Calm
How an App Helped Me Deepen My Mindfulness Practice
Misty Pratt debriefs how a free, science-based app is helping her take steps toward more self-acceptance and well-being.
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2021
Compassion
What is Possible When We Put Down Our Screens
Our devices bring us live-tweeting of important events, video footage of daily life on the other side of the world, and photos of our friends from near and far, but the real magic happens when we put the screens down, writes founding editor Barry Boyce.
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Calm
The BASICS of Mindful Eating
How often do you sit down to eat with no screens and when you’re not on the move? Lynn Rossy shares how slowing down and paying attention to our meals can help us know what our body needs and when.
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Audio
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.
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Compassion
How I Found My Way to Gratitude
Whether you think of it as the “greatest virtue,” as Cicero did, or “social glue,” as researchers do, gratitude has the power to change your life, if you let it. Kelly Barron shares how she learned to let gratitude change her.
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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.
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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.
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Calm
Gentle Men: The Healing Power of Vulnerability
The old-fashioned view of what it means to “be a man” is limiting and even harmful. With mindfulness, men can show up as their full selves—for themselves, their relationships, and their communities.
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Calm
All Our Relations: Four Indigenous Lessons on Mindfulness
There’s healing in acknowledging our interconnectedness. Four Indigenous wisdom keepers share how their practice helps them remember.
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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.
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