• Defuse stress and experience greater calm

• Explore the mind-body relationship

• Connect to our feelings

• Expand our sense of who we are, beyond our fears and self-judgment

• Find genuine happiness

• Discover inner resources that can change our everyday lives

• Awaken our capacity for insight and wisdom

• Transform our worldview from one of isolation and confusion to one of connection, clarity, and compassion

• Broaden our perspective and deepen our courage, based on seeing things just as they are

From the Insight Meditation Society (www.dharma.org).

Apps (available from the app store)

• Happier

• Waking Up

YouTube Channels

• Be Here Now Network

• Insight Meditation Center 

• Spirit Rock Meditation Center

• Non Clinging Awareness 

• Sharon Salzberg Guided Meditation

Websites:

• www.dharma.org (Insight Meditation Society)

  www.spiritrock.org (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Books:

• The Path of Insight Meditation(Kornfeld and Goldstein)

• Meditation for Beginners (Kornfeld)

• The Experience of Insight(Goldstein)

• Mindfulness (Goldstein)

• Real Happiness (Salzberg)

These teachers have YouTube videos as well as books and audio books

• Samaneri Jayasara, Buddhist Nun in New Zealand. The Simplest Meditation is a nice start and she has more.

• The Essential Pema a free downloadable pdf  with excerpts from Pema Chodron’s many books/retreats. Her books and audio retreats are available at the library and YouTube. She is an American Buddhist Nun and very relatable.

• Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn creater of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at U of Mass and author of Full Catastrophe Living. He is ocnsidered by some to the the father of American mindfulness.

• Neuroscience research (some related to Buddhism) at the Center for Healthy Minds, U of Wisconsin, Dr. Richard Davidson.

• Video How Breathing Hacks the Vagus Nerve to Lower Blood Pressure & Inflammation (Dr. Pradip Jamnadas MD)

• Meditation and Its Mental and Physical Health Benefits in 2023 (Natl Inst of Health)

• Meditation and Mindfulness: Effectiveness and Safety (Natl Ctr for Complimentary and Integrative Health)

• Mindfulness Meditation (American Psychological Association)

• Meditation: A simple, fast way to reduce stress (Mayo Clinic - includes a broad definition of meditation)