Huffington Post Mindfulness Research
If you are curious about mindfulness research and the latest ideas about ways to integrate mindful awareness into everyday life, this is a great website to check out. Visit Huff Post Mindfulness Research
Your Meditation Timer
This is a web-based meditation timer with lots of great customization options.
Lift.do
Backed by original founders of Twitter, this company provides a great way to use the digital world as your support system for making progress on your goals. This is basically “Facebook for goals.” Your profile only includes information about the goals you are working on, so it doesn't become another social media distraction/time-sink. In [...]
Focus@Will
On the surface, this is a music membership service specifically designed to provide background music to listen to while you are working. Look a little deeper, though, and you can find an amazing tool to help you stay focused & productive throughout your workday. You choose the music style and energy level. Then, you [...]
Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley
This organization is doing some really exciting research about what makes people thrive. Here, you'll find great conversations about things like the science of gratitude, compassion, happiness, empathy, and altruism. Their relationship with the University of California at Berkeley allows them to to do a lot of high quality research in these areas. Measuring [...]
The Mindful Way Through Anxiety
So much anxiety is brought about by unhelpful thoughts patterns that don't need to control your life. By bringing more mindful awareness to your thought patterns, you are able to reduce not only the symptoms of anxiety but you can also often eliminate the root cause. The Mindful Way through Anxiety: Break Free from Chronic [...]
The Mindful Way Through Depression
Mindfulness is one of the most powerful tools I have found to offer clients who experience depression. This book is a great introduction to the basics of mindfulness practice and how to apply these skills to reduce the suffering brought on my depression. It also includes a CD for practicing. The Mindful Way Through Depression: [...]
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself From Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
In my mind, self-compassion is an essential skill to practice if you want to achieve your goals and develop resilience. Everything changes when you are able to practice putting aside the self-judgment that gets in the way of your ability to clearly look back at your “failures." Suddenly, instead of these being reasons to beat [...]
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
This is a great place to start for people interested in trying a mindfulness-based writing practice. The book is broken down into short chapters (1-3 pages usually) that almost read like stand-alone exercises. After you read the first couple of chapters, at least, you can really just pick up wherever your fancy takes you. I [...]
Authentic Happiness Website
Authentic Happiness is the place to start for more information about positive psychology. Martin Seligman is well known as a founding father in the field of positive psychology, which is one of my favorite approaches in psychology. It differs from most other approaches in that instead of focusing on fixing what is wrong, positive [...]
Authentic Happiness
With a large body of research to back up his interventions, Martin Seligman has done a great deal to develop the field of positive psychology. I often recommend this book in conjunction with some of the questionnaires on his website. His approaches focus on helping people find their strengths, and research shows us there is [...]