Mindfulness Meditation: 22+ Best Videos & Scripts (+ PDF)

Whether you have just heard of mindfulness meditation for the first time, have already begun dipping into mindfulness meditation recently or have been practicing mindfulness meditation for years, here are a few more resources relating to the subject.

From mindfulness meditation videos to exercises, books, and courses, this is a compilation of resources that should help take your practice to the next level. Before we begin, let’s define mindfulness meditation.

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A Definition of Mindfulness Meditation

For many people, the first thing that comes to mind when hearing the word “mindfulness” is meditation. Indeed, research has revealed a relationship between meditation experience and levels of mindfulness. For instance, in a study by Vinchurkar, Singh, and Visweswaraiah (2014), more years of meditation practice was found to be significantly associated with higher levels of trait mindfulness.

According to the 9th edition of Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, mindfulness meditation is

“A technique of meditation in which distracting thoughts and feelings are not ignored but are rather acknowledged and observed nonjudgmentally as they arise to create a detachment from them and gain insight and awareness.”

There are several different types of mindfulness meditations (many of which you will see if you read on), from sessions meant to be done first thing in the morning, to quick sessions meant to be done whenever one can, to longer sessions meant to aid in drifting off to sleep. Whatever type of mindfulness meditation sessions one chooses to do, the benefits of mindfulness meditation are clear.

The most commonly used mindfulness meditation is sitting meditation with a body scan. However, during the past years, different meditations have been developed and tested as well.

The so-called “soles to the feet” meditation, for instance, was designed to help youngsters and people with limited intellectual abilities to deal with anger (Fix & Fix, 2013). In a similar vein, acceptance-based meditations have been found to successfully allow people to deal with emotions and cravings (Alberts, Schneider, & Martijn, 2011; Alberts, Thewissen, & Raes, 2012).

Importantly, however, it must be recognized that mindfulness does not equal meditation. Irrespective of formal meditation experience, dispositional mindfulness levels appear to vary among the population (Brown & Ryan, 2003).

In other words, a person who has never heard of mindfulness and never meditated before can still live a very mindful life. Furthermore, research has shown that meditation is just one way to cultivate mindfulness. By integrating mindfulness into everyday routines, mindfulness levels can be increased as well (Hanley, Warner, Dehili, Canto, & Garland, 2015).

The Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation

For conciseness, we had to limit the list of benefits to just a few prominent topics, but in reality the benefits of mindfulness meditation is exceedingly long.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

One way to examine the efficacy of mindfulness meditation is to examine the efficacy of programs which use mindfulness meditation, most popularly Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

MBSR was initially developed for use by anyone looking to reduce stress levels, and MBCT was adapted from MBSR to:

“prevent future episodes of depression in people with a history of recurrent depression.” (umassmed.edu)

Since many mindfulness courses revolve around MBSR and MBCT and both of those programs rely on mindfulness meditation, reviewing the effectiveness of those programs is an indirect way to review the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation.

One group of researchers reviewed several randomized controlled trials involving MBSR and MBCT, and found concrete benefits of both programs:

• They concluded that MBSR improves mental health in “non-clinical and clinical populations”, and that it can complement traditional medicine in people who are physically ill.
• They also found that MBCT “is an effective and efficient way to prevent relapse in recovered, depressed patients with three or more previous episodes” (Fjorback Arendt, Ørnbøl, Fink, & Walach, 2011).

Mindfulness Meditation and Headaches

Mindfulness meditation can also help people with headaches, as one study examined the effects of mindfulness meditation on college students with migraine headaches (Azam, Katz, Mohabir, & Ritvo, 2016, p. 72). They found that:

“… brief mindfulness practices, and mindfulness-based interventions, can promote post-stress recovery in headache-affected populations.”

Specifically, mindfulness meditation was found to help regulate the heart rates of participants with headaches after a stressful event.

Mindfulness Meditation and Insomnia

A meta-analysis of the effects of mindfulness meditation on people with insomnia also showed benefits (Gong et al., 2016). For example, mindfulness meditation significantly reduced the amount of time participants spent awake as well as how long it took them to fall asleep, while also increasing the quality of their sleep.

