Category: Mindfulness
How to Work with the Winter Blues
Perhaps these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.
What Does It Mean to Be a Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Practitioner?
Over the last decade, there’s been an increased awareness of the adverse effects of trauma in the mindfulness and meditation discourse. Naomi Matlow explains.
Cooked with Love
Arepas have been eaten in South America since pre-Columbian times. For Mariana Restrepo, they’re a reminder of all the hands that have fed and shaped her.
How to Work With Anxiety: 3 Techniques For Lasting Change
Anxiety is a natural response to being human, says Lion’s Roar’s Chris Pacheco. When we try to control our anxious feelings instead of accepting them, we might end up exacerbating fear and worry. Here, he outlines three main strategies for moving through anxiety.
Interested in a Mindfulness Degree or Certificate? Here’s What to Expect
The study of mindfulness as an academic field is growing rapidly. Naomi Matlow shares some of what's out there.
Showing Up for Your Life
If you’re jealous or angry or lonely, says Pema Chödrön, don’t run from the feeling.
Seasons of Awakening
Joan Sutherland shares why we must learn to trust the ebbs and flows of awakening -- agreeing to all of its seasons and tides.
How to Water the Seeds of Happiness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings were always profound and practical, showing us effective ways to apply Buddhism’s deepest insights in our own lives. Here he draws on Buddhist and modern psychology to teach us how to cultivate the habit of happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Earth Gathas
These short verses bring awareness, peace, and joy to simple activities, and remind us that Earth provides us with precious gifts every day.
How Can I Get My Teenager to Meditate?
If you want the teens in your life to benefit from mindfulness practice, the first step, says Dzung X. Vo, is to have a strong practice yourself.
bell hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”
A 1995 conversation between digital activist and lyricist John Perry Barlow — who died on February 7, 2018 — and social theorist bell hooks.
The Best of Thich Nhat Hanh: Life, Teachings, Quotes, and Books
An introduction to the life and teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, founder of Engaged Buddhism, prolific Zen teacher, best-selling author, and peace activist.
Finding the Dharma
Teresa Shimogawa shares how she found her way to Buddhism after the death of her husband and how it became a flotation device to save her from drowning in despair.
Is This the Secret to Happiness?
Buddhism, psychology, and life experience all agree on one point, says Zen priest and psychiatrist Robert Waldinger: a larger, more connected sense of self makes life fulfilling and meaningful.
How can I engage with emotions in a way that turns me towards the Dharma?
The teachers are asked how to engage emotional provocations and self-centeredness in ways that turn us toward dharma practice and life.
My Dog, My Heart
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu discovers you don’t get over the death of a beloved pet. You just learn to love more.
Our Hunt for Magical Berries
Jason Gots and his sister were never happier than when they hunted the elusive wild blackberry. Years later, he realizes the magic is in the search.