Well-Being
How to Listen to Your Body
Your body is always sending you messages. This practice helps you learn to hear what it’s saying—by taking the time to notice.
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The Mindful Kitchen & Mindful Eating
The Mindful Kitchen: Use Your Melon
A glorious marriage of sunshine, water, sugar, and soil. Each bite releases a gush of nectar as refreshing as a plunge into a cool lake on a hot summer day.
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Preventive Health: An Inside–Outside Job
Dr. Mark Bertin examines the evidence that meditation may pack a punch against illness and imbalanced lifestyles.
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Don’t Vacate Your Vacation
Next time your thoughts are dragging you away from your well-earned holiday, instead try relaxing into the sensory world.
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Focus
Exploring Both Sides of the Brain-Mind Debate
Scientists insist on talking about the brain while the rest of us talk about the mind. Sharon Begley sizes up the two sides of the mind/brain conversation.
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Voices
Defining Mindfulness
Founding editor Barry Boyce on where mindfulness comes from and where it can go from here.
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Calm
The Happiness Debate
Scientists are weighing what it really means to be happy—and their findings aren’t so straightforward.
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Audio
Prescribing Awareness
We often seek comfort in denial. But by downplaying or ignoring health issues, we can inflict further harm on ourselves and others.
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Compassion
You Had Me at Hello
Why is it that we seem to get along with some people right off the bat? Is it just because you happen to like the same kind of music, or are there deeper reasons to find yourself on the same wavelength?
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For the Love of Friends
Answers from our reader survey on friendship
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