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Your Guide to Difficult Emotions


Be an Explorer

When you approach difficult feelings with curiosity, you lessen their power over you.
by Patricia Rockman, MD

Tame Feelings of Shame with this 10-Minute Practice

  • 10:45

A Meditation for Opening the Heart

Connecting to a deeper well of love and compassion helps shift difficult emotions like anger into something beneficial for yourself and for everyone you come in contact with. 
by Sharon Salzberg

A Meditation for Opening the Heart

  • 15:49

Breathing Practices to Calm Anxiety

Calm anxiety and begin to tune into your deeper intuition with these two simple practices taught by singer-songwriter Jewel. 

Get Started With Mindfulness

Get expert instruction and inspiration for living a more mindful life with Mindful’s special edition series:

A woman sits cross-legged in meditation pose on the cover of "Get Started with Mindfulness" magazine.

Vol. 1: Be Happier, Feel Healthier Everyday

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Vol 2: 99 Ways to Live a Mindful Life

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Vol 3: Your Guide to a Peaceful Mind

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Vol 4: Healthy Mind, Healthy Life

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Vol. 5: Your Guide to Difficult Emotions

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Vol. 6: Peaceful Mind, Healthy Body