Mindful

Mindful is the groundbreaking new magazine dedicated to helping you live mindfully. The simple practice of being in the moment brings out the best in who you are.

Defining Mindfulness

For the Love of Friends • Answers from our reader survey on friendship

Top of Mind • Things that spark our minds, touch our hearts, make us smile—or roll our eyes. Keep up with the latest in mindfulness.

Mindful or Mindless? • Our take on who’s paying attention and who’s not

mindful living

How to Listen to Your Body • Your body is always sending you messages. This practice helps you learn to hear what it’s saying—by taking the time to notice.

Use Your Melon • A glorious marriage of sunshine, water, sugar, and soil. Each bite releases a gush of nectar as refreshing as a plunge into a cool lake on a hot summer day. Watermelon, with its juicy pink flesh and whimsically striped shell, is an iconic picnic treat sliced up and served straight. But it’s also easy to dress up.

Preventive Health: An Inside–Outside Job • Dr. Mark Bertin examines the evidence that meditation may pack a punch against illness and imbalanced lifestyles.

Make Health a Habit • You can boost your immune function, nourish your body, and feel naturally energized with surprisingly simple actions. Wherever you are in your health journey, here are a few practical, adaptable ideas you can try.

Don’t Vacate Your Vacation • Next time your thoughts are dragging you away from your well-earned holiday, instead try relaxing into the sensory world.

Am I Doing This Right? • The latest installment in our ongoing series of helpful answers to common meditator questions.

You Had Me at Hello • Why is it that we seem to get along with some people right off the bat? Is it just because you happen to like the same kind of music, or are there deeper reasons to find yourself on the same wavelength?

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charting her own path

30 Days to the Same Old Me • Self-styled stressball Stephanie Domet challenged herself to meditate every day for a month. Here’s what happened.

No Roof No Power No Problem • Going camping’s about more than braving (or savoring) the elements. By leaving our comfort zone at home, we can forge a new and wilder version of well-being.

Awestruck • When nature momentarily pulls us out of our own heads, writes Dacher Keltner, we can find greater meaning and joy.

Beyond Your Comfort Zone • Being out in the elements can make your body and your mind squirm. That’s part of the reason to do it. It can help you stretch your resilience.

One Step at a Time

A City without Limits • Envision a city where community, business, and nature are no longer at odds—where all, in fact, can thrive together. Mindful talks with Jonathan Rose, visionary urban planner and cofounder of one of the world’s leading retreat centers, the Garrison Institute.

A Playground for All of Us

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