Anger
All the Rage: What We Can Learn From Feeling Angry
Navigating anger may not be a comfortable process—yet we can learn a great deal from examining this fiery emotion as a part of our human experience. Read More 
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Compassion
Embracing Change: What Nanalan’ Teaches Us About Saying Goodbye
When Mona loses her red balloon, she also learns some mindful lessons for navigating the sadness that can come with farewells. Read More
Anxiety
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. Read More
Focus
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. Read More
Audio
A Meditation for Letting Thoughts Float By Like Bubbles
Meditation teacher Enrique Collazo guides a bubble meditation for observing the wandering mind and allowing each thought to pass. Read More
Focus
How Mindful Journaling Can Help Your Daily Practice
There’s a robust body of research that shows mindful journaling can be a powerful tool for insight, clarity, healing, and well-being. Here’s why you should try it (even if you don’t consider yourself a “writer”). Read More
12 Minute Meditation
A 12-Minute Meditation for Self-Compassion and Loving-Kindness
This week, Melli O’Brien invites us to immerse ourselves in a meditation designed to soothe the nervous system and cultivate self-compassion through deep relaxation and warm, gentle affirmations. Read More
Compassion
Learning to Wait: Mindful Ideas From Nanalan’
Most of us don’t like waiting for something we want. Is that so wrong?! Explore the mindful wisdom of Nanalan’ and we just might see the upsides of having to wait. Read More
Compassion
How to Give Your Full Attention
By practicing self-awareness, you can listen with greater care—not only to words, but also to the emotion and meaning that's being expressed. Read More
Anxiety
Please Die Soon: Finding Compassion for Unimaginable Thoughts
When someone you love is dying, there could be a secret moment, when things are really bad, when you hear yourself silently whisper the unimaginable thought: Please die soon. Say what??? It is with a brave heart, writes Elaine Smookler, that we look at this whole journey of death and make peace with the wild currents that threaten to pull us under. Read More
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