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Simple Steps to After-Work Mindfulness

By Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com

How to Break Your Doom-Scrolling Habit Tonight

Reclaim your evenings by breaking the doom-scrolling habit. Learn practical steps to embrace after-work mindfulness, reduce stress, and boost mental well-being.

How Mindfulness Became a Tool of Capitalism

By Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com

 How has mindfulness been shaped by capitalist culture?

Mindfulness, rooted in ancient traditions, is now entangled with capitalist culture. This article uncovers how mindfulness has shifted from spiritual practice to productivity tool. Learn how to reclaim mindfulness as a personal and meaningful practice, free from commercialization, and rediscover its true purpose—inner peace and self-awareness.

Turning a Walk Into a Spiritual Journey

By by Michael J. Gelb and Bruce Fertman
by Michael J. Gelb and Bruce Fertman

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Transform your daily walk into a spiritual journey. Discover how to set intentions, cross thresholds mindfully, and embrace walking as a path to personal transformation and self-discovery.

Quieting the Mind Through Peripheral Vision

By Happy Ali
Happy Ali

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Discover the transformative power of expanding your mental awareness to quiet a restless mind. Learn practical exercises like Hakalau to enhance mindfulness and achieve a state of deep inner calm. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for entering an expanded awareness state, ideal for managing emotions and deepening meditation practices.

Hate Is Killing Us! Can Mindfulness Help?

By Igor Grossmann and Ellen Choi
Igor Grossmann and Ellen Choi

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Mindfulness benefits go beyond stress reduction. Learn how mindfulness for tolerance can help you reduce hate and build a more compassionate world with these insights.

Mindfulness and Mental Health: What Works Best?

By Nathaniel Johnson and Hali Kil, Simon Fraser University
Nathaniel Johnson and Hali Kil, Simon Fraser University

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Certain mindfulness aspects might support mental health and well-being more than others. But which combinations of mindfulness aspects are better than others, and does your age play a role?

Mindfulness and Beyond: Exploring Zen Buddhism's Teachings

By Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

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Zen Buddhism presents a path of enlightenment that digs deep into the art of mindfulness, compassion, and a profound bond with the surrounding world.

Being Mindful and Cultivating the Tao

By Gregory Ripley
Gregory Ripley

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If we turn our minds to the spiritual and remain mindful throughout our day, our lives will become more joyful. We’ll find an increased sense of gratitude and contentment, and we’ll experience an ease and lightness in all we do. 

Stop Monkey Mind: Practice Awareness of No-Thought

By Jaime A. Pineda, PhD
Jaime A. Pineda, PhD

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“No-thought” comes from a Zen expression that literally means “the mind without the mind.” This refers to a mind that is calm, balanced, and unoccupied by self-centered thoughts or emotion...

Opening Our Hearts to the Practice and Gift of Compassion

By Sue Schneider
Sue Schneider

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The process of opening our hearts toward ourselves and others is not always direct or linear. It may happen over time as we deepen our lovingkindness and compassion practice.

Beyond the Hype: Making Mindfulness Stick in Daily Life

By Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

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Mindfulness is a concept that most of us may have heard of, but few have fully grasped.

Why Mindfulness Matters: Are You Underestimating Its Power?

By Sue Schneider
Sue Schneider

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With the turbulent nature of the world these days, it’s easy to feel that we’re too small to make a difference. We tend to underestimate ourselves.

A Cheat-Sheet to Access Clarity, Compassion, and Accountability

By Marc Lesser
Marc Lesser

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Finding clarity is a path open to all humans, regardless of our backgrounds or identities. 

The Science of Mindfulness: Transforming the Brain and Reducing Depression

By Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

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Through extensive research, scientists have discovered that mindfulness training induces notable transformations in brain patterns, offering us a window into the profound interplay between our mind and body.

A Society with Fragmented Attention and the Need for Silence

By Pierre Pradervand
Pierre Pradervand

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An hour of deep silence is a natural therapy that is perhaps more effective than hours in a “shrink’s” office. And the only way to prove it is to try.

Harnessing the Power of Qigong and Other Mind-Body Practices for Health

By Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

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There are multifaceted benefits of qigong, yoga, mindfulness, and tai-chi. These practices can aid fatigue, manage pain, and improve overall well-being, especially for individuals recovering from severe illnesses like cancer.

Can Making Friends with Your Pain Erase the Suffering?

By Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Wes "Scoop" Nisker

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The first instruction for participants in pain management clinics is to begin to experience their pain, to feel the sensations, allow them, explore them.

Science-Backed Mindfulness, Meditation and Self-Compassion Improve Mental Health

By Rachel Goldsmith Turow
Rachel Goldsmith Turow

a woman sitting in a chair meditating

Mindfulness and self-compassion are now buzzwords for self-improvement. But in fact, a growing body of research shows these practices can lead to real mental health benefits.

Mindfulness Meditation Is an Evolutionary Sport and We’re All on the Same Team

By Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Wes "Scoop" Nisker

image of a person sitting in meditation surrounded by light

Paraphrasing poet Gary Snyder, meditation is a process of entering into our deep identity over and over again, until it becomes the identity from which we live.

This Course Asks, ‘What Is Mindfulness?’ – Don’t Expect a Clear-Cut Answer

By Kevin C. Taylor
Kevin C. Taylor

This Course Asks, ‘What Is Mindfulness?’

 American professor Jon Kabat-Zinn is credited with popularizing the kind of mindfulness that has caught on with non-Buddhists today, starting with his “mindfulness-based stress reduction” program in the 1970s.

Why Athletes Should Develop Mindfulness

By Jennifer Meggs
Jennifer Meggs

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Athletes at the very highest level of their sport face the challenge of performing consistently under pressure amid many potential distractions, including performance anxiety, crowd behavior, their own and others’ expectations, and the responses of their opponents.

The Benefits of the Ancient Practice Yoga to Both Body and Mind

By Herpreet Thind
Herpreet Thind

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Yoga is now a mainstream activity in the U.S. and is commonly portrayed as a healthy lifestyle choice. I am a behavioral scientist who researches how physical activity – and specifically yoga – can prevent and help manage chronic diseases.

Everyday Shabbat and Mindfulness

By Matthew Ponak
Matthew Ponak

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I am inspired to share helpful techniques from my own tradition to add to this emerging global mindfulness conversation.

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