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Bring Back Your Spark
How do you let your inner light shine, even when things get tough? It begins with a spirit of curiosity, writes beloved mindfulness teacher Elaine Smooker. 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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How Hope Helped Me Get Unstuck
Writer Sharon Ross shares how paying attention to her hopes and daydreams helped her leave her toxic marriage and build a more fulfilling and joyful life. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
What Mindful Readers Think About Compassion
We asked Mindful readers what compassion means to them and how it shows up in everyday life. Here are their responses. Read More
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Decluttering—Outside and Inside
Sorting through and letting go of physical objects we no longer need teaches us about all the things we’re holding onto. As Barry Boyce realizes, it can also help us find kinder, wiser ways of decluttering our mind. Read More
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10 Mindfulness Lessons for Hard Times
10 things you learn from having a mindfulness practice that help foster resilience in the face of whatever life brings. Read More
Breathing Meditations
Mountain-Climbing Mindfulness: The Power of 10 Deep Breaths
When a challenge feels insurmountable, it’s easy to lose touch with how capable we truly are. Meditation teacher Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely shares how a chance encounter—high on a French mountain—helped her tap into her own wellspring of motivation and strength. Read More
Breathing Meditations
Let Your Practice Guide You Beyond Crisis Mode
While many of us lean on mindfulness to help us through times of inner and outer chaos, we can cultivate the greatest resilience through consistency in our practice, even when it doesn’t feel urgent. Read More
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How Present-Moment Awareness Can Make Life More Meaningful
When we practice present-moment awareness, we can savor each moment, make time feel like it’s passing slower, and get in touch with the fundamental wonder of being alive. Read More
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How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome
This brief animation from Ted-Ed connects self-doubt with high performance and explains three ways you can combat it. Read More
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Why Aggressions Are Not Micro and How to Avoid Them
“Microaggressions” can have a massive impact on those on the receiving end. Learning how to interrupt them from a lens of openness and curiosity for ourselves and others can help us work toward more compassionate schools, workplaces, and communities. Read More
