Well-Being
8 Breaths to Joy: A Guided Practice
Using the breath, this practice encourages compassion and can help focus your attention to better work with roadblocks and difficult moments throughout the day. Read More 
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Calm
How People Learn to Increase Their Resilience
How do we perceive stress in our lives: as major setbacks or moments of growth? Perception plays a major role in resilience. Read More
Daily Practices
Start with a Purpose
Your day-to-day activities offer ample opportunities to call up mindfulness in any moment. Breathe space into your morning routine with this simple wake-up practice. Read More
Calm
How Meditating Helps You with Difficult Emotions
Meditation is not all calm and peace. It opens up a space for you to see what’s going on in your mind, including the vivid and powerful movement of your emotions—up, down, and sideways. You can learn to fight with them less, and make friends with them more. Read More
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Stress and Your DNA
How mindfulness at work may alter your gene expression. Read More
Mental Health
Uncovering Happiness
Bouts of depression range from the mild and infrequent to the severe and chronic. For serious depression, you should seek qualified help. But for any level of depression, it helps to know that underlying the darkness is happiness—and our brain is equipped with the means to uncover it. Read More
Anxiety
How the Mind Helps Heal the Body
How mental and physical health is affected by the way we perceive and relate to it. Read More
Kids and Teens
Joining the Modern Minimalist Family
How to adopt a minimalist mindset toward household consumption—plus a mindfulness practice for kids. Read More
Calm
Don’t Fall into the Self-Esteem Trap: Try a Little Self-Kindness
Striving for self-esteem is about trying hard to feel special, above average. It’s absurd. We don’t need to feel extra-special or over the top. We need to touch who we really are in any given moment. Read More
Well-Being
Get Out Of Your Own Way
How to access "flow," a mental state where you are so immersed in an experience that time and space and self no longer disrupt the present moment. Read More
