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Hard Time Meditating? Stop Seeking Results
Meditation works precisely when we let go of expectations. Read More 
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Focus & Attention
Athletes Can’t Get By on Grit Alone
It takes more than dogged persistence and a combative mindset to hit peak performance. If the game is 90 percent mental and emotional, then mindfulness has a role to play in getting athletes prepped for their best. Read More
Mindfulness For
3 Mindful Things To Do Before You Fall Asleep
You can't force a better night's sleep—but it does help to try something new. Read More
Focus & Attention
5 Reasons You’re Having a Hard Time Being Mindful
Think your brain just isn’t made for mindfulness? Think again. Busy mind, scattered focus, more to do than you can handle? Join the club. Read More
Focus & Attention
A 3-Minute Mindfulness Practice to Ground You in the Moment
This mindfulness practice is about moving attention in specific ways to help us free ourselves or to get unstuck from some of these automatic routines. Read More
Depression & Grief
Learning to Meditate Through Difficulty
Mindfulness teacher Ed Halliwell shares how he came to meditation after coping with anxiety and depression. Read More
Focus & Attention
Driving to Distraction
At any given daylight moment, as many as 660,000 American drivers are using electronic devices. Twenty-three percent of all auto collisions involve mobile phones. Distracted drivers not only make for frightening statistics, author Jeff Greenwald asserts that they have become the mindful driving challenge du jour: How to cope with drivers so mindless that they are willing to put their lives—and others—at risk. Read More
Focus & Attention
11 Simple Daily Mindfulness Practices
Zindel Segal offers 11 ways to slow down and increase focus throughout the day so you don't get tripped up by the same old mental ruts. Read More
Mindfulness For
Face Fear and Keep Going
Fear, while critically necessary for life itself, can be horrifying and crippling. It can also eat away at us day in and day out. And yet, welcoming our fear turns out to be the best way to conquer it. Over and over again. Read More
Focus & Attention
Three Common Mind Traps That Sink Happiness
Some habitual ways of thinking can keep us stuck in a negative loop. Cultivating awareness of these "mind traps" can help you shift your attention. Read More
