Focus

Boost your focus and productivity with our curated articles, tips, and exercises. Make mindfulness your tool for better concentration

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Daily Practices
Mindful Snacking 

Eating mindfully isn’t about resistance or restriction. It’s about enjoying more. Here’s a mindful-eating technique to use when you want a snack. Read More 

  • Jean Kristeller
  • February 13, 2014
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Calm
Rewiring Your Emotions 

Think you're destined to respond the same way emotionally to the same old triggers? Not necessarily so, says Sharon Begley. With a little mind training, you can chart new pathways.  Read More 

  • Sharon Begley
  • July 27, 2013
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Calm
Stressing Out? S.T.O.P. 

Elisha Goldstein on how creating space in the day to come down from a worried mind can mitigate the negative effects of our stress response.  Read More 

  • Elisha Goldstein
  • May 29, 2013
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