To date, the traditions and techniques that have been most substantively researched in the field of contemplative science have largely derived from Buddhism and Buddhist-inspired movements. While there have been tremendous advances and developments due to this collaboration—indeed there would be no field without it—a natural consequence of this specific alliance is that insights from …
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PURCHASE NOW By Valerie M. Bentz, Vincenzo M. B. Giorgino CreateSpace Independent Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1541119147 Contemplative Social Research brings together research and insights from scholars throughout Europe and North America, and from a variety of social science disciplines. The book argues that contemplative-based inquiry is unique in recognizing the deep oneness of humanity, since it …
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An Interview with Mind & Life Fellow, Helen Weng, PhD. Helen Y. Weng, PhD is a Mind & Life Fellow and a postdoctoral scholar at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Helen is interested in how contemplative practices can improve communication within and between individuals, and how this in turn improves …
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, …
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As a Mind & Life Fellow who received the Francisco J. Varela Research Grant in 2007 and the Mind & Life 1440 grant in 2013, Dr. Eric Garland has gone on to become the developer of an innovative, multimodal mindfulness-based intervention founded on insights derived from cognitive, affective and neurobiological science, called Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement …
Consider the amazing life of Catherine Kerr, who began her career as an historian, was retrained as a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, and went on to present scientific research on neurophysiology to the Dalai Lama. For those who knew Cathy, this capacity for transformation through focused purpose was just one of her remarkable qualities. …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
