Focus
The Surprising Benefits of Teaching a Class Outside
A new study finds that a class in nature helps kids be more attentive and focused once they return indoors.
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Calm
Manage Big Parenting Feelings Before They Manage You
Huge parenting misnomer: we need to protect our kids from our negative feelings. The truth: it’s easier to lose control when we’re focused on stopping our emotions. Carla Naumburg explores seven practices to help you build resilience during tense parenting moments.
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Calm
How to Find Your Best Possible Self
Does imagining your future make you more happy—or more anxious? Taking just 15 minutes every day to write down what you want to do in the future can help you realize what's most important to you, and put you on a path to achieving you goals. [Podcast]
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Calm
How to Recognize Your Inner Critic
There's a tiny voice in the back of our minds that plays off our greatest anxieties, giving its dialogue an addictive quality. Here is a guided meditation to help loosen the grip of problematic thought loops that keep us mired in self-criticism.
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Daily Practices
Rethink Your Food Cravings with the Art of Savoring
Emotional eating fulfills a real need in our bodies, but goes off kilter when we don't check in with our minds. Strike a balance between momentary cravings and long-term nourishment with these four steps.
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Focus
The Quest to Live Forever
Some scientists are working on making the last stages of life a little healthier, others are trying to extend life, and still others are hoping to make death obsolete.
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Using Science to Start a Conversation
Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce on the importance of questioning everything we think we know.
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How Busy Working Parents Can Make Time for Mindfulness
Michelle Gale was working as Twitter's head of learning and development while also raising a family, and struggled to fit mindfulness into her busy lifestyle. Here, she gives tips on how to practice awareness by building it into your daily routine.
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Compassion
How to Keep Your Smartphone from Hurting Your Relationships
A mindful relationship with our phones is the key to balancing in-person interactions and online activity. Here are six ways to limit screen time in order to be more present in our real-world relationships.
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Compassion
Four Self-Care Habits to Practice at Work
We are our own worst critic — and it could be holding us back in the workplace. Here are four ways to stop being so hard on ourselves and use simple moments during the day to wind down when we feel overwhelmed.
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