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How to be More Aware of Emotional Bypassing—Illustration of a Black woman wearing a red shirt with her eyes closed and thunder clouds surrounding her head.
Calm
How to be More Aware of Emotional Bypassing 

It makes sense that we want to distance ourselves from pain, but true wellness means learning to sit with our shadows as well as the light so we can be truly present and embrace the fullness of being human. Read More 

  • Kaylee Friedman
  • November 20, 2021
Gentle Men: The Healing Power of Vulnerability—Three men sit outdoors and look at each other smiling.
Compassion
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. Read More 

  • Chris Peraro
  • November 14, 2021
We’re All Biased. Here’s How Meditation May Help—Painting of two hands painted in many colors coming together from left and right with their fingers interlocking in the middle over a red background.
Focus
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. Read More 

  • Wendy Hasenkamp
  • November 4, 2021
Helping Kids Connect Through Face Masks at School—Makers, a mask, a bottle of hand sanitizer, a rainbow, pencil crayons, and other various classroom materials are spread over a bright yellow background.
Kids and Teens
Helping Kids Connect Through Face Masks at School 

Wearing masks and social distancing makes it harder for kids to connect with one another at school. Here’s how mindfulness director Adam Ortman is helping by incorporating more playfulness in the curriculum. Read More 

  • Sarah Robertson
  • November 3, 2021
mindful meditation. find your focus
Mindfulness Research
Find Your Focus: Own Your Attention in 12 Minutes a Day 

Our ability to pay attention is unreliable when we’re under stress. In her new book Peak Mind, neuroscientist Amishi Jha explores cutting-edge research on elite soldiers revealing how mindfulness training protects our attentional resources, even in the most high-stress scenarios imaginable. Read More 

  • Amishi Jha
  • October 25, 2021
Bridging the Distance Between Our Stories
Relationships
Bridging the Distance Between Our Stories 

Mindfulness practices ask us to be open to perspectives beyond our own. Mindful editor-in-chief Heather Hurlock shares how we can honor the gaps between our outlooks and seek to bridge them with compassion. Read More 

  • Heather Hurlock
  • October 20, 2021

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