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How to Stop the Racist in You
The new science of bias suggests that we all carry prejudices within ourselves—and we all have the tools to keep them in check. 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.
Focus & Attention
Why We Should Celebrate Performance at the Rio Olympics—Not Just Results
If coaches get athletes to tie their self-worth to winning, it makes the transition out of Olympic sport all the more difficult. Instead, the outlook needs to shift to coaching the whole person. Read More
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Breaking The Interruption Habit
One mom's attempt to notice the moments when we unconsciously interrupt others or allow ourselves to be needlessly interrupted. Read More
Depression & Grief
Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware: What I learned working in palliative care and how meditation saved me. Read More
Magazine
Living with, and Loving, Your Imperfect Life
Mice in your kitchen, ants at the picnic, screaming children, losing your temper, grouchy boss—life is full of imperfections. And yet it’s uncanny how hard we try to keep everything tidy and together. In fact, when we start to loosen up our habits of perfectionism we discover strength and resilience within. Read More
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Let Go of Being the Ideal Role Model
Our thoughts and images of what an ideal parent or lover or leader should be can get in the way of just being the best we can be in any given moment. Read More
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Searching for Happiness and Finding Yard Work
It can be a fleeting fleeing, especially if we're chasing a need to be happy. An anxious bachelor gets out of his head and into the streets to meet friends and neighbors, in hopes of rescuing his weekend—and his outlook on life. Read More
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Joy on Demand
The art of discovering the happiness within. Read More
Magazine
The Art of Living a Spacious Life
The busier you are, the more you have to step away from busy-ness, to see what’s truly important in life. It’s the open spaces—the moments when you lose yourself—that help you to find contentment, joy, and peace of mind. Read More
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Three Ways Acceptance Helps You Work with Difficult Emotions
Welcoming and letting tough emotions be—instead of pushing them away—might be the key to riding out unpleasant experiences. Read More
