Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Six Signs of a Strong Friendship
Philosopher and author Alain de Botton explains how a good friend can enrich our lives, even when we’re at our lowest. Read More 
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Loving-kindness and compassion practices train you to extend warmth and care - first to yourself, then to others. These meditations can shift how you relate to difficult emotions, tough relationships, and your own inner critic.
Guided Meditations
A Guided Meditation to Cultivate Kindness
Explore this 17-minute kindness practice to open the heart and offer good wishes to others. Read More
Gratitude
A Simple Mindful Gratitude Exercise
Science suggests that expressing true gratitude boosts your health and spreads happiness. Here are a few simple exercises to help you build your capacity for gratitude. Read More
Focus & Attention
From Anger to Love: The Art of Self-Intervention
A practice to help you stop resisting your anger and relate to it with awareness, so you can free yourself from anger’s strangle-hold. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
“Just Like Me” Compassion Practice
This guided visualization practice invites us to look at how we are similar in important ways. This practice can be done alone or with a partner. Read More
Guided Meditations
A Reconciliation Meditation
Anxiety engenders feelings of isolation—when we don't feel at ease, how do we find peace? This meditation explores making amends for the times we've hurt ourselves, others, or those who have hurt us. Read More
Breathing Meditations
Breathing Compassion In and Out
Kristin Neff guides us through a twenty-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others. Read More
Learn
Does Mindfulness Meditation Really Make You Kinder?
New studies suggest that training in mindfulness may help us show more care and compassion toward others. Read More
Kids & Teens
Seven Lessons from Mister Rogers That Can Help Americans Be Neighbors Again
The host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood taught kids critical emotional and social skills that are still relevant to adults today. Read More
Guided Meditations
Practice Self-Compassion with Forgiveness
We cannot force ourselves to move on from a painful situation — expecting forgiveness to be quick and voluntary can have negative effects. Explore this mindfulness practice for creating space for ourselves to forgive. Read More
