Guided Meditations
A Guided Walking Meditation to Connect With Your Senses
Mindful walking can be a way to awaken our delight as we notice the sights, smells, and sounds in our surroundings.
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Focus
The Benefits of Being a Patient Person
Research shows that a patient person can support our mental health, strengthen our connection with others, and even help us reach our goals.
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Compassion
Compassion Is Key to Our Survival
From an evolutionary standpoint, “survival of the kindest” is no exaggeration. When we respond with kindness in the face of suffering—including our own—we’re affirming the reality that our lives and well-being are all interconnected.
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Focus
How Present-Moment Awareness Can Make Life More Meaningful
When we practice present-moment awareness, we can savor each moment, make time feel like it’s passing slower, and get in touch with the fundamental wonder of being alive.
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Health
Values to Live By: A Cardiologist on the Importance of Wisdom
Wisdom is something we all wish to possess, but how do we actually cultivate wise qualities (or know what those are)? In this second excerpt from Just One Heart, author and cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Fisher reveals powerful ways we can tune in to the body to develop the wisdom of our emotional heart.
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Focus
Increase Your Agency By Responding, Instead of Reacting
Ever wonder why your emails tend to be better when you wait a little before replying? Choosing to take a pause before we act may sound simple, but it yields powerful results. Longtime mindfulness teacher and author Andrew Safer shares a few ways we can practice pausing, both at our job and everywhere in our life.
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Compassion
You Can Change Your Life by Loving Yourself
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-love—and it begins with the breath.
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Interviews
Q&A: How Connecting With Our Senses Helps Us Get Unstuck
Mindful founding editor Barry Boyce sits down with Norman Farb and Zindel Segal to talk about their new book Better In Every Sense and how reconnecting with our senses can help get us unstuck and establish new patterns.
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Mental Health
The Potential (and Pitfalls) of Yoga and Meditation for Mental Health
In her new book, All in Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health, science writer Misty Pratt evaluates research and offers advice on trying yoga and meditation to support mental well-being—including why it’s important to adapt these popular practices to what your own mind and body need.
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Compassion
How Shame Keeps Us Hostage to Racism
When we can work with shame instead of avoiding it, we open ourselves up to opportunities for growth and healing.
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