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.

Please Excuse Me

Stress Happens • …and simply paying attention to it can teach us a lot about ourselves. Here's what Mindful readers answered to our survey on stress.

Welcome to mindful

Top of Mind • Keep up with the latest in the world of mindfulness.

ACTS OF kindness

MENTAL HEALTH

Research News • Research gathered from Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, Center for Healthy Minds at University of Wisconsin–Madison, Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School, and American Mindfulness Research Association.

Kathy Flynn-Somerville • PENNSYLVANIAN MINDFULNESS TEACHER

MINDFUL OR MINDLESS? • Our take on who’s paying attention and who’s not

mindful living

Creamy Contrast

How May I Help You? • A lesson on cultivating kindness in the most unlikely of situations: the customer service call.

A Practice

Blood, Sweat, & Fears • Taryn Toomey, creator of The Class, wants to work out her issues. She wants to work out yours, too.

If It Doesn’t Kill You, Does It Make You Stronger? • Our writer throws herself into Taryn Toomey’s “The Class” and comes out the other side—intact.

Picking Up the Pieces • What causes us to move on from traumatic experiences? Psychologists are finding resilience is not always about bouncing back; sometimes we have to feel our whole world fall to pieces.

WHAT IS “Trauma”?

Coming Full Circle • Dena Simmons shares her mindful journey from the streets of the Bronx to the ivory towers of Yale and back.

wake up to the wild • Wilderness expert and renowned mindfulness teacher Mark Coleman shares how he is learning to hold the intense beauty of nature—and devastation of climate change—in perspective.

Support What You Love • 5 Ways You Can Help Counter Climate Change

MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR ANXIOUS BRAIN • The latest research in neuroscience is revealing how mindfulness can help rewire—and calm—ancient brain networks tied to stress, anxiety, and overwhelm.

Pathways to Anxiety

How Mindfulness Rewires the Anxious Brain • We used to believe that the thinking part of our brain, known as the cortex, was largely responsible for creating anxiety. But now neuroscientists realize that the amygdala, our fear center, plays a key role. That helps explain why mindfulness shows such promise for easing anxiety. Here’s how a stress-prone brain and a more mindful one react to one of the most anxiety-inducing experiences we face: public speaking.

Jon Kabat-Zinn on TUNING IN TO THE BODY • How we feel in our body is central to our identity as humans. But what happens when this sense is lost? And what happens when we give it our full attention? Mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn explores this primary relationship

BODY OF Knowledge • They carry us through the world, but how often do we really listen to our bodies? A whole universe of wonder awaits when we do.

DISCOVER THE BODY UNIVERSE • With steady, loving attention we lift the cloud of familiarity, and rediscover the vibrant, mysterious landscape within.

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PODCAST Reviews

TUNE IN TO Mindful • Visit mindful.org for the best in mindfulness—daily practices, guided meditations, interviews, and more

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