Interestingly, another study looking at insomnia in postmenopausal women found that postmenopausal women with insomnia rated themselves as less mindful and attentive than postmenopausal women without insomnia, indicating that a lack of mindful practices may be partially responsible for the development of insomnia (Garcia et al., 2014).

These two studies show that mindfulness levels can both explain the presence of insomnia as well as ameliorate the effects of insomnia.

Effects of Mindfulness on Sensitivity to Pain

At North Carolina University, experiments were conducted using electrical stimulation on participants. The participants were given brief electrical pulses which increased and decreased in strength depending on each person’s pain tolerance.

Once participants’ tolerance ratings on pain were recorded, they then practiced mindfulness meditation for 20 minutes each day over a period of three days. After those three days, participants’ pain tolerance ratings were measured again using the same method.

The experiment’s results showed that participants’ pain tolerance ratings had significantly decreased since the commencement of the three-day meditation. The participants were less susceptible to pain just after three days of meditation.

Effect of Meditation on Sensory Experiences

A similar study has been done to better understand how meditation influences sensory experiences. Zeidan et al (2011) used an arterial spin labeling fMRI to identify neural mechanisms that were influenced by mindfulness in healthy participants. The study involved four days of mindfulness meditation training.

After this period, (through a multiple regression analysis) results showed a significant decrease of 57% in the unpleasantness of pain and a reduction of 40% in pain intensity ratings. The reduction in pain intensity ratings was associated with an increase in activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula, and was also linked to orbitofrontal cortex activation.

These findings are consistent with previous studies that have also shown that when participants were taught to experience the full extent and intensity of a sensory event, meditation reduced the unpleasantness of the pain. It is thought that this is due to the enhancement of cognitive control and the reframing of the contextual evaluation.

Meditation has also been associated with improved cognitions, including but not limited to working memory, visual-spatial skills and attention. The question is: can results be experienced with only a brief amount of training, just like with the electrical stimulation experiment?

So, How Fast Does it Work?

Researchers set out to test this idea in four sessions through fostering basic mindful meditation such as breathing exercises and body awareness, while another group of participants was instructed to mindfully listen to the audio recording of the novel “The Hobbit.” After the sessions participants completed self-report measures and various cognitive tasks to assess effects on mood and mindfulness or whether they had improved cognitive abilities.

Both groups improved on mood, but the mindful meditation group surpassed the second group on cognitive measures (memory and attention) and mindfulness. These levels had previously only been found in long term meditators.

This illustrates that even short-term meditation training can result in improved cognitive functioning and mood.

Google Tech Talk Lecture on Mindfulness Meditation

Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation Taken Together

These findings indicate that programs involving mindfulness meditation, as well as mindfulness meditation sessions by themselves, can help improve the wellbeing of both mentally- and physically-healthy people as well as people with mental and physical conditions.

The fact that mindfulness meditation can be useful both by itself and as a complement to more traditional medicine shows the value of its teachings. In other words:

whether you have a physical or mental condition and are taking medication for it or are completely healthy and not taking any medication, mindfulness meditation can increase your wellbeing.

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Mindfulness Meditation for Kids

If mindfulness meditation is beneficial for adults with varying levels of health, it follows that it should be helpful for children as well. Fortunately, there is research available that explores this claim.

According to one study, children who had mindfulness exercises (including mindfulness meditation) built into their daily schedules felt better about themselves, were rated as more pro-social by both themselves and their peers, and had better math outcomes than children who did not exercise mindfulness in their curriculum (Schonert-Reichl et al., 2015).

This indicates that mindfulness meditation can be helpful both academically and socially for children.

Interestingly, these benefits were found after incorporating mindfulness into the curriculum for less than an hour a week for just twelve weeks, making the implementation of similar programs very accessible to schools.

The Value in Teaching Mindfulness to Kids

Roy Hintsa, an MBSR facilitator based in Toronto, Canada says there is value in teaching mindfulness to children so they can have an easier time managing stress in adolescence. He has some tips involving teaching mindfulness meditation to children here.

One useful tip from Hintsa is that younger children “tend to respond

more to physical activities,” so he suggests teaching breathing meditation to young children by having them lie down and place their favorite stuffed animal on their belly.

