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A 15-minute meditation that begins by imagining yourself surrounded by a circle of the most loving beings, making generous offerings of love and goodwill to you.

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Follow these guidelines to help you and your students feel empowered and safe when you teach mindfulness.

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Mindfulness-based stress reduction is just as effective as a gold-standard antidepressant for the treatment of anxiety, and comes with fewer side effects.

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Explore how mindfulness and meditation can help soften feelings of anxiousness, reduce stress, and calm a panic attack.

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Feeling unwell can be hard work sometimes—and that might be a sign that it’s time to stop trying so hard. Taking the mindful path means making room for suffering, too.

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May this curated retreat offer some relief, to collectively nourish our awareness, so that we have the opportunity to build authentic, trusting relationships, and from there, work together to create a kinder world.

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The act of questioning the thoughts that shape our reality (especially when they create stress, anger, or frustration) opens the door to living a life with more compassion, ease, and openness to new possibilities.

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Mindfulness meditation practice couldn’t be simpler: take a good seat, pay attention to the breath, and when your attention wanders, return.

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Skip the resolutions this year. Set a different tone by cultivating your intentions for the new year with this mindful practice.

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How mindfulness and a rewarding routine can help us develop good habits that last.

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When love feels scarce, we are conditioned to slip into survival mode. Caverly Morgan shares wisdom on how we can create pathways for remembering the heart of who we are.

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Shelly Tygielski offers a three-step exercise to help you get started with your own self-care plan—no bubble bath required.

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Breathing practice doesn't have to be boring. With our kids we can find fun ways to reset and give ourselves and our days a fresh start.

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Embrace change, self-compassion, and hope with this guided mindfulness practice from Rose Felix Cratsley.

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Need some mindful listening recommendations for the new year? The Mindful editors share their picks for this year’s best podcast episodes about meditation and mindful living.

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Here are five guided meditations to help you feel grateful for all things, both big and small.

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The Mindful editors look back on their favorite books published this year.

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Loving-kindness is not a mystical quality reserved for sages and saints. In fact, you likely already experience it often. With practice, you can learn to recognize loving-kindness in yourself and others.

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Cultivate gratitude for life's small delights as you move through the senses.

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“Just the right thing” may not be a thing at all. By giving experiences instead of things, we can focus on the real goals of exchanging gifts.

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How our goal-setting mind causes us to fixate on one track, and how we can become more responsive to the richness and complexity that each moment presents.

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Give yourself the gift of rethinking gift giving, writes Sara Kate Gillingham. Reconnect with love and generosity and the rest will fall into place.

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Sometimes we need to drop into our body to discern what we need in this moment. The four questions in this practice allow us to self-regulate by attending to what our difficult emotions or physical sensations may be telling us.

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Setting and holding boundaries can be challenging, even if you’re not a people-pleaser. The key is communicating clearly to cut down on conflict and increase freedom—for those on both sides of the line.

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From growing support for mindfulness-based therapies to a new science-writing scholarship, here’s the latest news from the mindfulness community.

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Burnout isn’t an individual problem, it’s a collective challenge and a byproduct of unkind systems in our world. The good news is that these systems were created by people, which means they can be updated.

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Every mindfulness practice looks a bit different. Here are some of the ways Mindful readers tap into their practice off the meditation cushion.

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Recent studies show how compassion meditation can improve young people’s mental health, people with autism can benefit from a tailored mindfulness program, and more.

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Ben Painter and Selena La’Chelle Collazo believe that mindfulness should be foundational learning for all students, and they’re teaching schools how to bring that vision to life.

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By anticipating when a stressful event is on the horizon, and preparing to respond together, workers can reduce individual stress and burnout while transforming how they relate to workplace challenges.

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When it comes to workplace well-being and stress, mindfulness can go beyond the individual level. Research suggests that strengthening clear, vulnerable communication and working from the knowledge that we’re in this together can help transform the way we work.

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The practice of mindfulness is evolving and changing, but the heart of it stays the same: Letting our awareness guide us gently back to the present moment.

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In the often heated, sometimes chaotic halls of the UK Parliament, scholars, thinkers, politicians, and policy-makers have been weaving in threads of mindfulness. The result: not a change in ideologies but a shift toward more positive and productive relationships across parties.

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Here are some key takeaways from MPs in the UK Parliament who have been learning and practicing mindfulness in a heated workplace environment.

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Attention is not one-dimensional, but rather rich and luxurious, writes founding editor Barry Boyce. And this complexity is what empowers us to navigate the difficulties that are always part of our lives.

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From the science of awe to navigating grief and loss, here are six mindful books and three podcasts to inspire your practice this winter.

