{"id":31,"date":"2013-08-15T00:40:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T07:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:07:43","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people practicing (and advocating) some form of meditation has literally exploded in the past decade. &#8216;How to&#8217; instructions can be found almost everywhere you look: neighborhood classes, books, CDs, and online.<\/p>\n<p>The materials listed here are a very limited sample of what is out there. If you discover other materials that are better suited to your inclinations, don&#8217;t hesitate to follow your nose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sitting instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mindful Magazine: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/how-to-meditate\/#how\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>how to meditate<\/strong><\/a> (basic meditation instructions)<\/li>\n<li>Jon Kabat-Zinn: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/files\/2013\/08\/Meditation-instructions-Kabat-Zinn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>basic instructions<\/strong><\/a> (presented to a class at Google)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Beyond mindful sitting &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center: <a title=\"UCLA MARC | free guided meditations\" href=\"http:\/\/marc.ucla.edu\/body.cfm?id=22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>free guided meditations<\/strong><\/a> for several types of meditation<\/li>\n<li>Walking meditation: <a title=\"walking instructions | Vipassana\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vipassanadhura.com\/howto.htm#q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>instructions<\/strong><\/a>, <a title=\"walking instructions | Wildmind\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildmind.org\/walking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>more instructions<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Metta (gentle friendliness) meditation: <a title=\"Instructions | Metta Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mettainstitute.org\/mettameditation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>instructions<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>U. New Hampshire Health Services: Metta (gentle friendliness) meditation for college students:\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Instructions | UNH Health Services\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sz7cpV7ERsM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">audio instructions<\/a> (13.5 min)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>More resources<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Mindfulness Research Guide\" href=\"https:\/\/goamra.org\/publications\/mindfulness-research-monthly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mindfulness Research Monthly<\/strong><\/a>, Dr. David S. Black : free list of scientific research articles examining mindfulness meditation<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mindful magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mindful.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mindful magazine: taking time for what matters<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people practicing (and advocating) some form of meditation has literally exploded in the past decade. &#8216;How to&#8217; instructions can be found almost everywhere you look: neighborhood classes, books, CDs, and online. The materials listed here are a very limited sample of what is out there. If you discover other materials that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}