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How Mindfulness Can Help Your Brain Cope with Rejection
A new study finds that rejection is less distressing to mindful people (and their brains).
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Daily Practices
A 6-Minute Mindfulness Practice to Relax and Retune
On autopilot, we might not notice all the stress we carry around — Explore this brief mindfulness practice to unwind your body and mind.
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Anxiety
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.
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Exploring Both Sides of the Brain-Mind Debate
Scientists insist on talking about the brain while the rest of us talk about the mind. Sharon Begley sizes up the two sides of the mind/brain conversation.
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Calm
How Habits Can Get in the Way of Your Goals
Habits are key to achieving your goals—but only if you don’t get tired of them, research suggests.
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When Wandering Minds are Just Fine
While most psychologists call mind wandering a detrimental “failure of executive control," a new study suggests that it's not always harmful.
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How Do Mindfulness Apps Work?
Research on mindfulness apps is limited, but here’s what we know so far.
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Compassion
You Had Me at Hello
Why is it that we seem to get along with some people right off the bat? Is it just because you happen to like the same kind of music, or are there deeper reasons to find yourself on the same wavelength?
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The Magnificent, Mysterious, Wild, Connected and Interconnected Brain
Our brain is like a wild, raging electrical storm that wondrously enables us to make our way. Yet a lot of mindfulness literature makes it sound like a very simple machine. Two leading neuroscientists suggest better ways to think and talk about the brain and the mind.
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A Two-Minute Mindfulness Practice to Unhijack Your Attention
Explore this portable mindfulness practice you can use any time of day to break out of autopilot and tune into what's happening around you.
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