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Mindful Articles from 2016

Calm Your Mind and Boost Your Creativity with Adult Coloring Books

Mindful’s Top 12 Posts of 2016

3 Ways Mindfulness Can Help You Survive Family Occasions

An Appreciation Game for Kids

Getting Beyond The Grudge

Guided Meditations from Urban Meditation Studios

A Holiday Gift for Your Stressed-Out Self

The Top 10 Mindful Books from 2016

3 Simple Ways to Settle a Busy Mind

How Gratitude Helps Us Get Better at Dealing with Change

Mindfulness Training for Syrian Refugee Aid Workers

Should We Always Look for Silver Linings?

How to Notice, Shift, and Rewire Your Brain

Teens Dive Deep Into Mindfulness

From Martial Arts to Meditation

Parsnips: A Hint of Sweetness

How to Bring Mindfulness to Your Company’s Leadership

5 Mindful Tips for Navigating Holiday Stress

Is Boredom All Bad?

The Holiday Lies We Tell Our Children

How to Turn Down Our “What If” Brain

You Don’t Need to Fight with Your Mind

The Healing Power of Being in Nature

Mindfulness is Not a Panacea

A Primer on Living in a Time of Fear

6 Mindful Books for Building Resilience

5 Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience

How Your Attention Has Become the Biggest Commodity

A Simple Mindful Practice to Ground You in Gratitude

How to Talk to Have a Conversation With People You Don’t Agree with

Be a Mindful Travel Warrior

How to Let Go of Being Right

Mindfulness Supports “Wise” Indulgence

How to Take a Mindful S.N.A.C.K. Moment

We All Have Something to Give

What’s Going on Inside the Teen Brain?

How to Be Mindful With a Cup of Tea

10 Steps to Finding Inner Strength

The Freedom of Letting Go

How to Practice the Art of Being Present

A Mindful Response to the Election Results

4 Ways to Mindfully Prevent Office Burnout

You Can Innovate While You Meditate

The Now Addiction

“Late Show” Host Stephen Colbert on Finding Focus and Embracing Stress

3 Simple Remedies for a Stressed-Out Mind

How to Practice Relationship Building

What Happens When We Shield Kids from Boredom

Could You Connect More?

How Generous Are You?

Is Your Immune System Secretly Choosing Your Friends?

The Amazing, Tumultuous, Wild, Wonderful, Teenage Brain

All in the Same Boat

Have a Mindful Halloween

Why We’re Hardwired to Armor Our Hearts

A Simple Mindful Cell Phone Practice

A Guided Breathing Meditation to Cultivate Awareness

4 Ways to Overcome Self-Defeating Thoughts

How to Free Yourself from Your Personal Stories

A Basic Meditation to Train Awareness

5 Ways to Increase Resilience, Wisdom, and Well-Being

Three Tips for Raising Resilient Teens

How to Awaken Joy in Kids

Mental Meteorology: How Noticing Your Thoughts Leads to Healthier Habits of Mind

Can We Crowdfund Kindness?

How to Choose a Type of Mindfulness Meditation

Body Scan for Kids

Meditation Keeps Emotions in Check

Can You Build a City on Compassion?

Finding Peace in the Noise

Green Beans: A Twist on a Classic

Meditation meets Virtual Reality

How to Break a Bad Habit (Faster Than You Can Take a Selfie)

The 7 Qualities of Mindfulness Trained in the Body Scan

Using Mindfulness to Jumpstart Creativity at Work

Take a Mindful Hike

How to Work Remotely Without Losing Motivation

Train Your Brain to Thrive

Why Losing Control Can Make You Happier

Middle-Schoolers Tame Anxiety in “Release” Short Film

The Lead Crisis in Flint: Where Mindfulness and Public Health Meet

Want to Boost Your Well-Being at Work and Get More Done? Forgive Your Colleagues

Empowering Kids to Feel Safe Saying No

How to Fight for Focus

Fear and the Black Body

How to Activate Your Inner Resources

Mindful Books and Apps Worth Checking Out This Month

What’s On Our Minds

Connecting with Challenging Kids by Leaning in to Discomfort

Audience Development Manager

How Mindfulness Transforms Education

Mindful Books to Read This Summer 2016

Cooking Up Radicchio

Do Swearing and Mindfulness Mix?

