lion%27s+Roar+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9a0251da2a-LR_Weekend_Read_May_13_20165_12_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1988ee44b2-9a0251da2a-20974389&goal=0_1988ee44b2-9a0251da2a-20974389

Creating a Good Ground for Meditation

BY THANISSARO BHIKKHU| MAY 1, 2004

Meditation isn’t a one-way street—you can’t just meditate and your life will get better. You have to change the way you live to improve your meditation. Thanissaro Bhikkhu outlines five principles of the ethical, restrained life conducive to meditation practice.

Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/burns/wheel088.html

Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology

by

Douglas M. Burns

© 1994

Contents

• Introduction
• The Goals of Meditation
• Preparations
• Psychological Obstacles
• Material Considerations
• Social Factors
• Individual Variations
• The Techniques of Meditation
• Mindfulness of Breathing
• Mindfulness of Postures and of Actions
• Repulsiveness, Material Components, and Cemetery Meditations
• Discursive Meditations
• Mindfulness of Feelings, Consciousness, and Mental Objects
• The Eighth Step
• Other Forms of Meditation
• Scientific Evaluations of Meditation
• The Social Fruits of Meditation
• Appendix
• Notes

HuffPost: Cutting Through the Corporate Mindfulness Hype

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-purser/cutting-through-the-corporate-mindfulness-hype_b_9512998.html

Cutting Through the Corporate Mindfulness Hype

Co-authored with Edwin Ng, 
Lecturer, School of Communications and Creative Arts, Deakin University

There has been a chorus of recent articles touting the benefits of mindfulness at work. But have they really distinguished between fact and fad, science from ideology, and the risks versus the benefits with regards to mindfulness at work? Part One addresses how the corporate mindfulness movement draws from the dubious discipline of “management science,” which historically has been a political endeavor to secure and legitimate the interests of corporations. Part Two will clarify that we are not dismissing the potential of mindfulness as a disruptive technology against prevailing systems, and invite readers to consider how they might use mindfulness to experiment with critical self-care.

A selection of Mindfulness Articles

A selection of Mindfulness Articles

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0cdx7il37ong3q/mindfulness.pdf?dl=0

A selection of Mindfulness articles

June 5, 2015

Mindfulness has lost its Buddhist roots, and it may not be doing you good

Miguel Farias, Coventry University and Catherine Wikholm, University of Surrey

The mindfulness technique is being blindly sold and we are buying it hook line and sinker.

February 25, 2015

Good sleep gets harder as we age, but mindfulness could help

Jo Abbott, Swinburne University of Technology and Imogen Rehm, Swinburne University of Technology

By learning to become more aware of present-moment experiences, we learn not to react to thoughts and worries that can interfere with sleep.

September 22, 2015

How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable

Zoë Krupka, La Trobe University

Corporate culture has stripped the ancient practice of mindfulness of its spirituality and re-branded it as a modern solution to over-work.

January 10, 2016

Mindfulness can improve living with a disability

Yoon-Suk Hwang, Australian Catholic University

A recent review of studies has shown that mindfulness meditation helps people with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder reduce their mental and physical problems.

January 1, 2014

Meditation, mindfulness and mind-emptiness

Ramesh Manocha, University of Sydney

Ever been unable to sleep because you can’t switch off that stream of thoughts that seems to flow incessantly, mercilessly through your head? When your mental noise distracts you from the task at hand…

October 2, 2014

Mindfulness: how to be in the moment … right here, right now

Maarten Immink, University of South Australia

Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. This quote by Leo Tolstoy in What Men Live By and Other…

August 5, 2015

Mindfulness therapy alleviates soldiers' PTSD, but only in the short term

Ian Hickie, University of Sydney and Jane Burns, University of Melbourne

A new study has found returned service people who underwent mindfulness-based therapies had a sharper short-term decline in PTSD symptoms than those undergoing other conventional therapies.

April 14, 2015

How a mindful approach to computer and smartphone use might just make you happier

Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou, Brunel University London and Jeremy Hunter, Claremont Graduate University

Computers and smartphones make us stressed and ill. It's about time we rethought how we should be using them.

December 15, 2014

How mindfulness could give you the gift of a calmer Christmas

Anna Leyland, University of Sheffield

In the run-up to Christmas we find our to-do lists bloated with added chores: present shopping, card writing, preparing to travel or receive guests. We are bombarded with adverts telling us what to buy…

February 13, 2015

From A to zen: mindfulness in seven days

Alessandro R Demaio, Harvard University

If you’re anything like me, one thing you find really hard to do - is nothing. I mean, really - doing nothing. Taking a moment out for yourself, meditating on life, reflecting on your day, getting to that…

June 9, 2011

Mindfulness meditation offers help with the travails of chronic illness

Monika Merkes, La Trobe University

Drugs to relieve pain for people with chronic diseases are expensive and can have harmful side effects. But there are alternatives that promise benefits exceeding pain relief. Mindfulness meditation…

November 7, 2013

‘Mindfulness’ training improves self-control for youth in jail

New York University

The meditation-based therapy known as “mindfulness” training has been found to improve concentration in incarcerated adolescents…

April 3, 2014

Approach your laptop mindfully to avoid digital overload

Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou, Brunel University London

Information overload has become an everyday experience for anyone who works with computers, owns a smartphone or waits at a bus stop with minute-by-minute updates about arrival times. And this information…

May 5, 2015

When it comes to information overload, we’re like frogs in boiling water

Andy Tattersall, University of Sheffield

There's ways to help tackle digital distraction - but they all revolve around you wanting to change.

