Free Guided Meditations
https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations
Headspace: Meditation and Sleep made simple
Mindfulness Apps:
- Calm. Free, but has a fee for service component. Lots of meditations for beginners to experts. Includes a free learn to meditate course.
- Insight Timer. Free meditation course and lots of meditations.
- Free. This was designed in Vancouver to teach mindfulness to beginners. Has lots of guided meditations and practice exercises.
- One Moment Meditation. This app features a 1 minute meditation timer, with an optional 30 second body scan.
- Lumosity Mind. Free meditations.
- Stop Breathe & Think
Tara Brach, PhD psychologist
- Offers various meditations on her website for free www.tarabrach.com/. Check out this video where Tara talks about her equation pain x resistance = suffering (8 mins). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JywTh5O8ys
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course
You can look for programs running in your community. For a free 8 week MBSR course, visit www.palousemindfulness.com.
Books:
- You are Not Your Pain by Vidyamala Burch. A book about a mindfulness meditation approach to pain management pain written by a person who experiences chronic pain.
- The Mindfulness Solution to Pain by Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix
- Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris. The title speaks for the book!
