Category: Meditation
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.
5 Tips for Mindful Journaling
James C. Hopkins on how—through writing—you can find the flow of awareness, free of judgment.
How to Start a Home Meditation Practice
Zen teacher Norman Fischer proposes a two-week trial run to get your meditation practice started and looks at how to deal with some of the obstacles you may encounter.
How to Practice RAIN Meditation for Anxiety
RAIN helps us cultivate awareness, self-compassion, and resilience. Instructions by Gullu Singh.
How to Practice Mindful Eating For Happiness
Paulina Lamas Morales shares how eating mindfully can transform every meal into a practice of connection with yourself, others, and the planet.
When we meditate, who or what is meditating?
The teachers are asked "If meditation is ultimately about mind seeing its own true nature, how are we to understand the mind that meditates?"
A Meditation to Identify Your Addiction Triggers
Chönyi Taylor presents a meditation to familiarize yourself with the triggers that set off addictive behaviors.
Not by Ourselves
Shikantaza demands our full self-expression, says Tenshin Reb Anderson, and this can only be realized when we meet intimately with others.
See Things Clear Through
Upasika Kee Nanayon, shows us how to combine concentration and clear-seeing to penetrate the "mass of deceit" that is the mind.
How to Practice Tonglen Meditation
Pema Chödrön teaches us Tonglen, “sending and taking,” an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion.
How to Practice Bearing Witness
A three-step practice to connect with and serve those who are suffering.
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).
How to Practice Mindful Breathing for Anxiety
It’s a simple, calming meditation that you can do anytime, anywhere. Instructions by Melvin Escobar with Gregory Mengel.
How to Practice Lojong for Anxiety
Lojong can help you see anxiety as an opportunity rather than a problem. With that shift in perspective, says Susan Kaiser Greenland, everything changes.