Magazine
One Simple Way to Get Out of “Doing” Mode
Want to give up the chase to get somewhere else and drop into the experience of now? One way to do that is to embrace silence, writes Ed Halliwell. 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.
Magazine
Mindfulness Can Quiet Down the A**Hole Voice in Our Heads
Mindfulness lets you know what's going on in your mind without taking the bait and acting on it, says Elisha Goldstein. Read More
Magazine
Getting Over the Mindfulness Hype
Critiques against mindfulness tell us more about our over-driven society than the practice itself, says Ed Halliwell. Read More
Magazine
The Horse is Technology, But the Rider is on Auto-Pilot
Elisha Goldstein looks at how we can mindfully reign in and harness our relationship to technology. Read More
Gratitude
Your Brain’s Greatest Blind Spot to Happiness
Our brains are wired to chunk data and make things routine so we can handle more complex tasks, writes Elisha Goldstein. But what happens when the brain applies this method to other human beings or even the people who are dearest to us? Read More
Magazine
Patton Oswalt: Why I Quit Twitter
Comedian Patton Oswalt commits to a social media hiatus and shares his discoveries, regrets, and a more mindful way to be on the web. Read More
Gratitude
You Can Find Happiness Here: A Tip from Mitch Albom
When we try to chase happiness, we often chase it away. Elisha Goldstein says if we want to choose to have joy in our lives, we have to look in the unexpected places. Read More
Magazine
Mindfulness Can’t Cure Everything. And That’s a Problem Why?
Does something beneficial have to be delivered perfectly—and to bring about a perfect world—before we will accept it as worthwhile? Read More
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A Change of Heart—Literally
How mindfulness helped Minds, Inc. founder, Jesse Torrence, recover from a heart transplant. Read More
Getting Started
Waking Up is Hard to Do—but that’s OK
Even those of us who’ve committed to this awakening can find it so uncomfortable that we repeatedly resist the bright light that meditation shines on our lives. Read More
