Professional+Applications

=**Professional Applications of Contemplative Practice**=

The Neuroscience of Somatic Attention: a key to unlocking a foundational contemplative practice for educators: http://vimeo.com/39205220


 * Mindful.org** is a website where you will find the best feature stories, news, instructions, and commentary—in writing, images, audio, and video—that we can find about mindfulness, awareness, kindness, and compassion. The pieces in Mindful are about how adding a dose of mindfulness (or a very large helping) can enhance your joy and appreciation of everyday life—and help you to deal with some of life’s toughest challenges when they arise. In Mindful you will find the very best instruction in mindfulness practice, loving-kindness meditation, spatial awareness practice, body disciplines like yoga and t’ai chi from a mindfulness perspective, among others: @http://mindful.org/


 * The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society**: works to integrate contemplative awareness and contemporary life in order to help create a more just, compassionate, reflective, and sustainable society. @http://www.contemplativemind.org/


 * The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education** (CCARE) at Stanford University is striving to create a community of scholars and researchers who will advance our knowledge of the human capacity for compassion and altruism. @http://marc.ucla.edu/

The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has pioneered the integration of mindfulness meditation and other mindfulness-based approaches into mainstream medicine and healthcare. @http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/index.aspx

@http://jeremyhunter.net/ and @http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyhunter
 * Jeremy Hunter:**
 * Contributor at Mindful.org
 * Lead Consultant at Mindfulness Works
 * Senior Curriculum Fellow at Southern California Leadership Network
 * Executive Coach at Corporate Coaching International
 * Teacher and Speaker at Independent Consultant
 * Faculty at Peter F. Drucker School of Management
 * Friend of at Center for Contemplative Mind in Society


 * The Garrison Institute** is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization that explores the intersection of contemplation and engaged action in the world. http://www.garrisoninstitute.org/


 * The Greater Good Science Center**(GGSC) studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society. @http://www.garrisoninstitute.org/


 * The Mind & Life Institute**is a non-profit organization seeking to understand the human mind and the benefits of contemplative practices through combining first- person knowledge from the world’s contemplative traditions with methods and findings from contemporary scientific inquiry. @http://www.mindandlife.org/

Mindfulness Awareness Research Center
MARC was created to bring to a renowned mental health research institution the ancient art of mindful awareness, in a scientifically supported and rigorous form. @http://marc.ucla.edu/


 * Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation**: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf6Q0G1iHBI


 * Mindfulness Stress Reduction And Healing:** @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZEy3Liz3ks&feature=relmfu Jon Kabat-Zinn

= Change your Mind Change your Brain: The Inner Conditions... = @http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=peA6vy0D5Bg Matthieu Ricard monk scholar writer