Wellbeing & Mindfulness Resources

This libguide is designed to help KU Community in order to find Wellbeing and Mindfulness resources available to them. The books and journals are selected from the Library's sources. SKL resources on wellbeing and mindfulness are not limited to those in this libguide. For more resources please check the Library's website: https://library.ku.edu.tr/en/

The World Health Organisation (2014) describes wellbeing as a state in which “every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.” (1)

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of present-moment reality. 

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding,moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives. (2)

(1)Graham Walton (2018) Supporting Student Wellbeing in the University Library: A Core Service or a Distraction?, New Review of Academic Librarianship, 24:2, 121-123, DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2017.1418240

(2)Wherever you go, there you are : mindfulness meditation in everyday life / Jon Kabat-Zinn.