Bonus Episode: 10-Minute Mindfulness Meditation with Dr. Amanda Beaman

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In our last episode, How To Practise Mindfulness, Dr. Amanda Beaman and Dr. Jack Muskat put mindfulness under the microscope and explored its many benefits.

Here, try it out yourself with a 10-minute guided mindfulness meditation with Dr. Amanda Beaman. Download this episode for easy listening while on a walk, your commute to work, or to otherwise incorporate into your self-care routine.

HELPFUL LINKS

• Visit Dr. Amanda Beaman on LinkedIn.

• The Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto has lots of resources about local mindfulness training and programs.

• Find trained mindfulness guides and helpful resources on the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy website. 

• Learn about Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, co-founder of mindfulness meditation, and try out one of his guided meditations, designed to help reduce stress. 

• Visit Dr. Zindel Segal on Twitter. He’s the co-founder of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), with whom Dr. Beaman previously worked. Watch his TEDTalk, “The Mindful Way Through Depression.”

• Check out the meditation apps that Dr. Beaman mentions: Headspace, Calm and Ten Percent Happier.  

• Read about the scientific research on mindfulness: 

  • Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Health: A Review of Empirical Studies in the Clinical psychology review August 2011 issue.

  • Mindfulness meditators show altered distributions of early and late neural activity markers of attention in a response inhibition task, in the PLOS One August 2019 issue.

  • A maturing mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reflects on two critical issues in the Current Opinion in Psychology August 2019 issue, co-authored by Dr. Zindel Segal.

  • Coping With COVID-19: Mindfulness-Based Approaches for Mitigating Mental Health Crisis in the Frontiers in Psychiatry March 2021 issue.

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