Guided Meditations
The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2021
We’re taking a look back at some of our most popular guided meditations from the past year. Read More 
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Expert Interviews
Creating a Mindful Gratitude Journal with Amber Tucker and Paige Sawler
Explore all the heart and creativity that went into the Gratitude Journal by Mindful with senior editor Amber Tucker and junior designer Paige Sawler. Read More
Kids & Teens
Mindful Parenting: Meet Your Inner Critic with Self-Compassion
With mindfulness practice, we can learn how to unhook from rumination and increase clarity and ease of being by cutting ourselves (and our kids) some slack. Read More
Depression & Grief
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
Expert Interviews
Find Your Focus: A Conversation with Amishi Jha
Managing editor Stephanie Domet and neuroscientist Amishi Jha in conversation about the brain science of attention. Read More
Focus & Attention
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. Read More
Mindfulness For
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
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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
Kids & 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
Focus & Attention
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
