Mindfulness and deep breathing may not cure anxiety, but they can be easy and quick practices to ground yourself — especially in situations and environments outside of your control.
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It takes courage to challenge our cultural story around love. Sharon Salzberg on the unfolding, sometimes tough, process of learning to love yourself.
We think of it as a spiritual practice, but in truth, mindfulness meditation is an exercise in cognitive self-examination. On the Buddhist practice as a powerful tool for all — for understanding ourselves and our enemies with more depth and compassion.
Black women are blazing a new trail for yoga — one that shatters the barriers of race, culture, and class that previously excluded them. How women of color are embracing the strength of their bodies and spirits through vinyasa flows set to Future and Gucci Mane.
Our daily lives are narratives we wrap ourselves in. But sometimes the grind keeps us from truly connecting with the world around us.
She embodied a sense of steady gratitude regardless of the circumstances. A reflection in memoriam of police captain-turned-dharma teacher Cheri Maples.
We can’t take wilderness retreats every time we feel caught up in the world’s madness, but a poem can be a momentary reprieve.
To make the world a better place is an intimidating challenge. But what if we focused on our immediate surroundings?
The extraordinary is revered and celebrated, but where does that leave the ordinary? On rediscovering the meaning of awe, and finding it in the quiet majesty of the daily grind.
Love and gratitude can be daring, disruptive acts in a world that insists on conflict and endless craving.
A balm for burnout: self-love and a guided meditation to empower us to take a stand — literally — for our own right to be happy and whole.
An unlikely spring poem from Mary Oliver turns the dazzling darkness of nature into a lesson on embodying simple gratitude for the gifts we're offered each moment.
Lovingkindness isn't a sweet and soft thing. It's a rigorous transformation of mind and spirit, and it's the first step to cultivating a sense of connection to those around us.
A sense of mindfulness can help us recalibrate our reactions to those we judge as different or dangerous.
A simple invocation amid the world's frenzy: that we maintain the quiet discipline of seeking delight hiding in plain sight.
The stories we tell about love and life are the root of dreams and frustration, alike. Sharon Salzberg on how "unstitching and reweaving" the narratives we hold can lead to a more generous understanding of our relationships, and ourselves.
Animated by solitude in the winter woods, Parker J. Palmer on seeing the hidden and potential beauty beneath what's superficial in the world we face.
With the wisdom of Jane Kenyon, a contemplation on gratitude and ordinary grace in our own finite lives.
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