These resources have been compiled by the trustees and members of Mindfulness Scotland. They represent resources that we have personally used and found to be helpful and accessible. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list and we encourage you to explore further. 

Reading to Get You Started

• Full Catastrophe Living: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation - Jon Kabat Zinn, 2013
• The Mindful Way Through Depression: freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness (includes CD of guided meditations) - Mark Williams and John Teasdale, 2007
• Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World - Mark Williams and Danny Penman, 2011
• Living Well With Pain And Illness: Using mindfulness to free yourself from suffering - Vidyamala Burch, 2008
• Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life - Jon Kabat Zinn, 2016

Manuals and Eight-Week Workbooks

• The Mindful Way Workbook - John Teasdale, Mark Williams and Zindel Segal, 2014
• Mindfulness in Eight Weeks: the revolutionary 8 week plan to clear your mind and calm your life - Michael Chaskalson, 2014
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook - Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein. 2014
• The Miracle of Mindfulness: The classic guide to meditation by the worlds most revered master (Classic Edition) -Thich Nhat Hanh, 2008
• You Are Not Your Pain: Using Mindfulness to Relieve pain, reduce Stress, and Restore Well being: an eight week program - Vidyamala Burch and Dr Danny Penman, 2015
• Insight Meditation Kit: A step-by-step course on how to meditate - Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, 2002

In-Depth Reading

​General 

• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life - Jon Kabat Zinn, 2004 
• Coming to Our Senses: Healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness – Jon Kabat Zinn, 2005 
• Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine – Saki Santorelli, 2000 
• A Path with Heart – Jack Kornfield, 2002 
• Sane New World: Taming the Mind – Ruby Wax, 2014 
• Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise – Thich Nhat Hanh, 2015 
• ‘Mindfulness for Dummies’ Shamash Alidina, 2014
• Bringing Mindfulness to Life: Ratnadevi :IBSN 978-0-9573340-8-322 https://playspacepublications.com/bringing-mindfulness-to-life

 
Emotions

• Destructive Emotions and How We Can Overcome Them - Daniel Goleman, 2004 
• Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions and Health - Daniel Goleman, 2003 

 
Anxiety

• Mindfulness for Unravelling Anxiety: Finding calm and clarity in uncertain times - Richard Gilpin, 2016 

 
Pain

• Mindfulness for Health: A practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing - Vidyamala Burch and Dr Danny Penman, 2013

 
Depression

• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: a new approach to preventing relapse - Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, John Teasdale, 2002 
• Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue Days: Finding a Path Through Depression - Richard Gilpin, 2012 

 
Workplaces

• The Mindful Workplace: Developing Resilient Individuals and Resonant Organisations with MBSR - Michael Chaskalson, 2011 

 
Neuroscience

• Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom - Rick Hanson, 2009 
• The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live − and How You Can Change Them - Sharon Begley and Richard Davidson, 2013 
• Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves - Sharon Begley, 2007 
• Siddhartha’s Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment - James Kingsland, 2017 

 
Breathing

• The Art of Breathing - Danny Penman, 2016 
• The Breathing Book: Vitality and Good Health Through Essential Breath Work - Donna Farhi, 1996 

 
Mindful Walking

• The Art of Mindful Walking - Adam Ford, 2012

 
Mindful Eating

• Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food - Jan Chozen Bays, 2014 
• Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating & Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food - Susan Albers, 2012 
• Mindful Eating, Mindful Life: How Mindfulness Can End Our Struggle with Weight Once and For All - Thich Nhat Hanh and Lilian Cheung, 2015

 
Poetry

• Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds - Neil Astley and Pamela Robertson-Pearce, 2007
• House of Light - Mary Oliver, 1992 
• Rumi’s Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart and the Spirit - Rumi, Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, 2013 

 
Art

• Mindfulness: 25 Ways to Live in the Moment Through Art - Christophe Andre, 2014 

 
Parenting 

• Everyday Blessings: the Inner World of Mindful Parenting - Jon and Myla Kabat Zinn, 2008