We asked experts — mindfulness teachers, spiritual leaders and scientists — for their favorite beginner-friendly titles. By Hope Reese Distractions are everywhere. We’re so often summoned by ...

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book, by Dan Harris, Carlye Adler, and Jeffrey Warren. In this self-discovery book, ABC anchor Dan Harris discusses how he overcame his ...

Harris' self-depracating sense of humor and secular approach make him an unexpected, but perfect, messenger for the powers of mindfulness and meditation. He's also very good at explaining—in ...

Mindfulness is not a New Age, spiritual fad but a research-tested practice that can improve one’s health and well-being, according to two recently published books: Fully Present: The Science, Art, and ...

If you want to see if a daily practice of mindfulness might be good for you, “Mindfulness for Beginners” is an intelligent guide. Frank Hurley lives in Mobile and wrote the "Talk About Books ...

Best mindfulness books to help you find a good headspace. ... Mindfulness focuses on this very thing and is a free, quick and simple way to keep in control of our lives, ...

As Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson write in their new book, Altered Traits, “These changes are trait-like: They appear not simply during the explicit instruction to perceive the stressful stimuli ...

For NPR's Life Kit, Shereen Marisol Meeraji speaks with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of mindfulness-based stress reduction, about how to manage stress, uncertainty and difficulties using mindfulness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of mindfulness-based stress reduction, explains how to begin a meditation practice — and how doing so can help you seize the present moment. Accessibility links Skip ...

We may live in a culture of distraction, but mindfulness has captured our attention. Books on the practice are numerous, including guides to "A Mindful Pregnancy," "Mindful Parenting," "Mindful ...

The term mindfulness can be “very fraught,” agreed Lil Copan, senior acquisitions editor at Broadleaf Books, particularly if it has been “diluted in its origin” in Buddhism.