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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Body Scan
How to Listen to Your Body 

Your body is always sending you messages. This practice helps you learn to hear what it’s saying—by taking the time to notice. Read More 

  • Susan Bauer-Wu
  • July 31, 2018
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Breathing Meditations
Find Balance During a Moment of Panic 

A short practice to help restore awareness of your breath and your body and reclaim your equilibrium so that you can face the rest of your day with calm and ease. Read More 

  • Bob Stahl
  • July 26, 2018
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Getting Started
Defining Mindfulness 

Founding editor Barry Boyce on where mindfulness comes from and where it can go from here. Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • July 10, 2018
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Guided Meditations
Feeling Angry? Try This 

When anger builds, do you fall into it, or are you able to let it pass? This mindfulness practice creates space between your thoughts and your emotions, so you can let go of negative feelings. Read More 

  • Dacher Keltner
  • June 22, 2018
Meditation Anxiety
Guided Meditations
Three Meditation Resources for Anxiety 

Explore how mindfulness allows you to bring kind awareness and acknowledgment to any stressed or anxious feelings in your body and mind and simply allow them to be. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • June 12, 2018
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