Some Reading Suggestions:

• Wherever you go, there you are: mindfulness meditation in everyday life – Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the present moment and your life– Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Self-Compassion : Stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind – Kristin Neff
• Lovingkindness: the revolutionary art of happiness – Sharon Salzberg
• Seeking the Heart of Wisdom – Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein
• The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
• The Gift of Imperfection – Brene Brown
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
• The Miracle of Mindfulness – Thich Nhat Hanh
• Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world – Danny Penman, Mark Williams.
• The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness – Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and Their Parents) – Eline Snel
• Everday Blessings – Mindfulness for Parents – Myla & Jon-Kabat-Zinn
• The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions – Christopher Germer
• When things fall apart. Heart advice for difficult times – Pema Chödrön
• Living Well with Pain and Illness: The Mindful Way to Free Yourself from Suffering – Vidyamala Burch
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brene Brown
• The 7 habits of Highly Succesful People – Stephen Covey
• Altered Traits – Science reveals how meditation changes your mind, body and brain – Daniel Goleman & Richard J.Davidson
• The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
• Your Body is your Brain – Amanda Blake
• Untamed : Stop pleasing, start living – Glennon Doyle
• Breath : The new science of a lost art – James Nestor

Websites:

• soundstrue.com (for online tutorials, meditations and courses – some content is free)
• mindful.org (for news, articles and research around mindfulness)
• self-compassion.org (for resources, exercices and practices around self-compassionn)
• umassmed.edu (mindfulness center from Jon Kabat-Zinn)
• oxfordmindfulness.org (mindfulness center from Mark Williams, founder of MBCT)
• berkeley.edu (Greater Good Science Center studies psychology, sociology and neuroscience of wellbeing, teaching skills that foster a thriving, resilient and compassionate society)
• You Tube Channel: The Mindful Movement (plenty of lovely meditations)
• Apps : Calm, Buddhify, Headspace, Insight Meditation

 “Hokusai Says

Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. Hokusai says there is no end to seeing. He says look forward to getting old. He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are. He says get stuck, accept it, repeat yourself as long as it is interesting. He says keep doing what you love. He says keep praying. He says every one of us is a child, every one of us is ancient, every one of us has a body. He says every one of us is frightened. He says every one of us has to find a way to live with fear. He says everything is alive — shells, buildings, people, fish, mountains, trees, wood is alive. Water is alive. Everything has its own life. Everything lives inside us. He says live with the world inside you. He says it doesn’t matter if you draw, or write books. It doesn’t matter if you saw wood, or catch fish. It doesn’t matter if you sit at home and stare at the ants on your veranda or the shadows of the trees and grasses in your garden. It matters that you care. It matters that you feel. It matters that you notice. It matters that life lives through you. Contentment is life living through you. Joy is life living through you. Satisfaction and strength is life living through you. He says don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid. Love, feel, let life take you by the hand. Let life live through you. – Roger Keyes”