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The Truth About Parasocial Relationships
Founding editor Barry Boyce reflects on why some kinds of relationships are ultimately unsatisfying, and what that means for how we engage with mindfulness.
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Break Up Your Work Day with Purposeful Pauses
Taking purposeful pauses can allow you to be more fully present, and that presence is felt by those around you.
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A 3-Part Focused Attention Meditation Series
Explore this guided meditation series from founding editor Barry Boyce to gently work with your wandering mind.
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A Breathing Meditation to Gently Bring Your Attention Back with Awareness
Renda Dionne Madrigal shares a breathing meditation to cultivate stillness so you can gain more clarity and strengthen your inner compass.
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How to Stay When You Want to Run
Mindful meditation might overwhelm you some days, and underwhelm you others. With a little practice, you can stay curious and engaged, when you might otherwise run.
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Find Your Focus with Amishi Jha
Amishi Jha and Mindful managing editor Stephanie Domet discuss the brain science of attention, how mindfulness meditation helps hone focus, and why our brains are so distractible in the first place.
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How to Regain Focus 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.
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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.
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Mindfulness Improves Attention, Review Finds
We often hear about gaining greater focus through mindfulness practice. A new research review sheds light on some of the nuances regarding how improvements in attention are measured.
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Why A “Time-Crunched” Mindset Backfires—and How Leaders Avoid It
Scarcity wreaks havoc on our minds—and our success at work. In this excerpt from Work Better Together, Jen Fisher and Anh Phillips explore what’s really behind a sense of time scarcity, and how intentional micro-habits can interrupt it.
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