Resources

As with anything – there are so many books. It is hard to know how many to include, but you may just want to dip in to one of two of these.The key is always practice not reading  but it can help to support and widen your practice.

Books

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of your Body and Mind to face Stress, Pain and Illness. Jon Kabat -Zinn. ISBN 0-385-30312

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn (Jan 1994)

The Mindful way Through Depression. Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon kabat -Zinn

Coming to Our Senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn. Piatcus

Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World. Mark Williams and Danny Penman. Piatkus

Radical Acceptance.  Tara Brach. Bantam Press.

Radical Compassion. Tara Brach

Everyday Blessings. The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting. Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn

Your Body Knows the Answer, (Mindfulness and felt Sense) David I Rome Shambhala

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the promises and perils of spiritual life.Jack Kornfield

After the Ecstasy the Laundry. How the heart grows wise on the Spiritual Path. Jack Kornfield. Rider

What is meditation…How to develop a meditation Practice and the benefits of meditation. Christina Feldman

Why Can’t I Meditate?: how to get your mindfulness practice on track. Nigel Wellings

Breath by Breath: The liberating practice of Insight meditation. Larry Rosenberg.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, The Path of Insight Meditation, Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield. Shambala

The Miracle of Mindfulness. Thich Nhat Hahn. Beacon

Being Peace. Thich Nhat Hanh

The Wisdom of No Escape. The Path of Loving Kindness. When Things Fall Apart: Hear Advice for Difficult Times. Start Where you Are. Pema Chodron. Shambala

The Mindful Path to Self-compassion.  Christopher K. Germer. The Guildford Press

The Compassionate Mind.  Paul Gilbert

Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective. Mark Epstein.

Faith, trusting your own deep experience. Sharon Salzberg. Element.

Cave in the Snow; A Western Woman’s Quest for Enlightenment. Vickie Mackenzie. Bloomsbury.

The Plastic Mind,  New science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves.Sharon Begley.  Constable

The Mindful Brain   Daniel J, Siegal  Norton.

Life with Full Attention. Matryabandhu Windhorse Publication

CDs

You can get them from Amazon and Wisdom Publications UK or Sounds True.

Pema Chodron CDs Getting Unstuck (from the all-day), From Fear to Fearlessness,

How to Meditate, This Moment is the Perfect Teacher, Fully Alive, The Places That Scare You and many others.

Tara Brach. Radical acceptance.  From Amazon or Wisdom Publications.

Eckart Tolle ‘The Power of Now’, ‘Open Door’, ‘Resist Nothing: Guided Meditations’. From Sounds True.

Apps

Meditation timer app

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/insight-timer-meditation-timer/id337472899?mt=8

Websites

Most of the meditation teachers listed below give their teachings freely. We can support their work as well as our own journey into generosity by making a donation when we listen to their talks.

www.tarabrach.com
Tara Brach, has interesting talks and meditations including loving kindness meditation for download

www.dharmaseed.org
talks by various well known meditation teachers in the insight tradition

www.gaiahouse.co.uk
Gaia House. Gaia house runs a number of mindfulness retreats as well as Buddhist meditation  retreats. It is near Newton Abbot in Devon.

http://www.coiuk.org
Community of Inter Being  This is the website for the community formed by Thich Nhat Hanh and you can stream and download meditation material and talks.