by Tara Brach, PhD: https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/

Inviting Life’s Difficulties to Tea:
https://www.tarabrach.com/inviting-lifes-difficulties-to-tea/

Vipassana — Opening our Hearts to Life as It Is:
https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-vipassana-heart/

Emergency Services Program (Massachusetts): 877-382-1609,   http://www.masspartnership.com/provider/ESP.aspx

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 (1-800-273-TALK), http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

The National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 (1-800-799-SAFE), http://www.thehotline.org

The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 (1-800-4-A-CHILD), http://www.childhelp.org

The National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 (1-800-656-HOPE), http://www.rainn.org

Samaritans Statewide Helpline (Massachusetts): 877-870-4673 (1-877-HOPE), http://samaritanshope.org

*** If you do not require emergency help, the William James College INTERFACE Referral Service maintains a mental health and wellness referral help line Monday through Friday, 9 am-5 pm: 888-244-6843, https://interface.williamjames.edu ***

Speakers: Richard J. Davidson, PhD (National Institute of Health / National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health)

Read more:
https://nccih.nih.gov/health/meditation/overview.htm

• “What the Science Says About the Effectiveness of Meditation”
• “Meditation and the Brain”
• “What the Science Says About Safety and Side Effects of Meditation”
• Research overview of meditation for the following conditions:

– Pain
– For High Blood Pressure
– For Irritable Bowel Syndrome
– For Ulcerative Colitis
– For Anxiety, Depression, and Insomnia
– For Smoking Cessation
– Other Conditions

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): 1-800-950-NAMI (1-800-950-6264), http://www.nami.org

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Massachusetts: 1-800-370-9085, http://www.namimass.org

Free guided meditations by UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center: http://marc.ucla.edu/mindful-meditations

Guided audio files to practice mindfulness based stress reduction by UC San Diego Health / Center for mindfulness: https://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/mindfulness/programs/mbsr/Pages/audio.aspx

Speaker: Judson Brewer, MD, PhD (UMass Medical School / Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society)

To watch other videos:
http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/mindfulness-in-medicine/mindfulness-in-medicine-videos/

• “How Mindfulness Can Help with Cravings and Addictions”
• “The Role of Mindfulness in Stressful Situations”
• “Mindfulness and Change”
• “What Does Mindfulness Look Like”
• “How Mindfulness Can Help with Cravings”
• “How Mindfulness Can Help with Change and Transitions”

“It is a joy to be hidden but a disaster not to be found”
– D.W. Winnicott

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future”
– Steve Jobs

– Buddhist Proverb

–  The Dalai Lama

Tragic events and losses can make us feel powerless and hopeless. It takes time, strength and courage to turn an end into a beginning.

BBC link to watch the video: “Sargy Mann: Painting with inner vision”

Speaker: Silken Laumann

About willingness and ability to create “space between me and my thoughts” (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).

Speaker: Jonathan Bricker, PhD

BBC link to watch the video: “Yes, I’m obsessive: The 50,000-hour paintings of Ben Johnson”