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Mindfulness doesn’t just happen on a meditation cushion or when you’re feeling particularly Zen. It’s a quality that we can cultivate, moment-to-moment, in every area of our lives.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

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A simple breathing meditation to help bring more balance, calm and concentration to the mind. 

The Basics of Mindfulness

In this meditation, we explore cultivating mindfulness through the various experiences that move through our awareness. 

Basic Sequence

A beginner’s mind gives us a fresh way of seeing, releases judgements and unlocks our ability to be truly present for the moments of our lives. 

Beginner's Mind Fresh Mind

In this meditation, we'll explore a different way to be in relationship to the meditation process, one that is more accepting, easy, and wise.

Awareness Is Meditating

Tune into the present moment, unwind stress and mental clutter, and emerge feeling more alive, grounded, and calm.

Breath, Body, Sounds, Feeling

In this meditation, we'll practice paying attention to a single focus point and bringing the mind back every time it wanders off.

Bicep Curl for the Brain

In this meditation, we'll practice a 15-minute sequence of breath awareness, open monitoring, and gratitude. 

Basic Guided Meditation

In our journey of mindfulness and meditation, we often encounter a seemingly mundane yet profound obstacle: boredom. It's an experience that, at first glance, might appear as a hurdle to our practice, but upon closer inspection, reveals itself as a gateway to deeper understanding and fulfillment. This exploration into the nature of boredom is not just an exercise in patience but a crucial step in our path to a more present, aware, and ultimately fulfilling life.

Beyond Boredom: Embracing Stillness in a world of constant stimulation

Embracing Stillness in a World of Constant Stimulation

In our mindfulness journey, we often explore various concepts that can enrich our understanding of life and purpose. Today, we delve into a profound and inspiring concept from Japanese culture known as 'ikigai.' This term, which translates to 'a reason for being,' refers to the unique source of value in one’s life, the very essence that energizes and motivates us each day.

Ikigai: Discovering Your Unique Reason for Being

Discovering Your Unique Reason for Being

In the journey of mindfulness, encountering triggers is an inevitable part of life. These moments can often lead to reactive responses, stress, and a sense of being overwhelmed. However, there is a simple yet powerful mindfulness practice that can help us navigate these moments with grace and awareness: the STOP method, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. This method is not just a technique but a pathway to fostering deeper connection, peace, and ease in our lives.

Navigating Life's Triggers: The STOP Method for Mindful Living

The STOP Method for Mindful Living

In our continuous quest for a fulfilling life, many of us adeptly navigate the complex tapestry of human experiences, seeking safety, comfort, and a semblance of happiness. We strategically place the building blocks of our existence—finding partners, choosing places to live, pursuing education or careers—setting up a foundation that appears to fulfill our needs. This pursuit, while crucial, often stems from a desire for security rather than a true alignment with our deepest passions and aspirations.

Embracing the Life You Love: Moving Beyond Comfort to Find True Fulfillment

Moving Beyond Comfort to Find True Fulfillment

In the journey of mindfulness and personal growth, a significant part of our challenge lies in how we engage with our emotions, particularly the unpleasant ones. Dr. Russ Harris, a renowned author, presents an enlightening metaphor to understand this interaction – the 'struggle switch'. This concept offers a transformative way to handle life's inevitable discomforts and challenges.

The Art of Turning Off Your 'Struggle Switch'

Insecurities, a common yet often unspoken thread in the tapestry of human life, are not a solitary struggle but a shared experience that binds us in our collective humanity. These hidden vulnerabilities, though they may seem unique to us in our moments of doubt, are in fact a universal condition, touching the lives of each one of us at various points.

Healing Insecurities: A Mindful Approach

A Mindful Approach

Can you be relaxed in a chaotic world? Kelly shares two science-based insights.

How Can I Relax When the World Feels So Chaotic?

A concentration practice to supplement your meditation.

Water Jug Concentration Exercise

In this meditation, we'll train our mind to access the natural happiness that arises when we are deeply present.

The Happiness of Presence

Beyond the concept of here and now, how much power do you need? To go anywhere else you need power, but to be here what do you need?

Live a Mindful Life

Mindfulness is better with friends

How to Meditate

If we strip away judgments of whether we “should” or “shouldn’t be on our phones, it can make each moment seem more enjoyable.

Putting Your Phone Away For More Happiness

In this meditation, we'll practice strategies to embrace the unknown in life, even when it scares us.

Good Luck, Bad Luck, Who Knows?

Learn the art of mindful living

Take the first step

When we stop trying to coerce life to go exactly the way we want, we naturally experience a greater sense of fluidity and ease no matter what happens. Just like the Zen farmer.

