A 12-Minute Body Scan Meditation for Letting Go of Stress and Falling Asleep
Stress and tension can easily build up in our bodies during busy days or weeks, and often we don’t even realize how much that is affecting o...
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20 of 273 episodesA Meditation to Help Build Your Capacity to Navigate Difficulty
When we’re facing disappointment or challenge, it’s easy to default to negative narratives about who we are inherently: I’m a failure. What’...
A Meditation to Befriend Vulnerability
By definition, to feel vulnerable is to feel exposed and undefended. It’s natural, in moments of emotional risk or tenderness, to feel the u...
A Meditation for Resting in the Flow of Experience
This week, Ed Halliwell guides us through a practice to be with the inevitable moment-to-moment uncertainty of life. We can’t control what’s...
A Grounding Practice to Focus Your Busy Mind
There are times when we’re so busy thinking, planning, worrying, stressing that it’s really hard to focus on the breath or the body, or what...
Laughter Yoga: A Gentle Movement Practice to Get the Giggles Going
Beyond just feeling good, laughter releases , and also works on our heart, our lungs, our muscles, our thoughts, our behaviors. In short: la...
A 12 Minute Meditation to Unhook from Negativity and Savor Joy
Joy aids us in waking up to our lives, and savoring is a practice that allows us to slow down, immerse ourselves in experience, and deeply a...
A Meditation to Rest Your Attention
When we talk about attention, we often use active and extractive verbs: pay, give, court, leverage. In mindfulness, attention isn’t a commod...
Embodied Compassion for Difficult Emotions
One of the core principles of mindfulness practice that can be a challenge for people is the notion that it actually makes more sense to acc...
A 12 Minute Meditation to Make Movement Mindful
Our bodies come in all varieties, and we all have different interests, skills, and abilities. As today's teacher Cara Bradley observes, move...
A Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners
This week, Mindful founding editor Barry Boyce reminds us of the basic why behind mindfulness meditation: We get off-kilter at various times...
A Meditation to Bring Comfort and Kindness to Pain and Illness
Learning to live with pain and illness is challenging, arduous work. Often, people can go for months or even years without sufficient answer...
A Meditation on the Art of Stopping (Extended Version)
We often think of mindfulness and meditation as sustained states—when in reality, it’s just a collection of micro-moments of stopping, breat...
The Art of Stopping (Bonus Micro-Practice Version)
You can find the extended 20-minute version of this meditation . Want to explore how micro-practices can help shift your patterns in your re...
A Meditation on Working With Our Fear And Parenting From Love
In our concern for our children, sometimes we respond from a place of fear and worry. From time to time, we can even lose touch with the lov...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Rest Your Body in Gratitude
Our bodies are so overworked and often ignored. This guided awareness practice offers space to feel a sense of gratitude for our body, in al...
A Light, Slow, Deep (LSD) Breathing Meditation
Thanks to our autonomic nervous system, life-sustaining processes like our heartbeat, digestion, and breathing all happen without us even ha...
A Guided Walking Meditation to Notice the Beauty Around Us—Even in the City
City life can often feel frantic, loud, and cut off from natural beauty. It’s not often we slow down and take in all there is to experience....
A Meditation to Meet Yourself Where You Are—No Matter What
Mindfulness meditation involves a willingness to be with ourselves as we are. It offers a way of learning to work with ourselves, and not on...
A Meditation to Create Inner Balance in the Face of Change
Change of any kind—whether it’s small, momentous, expected or unexpected—can make us feel so vulnerable and unsteady. This week, Susan Bauer...