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Books Surja's Reading List Surja’s Reading List Books Aamodt, Sandra and Sam Wang. Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2008. Anālayo. Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization.Cambridge: Windhorse Publications, 2010. Baran, Josh. 365 Nirvana Here and Now: Living Every Moment in Enlightenment. London: Element, 2003. Bhikkhu Bodhi. The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering. Onalaska, WA 1994. Carter, Rita, et al. The Human Brain Book. New York: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014. Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World. New York: Avery, 2016. Dalai Lama. The Four Noble Truths. Translated by Geshe thupe Jinpa and edited by Dominique Side. New York: HarperCollins, 2018. Damasio, Antonio. Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain. New York: Vintage Books, 2012. Damasio, Antonio. The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feelings, and the Making of Cultures. New York: Pantheon Books, 2018. Davidson, Richard J. and Sharon Begley. The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live ― and How You Can Change Them. New York: Penguin Group, 2012 Doidge, Norman. The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. New York: Penguin Books, 2007. Doige, Norman. The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discovery and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity. New York: Penguin Books, 2016. Eagleman, David. The Brain: The Story of You. New York: Pantheon Books, 2015. Eagleman, David. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. Feinberg, Todd E. and Jon M. Mallat. Consciousness Demystified. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2018. 1 March 2021 Frondsdal, Gil. The Buddha before Buddhism: Wisdom from the Early Teachings. Boulder, CO: Shambala: 2016. Frondsdal, Gil. The Dhammapada. Boston: Shambala, 2005. Gardner-Nix, Jackie. The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc., 2009. Gazzaniga, Michael S. Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain. New York: HarperCollin Publishers, 2011. Goleman, Daniel. Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama. New York: Bantam Books, 2003. Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ. New York: Bantam Books, 1995. Goleman, Daniel and Richard J. Davidson. Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body. New York: Avery 2017. Gunaratana, Bhante. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Plain English. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications: 2012. Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. New York: HarperCollins, 2015. Hawkins, Jeff. On Intelligence. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004. Kandel, Eric R. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to Present. New York: Random House, 2012. Kandel, Eric R. The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. Kandel, Eric R. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. Koch, Christof. The Feeling of Life Itself. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019. Kornfield, Jack. Living Buddhist Masters. Santa Cruz, CA: Unity Press, 1977. McCown, Donald, Diane K. Riebel and Marc S. Micozzi. Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011. Newberg, Andrew and Mark Robert Waldman. How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist. New York: Random House, 2009. Panksepp, Jaak and Lucy Biven. The Archeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Parks, Tim. Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing. New York: Rodale, 2011. Ratey, John J., MD. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2008. 2 March 2021 Siegel, Daniel J. The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007. Taylor, Jill Bolte. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. New York: Viking Penguin, 2008 Wang, Sam. The Neuroscience of Everyday Life. Chantilly, VA: The Great Courses, 2010. Young, Shinzen. Natural Pain Relief: How to Soothe & Dissolve Physical Pain with Mindfulness. