Anxiety
Feeling Moody? Here’s Why.
Moods are fleeting, volatile. They come and go at the drop of a hat. But beneath the surface, research suggests, they serve a deeper purpose. Read More 
Mindful Living Skills
Calm
What Keeps You Coming Back
Meditating isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, nor should it be. The great thing about mindfulness, says Barry Boyce, is how it deals with difficult emotions. Read More
Calm
The Mindful Survey: What about Fear?
What’s scarier—balloons popping, colonoscopies, or dying? Readers share their deepest and their silliest fears. Read More
Anxiety
How Meditating Helps You with Difficult Emotions
Meditation is not all calm and peace. It opens up a space for you to see what’s going on in your mind, including the vivid and powerful movement of your emotions—up, down, and sideways. You can learn to fight with them less, and make friends with them more. Read More
Calm
Stress and Your DNA
How mindfulness at work may alter your gene expression. Read More
Audio
A 6-Minute Breathing Meditation To Cultivate Mindfulness
Reduce stress, anxiety, and negative emotions, cool yourself down when your temper flares, and sharpen your concentration skills. Read More
Calm
How Compassion Leads to Success
An introduction to loving-kindness meditation from Sharon Salzberg and Dan Harris. Read More
Calm
Taking Tension Out of Attention
Thanks to computers, smartphones, television, and other technology, our senses are extremely busy. The more our bodies strain to pay attention, the more our minds space-out. Chris McKenna suggests ways to help us go from tense and strained to relaxed and focused. Read More
Calm
How Being Present Increases Your Charisma
Research shows that paying attention to others is the path to success and respect. Read More
Anxiety
Uncovering Happiness
Bouts of depression range from the mild and infrequent to the severe and chronic. For serious depression, you should seek qualified help. But for any level of depression, it helps to know that underlying the darkness is happiness—and our brain is equipped with the means to uncover it. Read More
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