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How Your Preferences Could Be Holding You Back
When we release our tight hold on our preferences, the world can open up for us in surprising—and even delightful—ways. Read More 
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Focus
Can Mindfulness Help You Enjoy Work More?
How an app-based intervention at work helps employees, a program that may reduce postpartum depression, and more from the latest mindfulness research. Read More
Calm
How to Regain Focus and Productivity When Your Mind Wanders
With constant distractions like news notifications, social media, and never-ending to-do lists, it can be hard to focus on what’s important. Rich Fernandez offers a mindfulness practice for stability and concentration. Read More
Compassion
We’re All Biased. Here’s How Meditation May Help.
By engaging in practices that increase awareness, focus on our similarities, and develop care and kindness, writes Mind & Life Institute Science Director Wendy Hasenkamp, we might also be loosening the hold of implicit bias. Read More
Focus
Mindful Books and Podcasts to Curl Up With This Fall
As the weather changes, we’re spending a little less time outdoors and a little more time inside staying warm. Here are the Mindful editors’ recommendations for a cozy night in. Read More
Compassion
Bridging the Distance Between Our Stories
Mindfulness practices ask us to be open to perspectives beyond our own. Mindful editor-in-chief Heather Hurlock shares how we can honor the gaps between our outlooks and seek to bridge them with compassion. Read More
Calm
Mindful News to Boost Your Mood
Explore some uplifting news on how reuniting with their pets helps refugees, pairing yoga and meditation with jazz music in an unexpected location, and more. Read More
Calm
How We See Empowerment
Mindful readers share what allows them to feel empowered, and how they carry that power into the world. Read More
Calm
3 Tech Toys Vying to Join Your Meditation Practice
From a helmet that can see inside your brain to an app that calls your bluff, take a gander at these recent examples of meditation gadgets. Read More
Compassion
Creating Space for Compassion
Sara Lomax-Reese is trailblazing with innovative ways for people of color to express themselves and be heard. Read More
