What to Do When Thoughts Arise While Meditating
The mind often wanders in meditation—and it’s normal. Elisha Goldstein, psychologist and founder of the Mindful Living Collective, explores how to deal with both...
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...
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...
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...
Practicing Love in a Pandemic
Meditation teacher Kimberly Brown offers a short practice for cultivating a loving connection to ourselves and the world amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The novel coronavirus...
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 to Meet Loss and Pain Without Fear
By practicing compassion we can open the heart to the universality of the human condition with clarity, allowing us to respond to difficulty...
How to Practice Self-Observation (Prompts and Meditation)
Self-observation seems pretty basic and even a little mediocre or like some pedestrian psychological technique on the surface.
But in my many years of exploring and walking...
Unlocking Your Spiritual Potential: 10 Ways to Activate Your Pineal Gland
It plays a crucial role in regulating our sleep-wake cycle and producing the hormone melatonin, which helps us fall asleep at night. But did...
7 Steps to Relaxing Your Body
When was the last time you truly gave your body a moment to rest—not just by sleeping but by intentionally relaxing? Take ten minutes...
