If you order any two CDs, below, the cost, including shipping, is $30
All three CDs: $35, including shipping
Additional CDs: $10 each (see below for quantity orders, and please allow 2-3 weeks for USPS parcel post delivery)
Make checks payable to Mark Waldman and mail to 1601 Carmen Drive, Suite 203, Camarillo, CA, 93010. For credit card payments, please call the offices of Susan VanVonderen and Mark Waldman at 805-987-7222 between the hours of 10AM and 4:30PM (pacific standard time), Monday-Wednesday, or Thursday noon to 6. Proceeds are used to support our ongoing research.
Compassionate Communication CD: $20 (includes shipping)
Transforming Conflicts into Peace
A Mindfulness-Based Dialogue Training Exercise For Couples, Schools, Businesses, and Spiritual Organizations
With Mark Robert Waldman and Andrew Davidson (recording engineer)
This exercise is a combination of different meditation principles that are integrated into a dialogue/communication exercise. It is currently being used and researched at counseling centers and conflict-resolution organizations, with students at selected schools and colleges, and with members of selected religious communities. At the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Newberg is conducting a longitudinal brain-scan study to evaluate the neurological changes that take place when couples and individuals practice this exercise for 15 minutes each day. The results, and the effects it has upon anger, depression, anxiety, compassion, and linguistic skills are reported in Newberg and Waldman's book, How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings by a Leading Neuroscientist (Ballantine, March 2009).
For our readers, clients, and seminar attendees, we have created a CD that will guide you through the steps of Compassionate Communication. Three additional tracks address how to create an intimate dialogue, how to deal with anger, and a list of effective conflict resolution strategies drawn from leading communication experts throughout the world.
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NEW CD:
Mindfulness, Relaxation and Awareness
With Mark Robert Waldman $20(includes shipping)
Simple Tools and Meditations to Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and Depression
By definition, mindfulness is the act of observing, without judgment, your thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the present moment. It sounds simple, yet it only takes a few moments to realize how often our minds are distracted. We lose touch with ourselves and our goals, and in the process we find ourselves caught up in subtle ruminations of anxiety, frustration, and self-criticism. But, as our brainscan research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Spirituality and the Mind has documented, if you take a few minutes during the day to yawn, breathe, relax, stretch, and focus your attention on your most values and beliefs, you’ll rapidly improve the functioning of your brain. In fact, you’ll add of happiness and peacefulness to your life. And as your stress diminishes, your physical and psychological health improves. So please experiment with the exercises and meditations on this CD, and feel free to modify them to suit your personal desires and needs.
This high quality, professionally recorded CD includes traditional, contemporary, and unique exercises designed for both beginning and advanced meditation students, and for anyone who desires to experience deep states of relaxation, awareness, and peacefulness. Five of the meditations are extended versions of those we presented in our book, How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings by a Leading Neuroscientist, and three of them are new, but they are key elements found in most mindfulness-based stress reduction programs. We created this CD because it truly helps individuals to go deeply into the experience of observing one's feelings, thoughts, and sensations with greater sensitivity, acceptance, and nonjudgmental awareness. Our research has documented that that these simple exercises can improve your neurological functioning in ways that improve memory, cognition, motivation, and social empathy while simultaneously suppressing destructive feelings and thoughts which lie at the root of most symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress.
1. Disclaimer 2. Introduction 3:25 3. Conscious Yawning 5:05
4. Breathing Awareness 8:30 5. Progressive Muscle Relaxation 12:20
6. Mindful Stretching 10:05 7. Leaves on a Stream 7:05
8: The Silence Behind the Bell 3:30 9: Speaking Slowly 2:45
10: Walking Awareness 9:55 11: Lovingkindness 9:45
12: The Two Wolves 3:00
Recording Engineer: Alec Dixon, The Study Recording, Los Angeles, CA
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NEW CD: Mindful Eating Affirmations $15 (includes shipping)
Brief Meditations to Strengthen Your Commitment
to Eat Consciously and Lose Weight
with Mark Robert Waldman
and members from the Southern California Centers for Spiritual Living
Recording Engineer: Alec Dixon, The Study Recording, Los Angeles, CA
This CD was developed to help individuals deepen their practice of mindful eating, and is part of a science-and-research based weight-reduction course created by Mark Waldman. By bringing meditation into the physical act of eating meals and snacks, you can undermine the brain's propensity to overeat. Eating disorders are lessened as you learn to savor and appreciate every morsel of food, and this increases satisfaction and pleasure as we become more conscious of the way we feel about our bodies and the foods we choose to eat. Proceeds are used to support our new brainscan research (with Jean Kristeller, Ph.D, and Andrew Newberg, MD) on the neuroscience of hunger and the effects of mindful eating on the brain.
1: Disclaimer
2: Introduction and Two Meditations, by Mark Waldman [9:47]
3: “I breathe in love…” by Dorianne Cotter-Lockard [3:35]
4: “I am the light…” by Marc Bachrach [1:43]
5: “I begin my day…” by Lisa Chadwich-Peterson [2:42]
6: “My loving consciousness feeds me…” by Audrey Larson [2:12]
7: “This moment is the holiest moment…” by Marc Bachrach [2:16]
8: “Energized knower….” by Barbara DiFebo [1:05]
9: “In this spirit…” by Michael DiFebo [1:29]
10: “Every cell of my body…” by Jeanie Kingsford [2:12]
11: “Today is a new day…” by Linda Fisher [4:32]
12: “I release…” by Marc Bachrach [2:57]
13: Creating a Personal Affirmation, by Mark Waldman [3:47]
Recording Engineer: Alec Dixon, The Study Recording, Los Angeles, CA
QUANTITY ORDERS: Many people have requested additional cds for distribution to students, patients, etc., or for resale at conferences and bookstores, and we thank you for your support. If you order 10 cds or more of any of the above titles, the cost is $7.60 per unit, including shipping and tax (for example, 10 cds = $76). If you resell them, we ask that you do not charge more than $15. Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.
NEW CDS COMING SOON: We're about to go into the studio with esteemed musicologist and musician Yuval Ron to record a second meditation cd that includes spiritual practices and traditional music from the 4th-17th Century Abrahamic and mystical traditions. We're also developing a cd/mp3 program that will guide an individual through an experiential day of mindfulness. These exercises are part of my and Andy Newberg's new research exploring the neurological benefits associated with meditation, prayer, and music.
Results from Our Compassionate Communication Workshop Study:
Using a modified Miller Social Intimacy Scale, participants from different church groups and community colleges practiced this exercise for an hour. Depending on the specific aspect of empathy and social comfort being measured, a 10-20% improvement of social intimacy was attained. The results will be published in a forthcoming peer-reviewed journal:
* 121 individuals participated in this study
* Mean age was 50.8±17.3 years old and there were 36 males and 85 females
* The mean total Miller Intimacy score post training was significantly higher compared to pre-training (36.2±7.6 and 32.6±7.0, respectively, p< 0.00001)
* African American respondents (N=17) had a mean post training score of 36.2±7.6 compared to the pre training intimacy score of 32.6±7.04 (p=0.02)
* When the subjects were arranged by age quartiles, the youngest quartile (ages from 18-40) did not demonstrate a significant improvement in intimacy scores although there was a trend towards improvement (31.6 compared to 29.8, p=0.08).
* All of the other age quartiles demonstrated significant improvements in intimacy with the group from 40-53 years old having the greatest impact (38.7 compared to 33.0, p<0.0001).
Mark Robert Waldman Counseling, Research, Workshops, Lectures, and Editorial Services
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