Focus & Attention
Two Simple Mindfulness Practices For Back-To-School
Teachers and parents can help kids regulate, shift, and stabilize their energy and mood, allowing for a little more silence and a little more focus. Read More 
Teachers and parents can help kids regulate, shift, and stabilize their energy and mood, allowing for a little more silence and a little more focus. Read More
For people whose anxiety boxes them in, a basic meditation practice isn't so straightforward. Read More
Kids struggling with chronic emotional and behavioral problems are sometimes labelled as "misbehaving" by parents and teachers alike. Here's how to speak to the child behind the behavior. Read More
Some of the most dangerous prisoners are freeing themselves from solitary confinement by practicing mindfulness. Read More
Anxiety disorders adversely affect the lives of about 40 million Americans. They are plagued by insecurity, dread, persistent stress, and irrational fears. Noted essayist and author Barbara Graham reveals her personal story of a lifelong struggle with high anxiety, and details her expansive search for relief and peace of mind. Read More
ABC Anchor Dan Harris talked about his new book, 10% Happier, on the Colbert Report last night, and led Colbert and the audience through a mindfulness meditation. Read More
ABC News anchor Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier, on boosting compassion through meditation. Read More
While fidget toys and other attention-focusing gadgets are now a multi-billion-dollar industry, they are also part of a long mindfulness tradition. Author and educator Alex Tzelnic explores the history and science behind using intentional, focused activity to direct attention and calm the mind. Read More
Learning to take care of your heart, to accept the pain that comes with seeing the people you love suffer, and to be okay with suffering yourself, is the true work of self-loveāand it begins with the breath. Read More
Once writer and health researcher Misty Pratt stopped fighting nature, she was able to see its beauty, and how she is connected to it. Read More
