Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond

PURCHASE NOW By Nancy Bardacke Publisher: HarperOne ISBN-13: 978-0061963957 In the book Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will help you find calm and ease during this life-changing time, …

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain

How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves PURCHASE NOW How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Sharon Begley (Ballantine Books) ISBN-10: 0345479890 ISBN-13: 978-0345479891 Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing, alter how we think and …

The Mind’s Own Physician

A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation PURCHASE NOW By Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard Davidson with Zara Houshmand (New Harbinger Publications) ISBN-10: 1572249684 ISBN-13: 978-1572249684 By inviting the Dalai Lama and leading researchers in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience to join in conversation, the Mind & Life Institute set the …

Destructive Emotions

A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama PURCHASE NOW by Daniel Goleman (Bantam Doubleday Dell) ISBN: 978-0-553-38105-4 In May 2001, in a laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, a Tibetan Buddhist monk donned a cap studded with hundreds of sensors that were connected to a state-of-the-art EEG, a brain-scanning device capable of recording changes in …

Consciousness at the Crossroads

PURCHASE NOW Edited by Zara Houshmand, Robert B. Livingston, and B. Alan Wallace (Snow Lion Publications) ISBN: 9781559391276 This book addresses some of the most fundamental and troublesome questions that have driven a wedge between the realms of Western science and religion for centuries. Is the mind nothing more than an ephemeral side effect of …

Mind & Life XXX – Session 3

Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXX: Perception, Concepts, and Self” on December 15, 2015. Examining the Perception of Body Sensations: Correlating Aspects of Perceptual Processes with Mind, Self, and Basic PhysiologySPEAKER: Catherine Kerr Recent scientific findings suggest that perception of body sensations, such as a lump in the throat or a …