The Ecology of Aging: How Longevity Shapes Society’s Future
Many people look at the aging population as a problem, but author and history professor Theodore Roszak thinks it could result in a wiser and more caring society. Read More
Articles by Mindful Staff
Expert Interviews
Mindfulness For
The Problem With Problems: How Meditative Training Helps You Cope
1. Understanding Life’s Ups and Downs Life is… Read More
Guided Meditations
Meeting Pain with Awareness
Jon Kabat-Zinn, a keynote speaker at the 2011 Creating a Mindful Society conference, teaches you how. Read More
Magazine
Mama Raccoon: Finding Belonging and Body-Trust During Cancer Recovery
When author Barbara Gates got breast cancer, she found healing by recognizing the strength in her animal community and learning to trust her body and the earth. Read More
Meditation Practices
Body and Mind Integration
Yoga practice and meditation work extremely well together, say Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern. They show us how. Read More
Magazine
Anxiety Soup: A Playful, Practical Recipe for Easing Collective Stress
For times troubled with everything from Wall Street meltdowns to very inconvenient truths, Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, gives us her recipe for finding equanimity. Read More
Getting Started
Waking Up to Your World: Using the Pause Practice to Break Habitual Patterns
Throughout your day you can pause, take a break from your usual thoughts, and wake up to the magic and vastness of the world around you. Pema Chödrön says this easy and spacious type of mindfulness practice is the most important thing we can do with our lives. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Mindful Emailing: How a Simple Blessing Can Transform Your Inbox
E-mail is so fast it’s almost magical, says Sylvia Boorstein. Yet with a little mindfulness it could be more than that—it could be truly transformational. Read More
Gratitude
Not Just Marking Time: How Rituals Help Us Face Impermanence with Mindfulness and Gratitude
By participating in rituals that mark life’s passages, says Sylvia Boorstein, we acknowledge impermanence. And in accepting impermanence, we are reminded to be kind. Read More
Guided Meditations
Unlimited Compassion
Christina Feldman offers this short, guided meditation on how to embrace all suffering and cultivate loving-kindness and compassion. Read More
