Building a mindfulness practice during your time at Penn State is a great opportunity to develop skills and tools to help manage stress and anxiety while simultaneously becoming increasingly aware of your own patterns, habits and preferences. Below are resources to help get you started on your journey.
“Every moment is a chance to begin again.”- Sharon Salzberg
Apps
- Insight Timer (free)
- Smiling Mind (free & premium content)
- UCLA Mindful (free)
- Healthyminds Program (free)
- Calm(student rate)
- Headspace (student rate)
Podcasts
- The Science of Happiness
- Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg
- Untangle, Mindfulness for Curious Humans
- Mindfulness Mode
Guided Meditations
- Penn State Health and Human Development
- Guided meditations with Tara Brach
- Guided meditations with Jack Kornfield
- Self-Compassion meditations
- Guided meditations from UCLA’s Mindfulness Program
“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become someone better. It’s about befriending who we already are.” -Pema Chodron
Mindfulness and Racial Justice
- Mindful of Race, Ruth Kind
- My Grandmother’s hands, Resmaa Menakem
- The Inner Work of Racial Justice, Rhonda Magee
Videos
- College student experiences with Mindfulness
- Jon Kabat-Zinn on Mindfulness
- 60 Minutes special on Mindfulness with Anderson Cooper
- 10 mindful minutes with Andy Puddicombe creator of Headspace
DIY
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Other Websites
- Mindfulness – Penn State College of Medicine
- Greater Good Science Center
- UC San Diego Health
- Mindful Magazine
Books
- The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress…and Everything Else, Holly Rogers
- What Now?: Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond, Yael Shy
- Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
- True Refuge, Tara Brach