Meditation

Web Sites

• http://www.learningmeditation.com is a web site with information on meditation and free guided meditations on a variety of topics. (This type of online meditation is closer to guided imagery, but is still relaxing.)
• Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, based at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, offers training for patients and health care professionals. (http://www.mbmi.org; 1-617-732-9130)
• Meditation Society of America's web site has a cancer healing-focused guided meditation. (http://www.meditationsociety.com)

Books

• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn (1995).
• Insight Meditation: A Step-By-Step Course on How to Meditate by Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein (2002).
• Pure Meditation: The Tibetan Buddhist Practice of Inner Peace by Pema Chodron, in both audio CD and book form (2000).
• Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief by Herbert Benson (1997).
• How to Meditate: A Guide to Self-Discovery by Lawrence LeShan (1999, reprinted 2002).