Other Websites and Downloads

A site to check the amount of stress your are under
The freeze response is a severe stress reaction.

Web-based sites with specific relevance to health providers

• Center for professional Wellbeing
• Physician Heal Thyself
• Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (ISHI)
• Self-compassion is low in many health care providers but research is showing it's key to happiness and productivity. This website has advice and self-compassion guided meditations.
• Washington Physicians Health Program

Useful downloads for your smartphone

There are a number of timers available. Look up mindful, meditation, and timer on your smartphone market/app store. Here are a few examples for Android devices.

• Meditation timer
• Another meditation timer
• Mindfulness Bell

Random-Reminder Devices for spontaneous practice

These are great for working meditation and mindfulness into your day. They can randomly remind you to do a practice such as STOP or REAL. It is the theory of small weights (short time) and many repetitions.

• Timer/counter

General sites on mindfulness and compassion:

• The Mindfulness Institute
• Mindfulness Research Guide:
• Mindsight Institute:
• The Center for Nonviolent Communication:
• Awareness in Action:
• The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education:
• Greater Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life:
• The Charter for Compassion:
• The Compassionate Mind Foundation
• Christopher Germer, PhD Author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
• UCSD Mindfulness
• Mind and Life Institute:
• Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice:
• Mindfulness page maintained by David Fresco:
• Mindfulness page maintained by Christopher Walsh:
• The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
• The Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom:
• Befriending Ourselves Resource Page: Clinical applications of mindfulness and compassion:
• Compassion Power (for anger management):
• Mindfulness-based symptom management:
• Social anxiety and mindfulness:
• Mindfulness and recovery from child abuse:
• Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention
• Center for Mindful Eating:
• Acceptance and commitment therapy:
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy:
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy:

Mindfulness and compassion in education:

• Mindful Schools:
• Association for Mindfulness in Education:
• Inner Kids:
• Mindfulness in Education Network:
• The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education:

Other Useful Sites

• Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA:
• Addictive Behaviors Research Center at University of Washington.
• Finding Balance in Medical Life:
• Massachusetts General Hospital Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine:
• Dr. Dean Ornish Spectrum:
• Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at University of Washington:
• Mindtools:
• Healing the Mind with Bill Moyers:
• University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness:
• UCLA Semel Institute Mindful Awareness Research Center:
• The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine:
• MD Anderson Cancer Hospital Mindfulness Programs:
• Spirituality Practices from many faiths:
• Dr. Dan Siegel, Inspire to Rewire:
• Mindful Living Programs:
• Institute of HeartMath:
• University of Virginia Mindfulness Center:
• University of Pennsylvania Mindfulness Programs:
• Center for Mindfulness at UC San Diego:
• Mindfulness Practice Center at the University of Missouri:
• University of Iowa Mindfulness Programs:
• Mindfulness Institute at Jefferson University:
• University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine Program:
• Mindfulness Practice Center at University of Vermont:
• Santa Clara University Mindfulness and Meditation:
• Kaplan University Stress Management:
• Arizona State University Mindfulness:
• Center for Mindful Eating:
• Mindfulness Research Guide:
• Mayo Clinic Meditation Program:
• The Penn State Prevention Research Center:
• Harvard Neuroscience of Meditation, healing and sense of touch:
• Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies:
• Seattle Pacific University Lustyk Lab:
• Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education:
• Stanford University Center on Stress and Health:
• UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain:
• UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology:
• UC San Francisco Osher Center for Integrative Medicine:
• University of Miami mind-Body Research Consortium:
• University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing:
• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy-based on MBSR
• University of North Carolina Program on Integrative Medicine:
• Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health:
• Virtual Mindfulness Center:
• Center for Investigating Health Minds:
• Appropriate Response.