Mental Health

Mindful.org's mental health category is a compassionate space dedicated to supporting your psychological well-being. Our expertly curated content offers insights into mindfulness practices that foster emotional balance, resilience, and healing. From in-depth articles to practical tips and guided exercises, discover how mindfulness can be a transformative tool in managing stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges, promoting a healthier, more mindful life.
Meditation Anxiety
Anxiety
Three Meditation Resources for Anxiety 

Explore how mindfulness allows you to bring kind awareness and acknowledgment to any stressed or anxious feelings in your body and mind and simply allow them to be. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • June 12, 2018
watercolor person meditating
Anxiety
When the Mind Goes Dark 

When depression hits, can meditating help you work through it? Maybe, but not always. Psychologists weigh in on when mindfulness therapies can (and can’t) help to ease depression. Read More 

  • Ed Halliwell
  • May 21, 2018
person climbing mountain. resources for resilience
Anxiety
How to Cultivate the Resources for Resilience 

Your basic needs can be matched by the mental resources we all possess, like courage or gratitude. Grow your inner strengths with this four-step HEAL framework to make you more resilient when challenges arise. Read More 

  • Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson
  • May 9, 2018
Inside of man's head. grow your emotional intelligence
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. Read More 

  • Nicole Bayes-Fleming
  • April 6, 2018
tree and leaves in the form of a brain
Anxiety
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. Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • April 5, 2018
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