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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Guided Meditations
Travel Presence 

You can turn any vacation into a pilgrimage with a just few simple practices. Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat tell you how. Read More 

  • Frederic Brussat
  • December 1, 2010
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Guided Meditations
One Moment at a Time 

Vidyamala Burch offers mindfulness practices for coping with experiences of pain and suffering. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • November 25, 2010
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Getting Started
Practice: Befriending Self 

Saki Santorelli, director of the stress reduction program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, offers some words of wisdom about practicing mindfulness, or "offering hospitality to ourselves." Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • November 23, 2010
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Learn
The Science of Love 

Are there provable methods we can use to become more altruistic and compassionate? Barry Boyce reports on CCARE's growing number of scientists and researchers who are studying how to bring out the best in human nature.  Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • September 7, 2010
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Expert Interviews
It’s Not Helping 

What can you do when compassion shows up as frustration? Karen Kissel Wegela on how to be present with our own helplessness. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Surrendered to Love 

How Martin Luther King's vision of life based on a love ethic could heal our wounded world. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Expert Interviews
The Thisness of What Is 

Diane Ackerman, best-selling author of Cultivating Delight, and The Zoo Keeper’s Wife, on the ancient tradition of meditation and mysticism that sustained two heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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