When did you first start practicing mindfulness and why were you motivated to do so? I started practicing several years ago after attending a workshop on social intelligence. The research presented on the effectiveness of mindfulness as a tool for well-being was so staggering that I felt like it just… Read More 
Susan Kaiser Greenland on the Power of Mindful Awareness In my experience, introducing mindful awareness to children, teens, and families has the potential to transform our world. While many educational programs teach valuable life skills from early childhood through adulthood, these skills can be difficult to apply in… Read More
A study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology provides more evidence that violent video games desensitize players to violence, and makes them more violent in real life. This is not the first study to report such an effect; the evidence has been steadily accumulating over the last decade. But this study… Read More
20 million Americans are meditating. ABC's Dan Harris on the why and how of it all. Read More
A report from the International Conference on Mindfulness with Youth, by Hannah Marsh. Read More
When did you first start practicing mindfulness and why were you motivated to do so? I began practicing several years ago as a means to cope with the acute and chronic stressors of police work, and life’s journey for that matter. I had been reading a lot… Read More
Ellen Langer's book Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility is to be made into a major motion picture starring Jennifer Aniston as Langer. Read More
As I write this, the number one most emailed article on the New York Times is a blog post by Tara Parker-Pope on the importance of self-compassion for making a change such as losing weight or quitting smoking. Clearly the post strikes a chord among the typical… Read More
"There is absolutely a revolution happening right now," writes Dr. Elisha Goldstein on PsychCentral.com, "and there likely couldn’t be a more perfect time." Read More
At 6:34 p.m. on Thursday, June 2, several hundred people quietly strolled between the fountains in London’s Trafalgar Square, sat down together, and began to meditate. They remained seated on the ground in the crisp summer sunshine for almost half an hour, before getting up again and going their separate… Read More
