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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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Getting Started
Becoming Mindful: A Practice 

Explore this moment-to-moment mindfulness practice, becoming aware of the reactions, judgments, and preferences we lay on the present. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • March 6, 2019
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Expert Interviews
Feeling Lonely? Embrace Compassion 

In a world driven by competition and comparison, Sharon Salzberg contends shifting our definition of love might be the key to reconnecting to what matters most. Read More 

  • Sharon Salzberg
  • March 1, 2019
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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Can Mindfulness Make Us Less Mean to Our Mates? 

Mindfulness shows us not every breath is pleasant. Likewise, not every moment of our love life makes us swoon. Explore a simple technique to see the good in your mate when you need to curb some excessive judgyness. Read More 

  • Cheryl Fraser
  • February 11, 2019
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Focus & Attention
The Science of Staying in Love 

This video from BigThink explores what goes on in the brain when we fall in love, and how we can sustain long-term relationships. Read More 

  • Nicole Bayes-Fleming
  • February 8, 2019
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