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A Guided Breathing Meditation to Cultivate Awareness
A 15-minute breathing meditation that builds awareness of thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the body.
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4 Ways to Overcome Self-Defeating Thoughts
Self-criticism and low self-worth can hold us back. Here’s how to start banishing those negative beliefs.
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How to Free Yourself from Your Personal Stories
An effective mindfulness practice for working with self-stories so you don’t get so caught up in yourself that you miss the irreplaceable moments happening right in front of you.
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A Basic Meditation to Train Awareness
We can train our brains to notice our mental habits. Try this five-minute mindfulness meditation for building awareness of thoughts, nonjudgmentally.
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5 Ways to Increase Resilience, Wisdom, and Well-Being
Extending ourselves beyond what is familiar by relating to people who are older than us can offer meaningful life lessons and character strengths.
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Why We Shouldn’t Sanitize Halloween
One mindful parent’s attempt to balance the lure of gore and guts with her children’s need to experiment safely with fear.
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Three Tips for Raising Resilient Teens
The teen years are tumultuous, but as adolescents test boundaries and become a bit defiant, it also lays the groundwork for a sense of purpose and individuality. Here's how parents can help teens thrive.
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Kids and Teens
How to Awaken Joy in Kids
By teaching children mindfulness skills we help them increase their well-being and enable them to meet the stresses of the world with presence, self-compassion, and openness.
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Mental Meteorology: How Noticing Your Thoughts Leads to Healthier Habits of Mind
Our mental habits can be both useful and far from useful—to start sorting out the difference we first have to notice them.
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Can We Crowdfund Kindness?
Brooklyn-based start-up Kindness.org wants to community-source acts of kindness—like a Kickstarter for building a kinder world.
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