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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
A Mindful Response to the Riots 

Like most people who’ve expressed a view on the English city riots this month, I wasn’t there. Having relocated last year from inner London to a small countryside town an hour’s drive away, my experience of the unrest was mediated through television, Twitter and news websites. It was also filtered… Read More 

  • Ed Halliwell
  • August 23, 2011
Brown dog with floppy ears sits among green leafy plants, embodying mindfulness as it looks to the side.
Getting Started
The Mindfulness Bark 

You can use any sound in your house as a mindfulness bell—the ring of a telephone, the purr of a cat. For Toni Bernhard, it's Rusty's bark. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • August 18, 2011
driving
Focus & Attention
Driving as Preparation 

Donald Altman says you can use your driving time as an exercise to bring more presence to your life. Read More 

  • Donald Altman
  • August 17, 2011
Kids & Teens
How Mindful Awareness Can Transform the World—Starting with Our Children 

Susan Kaiser Greenland on the Power of Mindful Awareness In my experience, introducing mindful awareness to children, teens, and families has the potential to transform our world. While many educational programs teach valuable life skills from early childhood through adulthood, these skills can be difficult to apply in… Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • August 3, 2011
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