Practicing Self-Compassion Can Boost Your Mental Health

New research looks into how mindfulness and compassion-focused therapy can help treat depression, anxiety and stress. Most American adults will experience stress, anxiety or depression...

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...

What Is Body Scan Meditation and How Can It Help You...

When you’re feeling stressed, it’s helpful to pay attention to your body because it helps ground you. There are many types of meditation to try, but...

How Meditation Supports Health and Healing

Studies show that mindfulness is ultimately an effective, low-cost way to manage (and maybe even improve) physical and mental health and well-being. Meditation is an...
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Self Improvement Advice: Meditation

There are particular moments in life that when you wish you could depend on anybody’s self-improvement advice. But even if they gave it to...
A 20-Minute Yoga That You Should Try

A 20-Minute Yoga That You Should Try

You know those days when everything feels difficult. Days when your sluggishness can’t be remedied with yerba matè, when the ad for baby diapers...
Develop An Abundance Mindset

Develop An Abundance Mindset

It is certainly no secret that mindset can radically affect the course of your life. Overwhelming research on mindset shows that the way you...

Loving-Kindness Meditations Make People Happier, Study Says

Meditation is intended to bring peace and clarity to the people who practice it. For the anxious mind, though, meditation can often become a...

Your Favorite Meditation of the Year

Tonglen meditation, or “sending and taking,” is an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion. With each in-breath, we take in others’ pain. With each...
Rewire Your Brain While You Are Asleep

Rewire Your Brain While You Are Asleep

Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way To A Better Life If you're reading this, there's a good chance you aren't feeling 100 percent. Maybe you...