Meditation
You Can’t Force Yourself to Sleep Well—Try this Sleep Meditation, Instead
Striving for sleep makes sleep more challenging. Try this guided meditation to help you settle down and drift off.
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Prescribing Awareness
We often seek comfort in denial. But by downplaying or ignoring health issues, we can inflict further harm on ourselves and others.
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Anxiety
A Meditation on Working with Anxiety
This meditation combines breath awareness, the body scan, and mindfulness of thoughts to explore sources of stress and anxiety.
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Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time: Sharon Salzberg
It's only after we've practiced many times that we'll begin to notice a habit developing—namely, letting ourselves off the hook once in awhile.
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Anxiety
Mindful’s Top 10 Guided Practices of 2017
Listen to guided meditations from mindfulness experts on how to work with difficult emotions and weave mindful moments into your daily life.
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Daily Practices
Jumpstart Your Mindfulness Practice in 5 Breaths
Let's get real: a lot of us want to meditate. The crowd that makes it to the cushion (or chair) is a lot thinner. Here's one way you can bring some mindful breaths into your day.
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A Mindfulness Practice for Preschoolers That Connects Kids to Nature
A practice for teaching preschool children the basics of mindfulness by drawing on the elements of nature.
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Calm
Feeling Isolated? Try This 20-Minute Connection Practice
Turning toward panic or anxiety can help us feel more anchored in the present—and more at home in ourselves and the world around us. Here is a 20-minute meditation for cultivating inner and outer connection.
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Anxiety
Singer-Songwriter Jewel Shares Her Mindfulness Practices
Jewel shares two simple mindful breathing techniques for learning to observe your thoughts.
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A 5-Minute Mindful Breathing Practice to Restore Your Attention
A simple meditation to train your attention so you can learn how to choose what you'd like to focus on rather letting your mind wander around unattended.
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