The Upside of Envy

Is Mindfulness the Future of Therapy?

4 Common Types of Self-Talk

Can a Change in Mindset Help Teens De-stress?

The Key to Productivity? Do Nothing

How Vacations and Meditation Heal the Body and Mind

Beware Your Biased Brain

Your Wild, Wonderful Brain

Bill Duane: Mindfulness is Medicine That Works

5 Ways to Develop Kindness and Generosity

S.T.O.P. Stress in Its Tracks

Train Your Mind to Ease Your Pain

7 Habit-Changers for Overcoming Boredom

Being Critical is Not the Same as Being Aware

Hip-Hop State of Mind

Five Ways to Find Time to Pause

Two Simple Mindfulness Practices For Back-To-School

Space to Breathe

How Self-Compassion Can Help Teens De-stress

Calming the Rush of Panic in Your Body

Two Mindful Practices for Anxious Eaters

Jim Gaffigan: Why You Need Self-Awareness in Comedy and in Life

4 Lessons in Mindfulness from the Olympians

Why It Doesn’t Pay to Be a People-Pleaser

A Meditation for Exploring Your Wandering Mind

Mindful or Mindless?

Healing Racial Fault Lines

4 Mindful Books Worth Reading this Month

The Trouble with Mindfulness Apps

Letting the Chips Fall: Control and Letting Go with Your Children

How to Cultivate Curiosity in Your Mindfulness Practice

How to Settle the Mind

5 Ways to Increase Happiness in Daily Life

3 Ways to Talk to Your Kids about Diversity

How to Stop the Racist in You

Why We Should Celebrate Performance at the Rio Olympics—Not Just Results

5 Ways to Build Resilience Every Day

3 Mindful Things to Do to Start Your Day

Tune In, Turn On

The Compassion Challenge

Practice Self-Kindness by Putting Yourself First

Just 6 Seconds of Mindfulness Can Make You a More Effective Leader

Breaking The Interruption Habit

Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

Using Mindfulness to Navigate “Self”

Living with, and Loving, Your Imperfect Life

How to Save Your Marriage from Parenthood

Let Go of Being the Ideal Role Model

Why You’re Not Meeting Your Exercise Goals

Hard Time Meditating? Stop Seeking Results

Brain Overload

The Power of Saying Sorry (When You Don’t Want To)

3 Mindful Things to Do on Your Drive

How to Tame the Wanting Mind

Why We Should Teach Empathy to Preschoolers

Athletes Can’t Get By on Grit Alone

Searching for Happiness and Finding Yard Work

The Kindest Thing You Can Do

Mindfulness and Generosity: What’s the Connection?

Take a Mindful Selfie: Self-Compassion for the Modern Age

Battling the Physical Symptoms of Stress

Manage Your Attention, Not Your Time

3 Mindful Things To Do Before You Fall Asleep

How You Argue Could Make You Sick

3 Ways to Escape the “Perfect Meditator” Trap

Eleven Ways to Unleash Inner Happiness

5 Reasons You’re Having a Hard Time Being Mindful

The Beautiful and the Good

3 Mindful Things to Do When You Get Home from Work

How to Grow from Your Regrets

A Loving-Kindness Meditation for Moms

Why Self-Compassion is the New Mindfulness

Is “Office” a State of Mind?

Why You Shouldn’t Believe in Soulmates

A 3-Minute Mindfulness Practice to Ground You in the Moment

Practice Eating With Joy

How Mindfulness Protects Against Postpartum Depression

A Father’s Day Gift of Mindfulness

The Science of Trauma, Mindfulness, and PTSD

How to Curb Self-Defeating Habits

Learning to Meditate Through Difficulty

Overcoming Obstacles with Mindfulness

Drop In, Sit Down, and Tune In: How Mindfulness Is Transforming Everyday Life

How Mindful Parenting Differs From Just Being Mindful

Driving to Distraction

Touch the One You Love

What Mindfulness Is Missing

A Simple Story Can Improve Students’ Grades in Science

The Three-Minute Breathing Space Practice

The Simple Joy of Writing by Hand

Overcome These Five Common Obstacles to Meditation

Why It’s Difficult to Meditate with Anxiety

Where Does Kindness Come From?

