Category: Mindfulness
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.
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.
Mindful Parenting Techniques for Teens
Nuanprang Snitbhan on how to help teenagers develop problem-solving skills and gain confidence.
That Time My Father Sued Me
Meeting legal action with loving-kindness, Mimi Kwa finds healing from intergenerational trauma.
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.
How to Be a Mindful Parent
Whether you’re the parent of a newborn, young child, teen, or grown child, mindful parenting can help bring more awareness and love to bear in your family. Four dharma teachers tell you how.
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."
Don’t Let Hatred Destroy Your Practice
His Holiness the Dalai Lama takes an in-depth look at how we can work with anger and hatred in our practice.
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.
How to Practice “Self-Care”
Koshin Paley Ellison on why true self-care begins with understanding that there’s no separation between self and other.
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.
How do I know whether to avoid or accept something that causes me distress?
In Buddhadharma's Ask the Teachers section, Sestuan Gaelyn Godwin, Larry Yang, and Dungse Jampal Norbu discuss relating to obstacles and difficult emotions.
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.
The Human Path
Editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod introduces the September 2024 issue of Lion’s Roar on the complete path of mindfulness.
The Complete Path of Mindfulness
A life-changing journey begins with a single breath. With the simple act of paying mindful attention to one breath, says Melvin McLeod, we step onto a complete path that goes deeper and farther than we can imagine.
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.