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The Mindful Law Student : June 2010 Newsletter- Click here.

Oneness Blessing
The Oneness Blessing takes place every Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in Falls Church, VA. 

Goldstein, J. & Kornfield, J. (2001) Seeking the heart of wisdom: The path of insight meditation. Boston: Shambhala.

Kabat-Zinn, J. (2005). Wherever you go, there you are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life (10th ed.). New York: Hyperion. 

Kornfield, J. (1994). A path with heart: A guide through the perils andn promises of spiritual life. New York: Bantam Books.

Websites on Mindfulness

The Mindful Law Student: Finding Balance and Success in Law School

Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society

Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice

Healing and the Mind, Bill Moyers's documentary of an MBSR program

Mindful Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles

"Lawyers Comtemplate a New Practice: Meditation" by James H. Johnson (Legal Times)

 

Jon Kabat-Zinn: Coming to Our Senses
Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

 

Excerpt on the topic of mindfulness from the book "Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms” by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill  

 

"Become a Better Counselor Through Meditation" by Thomas Adcock (New York Law Journal)

 

"The Body Mind Connection" by Mark Hyman, M.D. (Experience Life Magazine)

 

Mindful Lawyer Conference

 

Photos from the Lawyers in Balance Reunion - April 24, 2009