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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.
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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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Digital Guides
Mindfulness Gets a Hobby 

The next generation of mindfulness courses go beyond the meditation cushion, mixing play and mindfulness instruction. Read More 

  • Stephany Tlalka
  • December 23, 2015
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Guided Meditations
Meditate With Intention, Not Goals 

It's only when we meditate for its own sake—rather than trying to get something from it—that we find the results we're after, says Ed Halliwell.  Read More 

  • Ed Halliwell
  • December 15, 2015
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