Focus
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 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.
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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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Can Mindfulness Help Ease Aggression in Youth?
The nuances of improving attention, the possibility of unwanted side effects from meditating, and more highlights from current mindfulness research.
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Anxiety
Finding a Way to Measure and Study Our Internal Attention
When it comes to mental health, our internal world may matter more than we think.
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Compassion
How Your Brain Falls for the Wrong Ideas
Our own cognitive biases, combined with a fast-paced chaotic environment, wear down our ability to discern false narratives from facts. Amishi Jha explains the science on how to shift away from divisiveness and boost your brain’s resilience.
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Focus Your Awareness with These Visual Breath Practices
To be aware that we’re breathing is the first thing we learn in mindfulness practice. Gary Gach walks us through the fundamentals and shares three imaginative tools for clear, focused awareness.
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