He also suggests that children of all ages respond better to mindfulness teachings if the whole family gets involved, so he suggests parents model mindfulness by having family-based mindfulness sessions, even short ones. This can also have the added benefit of making it easier for parents to find time for their own mindfulness meditation practice.

Mindfulness Meditation and ADHD

There is currently a clinical study in progress looking at the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness meditation training in children with attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD) as opposed to the more traditional treatment of methylphenidate (Meppelink, de Bruin, & Bögels, 2016). It should be stressed that the cited paper is only a study protocol and that no findings have yet been published.

The fact that mindfulness meditation is even being considered as an alternative to medicine, however, shows that people are starting to understand the value of its teachings.

Mindfulness Meditation Techniques and Exercises for Classroom Setting

Of course, while mindfulness teachings in the home are useful, children spend a lot of time at school. School is also the source of many different types of stressors for children (from academic difficulties to social difficulties, each playing into issues of self-esteem), meaning it is important how children spend their time in school. Mindfulness meditation in the classroom is, therefore, a crucial component of any mindfulness teachings aimed at children.

MindSpace (meditation app)

MindSpace, a website concerned with mindfulness in schools which also offers its own meditation app, offers several resources for mindfulness in the classroom.

One of these resources is called Five Minutes to a Calmer Classroom, which is an easy way for teachers to introduce mindfulness meditation into their classrooms and includes videos. Teachers can either lead a 5-, 10-, 15- or 20-minute meditation in their classrooms with this resource.

Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University

The Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University has several useful mindfulness activities for the classroom here.

One of these is called Guided Meditation on a Raisin, where students are:

“instructed to silently contemplate a raisin for 10 full minutes: to take a close look at, touch, smell and, finally, taste, chew, and swallow a single raisin.”

This exercise could be particularly useful in a classroom setting because it only requires a single box of raisins for an entire class. All of the activities offered by the University’s Center for Teaching are meant to be extremely low-cost (or completely free), meaning teachers only have to find the time to implement them into their curricula.

George Lucas Education Foundation

The George Lucas Education Foundation also encourages introducing mindfulness meditation into the classroom, supported by further research.

The author points out a few key aspects of bringing mindfulness meditation into the classroom, such as suggesting that the teacher have their own meditation practice before introducing it to their students, as well as providing multiple meditation options for students to try out. The author also stresses the importance of being consistent, such as using the first five minutes of every class period for meditation sessions.

The Body Scan

The Body Scan is an aspect of mindfulness meditation that involves becoming aware of your physical self during meditation.

Mindful.org

A 30-minute introduction to body scan meditation (including a guided audio meditation) can be found at Mindful.org.

Mindful claims that the body scan can “enhance your ability to bring your full attention to real-time experiences happening in the present moment” and help you “feel what’s going on in ‘body-land’ without trying to fix or change anything.”

Los Angeles’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center

The University of California at Los Angeles’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center (MARC) offers several guided meditations for free, including a short body scan meditation (three minutes) and a longer (thirteen minutes) body scan meditation for sleep. The MARC also offers a few guided meditations in Spanish, although none of the Spanish-language meditations involve the body scan.

Training Centres and Courses Near You or Online

While there are several different online resources available for mindfulness meditation, some people might still prefer on-site training.

The easiest way to find mindfulness meditation training centers around you is simply searching for “mindfulness meditation [your location].” There are a few tools out there, however, that do the work for you and show you centers based on your location. These tools vet the centers and only show mindfulness meditation centers and teachers approved by the sites, as opposed to Google which shows all results.

Mindfulness Training Centres in the UK

For people living in the United Kingdom, Be Mindful offers a handy tool where you can find mindfulness training centers and courses near you. You just type in your postcode and Be Mindful does the rest.

Mindfulness Training Centres in the US

For people living in the United States, the McLean Mindfulness Institute offers a similar tool where you can search by state or by city. There are also options for Australia, Canada, China and New Zealand, though there are many more teachers based in the United States.

If you are in the United States and prefer a mindfulness meditation retreat, this article lists several different options around the country. It should be noted that retreats are not meant for beginners, but rather for experienced meditators looking to deepen their practice (or even begin on the road to teaching mindfulness meditation to others).

