Focus & Attention
Visualize Thoughts as Clouds in the Sky: 12 Minute Meditation
Gently let go of attachment to your thoughts with a technique called "cognitive defusion" from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. 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
12 Minute Meditation for Noticing What’s Present and What Isn’t
Explore this mediation inspired by the Japanese concept of ma, which refers to “the spaces between everything.” Read More
Focus & Attention
Increase Your Agency By Responding, Instead of Reacting
Ever wonder why your emails tend to be better when you wait a little before replying? Choosing to take a pause before we act may sound simple, but it yields powerful results. Longtime mindfulness teacher and author Andrew Safer shares a few ways we can practice pausing, both at our job and everywhere in our life. Read More
Expert Interviews
Q&A: How Connecting With Our Senses Helps Us Get Unstuck
Mindful founding editor Barry Boyce sits down with Norman Farb and Zindel Segal to talk about their new book Better In Every Sense and how reconnecting with our senses can help get us unstuck and establish new patterns. Read More
Breathing Meditations
A Meditation for Letting Thoughts Float By Like Bubbles
Meditation teacher Enrique Collazo guides a bubble meditation for observing the wandering mind and allowing each thought to pass. Read More
Focus & Attention
How to Give Your Full Attention
By practicing self-awareness, you can listen with greater care—not only to words, but also to the emotion and meaning that's being expressed. Read More
Focus & Attention
A 12-Minute Meditation for Learning About Our Biases
This guided meditation is a mindful journey of introspection and forgiveness. Tovi Scruggs-Hussein guides us to reflect on ingrained prejudices and the impact they have on our interactions and societal structures. Read More
Focus & Attention
What to Do When You Feel Like You Don’t Have Enough Time
The answer may have more to do with aligning your activities with your values than having more free time. Read More
Breathing Meditations
A Guided Meditation for Gathering Your Energy
Sharon Salzberg shares this meditation for energy and helping to strengthen concentration so you can focus with more ease. Read More
Focus & Attention
A Mindfulness Practice for Nonjudgmental Awareness
Explore this 15-minute guided meditation to open up some space for yourself to sit with what is, rather than what if. Read More