November 1, 2013

Rumination and remedy: five ways to improve your outlook

Peter Kinderman, University of Liverpool

It is the events that happen in our lives that determine the state of our mental health, rather than some inherent personal inadequacy or genetic flaw. And psychological processes, such as rumination and…

January 18, 2012

Beyond spirituality: the role of meditation in mental health

Jonathan Krygier, University of Sydney and Andrew H Kemp, University of Sydney

Meditation has traditionally been associated with Eastern mysticism but science is beginning to show that cultivating a “heightened” state of consciousness can have a major impact on our brain, the way…

June 29, 2015

Why meditation should be taught in schools

Lea Waters, University of Melbourne

New research in the fields of psychology, education and neuroscience shows teaching meditation in schools is having positive effects on students' well-being, social skills and academic skills.

August 26, 2014

How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education

Matt Wall, Imperial College London

During World War II, residents on the islands in the southern Pacific Ocean saw heavy activity by US planes, bringing in goods and supplies for the soldiers. In many cases, this was the islanders' first…

January 25, 2016

How science can teach us to be more relaxed

Trudi Edginton, University of Westminster

Modern life creates long-term stress our bodies aren't designed to cope with – but all is not lost.

March 18, 2015

How branding 101 can make leaders more mindful of diversity

Renée Richardson Gosline, MIT Sloan School of Management

Not in terms of the Kardashian-style "personal brands" in vogue these days, but by using the practice's core principles to make leaders better and more mindful of diversity.

May 15, 2015

Mental health momentum mustn’t give way to political expediency

Tony Warne, University of Salford and Sue McAndrew, University of Salford

Demand for mental healthcare continues to rise, and so should our demands to make provision for it.

September 11, 2015

Knitting your way to a healthier, happier mind

Ian Hickie, University of Sydney and Jackie Randles, University of Sydney

Neural Knitworks, an event first staged for National Science Week in 2014, has since grown into an Australia-wide engagement project promoting connections between knitting and brain health.

October 8, 2014

From decisions to disorders: how neuroscience is changing what we know about ourselves

Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Abdul Mohammed, Linnaeus University; Alejandro Anton Fernandez, Polytechnic University of Madrid; Andrea Santuy, Cajal Institute; Diana Furcila, Cajal Institute; Francesco Cavarretta, University of Milan, and Léon Homeyer, University of Stuttgart

People have wanted to understand our motivations, thoughts and behaviours since the ancient Greeks inscribed “know thyself” on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. And understanding the brain’s place in health…

August 18, 2015

Yoga may be the missing link to stroke survivors' rehabilitation

Maarten Immink, University of South Australia

One in six Australians will have a stroke in their lifetime. That's about 51,000 strokes per year, or one every ten minutes.

March 10, 2014

Mass online meditation lets you zone out in cyberspace

Sue Thomas, Bournemouth University

For the past year I’ve been experimenting with meditating live online with people around the world. Their chosen spot is not a temple or a church hall or a sitting room, but cyberspace. Meditation is fast…

April 8, 2015

Students with autism need targeted attention – not a cage

Leigh Burrows, Flinders University

A review has been announced into school policies in Canberra after it was reported that a school was restraining a child with Autism in a cage-like structure.

January 26, 2015

The unhealthy underside of the wellbeing agenda

Andre Spicer, City University London and Carl Cederström, Stockholm University

Last week, the 0.1% met at World Economic Forum annual gathering in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos. While the official excuse to go there is to discuss and shape the global agenda – the theme dominating…

January 22, 2015

Well-being programmes in schools might be doing children more harm than good

Kathryn Ecclestone, University of Sheffield

Apocryphal depictions of an unprecedented crisis in young people’s mental ill-health and their general vulnerability have been accompanied by increasingly alarmist claims that only schools can address…

23 January, 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/23/is-mindfulness-making-us-ill

Is Mindfulness Making us ill ?

It’s the relaxation technique of choice, popular with employers and even the NHS. But some have found it can have unexpected effects

Guided Meditations

https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/

Guided Meditations

by Tara Brach

Use Wisdom to cultivate compassion

http://www.tricycle.com/feature/head-heart-together?page=0,0

Use Wisdom to cultivate compassion

By Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Tara Brach : FAQ for Meditation

https://www.tarabrach.com/faq-for-meditation/

Tara Brach : FAQ for Meditation

Emotions as expressed through Body Language

http://cassieisnotapie.tumblr.com/post/58928587148/41-emotions-as-expressed-through-body-language

Emotions as expressed through Body Language

UCTV: How Your Brain Can Turn Anxiety into Calmness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYJdekjiAog&feature=player_embedded

How Your Brain Can Turn Anxiety into Calmness

Uploaded on Mar 12, 2010

Physician, author, speaker, researcher, and consultant Martin L. Rossman, MD, discusses how to use the power of the healing mind to reduce stress and anxiety, relieve pain, change lifestyle habits, and live with more wellness. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [3/2010] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 17631]

Guided imagery exercise in the last 20 mins

Beginners introduction to Zazen

Beginners introduction to Zazen

http://meditationseeds.com/beginners-introduction-to-zazen/

The Hero's Journey

The Hero's Journey

http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/458496650/the-heros-journey

From the Odyssey, to Robinson Crusoe, to Star Wars — why are we drawn to stories about heroes? And what do they tell us about ourselves? This hour, TED speakers explore what makes a hero's journey.

Tricycle: Walking: Meditation on the Move

http://www.tricycle.com/practice/walking-meditation-move?page=0%2C4

Walking: Meditation on the Move

Achaan Chah, Sylvia Boorstein, Yasutani Roshi, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joan Halifax, Bruce Chatwin, Henry David Thoreau, Matsuo Basho