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Mindful Twentysomething - ebook

The Mindful Twenty-Something : Life Skills to Handle Stress…and Everything Else by Holly Rogers
ISBN: 9781626254893
Publication Date: 2016
As a twenty-something, you may feel like you are being pulled in dozen different directions. You may also be particularly vulnerable to stress and its negative effects. The practical tools you'll learn from this acceptance-based, proven-effective approach, you'll be able to cultivate the compassion and mindfulness skills you need to manage life's challenges from a calm, balanced center, regardless of what comes your way.

Mindfulness in the Law

Follow-Up: Mediation Grids Updated; Harvard Signs on to "Mindfulness', 22 Alternatives to High Cost Litig. 86 (2004)

A meditation technique that has been applied to business dispute resolution processes will be the subject of several seminars this summer, including a session this month at a year-old Harvard Law School program that embraces the concept that meditation can make neutrals better.

We Are All In This Together, 11/2019 Florida Bar News 13

As mindfulness has become more richly infused into the fabric of the legal profession, a shift is taking place from a primary focus on the lawyer and members of the legal profession to the broader relational context to include clients and parties to a dispute.

Bringing Awareness into the Room, Disp. Resol. Mag., Fall 2018, at 20

Using the Buddha's roots of conflict and four noble truths to address our own--and then others--conflicts.

No Magical Cure for Anxiety, but with Persistence, You Can Train Your Mind to Relax, ABAJournal.com, Sept. 1, 2019

Jeena Cho encourages us to combat anxiety through training our minds to acknowledge anxious thoughts and to focus on the physiological response to those thoughts. She also walks her readers through a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 grounding exercise.

TEDTalks

This guided mindfulness practice is from April 1, 2020. Find more on Instragram Headspace Take 10

Stacey Schuerman in 2014

Sharon Salzberg: How Mindfulness Empowers Us

Mindfulness Resources

Mindful.org
We all have the innate ability to be present, composed, and to pause before we overreact to the challenges of our busy lives—and that’s the ground of mindfulness. With some guidance and training, mindfulness can develop into a way of living that brings greater focus and effectiveness as well as kindness and caring into everything we do. Both science and experience demonstrate how being mindful brings positive benefits for our health, happiness, work, and relationships.
Mindfulness: Finding Focus in a Distracted World
Heather J. E. Simmons and Kyle K. Courtney, Mindfulness: Finding Focus In A Distracted World, AALL Spectrum (July/Aug 2016)
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This article includes:

15 Ways to Incorporate Daily Mindfulness Practice into Your Life
10 Reasons to Practice Mindfulness
10 Ways to Get Started with Mindfulness
When Science Meets Mindfulness, The Harvard Gazette
Mindfulness-based meditation can improve a variety of both physical and mental conditions. Read more about the science and ongoing research in this article.
An Ecotherapeutic Meditation in Ten Steps from The New York Times
An exercise to help your body release the stress of constantly bracing for a disaster.

Books

The Mindful Law Student by Scott L. Rogers
ISBN: 9781839105890
Publication Date: 2022-09-27
The Mindful Law Student is an innovative guide to learning about mindfulness and integrating mindfulness practices into the law school experience. Through the use of metaphor, insight, mindfulness practices, and relaxation, and self-care exercises, students are reminded of the tools they have long carried with them to navigate the exciting and challenging environment of law school and the practice of law.
Mindfulness for Law Students by Scott Rogers
Call Number: KF287 .R64 2009
ISBN: 0977345513
Publication Date: 2009-05-29
Mindfulness for Law Students is a one-of-a-kind book that is specifically designed to introduce law students to fundamental contemplative practices as well as the cutting-edge research that shows how incorporating mindfulness techniques can alter the physical structure and function of the brain to reflect decreased levels of stress, increased levels of productivity and improved mental health.
The Anxious Lawyer by Jeena Cho; Karen Gifford
Call Number: KF298 .C47 2016
ISBN: 1627226249
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
The Anxious Lawyer is a straightforward introduction to meditation and mindfulness for those engaged in the practice of law. Readers will be guided through an eight week program, the aim of which is to assist in establishing an ongoing meditation practice.
Mindful Lawyering by Kathleen Elliott Vinson; Samantha A. Moppett; Shailini Jandial George
ISBN: 9781531002299
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
Mindful Lawyering introduces students to creative problem-solving and mindfulness in the context of law school and beyond, presenting checklists, scenarios, and hypotheticals that invite student engagement.

Mindfulness for the UGA School of Law Community: Introduction