Daily Practices
Soothe Stressful Emotions with the 4-7-8 Breathing Practice
If you find that it’s difficult to stay aware of your breath while experiencing anxiety, try this simple and calming breath practice.
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Daily Practices
Mindful.org's Daily Practices category is a dedicated space for those looking to make mindfulness a regular part of their routine. Discover a variety of daily meditation practices that fit seamlessly into your life, helping you to cultivate presence, awareness, and tranquility each day. Whether you have five minutes in the morning or a few moments before bed, our practical tips and guided meditations are here to support your journey to consistent mindfulness.
Category: Daily Practices
Daily Practices
3 Practices to Help You Find Your Strength
Have you been kind to yourself lately? Explore these mindful guided audio practices from Sharon Salzberg, Kristin Neff and Chris Germer, and Cheryl Jones.
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Calm
Get to Know Your Monsters: A Playful Mindfulness Practice to Work With Difficult Emotions
Playfulness isn’t only for children. Incorporating some lightness in our mindfulness practice can help us address difficulty. Wendy O’Leary shows us how with this visualization exercise that inspired her new children’s book.
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Daily Practices
A Quick Tip to Take Your Mindfulness Practice Outside
Mindfulness teacher and author Mark Coleman shares how tapping into your five senses can help you connect with the natural world around you, even if you live in a city.
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Audio
How Your Preferences Could Be Holding You Back
When we release our tight hold on our preferences, the world can open up for us in surprising—and even delightful—ways.
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Calm
How to Regain Focus and Productivity When Your Mind Wanders
With constant distractions like news notifications, social media, and never-ending to-do lists, it can be hard to focus on what’s important. Rich Fernandez offers a mindfulness practice for stability and concentration.
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Calm
How to Sit in Meditation for Beginners
When it comes to how you sit in meditation for beginners, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to finding the best meditation posture and seating arrangement for you—it takes time to familiarize yourself with your body and what it needs.
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Calm
How to Be Mindful When It Matters Most
Finding your flow and living authentically comes from a place of mindfulness, explains Shalini Bahl-Milne—we just need to be willing to stay with both the good and the messy aspects of our lives.
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Anxiety
How to Show Up Intentionally and Lovingly in Difficult Situations
Shalini Bahl-Milne shares three mindful steps that empower us to be present and act with integrity and joyfulness.
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Calm
A 2-Minute Practice to Calm Anxiety and Nurture Curiosity
Anxiety often contributes to keeping us stuck in habits we don’t want. This mindfulness practice lets us soothe racing thoughts by letting us tune in to embodied awareness.
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