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What Keeps You Coming Back
Meditating isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, nor should it be. The great thing about mindfulness, says Barry Boyce, is how it deals with difficult emotions. 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.
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Your Guide to Defusing Anger
Here are 11 ways to take time for what matters and keep anger from messing up your life. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
How Humility Will Make You the Greatest Person Ever
It's so hard to be humble. Here are three tips for taming your ego. Read More
Books & Reviews
Simply Being Awake to What Is
How the clear and kind words of Stephen Levine helped one journalist stop admonishing himself and helped him sit with his inner rumble and panic. Read More
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High Anxiety
Anxiety disorders adversely affect the lives of about 40 million Americans. They are plagued by insecurity, dread, persistent stress, and irrational fears. Noted essayist and author Barbara Graham reveals her personal story of a lifelong struggle with high anxiety, and details her expansive search for relief and peace of mind. Read More
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Fear Less, Love More
Evolution has primed us to seek solid ground, certainty. That’s why we’re so quick to label others. Is mindfulness the way to uncover and counteract unconscious bias? Read More
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Confessions of a Recovering Insomniac
One woman recounts her (successful) struggle to get a decent night’s rest. Read More
Depression & Grief
A Matter of Death and Life
High school seniors at The Harley School in Rochester, New York, have the option of taking a class called “hospice.” Most who sign up for it don’t know what they’re in for, but none of them forget the experience when it’s over. Read More
Depression & Grief
Winter Blues
"Perhaps," says Sylvia Boorstein, "these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark." Read More
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Is It Selfish to Seek Happiness?
Redefining happiness in the age of mindfulness. Read More
