Category: Mindfulness in Your Life
Making Friends with Emotional Eating
If you soothe yourself with food, your body and mind are trying to tell you something. Jenna Hollenstein on how to listen with compassion.
Self-Care for Activists
As long as we don’t burn out and give up, we really can change the world. Mushim Patricia Ikeda on self-care for activists.
5 Practices for Nurturing Happiness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s life was inspiring, his benefit great, and his teaching, like the dharma itself, profound and practical. Here, he shares five practices to nurture happiness: letting go, inviting positive seeds, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.
Thich Nhat Hanh on The Practice of Mindfulness
The late Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh teaches five simple exercises to help you live with joy.
5 Keys to Complete Mindfulness
What are the next steps for understanding complete mindfulness and its comprehensive benefits? Five experts in the mindfulness field explain.
Finding Balance Amidst Life’s Demands
There are burdens we can’t put down, says Furyu Nancy Schroeder. That fact is the true heart of our human life.
Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Heal Your Inner Child
Healing the pain of our wounded child within, says Thich Nhat Hanh, is key.
How to Eat an Apple
Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Lilian Cheung on how the simple act of mindfully eating an apple can bring you many delights.
Meditation Is an Invitation to Well-Being
It’s so simple—sit down, pay attention, and open your heart to life—but it’s not so easy. Leading meditation teachers Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman answer your questions about mindfulness practice so you can accept its invitation to a more present and loving life.
8 Practical Guidelines for Mindful Parenting
Taking care of the little (and not-so-little ones) can be a challenge, but that doesn't mean that "mindful parenting" has to be an oxymoron. Here then are some simple tips from Karen Maezen Miller.
Insight Meditation: Present, Open & Aware
Emily Horn on how to discover the peace and awakening in every moment.
What to Do When You Can’t Sleep
Meditation and mindfulness can help you get the shut-eye you need. Joseph Emet on how to feel more rested.
3 Mindful Movement Exercises
Thich Nhat Hanh offers three mindful movement exercises for well-being, "a wonderful way of connecting your mind and body in mindfulness."
How to Drink a Mindful Cup of Tea
A cup of tea or coffee is a nice break. Drinking it mindfully is a real break. Joseph Emet teaches us this five-step practice.
Grow Your Mindfulness in the Garden
Cheryl Wilfong on how to practice the four foundations of mindfulness in the garden.
The Do-Nothing Farmer’s Guide to a Perfect Harvest
Mark Frank’s five steps to successfully doing nothing — in your garden or any other part of your life.
How to Practice Embodied Mindfulness
You don’t just practice mindfulness with your mind. You practice it with your body too. Yoga teacher and Buddhist Cyndi Lee teaches us how.
Three Questions for Coming Back to Now
Buddhist practitioner Leslie Davis offers three questions you can ask yourself to reel your running mind back to the present moment.
Come Home to Yourself
Your true home is this body. This mind. This moment. There, says Kaira Jewel Lingo, you’ll find peace and freedom.