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Headspace: Guided Meditation and Mindfulness
Description: Meditation made simple. Guided meditations suitable for all levels for Headspace. Meditation can help improve your focus, exercise mindful awareness, relieve anxiety and reduce stress.
Simple Habit - Meditation & Guided Mindfulness
Description: Simple Habit is the best meditation app for busy people. Just 5 minutes/day, designed by a Harvard psychologist. Reduce stress, improve focus, sleep better and more. Free download with a 30-day trial! Recommended by Apple and Business Insider.
Pacifica - Anxiety, Stress, & Depression relief
Description: Stress, anxiety, and depression can get in the way of you living your life. Pacifica gives you holistic tools to address it based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, relaxation, and health.
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by 10% Happier
Description: A clear, simple approach to meditation with a NY Times bestselling author and some of the most respected (and cool) meditation teachers on the planet.
Calm: Meditation to Relax, Focus & Sleep Better
Description: Calm is the #1 app for mindfulness and meditation to bring more clarity, joy and peace to your daily life. Join the millions experiencing less anxiety and better sleeps with our guided meditations, breathing programs and Sleep Stories. Recommended by top psychologists and mental health experts to help you de-stress.
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Zen - Relax and Meditation with Guided Meditation
Headspace: Guided Meditation and Mindfulness
Description: Meditation made simple. Guided meditations suitable for all levels for Headspace. Meditation can help improve your focus, exercise mindful awareness, relieve anxiety and reduce stress.
Calm: Meditation to Relax, Focus & Sleep Better
Description: Calm is the #1 app for mindfulness and meditation to bring more clarity, joy and peace to your daily life. Join the millions experiencing less anxiety and better sleeps with our guided meditations, breathing programs and Sleep Stories. Recommended by top psychologists and mental health experts to help you de-stress.
Simple Habit - Meditation & Guided Mindfulness
Description: Simple Habit is the best meditation app for busy people. Just 5 minutes/day, designed by a Harvard psychologist. Reduce stress, improve focus, sleep better and more. Free download with a 30-day trial! Recommended by Apple and Business Insider.
Description: Insight Timer is the largest community of regular meditators on the planet. Our community generates more meditation minutes than any other app. Every day more than 900 of the world's best meditation teachers upload new content including free guided meditations, beautiful meditation music, talks and podcasts.
Find more on in the Google Play store here
Why try Mindfulness Meditation?
Mindfulness meditation helps us train the wandering, agitated mind. Recent research on mindfulness training published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found that students engaged in mindfulness training showed greater sustained attention task performance and lower self-reported mind wandering during task completion than control students who received no training!
This training not only helps with task performance like homework. It can also help us intentionally relax and enjoy life, which can be difficult if the mind is continually wandering into planning, worrying, and analyzing. Below several guided mindfulness meditation practices that can be done as a study break, to help settle the mind before bed, on the bus on the way home, anywhere you can find the time to relax and recharge. Be creative! We hope they will be helpful.
Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practices
| 3-Anchor Mindfulness Meditation | 6:31 min |
| Breath Awareness Meditation | 13:32 min |
| Body Scan Meditation | 19:21 min |
| Yoga+ Class Body Scan | 10:12 min |
Guided Meditations from Home
To practice meditation at home you do not need a “special space”! You simply need to find a comfortable seat in a space with minimal distractions. A seat could mean a chair, on the floor with a folded up blanket or pillow, or simply on a yoga mat. If you have the opportunity to make a space in your room or home more “zen”, great! But truly, it shouldn’t be a lot of work to start your meditation practice.
| Intro to Meditation | 5:00 min |
| Mindful Meditation | 5:00 min |
| Body Scan Meditation | 5:00 min |
| Breath Awareness | 10:00 min |
| Let Go Meditation | 10:00 min |
| Sohum Meditation | 10:00 min |
| Breath Awareness | 15:00 min |
| Music Meditation | 15:00 min |
| One Word Meditation | 15:00 min |
Mindfulness Health is psychologist Renee Burgard's website. Her mission is to provide warmth, compassion, and exceptional psychotherapeutic, mind-body, and educational services leading to relief from symptoms and suffering related to chronic conditions of any kind. You can download audio files that relate to body scanning, breathing practices, and meditation.
