Category: Mindfulness in Your Life

5 Tips for Mindful Journaling

James C. Hopkins on how—through writing—you can find the flow of awareness, free of judgment.

Mindful Cooking with Chef Bryant Terry

How can all communities thrive? Bryant Terry on the importance of cooking mindfully.

How to Establish a Daily Practice of Almost Anything

Whether it’s meditation, yoga, or art, you get more from doing it every day. Follow these six steps to enjoy all the benefits of daily practice.

Holiday Blues

Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller on enjoying the holiday you’re having, not the one you were hoping for.

Ruth Ozeki Trauma Transformation Art Writing

Nothing Is Wasted

If you use your difficulties to create art, says Ruth Ozeki, it will give them meaning.

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.

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.

Karen Maezen Miller’s “The Laundry Line” — Coming Home

Karen Maezen Miller's advice on coming back from retreat and finding mindfulness in our daily life.

Watch: Diana Winston Shares Thich Nhat Hanh’s Advice to Bring Mindfulness to Everyday Life

Diana Winston shares a profound quote from the late Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on bringing mindfulness into your everyday activities.

Hello, It’s Halloween

What do you want to be for Halloween? Who do you want to be in life? Ira Sukrungruang on the costumes we wear.

A Mindful Movement Practice for Embodied Awareness

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.

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."

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.