If you are specifically looking for an online MBSR course, the University of Massachusetts Medical School has several options.

The 7 Best Books on Mindfulness Meditation

If you prefer reading books on a subject over internet articles or on-site training, here are the top 7 books on mindfulness meditation to further your learning.

1. Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment – And Your Life By Jon Kabat-Zinn: This book, by Jon Kabat-Zinn (the founder of MBSR and the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, whose name will come up a few more times here) serves as an introduction to mindfulness for beginners.
2. Guided Mindfulness Meditation: A Complete Guided Mindfulness Meditation Program from Jon Kabat-Zinn by Jon Kabat-Zinn: This book serves as a complete mindfulness meditation program that anyone can complete from the comfort of their homes. It comes with an accompanying CD that walks readers through the program. If one cannot go take some sort of mindfulness meditation class in person, this might be the next best thing.
3. Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana: Henepola Gunaratana brings his 50+ years of experience as a Buddhist monk to this book, which serves as an introduction to mindfulness and mindfulness meditation. He has also spent years teaching and lecturing on mindfulness in the United States, as well as throughout Europe and in Australia. He is uniquely experienced in teaching mindfulness and mindfulness meditation to a Western audience.
4. Insight Meditation: A Step-by-step Course on How to Meditate by Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein: This book serves as a complete kit for mindfulness practitioners, beginners and experienced meditators alike. From twelve lessons including guided mindfulness meditation CDs to an 88-page interactive workbook, this book can help aspiring mindfulness meditators on their journey in many ways.
5. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh: This book serves as an introduction to mindfulness meditation not by offering guided meditation sessions, but by suggesting all the different times in your daily life that you can practice mindfulness meditation. This includes such times as washing the dishes and peeling oranges when you are unlikely to be doing anything else. This book can be useful to those who want to get into mindfulness meditation but do not yet understand how they can fit it into their lives.
6. 100 Mindfulness Meditations: The Ultimate Collection of Inspiring Daily Practices by Neil Seligman: This book consists of 100 mindfulness meditation options which any practitioner can undertake, including activities and games. These are broken up into Foundations for Mindfulness Practice, Applying Mindfulness in Daily Life, and Advanced Practices. This book can serve anyone who is looking to broaden their mindfulness meditation practice, making it suitable for practitioners of all experience levels.
7. 8 Minute Meditation Expanded: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life by Victor Davich: This extended version of a very popular classic meditation book introduces people to mindfulness meditation in just eight minutes a day. This amount of time is short enough for anyone to begin practicing mindfulness meditation. The book can also be paired with a CD (sold separately) which includes guided meditations, though the CD is not necessary to enjoy the teachings of the book.

Handy Mindfulness Meditation Scripts (PDF)

While guided mindfulness meditation videos and audio sessions can be helpful, some people might prefer to have a script which they can work through themselves. One idea is to record yourself reading the script and to then play it back while you meditate. This can be helpful for people who prefer listening to reading, as well as people who might feel less distracted by their own voice rather than someone else’s.

Below you will find several different scripts:

• Basic mindfulness meditation script. This script is short and meant for general mindfulness meditation.
• Mountain Meditation is adapted from a Jon Kabat-Zinn meditation script, and a free audio reading of the script can be accessed from a link in the PDF.
• Body Scan script. This script is intended for longer meditation sessions that take around 40 minutes.
• The UCLA MARC offers several guided meditations for free, as mentioned earlier. All of these guided meditations, while available in audio format, are also available as scripts in PDF format. These include breathing meditations, body scan meditations, and others.

3 Useful Apps for Guided Meditation and Falling Asleep

1. The Headspace app, available for iOS and Android, is a popular app (endorsed by Emma Watson, among others) which guides you through daily meditation ten minutes at a time. The app is free to download and use for ten days.
2. The Smiling Mind app is a completely free app (there are no in-app purchases or subscription models) developed by a non-profit. The app was originally aimed at kids, but there are options for all age groups. It is available for both iOS and Android, as well as in web form. Smiling Mind has modules available for personal wellbeing, for education, and for the workplace.
3. The Insight Timer app is not necessarily for beginners. Instead, this app is targeted at experienced meditators as it lets you set a timer for meditation sessions, after which it will gently let you know time is up. Beginners can find value in the app, however, as it does offer a number of free guided meditations.