The Mindfulness Solution is the website of Ronald Siegel, a therapist and mindfulness expert. Meditations recommended for students include Breath Practice; Loving-Kindess Meditation and Thought Labelling.
The meditations from Susan Pollak, Thomas Pedulla, and Ronald Siegel are also accompanied by handouts of the instructions to follow along.
Tara Brach's website offers 100+ free meditations as well as useful information directed at people new to meditation.
Free Online (Zoom) Group Meditation, on the hour, 24 hours/day, 5 days/week. Supported by 100+ volunteers worldwide.
A free series of live-stream meditations to help ease anxiety amid our social-distancing efforts.
This site features 20 guided meditation albums and almost 100 individual tracks that will help you with so many aspects of your life, such as improving focus, developing mindfulness, sleeping better, enhancing performance, healing yourself, relaxing deeper and letting go of anxiety, as well as meditations for kids!
1. Increases flexibility in mind and body
2. Decreases stress and relieves anxiety
3. Improves posture & improves bone health
4. Protects your spine (you are only as old as your spine)
5. Increases blood flow (put your legs up the wall to reverse the blood flow)
6. Increases heart rate
7. Increases positive outlook
8. Helps you focus & become more mindful
9. Improves balance
10. Increases lung capacity
11. Creates inner strength
12. Builds awareness & encourages self-care
13. May improve heart health
14. Improves quality of life
15. May fight depression
16. May improve sleep quality
17. Improves eating habits
18. Increases strength
Discovered Truth: A Health Care Journey discusses black barriers to healthcare due to racism, distrust, and slavery and how that effects racial health disparities now.
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Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche is America's favorite personal financial educator! A New York Times Bestseller (Get Good with Money), an NAACP Image Award Nominee, and the first Black woman to grace the cover of Money Magazine solo, Tiffany is a trailblazer in the personal finance space. Her monumental ‘Live Richer Movement’ has helped over one million women worldwide save, manage, and pay off hundreds of millions of dollars.
About the rise and fall of St. Louis, Missouri's premier black hospital that trained the largest number of Black doctors and nurses in the world from 1937 through 1979, before and after desegregation.
"Freedom House staff trained under Peter Safar, a Pitt anesthesiologist and medical visionary who had developed a method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The lifesaving techniques performed on Pittsburgh streets and in local ambulances became the model for emergency medical care nationwide. The rich history of the ambulance service was told in the 2007 Pitt—sponsored documentary Freedom House." (University of Pittsburgh, BGB, 2010)
Through transparency and honesty, Melissa & Kevin let couples know they aren't alone in their trials, but that together they can make it through them all!
At the End of the Tunnel is a podcast about hope.
From words of affirmation to set the tone of your week, guided meditations supporting you in keeping calm, to transparent conversations with movers and shakers in relevant industries—we’re giving us life! We’re here to unapologetically expand the consciousness of Black women to transform. Period.
Black Men In White Coats seeks to increase the number of black men in the field of medicine by exposure, inspiration, and mentoring. To accomplish this, we are partnering with various medical schools across the country to produce outstanding short documentary videos which bring awareness to this issue that not only affects the black male population, but also the nation as a whole.
Learn how to stop the cycle of debt and build generational wealth.
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly chat about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.
Why try Mindfulness Meditation?
Mindfulness meditation helps us train the wandering, agitated mind. Recent research on mindfulness training published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found that students engaged in mindfulness training showed greater sustained attention task performance and lower self-reported mind wandering during task completion than control students who received no training!
This training not only helps with task performance like homework. It can also help us intentionally relax and enjoy life, which can be difficult if the mind is continually wandering into planning, worrying, and analyzing. Below several guided mindfulness meditation practices that can be done as a study break, to help settle the mind before bed, on the bus on the way home, anywhere you can find the time to relax and recharge. Be creative! We hope they will be helpful.
1. Increases flexibility in mind and body
2. Decreases stress and relieves anxiety
3. Improves posture & improves bone health
4. Protects your spine (you are only as old as your spine)
5. Increases blood flow (put your legs up the wall to reverse the blood flow)
6. Increases heart rate
7. Increases positive outlook
8. Helps you focus & become more mindful
9. Improves balance
10. Increases lung capacity
11. Creates inner strength
12. Builds awareness & encourages self-care
13. May improve heart health
14. Improves quality of life
15. May fight depression
16. May improve sleep quality
17. Improves eating habits
18. Increases strength
