Finding Your Favorite Meditation Practice Cassie Shortsleeve writes, “At times, meditation seems like a practice for someone else. While the benefits are clear — research has shown that monks who meditate for thousands of hours alter the structure of their brains and significantly decrease emotionally reactive behavior — it’s easy to think: “How nice for them, but…
MINDFUL AOTEAROA asks kids about the benefits of mindfulness in this short video.
KELTY MENTAL HEALTH explores the benefits of mindfulness with the short video “Mindfulness: Youth Voices“.
11 simple ways to bond with the people in your life. Elisha Goldstein and Stefanie Goldstein write, “We are social beings by nature. Connecting with others is what provides richness in life, makes us feel safe, and has us recognize that we’re part of something greater than ourselves. Yet we sometimes choose to stay behind…
A 20-minute loving-kindness practice to help us extend compassion to ourselves, those around us, and the larger world. Mark Bertin writes, “In this compassion practice, there’s no aim to force anything to happen. You cannot will yourself into particular feelings toward yourself or anyone else. Rather, the practice is simply to remind yourself that you…
Ed Halliwell writes, “Bringing mindfulness to simple activities like drinking tea trains us to direct attention consciously. We might think we choose what we’re paying attention to in life, but in reality most of us are driven by habit and impulse. By deliberately choosing to attend to an activity, we slow things down and let…
A practice is a habit we have chosen. It is something we have agreed to make a regular feature of our life. Habits develop momentum because the more we repeat them, the more ingrained they become. There are many practices that can support our intention to act for our world. Whether it be meditating, spending…
Four Steps to a More Peaceful Life Jacob Devaney writes, “Overwhelm is a constant state of being for many of us, but it doesn’t need to be. Most of us are under a deluge of responsibilities like running errands, responding to emails, keeping up with house-chores, hurrying to meetings, and more. Though this is normal in our modern…
How to add meditation and awareness to your daily routine. Jack Kornfield writes, “Awareness of your breath can serve as a steady basis for awareness in all you do.” First select a suitable place for your regular meditation. It can be wherever you can sit easily with minimal disturbance: a corner of your bedroom or…
THICH NHAT HANH, mindfulness teacher, on “returning to the present moment”.
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