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Annual 2025 | Issue № 60

Features

10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025

10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025

Get to know 10 women of the mindfulness movement who are leaders in their fields, doing revolutionary work to make the world a better place …
Guided Meditations by Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025

Guided Meditations by Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025

The Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025 share guided meditations to help you find more compassion, resilience, and ease …
A Year of Self-Care Practices to Help You Grow

A Year of Self-Care Practices to Help You Grow

Inspired by the four seasons, this meditation guide is designed to guide you through a year of mindfulness practice for self-care …
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Radical Love for Troubled Times

What does it mean to practice radical love in a turbulent world? How do we safeguard our well-being and also relate to others open-heartedly? Sharon Salzberg shares practical wisdom from her most recent book, Real Life …
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How Compassion Changes Our World, According to Science

Offering compassion to ourselves and others is essential for promoting real change for the better. Caren Osten Gerszberg reports on scientific studies of compassion, showing how this innately human quality benefits our health, our communities, and our fractured world …
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What Compassionate Organizations Look Like

Two compassionate organizations that are leading the way through education, innovation, and community …

Departments

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Why We Made a Magazine About Compassion

The Mindful editors share why they decided to make The Compassion Issue and a peek behind the scenes of making …
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Good News Roundup: What’s Happening in the World of Mindfulness

Reconnect with goodness and compassion in the world through these short, uplifting news stories …
What We Misunderstand About Wisdom: Q&A With Melli O’Brien

What We Misunderstand About Wisdom: Q&A With Melli O’Brien

What is wisdom and where does it come from? Mindfulness teacher and author Melli O’Brien shares what we misunderstand about …
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3 Mindful Movements to Release Tension

Muscles feeling stiff from sleeping or sitting down all day? Explore these three simple, mindful movements to help you wake …
Meditation Calendar: 14 days of Guided Practices

Meditation Calendar: 14 days of Guided Practices

The benefits of meditation increase when you practice regularly, but it can be hard to set a new routine. Here’s …
How Hope Helped Me Get Unstuck

How Hope Helped Me Get Unstuck

Writer Sharon Ross shares how paying attention to her hopes and daydreams helped her leave her toxic marriage and build …
You’re Bigger Than the Present Moment

You’re Bigger Than the Present Moment

The Institute for Love and Time’s research shows that the narratives we tell ourselves about our past and future can …
How Mindfulness Could Change the Field of Psychedelic Therapy

How Mindfulness Could Change the Field of Psychedelic Therapy

Explore the history, science, and controversies surrounding the combination of mindfulness and psychedelic therapy in our age of “psychedelic renaissance.” …
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How to Befriend Your Body

We only get one body, writes Christiane Wolf: the one we’re in. While our always-onscreen culture can amplify self-criticism, returning …
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A Simple Practice for Regulating Stress in the Body

Use one or more of these simple techniques to help you regulate your stress levels in the moment …
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Bring Back Your Spark

How do you let your inner light shine, even when things get tough? It begins with a spirit of curiosity, …
Don’t Hold Back: Speaking Your Truth at Work

Don’t Hold Back: Speaking Your Truth at Work

Your perspective matters—but that doesn’t mean speaking up is easy. Conflict management expert Elaine Lin Hering provides key insights on …
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Your Brain Wants to Oversimplify—Here’s How to Move Beyond Black-and-White Thinking

Binary thinking (“It’s all or nothing”) is an evolutionary habit, but in today’s complex world it doesn’t help us to …
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10 Must-Read Mindfulness Books

Whether you’re interested in the foundations of mindful living, deepening your meditation practice, or how mindfulness inspires real-world change, here …
Reclaiming Our Attention From Convenience

Reclaiming Our Attention From “Convenience”

Technology both saves and eats up our time. Beyond the digital detoxes and “dumbphones,” reckoning with our tech habits is …