11 Simple Daily Mindfulness Practices

A Classic Natural Anti-Depressant Practice

A Natural Antidepressant Practice: How Mindfulness Helps with Depression

Stuck on Autopilot? Come Back to Your Body

A Mindful Writing Practice for Those Who Like to Keep Doing

Joy on Demand

How Mindfulness Can Save the Planet

Happy People Don’t Need to Feel Superior

Four Science-Backed Approaches to ADHD

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy May Reduce Recurrent Depression Risk

Is Mindfulness Safe?

The Art of Living a Spacious Life

The Mindful Guide to Straight Talk

How to Find Your Power—and Avoid Abusing It

Three Ways Acceptance Helps You Work with Difficult Emotions

How Awe Sharpens Our Brains

How to Apply Mindfulness to the Creative Process

Face Fear and Keep Going

How High Is Your Social IQ?

When Your Brain Can’t Decide If You’re Full—There’s An App for That

Three Common Mind Traps That Sink Happiness

The Captain Steers the Ship

How to Recover from Burnout

A Focused-Awareness Practice for Connecting with Pleasure

How Taming the Mind is Like Riding a Horse

Slowing Your Mind is Great Foreplay

From the Infinite to the Infinitesimal

Mindfulness Changes How We Process Sadness

A Basic Meditation to Strengthen Neural Connections

Are You “Happy”?

Raising the Mindful Family

6 Tips for Reading Emotions in Text Messages

How Mindfulness Can Help You Stay Motivated to Exercise

The Mindful Survey: Home Sweet Home

Mindful Check-in Practice

How the Brain Can Change Your Experience of Pain

Why So Curious?

Does Mind-Wandering Make You Less Caring?

Slow Down to Get Ahead

Seeing Behind “Bad” Behavior

To Pause and Protect

How to Tell If Your Date Is Relationship-Ready

Contemplative Lawyering—It’s a Thing

7 Reasons to Go Outside (According to Science)

Are You a Creature of (Bad) Habits?

5-Minute Spring Awakening Practice—In Honor of Earth Day

3 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Try with Your Kids

How Mindfulness Can Help Us Forgive Betrayal

Make Friends with Your Money

5 Ways to Nourish Your Brain

How to Avoid the Trap of Self-Improvement

Science Reveals the Best Measure of Wellbeing

Can Helping Others Keep You Sober?

7 Habits That May Actually Change the Brain, According to Science

The Secrets of Happiness in 60 Seconds

Create a Mindful Business, Gain the Skills to Succeed

The 7 Drivers of Old Habits of Thinking

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Meditate

How to Practice Mindful Eating When You’re Anxious

A Kinder, Gentler World

How to Practice Mindfulness Throughout Your Work Day

Emotional Rescue: Using Mindfulness to Reset Your Reactions

Eye Level: Communicating with Kids Who Have Lost Their Cool

Can Living in the Moment Make You a Better Parent?

What Happens After Now?

Parenting with Presence

The Better Way to Play: Lose the Chip on Your Shoulder

2 Simple Ways To Create A Kinder World

The Joy of Missing Out

Three Simple Ways to Recover from Work-Related Stress

When Vulnerability and Trauma Collide

How Mindful Fighting Can Change Your Relationship

How to Calm Your Nerves Before Giving a Presentation

Mindfulness goes beyond the meditation cushion—it’s a way of life

Are You Really Available for Connection?

Cooling the Raging Fires of Anger

Using Fear to Tap into Your Superpowers

Mindful Solutions for Handling the Office Haters

How Do I Get Noticed Around Here?

How Happy Brains Respond to Negative Things

Mindfulness in Folsom Prison

Parenting Mindfully through Divorce

How Mindfulness Helps You Find Your Way Through Difficulty

How to Be Your Best Possible Self for Relationships

Eight Essentials of Forgiveness

The Case for Not Trying So Hard

Train Your Brain to Boost Your Immune System

A Simple Weekly Mindfulness Practice: Keep a Gratitude Journal

A Noticing Practice to Connect with Your Kids

Is Shyness Holding You Back?

