Focus & Attention
Hack Your Brain’s Habit Loops
We form habits in a very specific way, which is great news. It means this is a system that can be observed, examined, and even altered. But first we need to understand how it all works. Read More 
Personal Essays
First-person stories about what mindfulness looks like in real, messy, everyday life. These essays are honest, personal, and often funny - written by people who've found that paying attention changes everything.
Gratitude
How to Cultivate Meaning and Well-Being Through Simple, Everyday Actions
Understanding your personal values, and making choices that match them, may be the secret to a purposeful life. Read More
Magazine
How A Grounded Pilot Used Meditation to Fly Again
Pilots navigate 300,000-pound aircraft through rugged weather with ease every day—but this amazing skill-set can also be their downfall. Read More
Focus & Attention
Three Ways Your Emotions Can Warp Your Decisions
Our emotions often prevent us from seeing the full picture, causing us to make choices we regret later on. Here’s how to create the space needed to think with clarity and focus. Read More
Depression & Grief
Self-Care for Difficult Times
How to navigate your way around a black hole of hopelessness—Hint: you have to stare down the despair. Read More
Depression & Grief
Grieving For and Loving Our Planet
Wilderness expert and renowned mindfulness teacher Mark Coleman shares how he is learning to hold the intense beauty of nature—and devastation of climate change—in his mindfulness practice. Read More
Magazine
A Mindful Pity Party: Meditating While Sick
When we're sick and sulky, the last thing we want is to do a mindfulness practice. Comedian and mindfulness practitioner Elaine Smookler describes this dilemma as only she can. Read More
Magazine
Finding Your Way Back Home
For Dena Simmons, “mindfulness was not something that I got to do by sitting in a quiet space and meditating.” She shares her mindful journey from the streets of Bronx to the ivory towers of Yale and back. Read More
Focus & Attention
Are We Distracted, or Just Rude?
Armed with phones, we navigate our world with our heads down. But the basic project of mindfulness isn’t just self-improvement—it’s about being attentive to what’s going on around us, and where we fit in, says Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce. Read More
Magazine
Turning Forgetfulness into a Mindfulness Practice
Diana Winston reflects on how to turn a bad habit into a mini moment of mindfulness. Read More
