Products: Books on Meditation, Stress Management and Relaxation Techniques
Recommended Reading
Students and clients often want to do more reading and investigation into yoga or meditation. These are the books that I most often refer them to. They are also the books that I most often turn to for my own reference.
This group provides recommended reading on Meditation, Stress Reduction and Relaxation Techniques.
Beyond the Relaxation Response: How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Personal Beliefs
Herbert Benson
In this follow-up to The Relaxation Response Benson concludes that combining meditation with faith in a healing power, either inside or outside the self, is even more powerful in combating stress. This highly rated book clearly conveys the power of mental strategies in influencing health and the healing process.
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Kabat-Zinn blends his personal story with compelling and practical guidance for self-healing. He encourages mindful awareness as a safe haven where we can restore ourselves and rest in harmony, tranquility, creativity and joyfulness in the current moment, not in some hoped for future time.
Full-Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The program of the stress reduction clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center invites the reader to embark upon a journey of self-development, self-discovery, learning and healing. Originally developed to help persons with life-threatening illness, the program has been thoroughly researched and found to be useful in reducing stress and increasing health and wellbeing.
The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation
Thich Nhat Hanh
For those who struggle with sitting still for meditation, this simple book offers a wonderful alternative: walking meditation. Practical techniques guide the reader to use this most ordinary of daily activities to deepen one’s mindful awareness of the present moment, increase relaxation and concentration, and reduce stress. A classic on walking meditation.
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Thich Nhat Hanh
A Vietnamese Buddhist monk’s lucid and simple guide to Eastern meditation practices. It is filled with anecdotes and practical exercises which demonstrate that opportunities for mindfulness exist in every moment.
A Path With Heart: A Guide through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
Jack Kornfield
Since 1974, Kornfield has been teaching Westerners how to integrate Eastern teaching into their daily lives. Through generous story-telling and unmitigated warmth, Kornfield presents this excellent guidebook on living with attentiveness, meditation and compassion.
Peace Is Every Step: the Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Thich Nhat Hanh
The deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the ‘mindless’ into the mindful.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle
Tolle’s message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. He shares ideas about personal integration with uncommon eloquence and a deep understanding of the human condition. A spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire the reader to live more fully in the present.
Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations and Exercises From The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
This manual makes an excellent companion guide to Tolle’s The Power of Now and is rich in exercises and meditations to help readers get out of their minds so they can live more peacefully in their bodies.
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
Martha Davis, et.al.
This fifth edition self-help classic offers many self-assessment tools and calming techniques to help overcome anxiety and promote physical and emotional wellbeing. It presents a comprehensive look at stress, its physical manifestations and the multiple ways it can be managed. Chapters on breathing, relaxation, meditation, thought stopping, stress management, time management, assertiveness training, and body awareness offer the reader focused approaches to dealing with the many varieties of stress.
