By Jon Kabat-Zinn

A transformative resource and a landmark work of mindfulness, this book offers a wealth of practical techniques based on a renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program. If you’re struggling with stress, it can equip you with tools to manage pain, anxiety and illness, ultimately promoting a healthier, more balanced life.

By Jon Kabat-Zinn

This book is a foundational guide to mindfulness and meditation, introducing readers to the practice and guiding them through the process. The author of over half a dozen books on mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn combines his research and medical background with his spiritual knowledge to help readers find peace and change their lives.

By Susan L. Smalley and Diana Winston

This book provides an allinone guide for bringing mindfulness to daily life as a means of enhancing wellbeing. It provides both a scientific explanation for how mindfulness positively and powerfully affects the brain and the body as well as practical guidance to develop both a practice and mindfulness in daily living, not only through meditation but also during daily experiences.

By Thich Nhat Hanh

This is a beautiful and practical guide to cultivating awareness in daily life. Through gentle anecdotes and exercises, the author  invites readers to experience the profound benefits of mindfulness, from washing dishes to answering the phone. This book encourages a deeper understanding of oneself and fosters a sense of inner peace.

By Judson Brewer

This book provides groundbreaking answers to the most important questions about addiction. Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has studied the science of addictions for twenty years, reveals how we can tap into the very processes that encourage addictive behaviors in order to step out of them. He describes the mechanisms of habit and addiction formation, then explains how the practice of mindfulness can interrupt these habits.

By Susan Kaiser Greenland

This is a practical and playful guide for cultivating mindfulness in kids. Through 50 engaging games, parents and caregivers can help kids develop focus, emotional awareness, and essential skills like attention, balance, and compassion. This book encourages a fun and effective way to support children’s learning, happiness and overall well-being.

By Susane Kaiser Greenland

This guide extends the vast benefits of mindfulness training to children from four to eighteen years old with age-appropriate exercises, songs, games and fables. These fun and friendly techniques build kids’ inner and outer awareness and attention, which positively affects their academic performance as well as their social and emotional skills, such as making friends, being compassionate and kind to others and playing sports, while also providing tools to manage stress and to overcome specific challenges like insomnia, overeating, ADHD, hyper-perfectionism, anxiety, and chronic pain.

By Eline Snel

This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger and generally become more patient and aware. The book contains eleven practices that focus on just these scenarios, along with short examples and anecdotes throughout.

By Jennifer Cohen Harper

This fun and unique program combines yoga and mindfulness in an easy-to-read format. Written specifically for parents and kids, the book aims at teaching children to pay attention, increase focus, and balance their emotions―all while building physical strength and flexibility. Based on a growing body of evidence that yoga and mindfulness practices can help children develop focus and concentration, the simple yoga exercises in this book can easily be integrated into a child’s daily routine, ultimately improving health, behavior and even school achievement.

By Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn

This book remains one of the few books on parenting that embraces the emotional, intuitive, and deeply personal experience of being a parent, applying the groundbreaking “mind/body connection” expertise from global mindfulness leader, Jon Kabat-Zinn and his wife, Myla Kabat-Zinn.