Summary: The fundamental benefit of mindfulness is that it improves your overall health and well-being. Learn techniques from some of the nation's leading experts, including Jon Kabat-Zinn and Chade-Meng Tan, who will teach you how to focus your attention in a brand new way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 MINNhất Hạnh
Summary: "The distractions of modern life vie for our attention, pulling us in many directions and interfering with our ability to focus. We are losing our capacity to concentrate, and with it our ability to be fully present, to have sovereignty over our life, and to be at our best for ourselves, each other, and the world. In inspiring passages and simple yet profound meditations, Thich Nhat Hanh guides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parallax Press 2022
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Summary: "As a teen, you're going through major changes -- both physically and mentally. And all these big changes and confusing new emotions can leave you feeling super stressed out and anxious. To make matters worse, you may feel like you just aren't good enough and constantly compare yourself to friends, classmates, or even celebrities. So, how can you manage stress, silence your inner critic, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 155.5 ButGates, Mariam.
Summary: "This accessible and fun guide to meditation and mindfulness is the perfect introduction for young children Meditation does a body good, and can even help kids as young as four or five. This practical guide is gentle, clear, and a pleasure to use. Kids will learn how to focus on their breath, on the sensations in their body, and on the sounds around them to help them relax, settle their busy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GATStewart, Whitney
Summary: From hormones to homework, parents to peers, health issues to bad habits, life can be a pressure cooker leading to anxiety and even thoughts of suicide. How can we find relief? Author Whitney Stewart introduces readers to the practice of mindfulness. With its roots in ancient Buddhist teachings, mindfulness--the practice of purposefully focusing attention on the present moment--can change a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 155 STEStewart, Whitney
Summary: "This guide introduces kids and preteens to mindfulness through exercises, meditations, and writing prompts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018
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Summary: "We all want to bring more calm into our lives. We all want to feel more focused and positive. Mindfulness is the key to making it happen. Breathe like a bear guides us through fun exercises to help us relax and stretch our imaginations. Because just like we need to exercise our bodies, we need to flex our mindfulness muscles!"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Kids 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 158.1 WILBruna, John
Summary: "A rich and multilayered guide that offers readers accessible wisdom and practical methods to cultivate deeper satisfaction in everyday experiences. In contrast to stimulus-driven pleasure, contentment comes from living a life of meaning that aligns with one's values.The authoridentifies the common traps people fall into looking for happiness that actually create stress, worries, and fears, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Central Recovery Press 2016
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Summary: "Books in the Just Breathe series provide readers with tools on how to practice mindfulness throughout their day. In Be Still: Practicing Meditation, students will learn about guided visual exercises and meditation. Readers are provided with helpful exercises, tips, and activities to better manage their thoughts and feelings. The book is written with a high-interest level to appeal to a more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J155.4 LOHWellings, Nigel
Summary: "An accessible guide from an expert on Mindfulness on how to get the most out of meditation--and make the practice a permanent part of your daily life. Meditation is supposed to be a practice that's relaxing and beneficial...so why is it so hard to commit to? While many people have taken workshops in meditation, a significant number don't maintain their practice for long after the class is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 WELKabat-Zinn, Jon
Summary: More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we think about awareness in everyday life with his now classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. He followed that up in 2005 with Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our well-being on every level, physical, cognitive, emotional, social, planetary,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.1 KABOrtner, Nick
Summary: Do YOU have the magic breath? Let's see... Take a deeeeeep breath in... and BLOW it out.... .and like magic, you can feel better just by breathing! Sometimes it's hard to feel happy. But with this interactive picture book, children breathe along as they learn how to make angry or sad thoughts disappear. In a world that is sometimes too busy, with too many things going on, My Magic Breath will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORTSiegel, Daniel J.
Summary: "This groundbreaking new book from New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., introduces readers to his pioneering, science-based meditation practice. Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one's day-to-day life. An in-depth look at the science that underlies meditation's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 SIESmith, Kelly
Summary: "Mindful in Minutes: Meditation for the Modern Family helps families explore the healing benefits of meditation with over 100 guided practices for parents, teens, and kids of all ages"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fair Winds Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 SMIPollak, Susan M
Summary: "I yelled at the kids again--and feel so ashamed." "I barely have time to shower, let alone exercise; no wonder I'm so out of shape." "I'm just not the dad I hoped I would be." Parenting is hard. That's why self-compassion is so important. In this empathic resource, mindfulness expert and psychologist Susan M. Pollak helps you let go of constant self-judgment and treat yourself with the same...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Guilford Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 POLGoleman, Daniel
Summary: "WHY WE MEDITATE by Daniel Goleman, the New York Times-bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and many other books, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, an internationally recognized and beloved spiritual guide in the Tibetan Buddhist community, presents scientifically backed and time-proven Eastern meditation practices that offer an antidote to the forces of frenzy and stress that awash us"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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Summary: "SHARON SALZBERG, one of the world's most renowned and beloved meditation teachers, distills the wisdom that's come from decades of helping people navigate the daily challenges of life into this true gift of a book. On every page, discover inspiration for you next step, and then the step after, no matter where your path is taking you. Here are reflections to help you shift perspective. Prompts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Psy SalzbergAlexander, Eben
Summary: "Dr. Eben Alexander, author of international phenomenon Proof of Heaven, shares the next phase of his journey to understand the true nature of consciousness and how to cultivate a state of harmony with the universe and our higher purpose. In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander's brain was severely damaged by a devastating case of bacterial meningitis, and he lapsed into a weeklong coma. It was almost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ALEKim, Sumi Loundon
Summary: "Every night the moon rises, the stars come out, and we get ready for bed. We snuggle together, and before we sleep, we send our love into the world. As the day comes to a close, Goodnight Love helps children connect to the warmth of their hearts through the power of lovingkindness. We show self-compassion by sending blessings to ourselves. We share love by sending blessings to our families and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bala Kids 2023
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Summary: "Think you don't have time to meditate? Think again! Instead of trying to carve out a designated daily meditation time, learn to make the most of the boring, mindless tasks you have to complete throughout the day! From the two minutes you spend brushing your teeth to the time it takes you to eat your lunch, you can turn those moments into a quick and easy opportunity for relaxing meditation....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 ACKWilliams, Justin Michael
Summary: "STAY WOKE: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us is an entertaining no-bullshit, how-to guide that ignites purposeful action driven by the clarity of meditation. It is about bringing meditation to people who are yearning to move up in the world -meditation for achievement driven, success-minded, upward-moving people who want to use the practice to become more connected to their mission and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2020