Resources
Cultivating well-BEing
As we cultivate well-BEing, in our personal and professional lives, we create space for increased vitality and thriving. The resources below offer wider context, deeper understanding, and simple tools for supporting your next step.
The Science of Lifestyle Change
How Your Lifestyle Affects Your Health, Longevity – Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn
Lifestyle Changes Affect Your Health: Gut Brain Access – Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones – Author James Clear offers powerful suggestions for small habit changes resulting in big shifts.
Mindfulness
- Breath Counting as a Behavioral Measure of Mindfulness – Frontiers in Psychology
- What Is Neuroplasticity? – Verywell Mind
- Mindfulness Meditation Training Changes Brain Structure in 8 Weeks – Massachusetts General Hospital
- Rick Hanson, Ph.D. offers three free regular newsletters with a variety of tips, practices, videos and meditations.
Neuroscience of Meditation
- Neuroscience Reveals the Secrets of Meditation’s Benefits – Scientific American
- Eight Weeks to a Better Brain – The Harvard Gazette
- Tuning Out: How Brains Benefit from Meditation – Yale News
- Brain Scans Show Meditation Changes Minds, Increases Attention – University of Wisconsin-Madison News
- The Benefits of Meditation – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT News
- Ishar Online Reference Library – ISHAR (Integrative Studies Historical Archive & Repository) is an academic reference library offering tens of thousands of free, qualified academic sources on a range of topics, the main coverage of which includes Integrative Health, Integrative Culture, and Integrative Theory.
Book Recommendations – The Bookman Bookstore in Grand Haven
Use the link below to order some of Monica’s recommended books directly from our wonderful, local bookstore.
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Community-based Resources
Leaders in Northwest Ottawa County have come together to create the North Ottawa Wellness Foundation. This collaborative effort has created numerous materials available for anyone who might benefit from them.