Anxiety
How Mindfulness May Change the Brain in Depressed Patients
Harvard researchers use brain scans to explore how 8-weeks of training in present-moment awareness might break the cycle of self-rumination.
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Difficult Experiences & Emotions
Anxiety
How to Grow Your Emotional Intelligence
When it comes to celebrating strengths, brains and brawn often trump sensitivity and emotional resilience. This short animation makes the case for recognizing the importance of our own feelings, as well as those around us.
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How Grassroots Mindfulness Fuels Mental Health Support
To make mindfulness accessible, you need to go into communities that aren't attending the conventional mindfulness classes. Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce visits the Centre for Mindful Studies in Toronto where frontline workers train clients in mindfulness.
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Anxiety
A Meditation on Working with Anxiety
This meditation combines breath awareness, the body scan, and mindfulness of thoughts to explore sources of stress and anxiety.
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Embrace the Cringe of an Awkward Situation
Why awkward moments make us grind our teeth in despair and how we can train ourselves to embrace the cringe.
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A Major Turning Point for Mindfulness in Health Care
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, comments on the first medical school division dedicated to studying the impact of meditation.
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The Mindful FAQ: How to Meditate with a Cold
Can you meditate with a cold? Mindfulness is a practice of being with whatever shows up—that includes the sniffles and itchy eyes.
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The Tyranny of Relentless Positivity
When we ignore difficult emotions, they end up controlling us. Here's how embracing emotional agility allows us to deal with the world as it is.
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Mindful’s Top 10 Guided Practices of 2017
Listen to guided meditations from mindfulness experts on how to work with difficult emotions and weave mindful moments into your daily life.
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A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit
Psychiatrist and addiction expert Judson Brewer on how we can use mindfulness to harness the brain's habit-forming process to build more nourishing habits that aren't steered by cravings.
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