Meditation and Running: a Treatment for Depression

The Perks of Disappointment

When Your Mind Goes Haywire…Begin Again

5 Science-Backed Strategies for More Happiness

The 5 Major Mind Traps that Hinder Happiness

Using Mindfulness to Treat Back Pain

Rewire Your Brain for Love

Before You Scroll, Try This Mindful Social Media Practice

A Huge and Humble Thank You

8 Breaths to Joy: A Guided Practice

Phone Addiction? Try this Practice—Phone in Hand

Picture Your Best Possible Self

A Journey to the Center of Yourself

Building Resilience at Harvard

How Nature Boosts Kindness, Happiness, and Creativity

Four Practices for Inspiring Awe

Sisterhood—a Reliable Source of Sustainable Power

The Mindful Finance Jump Starter

Top 10 Reasons to Meditate

Be Smarter than Your Phone

Mindfulness Practice: Connecting with Love

The Radical Act of Creating Space

How People Learn to Increase Their Resilience

Lean into Your Fears Using Mindfulness

Remedies for Your Anxious Mind

What’s the Right Kind of Exercise for Brain Health?

A Mindfulness Practice for Letting Go of Jealousy

How to Navigate Sadness Mindfully

Start with a Purpose

Feeling Moody? Here’s Why.

What Keeps You Coming Back

The Mindful Survey: What about Fear?

How Meditating Helps You with Difficult Emotions

Stress and Your DNA

A 6-Minute Breathing Meditation To Cultivate Mindfulness

Bringing Mindfulness into the Military

Study: Mindfulness Fosters Willpower

How Compassion Leads to Success

Taking Tension Out of Attention

How Being Present Increases Your Charisma

Uncovering Happiness

Do You Have A Fear of Missing Out?

How the Mind Helps Heal the Body

The Trickiness of Happiness

Joining the Modern Minimalist Family

Don’t Fall into the Self-Esteem Trap: Try a Little Self-Kindness

The Three Parts of an Effective Apology

Don’t Just Play Nice

Get Out Of Your Own Way

What Happens to Kids When Parents Fight

Am I Doing This Right?

Make Love a Priority

Should We Teach Mindfulness In Public Schools?

How the Most Successful People Avoid Burnout

What People Who Trigger Us Tell Us About Ourselves

An Attack on Mindfulness in Schools

The Mindful Way through… Tantrums

Mindful Shopping

What If Schools Taught Kindness?

How to Choose Self-Compassion

Your Guide to Defusing Anger

No Blueprint, Just Love

How Science Reveals That “Well-Being” Is a Skill

Sex and Meditation Are Perfect Bedfellows

How Humility Will Make You the Greatest Person Ever

The Publisher’s Roundtable on Mindfulness in 2016: Part 2

What Stress Does to Your Brain

The Victory Of Being Lost In Thought

Simply Being Awake to What Is

Let the Game Come to You

High Anxiety

Can Mindfulness Out-Trump Hyper-Divisive Politics?

Still Curious after All These Years

How to Be Mindful with Your Kids on Snow Days

Confront Mob Rule; Contribute to Community

Mindful Parents Raise Less Stressed-Out Kids

The Publisher’s Roundtable on Mindfulness in 2016

Fear Less, Love More

Read and Win

Take Your Mind for a Walk

What is Mindful Eating?

Mindfulness of Anger

Mindfulness on the Pole

Confessions of a Recovering Insomniac

Research Says Daily Practice Matters

Mindfulness at Work is Not Mind Control

Anxious? This Mindfulness Website Animates Letting Go of Your Negative Thoughts

A Matter of Death and Life

How to Keep Going With Meditation

This Neuroscientist Proves Well-Being Can Change the Brain

Manage Stress by Listening to Your Body

Taste a Little Self-Compassion

5 Steps to Boost Your Confidence

Winter Blues

Is It Selfish to Seek Happiness?

The Top 10 Insights from the “Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2015

Don’t Squabble Over Small Stuff

Shift Your Mood, Shift Your Habits

What Losing Sleep Does to Your Mind

What Mindfulness Will Look Like in 2016

Cultivate What You Want by Loving What You Have

Smartphones Hurt Our Face-to-Face Relationships: Sherry Turkle

Thoughts Are Not Facts

Life’s Most Thankless Task Revisited

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