Chill Out People

Created bySarah- Updated on November 10^th2022

If there was a way you could feel better about yourself, calmer, happier in your life, better able to deal with your family and friends and more able to accept what is going on in your life, would you do it? Oddly, most people don't. A daily meditation practice can help with all these things. What better time to sit down and calm down than right now? If you need some guidance, check out one of these books on meditation or mindfulness.

The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion Christopher K. Germer.

Germer, Christopher K.

From the Publisher

This wise and eloquent book from Christopher K. Germer, PhD, illuminates the power of self-compassion and offers creative, scientifically grounded strategies for putting it into action.

Peace Is Every Step Thich Nhat Hanh.

Hanh, Thich Nhat.

From the Publisher

在匆忙的现代生活中,我们往往会失去联系with the peacethat is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader,and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. A ringingtelephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, redlights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to "mindfulness"?theprocess of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience...

My Thoughts

I only included one book by Thich Nhat Hanh, but you should really read all of them.

Stillness Is the Key Ryan Holiday

Holiday, Ryan

From the Publisher

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller & Wall Street Journal Bestseller In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy , bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key , Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing down is the secret weapon for those charging ahead. All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one...

The Untethered Soul Michael Singer.

Singer, Michael.

From the Publisher

Who are you? In this remarkable New York Times bestseller, author and spiritual guide Michael Singer explores this fundamental question, seeking the very root of consciousness in order to help readers learn how to dwell in the present moment. Written in an engaging and uncomplicated voice, this book will open readers up to the radical and powerful experience of simply being themselves.

Mindfulness Danny Penman.

Penman, Danny.

From the Publisher

From one of the leading thinkers on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, a pioneering set of simple practices to dissolve anxiety, stress, exhaustion, and unhappiness. In Mindfulness, Oxford professor Mark Williams and award-winning journalist Dr. Danny Penman reveal the secrets to living a happier and less anxious, stressful and exhausting life. Based on the techniques of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, the unique program developed by Williams and his colleagues, the book offers simple...

Calm Wynne Kinder

Kinder, Wynne

From the Publisher

Teach your kids how to focus their thoughts and notice the world around them with this fun mindfulness kids activity book. Mindfulness activities are a great way to teach children about their thoughts and feelings and how to understand them?while having fun at the same time. This book is packed with activities?make a mindfulness jar, learn how to appreciate food with mindful eating, and get out into nature and explore the outside world. An illustrated journal section at the back of the book...

Together Vivek H. Murthy

Murthy, Vivek H.

From the Publisher

The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy's prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community. Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his groundbreaking book, the 19th surgeon general of the United States Dr. Vivek Murthy makes a case for loneliness as a public health concern: a root...

My Thoughts

Not strictly about meditation or mindfulness, but discusses how a mindfulness practice can help with your connection to other people.

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down Haemin Sunim.

Sunim, Haemin.

From the Publisher

"Is it the world that's busy, or is it my mind?" The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this bestselling mindfulness guide?it has sold more than three million copies in Korea, where it was a #1 bestseller for forty-one weeks and received multiple Best Book of the Year awards?Haemin Sunim (which means "spontaneous wisdom"), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the...

Breath James Nestor

Nestor, James

From the Publisher

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The...

My Thoughts

Also not only about meditation and mindfulness, but your breath is such an important aspect of meditation, I included this one.

Radical compassion : learning to love yourself and your world with the practice of RAIN

Brach, Tara, author.

From the Publisher

最心爱的和可信的正念teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties?stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an...

Now Is the Way Cory Allen.

Allen, Cory.

From the Publisher

From the popular host of The Astral Hustle , an accessible guide to hacking your mind?and life?to feel more fully present and alive, even if you're not the "the meditating type." Through his popular podcast The Astral Hustle and online meditation course Release into Now, Cory Allen has helped thousands of people better cope with the stress of daily life through meditation, mindfulness, and mental clarity. With concise advice and profound simplicity, he manages to cut through the jargon and...

The cat on the mat

Worth, Bonnie, author.

From the Publisher

In this simple rhymed introduction to mindfulness meditation, the Cat in the Hat shows beginning readers how to slow down and still their bodies and minds through simple breathing exercises and focused concentration.

My Thoughts

Ok, you might think I'm joking, but this children's book featuring The Cat in the Hat actually follows common meditation practices.