Are These Bad Times or Good Times? The Story of the Zen Farmer

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Give your dear one a year of less stress, more calm, and better sleep.

The beauty of mindfulness is that it doesn’t actually require anything to practice—but when you’re looking for a gift for someone who meditates and is into mindfulness, these items will hit the mark, and make you feel good, too. 

23 Mindfulness Gift Ideas for the Holidays

Lifetime

Why Do We Give Gifts?

The Problem with the Whole Gift-Giving Thing

Gifts are a way to tell those who are important to us, “I’m so glad you’re in my life.”

First, Explore Your Values

Support Their Joy

The gift of a better year with your better half

Keep a Stock of Meaningful Gifts

 Thoughts Count

Experiences Count, too

Something Old, Something New

Set Parameters

Free Gifts Can Be Just as Meaningful

Share Your Abundance

Support Their Health and Well-Being

This Year Gift Your Loved Ones Something They Really Want

Mindful Gift-Giving for Kids

Break the Tradition—and Start a New One

The perfect gift for the one who’s given you so much.

10 Meaningful Gift Ideas to Spread Some Love This Holiday Season

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Tired of the holiday hype and consumer excess? This season try connecting to your values for a more mindful and meaningful approach to gift-giving.

10 Tips for Mindful Gift Giving (+10 Great Ideas)

10 Tips for Mindful Gift-Giving (+10 Great Ideas)

In this meditation, we'll practice rewiring the brain to savor and appreciate more of the "good" moments in our life, and not endlessly ruminate on the "bad "moments.

Negativity Bias

Positive emotions are the lifeline that keeps us afloat so we can courageously face our hardships.

The negativity bias developed as a survival mechanism millions of years ago, but it’s still an active component of the human brain to this day.

Your Brain Wants to Be Negative. Teach it Positivity.

Understanding the reason your brain developed this fear response is one of the keys to radically changing the way you experience fear today.

How to Meet Fear With Love

Working With Fear

Fear and the Flower of Growth

When we understand fear as a tool that only wants to keep us safe, we can learn to receive its warnings, and engage with them thoughtfully, rather than feeling overwhelmed and paralyzed by the fear.

Radically Change the Way You Experience Fear

This four-step self-compassion break meditation will help soothe you in your hardest moments.

Self-Compassion for Difficult Times

An empty lantern provides no light. Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly.

Alongside our care for others, we also need to care for ourselves.

Taking Care of Others Has to Include You

What is Name It to Tame It?

Learn how the technique of mental noting unwinds anxiety, reduces our reactivity and anchors us in our calm center.

Name It to Tame It

How Does Name It to Tame It Work?

A mindfulness and emotional regulation technique to reduce stress and develop clarity.

"Mental Labeling" Technique

How to Handle Strong Emotions

Learn to be non-reactive and at peace with what is happening inside and around you through the practice of developing equanimity. 

Learning to Be Non-Reactive

The Power of Understanding Our Emotions

Helping Kids Learn How to Regulate Intense Emotions

Being Patient with the Process

The Foundations of Mindfulness

Name It to Tame It is a simple, science-backed technique you can use to calm spiraling negative thoughts or intense emotions like fear, rage, or anxiety.

Name It to Tame It: Label Your Emotions to Overcome Negative Thoughts

What are the Benefits of Mindful Running?

Rick shares the science-backed benefits of mindfulness and how the practice affects the body and brain, and therefore our lives. 

The Neuroscience of Mindfulness 

How to Practice Mindful Running

In this meditation, we'll do a body scan meditation, relaxing bodily tension and grounding ourselves in deep presence.

Two Feet One Breath

A Few Tips for Running Mindfully

So much of our stress comes from being caught in our thoughts and ideas. In this meditation, we'll drop from our head to our body, the one place that is always present.

Head-to-Body

Frequently asked questions

When you add mindfulness to your runs, you increase body awareness, build endurance, and create the conditions for flow to occur. You’ll also be doing your mind a big favor.

Mindful Running: The Ultimate Guide to Meditative Running

What is Mindfulness?

What are the Benefits of Practicing Mindfulness?

Is Mindfulness the Same as Meditation?

This meditation is a practice to attune you to your senses and the sensory world you live in. It is a way to invite connection between our inner and outer worlds

Sensory Awareness

All of these moments of simply noticing what’s there are considered mindfulness.

Why is Being Present So Important?

Even in the midst of difficulty, life is full of exquisite moments.

A meditation to remind us that awareness is our true home. Sometimes we get lost in seeking, striving or rushing—but awareness is always here for us. 

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