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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Mindful

Empower Hour • Readers share what helps them embody their unique power and confidence.

TOP OF mind • Keep up with the latest in the world of mindfulness.

ACTS OF kindness

Research News • Research gathered from Carleton University, University of Illinois, and others.

beginner's MIND

Creating Space for Compassion

HACK YOUR Meditation? • Remember: Meditating requires having no equipment whatsoever (besides a mind and a body). Still, we’d hardly be human beings in 2021 if we weren’t developing a plethora of ever-more-sophisticated products aimed at deconstructing, accelerating, or supercharging even our contemplative practices. Are these latest elite mind-hacking technologies ingenious, or indulgent? You decide.

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

MAKE A MEAL OF Presence • Racing through a meal might assuage cravings or help us dodge emotions—but, by taking it slow, we invite savoring and satisfaction to the table.

Whatever YOU PREFER • When we release our tight hold on our preferences, the world can open up for us in surprising—and even delightful—ways.

HOW WE Flourish • Small steps can lead to greater happiness, self-acceptance, and well-being. Misty Pratt debriefs on how a free, science-based app is helping her get started.

Can We Change RACIAL BIAS? • By engaging in repeated practices meant to help us increase awareness, focus on our similarities, and develop care and kindness, we might also be combating the implicit associations that cloud our judgments of other human beings.

All Our Relations • There’s healing in acknowledging our interconnectedness. Here, four Indigenous wisdom keepers share how their practice helps them remember.

Come Back Inside Your Own Heart

A Meditation on the Four Elements • The elements have the ability to connect us, both internally and externally, with the world around us. Jeanne Corrigal brings her Métis heritage, and her training as an insight meditation teacher, to this guided practice to connect with the four elements within our own body.

Hear the Call of the Land

Honor Your Ancestors

What’s in a Word • An educator and linguist explains the mindfulness concepts nested in his ancestral language.

Help Others Remember How to Heal

FIND YOUR FOCUS Own Your Attention in 12 Minutes a Day • Our ability to pay attention is unreliable when we’re under stress. In her new book Peak Mind, neuroscientist Amishi Jha explores cutting-edge research on elite soldiers revealing how mindfulness training protects our attentional resources, even in the most high-stress scenarios imaginable.

A COGNITIVE TRAINING PUSH-UP FOCUS+ NOTICE • Try this focused-attention practice we call a “push-up for your mind.” Here are the basics:

YOUR THREE ATTENTION SYSTEMS

the heart of gratitude • Whether you think of it as the “greatest virtue,” as Cicero did, or “social glue,” as researchers do, gratitude has the power to change your life, if you let it. In this sneak peek of our upcoming Gratitude Journal, Kelly Barron shares how she learned to let gratitude change her.

FOUR WAYS TO EXPLORE GRATITUDE

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TUNE IN TO mindful • Visit mindful.org for featured meditations from Sebene Selassie, Mark Bertin, and Rhonda Magee

THE STORY OF OUR LIVES