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.

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Chew On This • Answers from our reader survey on food

Welcome to mindful • Did you know Mindful is a nonprofit? We are dedicated to inspiring and guiding anyone who wants to explore mindfulness to enjoy better health, more caring relationships, and a more compassionate society.

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.

EXTRA-ORDINARY ACTS OF KINDNESS

BIKES AND BEERS WITH A MINDFUL TWIST • Have we hit peak mindfulness? These two playful guided meditations prove that the increasingly popular practice can crop up where we least expect it.

Time to get off your phone?

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

mindful living • “You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”

The Power of Thanks • Science suggests that expressing true gratitude boosts your health and spreads happiness. Here are simple ways you can unleash its power for good.

Feel It • Building your capacity for gratitude isn’t difficult. It just takes practice.

Jewels of Winter

Recovery In the Real World • Even for the survivor, writes Pat Rockman, cancer leaves little unscathed—and resuming life-as-usual brings its own challenges and changes.

Opening Up Is a Compassionate Act

Let Go of Your Labels • You know all those tiny boxes we try to fit our spacious, colorful, uncategorizable selves into? We could all take them a little less seriously.

Why Are You Crying? • Researchers suggest that there may be a deep-seated need served by having a good cry, and that tears do far more for us than clean dust and dirt from our eyes.

Cry Like a Man?

Crossing Borders

Centering

The Path to Prosperity • Ready to bring your current finances into harmony with your bigger life goals? Money mapping offers a mindful way forward.

FINDING STRENGTH IN SOLITUDE • Spending time by ourselves can seem like either a rare gift or a desperate last resort. David Rome explores our underrated need for a kind of alone time that helps us connect with our deepest self.

Isolation vs. Solitude • What research suggests about the boundary between healthy alone-time and harmful loneliness.

Being Alone, Two Ways • If you find it hard to be alone, that’s OK! Here are two practices to help you find a sense of ease through keeping yourself company.

TO BOLDLY MOVE ON • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Nana Visitor shares how mindfulness helped her recover from personal trauma and professional burnout.

THE REAL DEAL • As more and more of us seek mindfulness guidance and instruction, where should we turn to find teachers and programs we can trust and recommend?

How to Find a Good Teacher • Looking for a mindfulness instructor? Use this checklist to evaluate whether they’re right for you or someone you know.

6 Skills to Look For in a Mindfulness Teacher • The closest thing to a widely accepted standard for measuring mindfulness teacher competence today is the Mindfulness-Based Intervention Teaching Assessment Criteria, or MBI:TAC, created in 2008 by researchers from Oxford, Exeter, and Bangor Universities in the UK. The MBI:TAC focuses on skills required to teach a class of students, measuring competence in six areas, called domains. These include:

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A Mindful Solstice Tree • We love a mindful practice of any kind, and particularly one that celebrates our...