Breathing Meditations
Try This Breathing Meditation to Calm Your Busy Mind
This guided belly breath meditation allows you to explore slow, relaxed, abdominal breathing–when you need it most. Read More 
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.
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
What’s New in Mindfulness: Indigenous Wellness, Quilts of Compassion, and More
Learn about a contemplative science site, a hotline to support those in mental health crisis, and more news from the world of mindfulness. Read More
Getting Started
Loving-Kindness Meditations for Beginners
Explore these simple practices to embrace self-compassion, send love to the people you hold dear, and open your heart. Read More
Gratitude
What Self-Love Really Means
Mindful editor-in-chief Heather Hurlock explores how calling in our communities both near and far is an essential part of deepening into self-love and gratitude. Read More
Breathing Meditations
Encouraging Healthy Mindsets for Teens
From navigating moments of anger to reducing stress for young people, here are some recent findings from the research on mindfulness. Read More
Expert Interviews
Pain Opens a Door
Mindfulness teacher Vidyamala Burch opens up about her firsthand experience with the power of mindfulness and compassion to support those living with chronic pain. Read More
Gratitude
Gratitude for the Lousy Ingrate
If platitudes like “be grateful” tend to light a fire of rage in you, you’re not alone—and you may benefit from a slightly different path to accessing the many gifts of a regular gratitude practice. Read More
Body Scan
A 12-Minute Meditation to Nurture a Felt Sense of Gratitude
This somatic (embodied awareness) practice offers a gentle way to connect with each area of your body, while nurturing a felt sense of loving-kindness and gratitude. Read More
Body Scan
Guided Meditation: Notice How Sadness, Loneliness, and Anger Show Up in Your Body
Instead of trying to make difficult emotions change or go away, you can simply tune in to how they show up in your body, and see how they’re always changing on their own. Read More
Learn
A Mindful Guide to Navigating Difficult Emotions
World-renowned meditation teachers and researchers describe why courageously turning toward and meeting difficult emotions with kind awareness and self-compassion is so transformational. Read More
