Focus & Attention
Understanding Your Brain’s Attention System
Learn how stress, mood, and feeling threatened can affect your attention. Read More 
Focus & Attention
Distraction is the default setting for most of us. These articles and practices help you train your attention, stay present with what matters, and work with a wandering mind instead of fighting it.
Focus & Attention
3 Simple Ways to Pay Attention
Practicing meditation doesn’t involve a whole new set of tools. It works so well, Sharon Salzberg says, because it enhances life skills we already have. Read More
Focus & Attention
11 Ways to Finally Stop Procrastinating
The urge to put off daunting tasks can be difficult to overcome. In this 13-minute video from Big Think, author and podcaster Tim Ferriss shares a few easy ways to spark productivity and stop procrastination in its tracks. Read More
Breathing Meditations
A 20-Minute Practice to Deepen Your Awareness
Explore this guided meditation focused on allowing ourselves to settle in the present moment. Read More
Breathing Meditations
10-Minute Practice to Ground, Breathe, Soothe
Allow stressed and fearful emotions to dissipate with this calming, guided practice. Read More
Focus & Attention
A 6-Minute Practice to Softly Focus Our Awareness
This brief guided meditation lets us focus our attention on the sounds around us, finding bright moments of awareness even when we get distracted. Read More
Focus & Attention
The Essential Resource We’re All Wasting
What we attend to creates our lives—attention is the most essential human resource, fundamental to our lives, to our relationships, and our quality of work. Read More
Focus & Attention
What Day is it? 4 Ways to Cope with Blursday
One day flows into the next in these pandemic days. Here's how to use mindfulness to find rhythm and routine. Read More
Focus & Attention
A Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation with Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg guides us through a 20-minute practice for connection and awareness. Read More
Breathing Meditations
A Mindfulness of Breathing Exercise with Neuroscientist Amishi Jha
The sequence of events in this practice are: focus, sustain attention, notice, and redirect attention back to the breath when it wanders. This is what we might call a "push-up" for your attention. Read More