A study looking at the efficacy of several mindfulness-based iPhone apps (Mani, Kavanagh, Hides, & Stoyanov, 2015) looked at 560 different mindfulness apps available for the iPhone (focusing on apps in English) and concluded that Headspace was the highest-rated, followed by the Smiling Mind app. The apps were rated on “engagement, functionality, visual aesthetics, information quality, and subjective quality.”

Top 10 YouTube Videos on Mindfulness Meditation

Some people prefer guided mindfulness meditation sessions in the form of videos. These are the top 11 YouTube videos on mindfulness meditation which are all completely free and accessible on all sorts of devices.

• Jon Kabat-Zinn: Body Scan: This is a 30-minute guided meditation from Jon Kabat-Zinn which seems to be mostly aimed at beginners. More experienced meditators might find Kabat-Zinn’s comments to be distracting, but beginners should find it useful as a way to become familiar with mindfulness meditation.

• 10 Minute Guided Body Scan Meditation from The Meditation Coach: This is another guided meditation focusing on the body scan, though it is only 10 minutes long. If the above mindfulness meditation video seems too long for you to try, give this one a listen.
• Mindfulness Meditation – Guided 10 Minutes: This is a 10-minute guided meditation from a group called The Honest Guys. The audio of this meditation can be downloaded for $1.49 and found in the information of this video.
• Guided Meditation for Detachment From Over-Thinking (Anxiety / OCD / Depression): This guided meditation is over 40 minutes long, and the video makers claim that the meditation can either be used for drifting into sleep or in the middle of the day. The audio of the track can be bought for $3.49.
• 8 HOURS Zen Buddhist Meditation Music for Deep Sleep, Mindfulness Meditation and Relaxation: This video makes the last one look short, as it tops out at just over 8 hours. It is meant to aid in deep sleep, although some commenters have pointed out that the video contains piano which is not usually an aspect of Buddhist meditation.
• 1 HOUR Mindfulness Meditation with Healing Flute Music Instrumentals, Chakra Reiki Music: At one hour this video can serve as music for long, deep mindfulness meditation sessions. It is not guided, so beginners might not find much use in it, but experienced mindfulness meditators may appreciate the soundtrack.
• Mindfulness Meditation: A Complete Guide with Techniques & Examples is an overview of a few different meditation techniques, as well as guided examples of some of these techniques. This video can serve as an introduction for beginners who are trying to start mindfulness meditation but are not sure how to do so.
• How Mindfulness Meditation Redefines Pain, Happiness & Satisfaction is a TEDxSFU talk in which Dr. Kasim Al-Mashata talks about the benefits of mindfulness meditation. This is a good video for anyone who is hesitant about trying mindfulness meditation or unclear about its benefits.
• Guided Mindfulness Meditation for the Morning: Starting the Day is a 15-minute guided session intended to be listened to first thing in the morning, making it a great fit for busy schedules and for beginners.
• Overcome Cravings: Guided Mindfulness Meditation: Finally, this video is a 10-minute guided mindful meditation session for people who are looking to overcome addictions such as smoking. The guided meditation starts at four minutes.

Most Inspiring Quotes on Mindfulness Meditation

No matter how deep your mindfulness meditation practice is, inspiration never hurts. Here are some of the most inspiring quotes on mindfulness meditation, in no particular order.

“Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.”

Amit Ray

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”

Sharon Salzberg

“Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.”

Allan Lokos

“We might begin by scanning our body… and then asking, ‘What is happening?’ We might also ask, ‘What wants my attention right now?’ or, ‘What is asking for acceptance?’”

Tara Brach

“Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.”

Joseph Goldstein

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.”

Mingyur Rinpoche

“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better, it’s about befriending who we are.”

Ani Pema Chodron:

“Mindfulness meditation doesn’t change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart’s capacity to accept life as it is.”

