A 5-Minute Mindful Breathing Practice to Restore Your Attention
A simple meditation to train your attention so you can learn how to choose what you'd like to focus on rather letting your mind wander around unattended. Read More
Articles by Mark Bertin
Breathing Meditations
Eating & Body Image
Mind Over Meal
Restrictive diets and food fads are not the way to good nutrition. A healthy dose of attention is what’s called for instead. Read More
Body Scan
A 20-Minute Body Scan to Cultivate Attention
Tuning in to the body gives us a chance to notice where we need to make changes—it's an opportunity to practice responsiveness. Wind down from a busy day with this guided meditation from Mark Bertin, MD. Read More
Kids & Teens
Getting Kids Unhooked from Their Smartphones
Setting guidelines around kids' tech use starts with the habits and conscious choices of parents. Mark Bertin, MD, shares tips on how families can be mindful with their tech. Read More
Breathing Meditations
A Guided Breathing Meditation to Cultivate Awareness
A 15-minute breathing meditation that builds awareness of thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the body. Read More
Focus & Attention
Mental Meteorology: How Noticing Your Thoughts Leads to Healthier Habits of Mind
Our mental habits can be both useful and far from useful—to start sorting out the difference we first have to notice them. Read More
Body Scan
Body Scan for Kids
An 11-minute body scan for children to help bring calmness, attention, and appreciation to hectic daytime routines and marathon bedtime rituals. Read More
Magazine
Living with, and Loving, Your Imperfect Life
Mice in your kitchen, ants at the picnic, screaming children, losing your temper, grouchy boss—life is full of imperfections. And yet it’s uncanny how hard we try to keep everything tidy and together. In fact, when we start to loosen up our habits of perfectionism we discover strength and resilience within. Read More
Magazine
Let Go of Being the Ideal Role Model
Our thoughts and images of what an ideal parent or lover or leader should be can get in the way of just being the best we can be in any given moment. Read More
Magazine
Searching for Happiness and Finding Yard Work
It can be a fleeting fleeing, especially if we're chasing a need to be happy. An anxious bachelor gets out of his head and into the streets to meet friends and neighbors, in hopes of rescuing his weekend—and his outlook on life. Read More
