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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Breathing Meditations
Let Your Practice Guide You Beyond Crisis Mode 

While many of us lean on mindfulness to help us through times of inner and outer chaos, we can cultivate the greatest resilience through consistency in our practice, even when it doesn’t feel urgent. Read More 

  • Georgina Miranda
  • July 23, 2024
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Compassion Is Key to Our Survival 

From an evolutionary standpoint, “survival of the kindest” is no exaggeration. When we respond with kindness in the face of suffering—including our own—we’re affirming the reality that our lives and well-being are all interconnected. Read More 

  • Susan Kaiser Greenland
  • July 19, 2024
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Books & Reviews
How to Show Up With Your Whole Heart 

Living wholeheartedly means unapologetically embracing who we are, accepting our imperfections, and celebrating our strengths and uniqueness, writes cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Fisher in this excerpt from his new book, Just One Heart. Read More 

  • Jonathan Fisher
  • July 4, 2024
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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Why Aggressions Are Not Micro and How to Avoid Them 

“Microaggressions” can have a massive impact on those on the receiving end. Learning how to interrupt them from a lens of openness and curiosity for ourselves and others can help us work toward more compassionate schools, workplaces, and communities. Read More 

  • Tovi Scruggs-Hussein
  • July 2, 2024
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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Values to Live By: A Cardiologist on the Importance of Wisdom 

Wisdom is something we all wish to possess, but how do we actually cultivate wise qualities (or know what those are)? In this second excerpt from Just One Heart, author and cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Fisher reveals powerful ways we can tune in to the body to develop the wisdom of our emotional heart. Read More 

  • Jonathan Fisher
  • June 27, 2024
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