Sylvia Boorstein

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Music, Audio, And Podcasts for Mindfulness Meditation Practice

Some of us learn best through audio and can absorb the most information just by hearing it. Here are some podcasts relating to mindfulness meditation practice.

Mindfulness Meditation Podcast: The Rubin Museum of Art in New York hosts weekly mindfulness meditation sessions led by prominent New York-based meditation teachers. For those who can’t make it in person, they produce a podcast of these meditations. This podcast is a good opportunity to sample different meditation teachers and see which ones you like.

Weekly Podcast at the Hammer: The MARC at UCLA offers a free weekly guided meditation at their Hammer Museum. For those who can’t make it, they upload these meditations to their website in podcast form for free. Not all of these are mindfulness meditations, but a significant number of them are (and are clearly marked as such). This podcast is led by the same person every time, offering consistency.

If you prefer audio to listen to while meditating on your own (but do not prefer guided meditations), here are a few options:

Rainy Mood is a website that simply delivers the sounds of a rainstorm, which some may find helpful in their practice. They also offer a paid app for iOS and Android, but the website is completely free. Keep in mind that the rainstorm track loops every 30 minutes, which may be distracting for longer mindfulness meditation sessions.

Mindfulness Meditation & Self Acceptance | Free Relaxation Music for Positive Thinking: This YouTube video is an hour of mindfulness meditation music some might find useful. The video information includes a link to buy the track on iTunes if you like it.

Mindfulness Meditation For Pain And Stress Relief And Depression

As the benefits of mindfulness meditation continue being identified by more and more people, so has the potential of mindfulness meditation for pain relief, stress relief, and the treatment of depression.

In fact, one paper set out to identify just how much mindfulness meditation could do in these cases (Goyal et al., 2014). The authors of this paper looked at 47 randomized trials (with over 3,500 participants total) involving mindfulness meditation. They concluded that:

“mindfulness meditation programs had moderate evidence of improved anxiety… depression… and pain” and that “meditation programs can reduce the negative dimensions of psychological stress.”

A similar study looked at the potential of mindfulness meditation as a treatment for various mental disorders affecting soldiers after combat (Khusid & Vythilingam, 2016). After looking at 52 clinical trials and reviews, they concluded that MBCT was effective for treating depressive episodes and that MBSR was effective for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The researchers ultimately concluded that mindfulness meditation:

“can be recommended as an adjunct to standard care or self-management strategy for major depressive disorder and PTSD.”

Mindfulness meditation as a method of pain relief has a number of proponents. One article pointed to two randomized trials that show mindfulness meditation’s effect on relieving back pain and argues that mindfulness meditation should start being looked to as an alternative to opiate prescription (Jacob, 2016).

Interestingly, a paper looking at the mechanism of action of mindfulness meditation-induced pain relief found that it does not rely on the same mechanisms as opioid pain relief (Zeidan et al., 2016). This means that mindfulness meditation can perhaps be used in concert with opiates for extreme cases and that people can use mindfulness meditation for pain relief without having to worry about it dulling the effect of their medication.

It is clear from the above findings that mindfulness meditation practice is a viable treatment option for pain, stress relief and depression. This should not be surprising, considering the existence of MBSR and MBCT programs, although the pain relief findings show just how wide-ranging the benefits of mindfulness meditation are.

A Take-Home Message

As this resource has explored several different ways to learn and practice mindfulness meditation, it should be clear that there is no single right way to do it. Instead, anyone looking to practice mindfulness meditation should find the techniques and methods which work best for them and their daily schedules. Whether you have the ability to visit an on-site training center or prefer to learn about mindfulness meditation in the comfort of your own home, there are several different ways to do so.

Find what you are most comfortable with so mindfulness meditation can benefit your life as much as possible. It should also be clear from all the different options presented above that mindfulness meditation can be practiced no matter what your daily schedule looks like. For example, many of us have smartphones which can guide us through mindfulness meditation sessions no matter where we are.

Even if you do not have a smartphone, a mindfulness meditation book can be carried around and read whenever you have time. There are also guided meditation sessions of all different lengths mentioned above, meaning that no matter how busy you are, you can fit mindfulness meditation into your life if you wish to do so.

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