Resources
ADOLESCENCE
Videos
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks about the neuroscience of adolescence in this TED talk
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Alison Gopnik talks about the way infants experience the world in this TED talk
Books
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
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Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
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Reviving Ophelia: saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive by Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson.
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Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Grit by Paul Tough
MINDFULNESS
Guided Meditations
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I love Andrea Fella's teaching. Here is a nice 20 minute concentration practice, emphasis on relaxation. Good stuff.
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Alan Wallace is an extraordinarily accomplished practitioner and scholar. At 14:55 of this podcast he leads a very relaxing and restorative concentration meditation. Lasts about 24 minutes. Nice to do while lying down, if you can stay awake.
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Several great meditations led by Kristen Neff of UT Austin
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Several brief (3 - 19 minutes) meditations from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
Books
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Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
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Buddha's Brain: Resources for Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson
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The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield
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Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge by Alan Wallace
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The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind by Alan Wallace
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Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind by Jeffrey Hayward and Fransisco Varela
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Train Your Mind Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley
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Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by the Arahat Daniel Ingram
Websites
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Ken McLeod has done groundbreaking work in making Buddhist practice and theory fully accessible without diluting its essence. His website is called Unfettered Mind.
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Daniel Ingram writes very clearly and directly, if sometimes abrasively, about Buddhist practice. You can find his opus online in wiki form here.
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The Mindfulness Bell contains an archive of articles on a wide variety of topics related to meditation and Buddhism, many by the renowned teacher and author Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Mind and Life Institute - an organization working to integrate modern science and contemplative wisdom
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Mindfulness Research Guide - a database of published studies related to mindfulness
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Self-Compassion at UT Austin - the research laboratory of Dr. Kristen Neff
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Association for Mindfulness in Education - just what it sounds like
Videos
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Rick Hanson also provides an interesting lecture on the physiology of meditation and happiness. It's about an hour long, and very worth the time.