By: Sophia Wolf
In mid-October, it is now more than a month into the semester. As essays, exams, and presentations begin to pile up, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. However, mindfulness, stress relief, and mediation are closer than you think. The Music & Media Collection offers many films on these topics, both as physical DVDs or through the online streaming databases. Take a look at three new mindfulness and mediation films and documentaries now available to borrow from the Music & Media Collections. These films can be found on the “New to Our Collection” bookends!
The Mind/Body Connection: How Your Emotions Affect Your Health
Call Number: BF 161 .M56 2016 DVD
In this program, learn about the relationship between physical health and emotions. Researchers and clinicians talk about how improvements in psychological functioning can mitigate and even prevent the symptoms of many diseases. Learn how mindfulness techniques such as meditation and yoga can improve emotional problems and how physical exercise can lift mood, sharpen thinking, and ease stress.
On Meditation
Call Number: BL 627 .O5 2016 DVD
This documentary explores the deeply personal practice of meditation. Practiced for thousands of years, meditation is at once profound and simple: the focused attempt to move beyond “thinking” into a deeper state of awareness. But what does this path truly look like? Learn from the first-hand experiences of those who have developed a meaningful practice, from teachers to everyday people to celebrities.
A Zen Life
Call Number: BQ 988 .U887 Z4 2006 DVD
D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966) was one of the 20th century’s most important writers and thinkers. During his life, Suzuki became the first advocate of Zen Buddhism and its practices for those in the West. He traveled and lectured around the world and has had a major impact on religious, artistic and philosophical thinking. This vivid portrait of the man includes rare footage of Suzuki himself and commentary by many whose lives and thinking he influenced.
By Sofia Wolf
As UST welcomes new students to campus – whether first year, international, or transfer students – the Music & Media Collections at OSF Library cannot wait to share the many resources we have available for these new (or returning) Tommies. Found in room 104A in O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, the Music & Media Collections has over 25,000 physical DVD and CD titles available for check out as well as numerous streaming databases featuring academic films and interviews, documentaries, foreign films, major motion pictures, and everything in between. Viewing stations, listening/view rooms, and external disc drives available for check out make it easy to utilize our resources. If you have been to the Music & Media Collections in the past, make sure to drop by this semester to browse the many new titles that were added throughout the summer.
Rewards program is now in place – you can sign up at coffeebene.com/rewards to earn points for your purchases at Coffee Bené!
Notable past summer blockbusters available at OSF: 
By Liz Legatt