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News, features, and reporting from the world of mindfulness and meditation. Stay up to date on new research, cultural trends, and the people and ideas shaping how we think about well-being and awareness.
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Magazine
Suffering Is Optional 

Physical pain is unavoidable, but meditation practice can ease the mental suffering that often accompanies it. Susan Smalley and Diana Winston teach us how. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • January 25, 2011
Three individuals are practicing yoga indoors, performing a warrior pose with one leg bent forward and arms extended upward. They are aligned in a row, each wearing different colored tank tops: green, purple, and blue. The room has wooden flooring and large windows.
Magazine
Women Fleeing to Yoga? 

On Jan.7, The New York Times ran a piece in its The Way We Live Now section entitled Fear (Again) of Flying. In the piece, writer Judith Warner discusses today’s women and their attempt to find a palatable life balance. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • January 17, 2011
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Getting Started
“Meditate in 2011” —Dr. Oz 

Celebrity doctor Dr. Mehmet Oz encouraged people to add "practice meditation" to their New Year's resolution list at a recent benefit gala for The David Lynch Foundation. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • January 4, 2011
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Magazine
Toning Down Tinnitus 

Mindful meditation can help recondition the brain so that it comes to terms with tinnitus, say psychologists and hearing specialists working with the therapy. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • December 20, 2010
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Magazine
Mindfulness Helps Novice Therapists 

Virginia Tech is one of only a few universities to integrate mindfulness meditation into a Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) program curriculum.  Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • December 15, 2010
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Expert Interviews
Toward a Mindful Society 

Barry Boyce interviews Jon Kabat-Zinn, who was a keynote speaker at the Creating a Mindful Society conference in New York City. (Click here to view the livestream.) Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • September 8, 2010
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Learn
The Science of Love 

Are there provable methods we can use to become more altruistic and compassionate? Barry Boyce reports on CCARE's growing number of scientists and researchers who are studying how to bring out the best in human nature.  Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • September 7, 2010
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Magazine
The path IS peace 

Thich Nhat Hanh addresses U.S. Congress about changing our society's foundation of violence. See more on this: livestream of Creating a Mindful Society.  Read More 

  • Thich Nhat Hanh
  • August 30, 2010
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Kids & Teens
Contemplative Education 

Barry Boyce on three university educators who have begun to integrate mindfulness into their lives and work. Click here to watch related footage from the Creating a Mindful Society conference. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 30, 2010
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Magazine
The Law of Mindfulness 

Barry Boyce profiles three mindfulness programs for lawyers that promote a more effective, sustainable justice system—for more on this check out the livestream of Creating a Mindful Society. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 26, 2010
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