Category: Meditation
4 Steps to Transform Anxiety with RAIN
RAIN meditation helps us cultivate awareness, self-compassion, and resilience. Gullu Singh shares how to recognize, allow, investigate, and nurture anxious feelings.
A Self-Compassion Meditation to Be Kind to Yourself
A three-step contemplation from Kristin Neff to give yourself the compassion you need (and deserve).
A Loving-Kindness Meditation to Heal Your Inner Child
Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give the wounded child inside you the love and compassion they deserve.
Pema Chödrön’s Meditation to Touch In with the Present Moment
Try this meditation practice to ground yourself in the present moment from renowned Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön.
How to Step Into the Present Moment
Gullu Singh shares how walking meditation serves as a powerful complement to sitting meditation.
A 3-Step Practice to Soothe Anxiety
Psychologist Chris Germer’s three-step self-compassion practice to soothe your anxiety with kindness.
How to Do Gatha Practice
By reciting the short verses known as gathas, says Zachiah Murray, we transform any activity into an opportunity to awaken to our true nature.
How to Open Your Heart
Tonglen is a transformational Buddhist meditation that awakens compassion. Susan Kaiser Greenland offers step-by-step instructions.
The Daily Practice of Self-Kindness
You have enlightened nature, says Pema Khandro Rinpoche. If you truly know that, you’ll always be kind to yourself.
How to Create a Meditation Space
No matter your living situation, you can have a place to practice. Yaotunde Obiora explains.
How to Practice Deep Relaxation
Relaxing the mind is a big goal of Buddhist practice, but to do that you need to relax your body as well. Sister Chan Khong teaches us a three-step practice to access a deep restfulness that rivals sleep.
The Four Highest Emotions
Ayya Khema on cultivating loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.
How to Transform Shame into Self-Compassion
Author and psychoanalyst, Pilar Jennings, offers advice to a practitioner who continues to feel unworthy and unloved.
The Magic Moment in Meditation
Sharon Salzberg explains how to practice basic breath meditation.
How to Do Green Tara Practice
Lama Palden Drolma teaches us how to visualize the deity Green Tara, who embodies our own buddhanature.
How to Love Yourself
If you want to love all beings, start with self-love, says Lisa Ernst.
3 Ways to Uncover Your Natural Awareness
Diana Winston on three ways to bring natural awareness into your mindfulness practice — and your life.
A Practice to Work with Grief
Kimberly Brown takes us through the practice of “standing on the earth,” which can help us in times of great change and grief.
How to Practice Dream Yoga
When you develop lucidity in your dreams, you develop lucidity in your life. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche on the practice of dream yoga.
The Power of Awareness: Jon Kabat-Zinn in Conversation
The founder of mindfulness-based stress reduction, Jon Kabat-Zinn is considered the father of the American mindfulness movement. Here, he talks to editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod about the essence of mindfulness and how it offers liberation from limiting, self-imposed narratives. This is the first installment of a three-part series.