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2011. Young, Shinzen. The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2016 Articles Beck, Melinda. “Conquering Fear.” The Wall Street Journal (January 2, 2011). Beck, Melinda. “Eating to Live or Living to Eat? Stomach vs. Brain: Discovering Why Some People Can Resist Dessert While Others Can't.” The Wall Street Journal (July 13, 2010). Beck, Melinda. “May We Help You? Sky’s the Limit.” Oprah.Com (June 2011): 49 – 51. Beck, Melinda. “Stress So Bad It Hurts ― Really.” The Wall Street Journal (March 17, 2009). Beck, Melinda. “Thank You. No, Thank You: Grateful People Are Happier, Healthier Long After the Leftovers Are Gobbled.” The Wall Street Journal (November 23, 2010). Bernstein, Elizabeth. “Fighting Happily Ever After:There's a Right Way to Argue and It Can Be Good for Relationships.” The Wall Street Journal (July 27, 2010). Bernstein, Elizabeth. “New Way to Tame Your Temper.” The Wall Street Journal (July 10, 2012). Bernstein, Elizabeth. “How to Tame Your Nightmares: Therapies Teach Sleepers to Change the Ending of Their Dreams — or Even Take Flight.” The Wall Street Journal (July 20, 2010). Cevallos, Marissa. “Keeping the Brain Keen Takes an Effort.” The Oregonian (October. 6, 2010). Churnin, Nancy. “Scientist Rethinking the Brain.” The Oregonian (March 17, 2010). Churnin, Nancy. “Our Minds Wander But They are Never Lost.” The Oregonian (September 2, 2010). Colapinto, John. “Brain Games: The Marco Polo of Neuroscience.” The New Yorker (May 11, 2009). Cole, Adam. “Even Beginners Can Curb Pain With Meditation.” Shots: Health News from NPR (April 6, 2011). Deardorff, Julie. “Meditation Isn't Just About Relaxing” Chicago Tribune (November 24, 2010). Deutsch, David. “How Do You Buff Your Brain.” Newsweek (January. 9, 2012): 23-29. 3 March 2021 Gawande, Atul. “The Itch: Its Mysterious Power May be a Clue to a New Theory about Brains and Bodies.” The New Yorker (June 30, 2008). Gawande, Atul. “Letting Go: What Should Medicine Do When It Can’t Save Your Life?” The New Yorker (August 2, 2010). Healy, Melissa. “Making Music is What Fires the Brain.” The Oregonian (March 10, 2010): C1. Heath, Chip and Dan. “It’s a New Day: Make Changes That Last.” Parade (January 3, 2010). Hottle, Molly. “Unplugged, Left to Own Devices.” The Oregonian (October 11, 2010). Hotz, Robert Lee. “As Brain Changes, So Can IQ: Study Finds Teens' Intellects May Be More Malleable Than Previously Thought.” The Wall Street Journal (October 20, 2011). Hotz, Robert Lee. “A Wandering Mind Heads Straight Toward Insight: Researchers Map the Anatomy of the Brain's Breakthrough Moments and Reveal the Payoff of Daydreaming.” The Wall Street Journal (June 19, 2009). Kolbert, Elizabeth. “Everybody Have Fun: What Can Policymakers Learn from Happiness Research?.”The New Yorker (March 22, 2010). Korn, Peter. “Decoding Your Brain.” Portland Tribune (February 23, 2012). Korn, Peter. “The Pain is All in Your Head.” Portland Tribune (August. 11, 2011). Lehrer, Jonah. “Don’t: The Secret of Self-Control.” The New Yorker (May 18, 2009):26-32. Lehrer, Jonah. “The Eureka Hunt.” The New Yorker (July 28, 2008). McGilchrist , Ian “The Battle of the Brain: The mind's Great Conflict Spills Over onto the World Stage.” The Wall Street Journal (January 2, 2010). “Mindfulness Matters: Can Living in the Moment Improve Your Health?” National Institutes of Health News in Health (January 2012). Neergaard, Lauran. “Retrain Your Brain: Sure You Can Break Bad Habits; Just Don’t Give Up.” The Oregonian (January 5, 2011). Oz, Mehmet and Milke Roizen. “Four Actions Can Cut Pain’s Effects” The Oregonian ( July 4, 2012). Oz, Mehmet and Milke Roizen. “Mind/Body Techniques Effective for Chronic Pain.” The Oregonian ( July 14, 2010): C5. Rojas-Burke, Joe. “Hey Baby What do You Know.” The Oregonian (August 14, 2010). Roth, Michael. “Poisoned by Bad Situations: Professor Behind Stanford Prison Experiment Says Being in a Cruel Place Can Make You Act Evil.” Book review of Phillip Zimbard’s The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil in The San Francisco Chronicle (April 29, 2007). Sternberg, Esther.M. and Philip W. Gold. "The Mind-Body Interaction in Disease." Scientific American, Special Edition: The Hidden Mind 12 (2002): 82-29. Sullivan, Julie. “More Walks May Lead to More Brains Study Says.” The Oregonian (October 14, 2010). 4 March 2021 Tippett, Kirsta. “Stem Cells: Untold Stories.” Speaking of Faith interview with Doris Taylor (October 29, 2009) Minnesota Public Radio. Tough, Paul. “The Poverty Clinic.” The New Yorker (March 21, 2011): 25-32. Yadegaran, Jessica. “Multitasking Takes a Toll on a Person’s Brain.” The Oregonian (March 29, 2010). DVDs The Brain. Dir. Toby Trackman. Blink Films, 2015. DVD. This Emotional Life: In Search of Ourselves…and Happiness. Dirs. Richard Hutton and Paula Aspell. Vulcan Productions, 2010. DVD. The Amazing Human Body. BBC, PBS, 2018. DVD 5 March 2021 .
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