Meditation Practices

Explore meditation techniques for every level - from your first sitting practice to advanced methods like body scan, breathwork, and loving-kindness. Each practice includes step-by-step guidance to help you build a meditation habit that lasts.
Mindfulness for Anger
Guided Meditations
Mindfulness of Anger 

Take three minutes and try this mindfulness practice for dealing with one of our strongest emotions. Read More 

  • Margaret Cullen
  • January 25, 2016
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Eating & Body Image
Taste a Little Self-Compassion 

A recent study shows how self-compassion reduced bingeing and eating concerns—plus a mindfulness practice to build self-compassion every day.  Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • January 19, 2016
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Magazine
The Mindful Survey: Fitness 

Are reading and chess exercise? Is "no pain, no gain" a good motto to live by? Our readers share thoughts on their personal fitness crazes. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • December 29, 2015
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Getting Started
Is Meditation Self-help? 

"Self-help" can easily take us into a spiral of self-defeat. Meditation unravels that entire approach—to our great relief. Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • December 29, 2015
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