1. Understanding Life’s Ups and Downs Life is full of economic, personal, and health fluctuations. Just as rocks are polished by a stream, every challenge refines our strength. Each obstacle you overcome builds resilience—yet it also highlights how helpless we can feel when others suffer. 2. Meditative Training… Read More 
Jon Kabat-Zinn, a keynote speaker at the 2011 Creating a Mindful Society conference, teaches you how. Read More
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
Yoga practice and meditation work extremely well together, say Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern. They show us how. Read More
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
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
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
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
Christina Feldman offers this short, guided meditation on how to embrace all suffering and cultivate loving-kindness and compassion. Read More
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