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Even at Mindful magazine, we have to work hard to make sure we’re not teetering on the edge of burnout. Editor-in-chief Heather Hurlock shares how she and her staff hold kind space for each other, while holding each other accountable.

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Caverly Morgan felt a call to reconcile the wisdom that arose from her mindfulness practice with the systems of oppression at work in our world. In this conversation with Mindful contributing editor Stephanie Domet, she explores that reconciliation and shares what she’s learned about our inherent freedom.

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To help you deepen your mindfulness practice (or get started), we’ve rounded up a list of guided meditations that have resonated most with our readers over the past year.

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Here are a few simple guidelines to keep in mind to discern between mindless and (more) mindful eating.

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Instead of judging yourself for what you want or what you’re feeling, explore these writing prompts to help you turn toward your experience with greater understanding and self-compassion.

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To perform at our best in crucial conversations, marrying mindful intentions with mindful actions helps to ensure that you can make good on your good intentions.

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Mindfulness apps are trending in a big way. Here are four we're happy we downloaded.

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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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Want to give the gift of mindfulness this year? Celebrate the season by supporting organizations that bring greater awareness and compassion into the world.

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Caverly Morgan explains how we can use the practice of inquiry to loosen our grip on “us versus them” thinking and shift into a deeper perspective on our shared being.

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Not sure how to start a mindful writing or journaling practice? Here are seven expert-recommended writing tips to help you find yourself on the page and navigate life with greater clarity.

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We can uncover the wisdom of gratitude by noticing small things to be grateful for, then opening our awareness to the truth that everything and everyone—no matter how small—is interconnected.

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Let's face it, no matter what holidays you celebrate, there are countless reasons we may be managing difficult emotions (and social situations). The good news is that our mindfulness practice is here to support us and help us make space for self-compassion and maybe even a bit of ease.

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Researchers and key figures reflect on the results and implications of one of the largest studies on mindfulness in schools ever conducted.

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Jessica Morey leads a meditation to help us connect with our own goodness. When we're anchored in feelings of love and gratitude, we can bring loving-kindness and compassion with us out into the world.

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How to approach doomscrolling, social media comparison, and addicting algorithms with mindfulness. Author and WholeSchool Mindfulness director Erica B. Marcus shares lessons she’s learned from teaching middle school and high school.

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When we meditate, we inject far-reaching and long-lasting benefits into our lives: We lower our stress levels, we get to know our pain, we connect better, we improve our focus, and we're kinder to ourselves. Let us walk you through the basics in our new mindful guide on how to meditate.

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Mindful writing can lead you on the path of inner discovery. It can be the place where your experience meets your mindfulness practice, a place to encounter the twists and turns of your emotional life—and a bit of solid ground to stand on.

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It’s easy to cling to our ideas of what we want. Here’s how to work with the feelings that come up when we feel resistant to the way things are.

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Explore five steps to creating compassionate boundaries⁠—in a way that considers all parties with kindness.

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While moving through nature, we have the opportunity to enter a state of being, be present with all of our sensations, and awaken gratitude for the Earth that is also part of us.

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Some of us chatter to ourselves all day long while others’ inner lives take the form of pictures or, like Einstein, abstract visual concepts. But as mindfulness urges us to pay more attention, it’s worth asking: What can our interior life teach us?

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Sometimes the challenges we face can help nudge us to make much-needed changes. Psychologist and behavioral scientist Mike Rucker offers tips for recognizing opportunities to nurture joy.

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Skills like meditation, kindness, and gratitude can improve mental health and morale at work—including for retail workers. Anthony Sartori shares his experience of both the joyful and challenging moments while unrolling a mindfulness program at a grocery store.

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Our bodies do so much for us. Take a moment to bring a spirit of curiosity and appreciation to what’s happening in your body right now.

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How letting go helps us reclaim our power and release old hurt and fear.

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From navigating moments of anger to reducing stress for young people, here are some recent findings from the research on mindfulness.

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Learn about a contemplative science site, a hotline to support those in mental health crisis, and more news from the world of mindfulness.

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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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Mindful editor-in-chief Heather Hurlock explores how calling in our communities both near and far is an essential part of deepening into self-love and gratitude.

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Poetry can be a kind of meditation, explains Rashid Hughes. He explores how the art of haiku can bring a sense of peaceful, awe-inspired expressiveness into your practice.

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These new apps have wellness and inclusion woven into their development and aim to help us connect with others and with ourselves without sacrificing our privacy or principles.

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What do you appreciate? How do you show others gratitude? Mindful readers share their thoughts and tips.

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From a manifesto on the radical power of rest to an account of teaching yoga and mindfulness to children in West Baltimore, here are the new mindful books and podcasts you won’t want to miss.

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Taking purposeful pauses can allow you to be more fully present, and that presence is felt by those around you.

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