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

Lay Down Your Worries • Mindful readers share what’s weighing heavy, and how they lighten the load.

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

ACTS OF kindness

Research News • Research gathered from University of Utah, University of Edinburgh, and Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences

BREATHE EASIER

The Biggest Joy • The biggest joy for me, and hope, came through once I really was digging into mindfulness with other people and helping them realize that they can find peace within themselves.

PRESCRIBING MINDFULNESS • Researchers and doctors know that the social determinants of health—access to child care, healthy food, community, activities, and more—contribute to 80% of health and well-being. Social prescriptions are becoming more common, and here are three recent examples from the UK.

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

ONE STEP AT A TIME • Even when you’re going uphill, it doesn’t have to be a battle. Physician and ultrarunner Christiane Wolf offers some of the tools that have helped her (both on and off the trails) to move through challenging moments, tame anxious thoughts, and uncover more of her inner resilience.

Born to Run? • Explore these three simple yet powerful tools for leaning in to challenges.

Invite Your Demons TO TEA • When it feels like a storm is brewing inside you—a potent mix of anxiety, jealousy, anger, and other difficult emotions—you might be inclined to turn away. But that rarely makes them dissipate, so you might as well invite them in and get to know them better.

The Three-Minute Responsive Breathing Space • The three-minute breathing space, developed as part of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), can help you manage monstrous moments. Explore it for yourself and see if you notice whether it helps you find calm when demons threaten to sink your spirits and squelch all hopes of joy.

Interrupt Your Inner Critic • For many people, especially those with ADHD, it can feel like anxiety and self-criticism are constantly tagging along for the ride. Here’s how you can cultivate kindness toward yourself and your restless brain.

NOTICE YOUR NEED TO FIDGET • Try this 10-minute practice to explore any anxiety you may be feeling and how you tend to react to it.

THE POWER OF the Outbreath • Most of the time, we don’t think about our breath at all—or notice what it may be telling us about our inner world. Now, the science of breathing shows that bringing attention to our outbreath can help us change our story around stress.

A YEAR OF MINDFUL MAGAZINE • A Mindfulness Guide for Complex Times

How to Be With How You Feel • Mindfulness isn’t about pushing away tough emotions or making it so that we feel good all the time. Rather, it’s about opening up to it all—allowing all of our experience by fully inhabiting our glorious, messy multitudes. World-renowned meditation teachers and researchers describe why courageously turning towards and meeting difficult emotions with kind awareness and self-compassion is so transformational.

Befriend and Let It Be • A powerful, science-supported method for turning toward difficult emotions with acceptance.

Explore What You Need Right Now • Powerful emotions aren’t just emotional events—they are rooted in our body, in our physiology. Here’s a tool to check in with yourself and help to discern what you need in difficult moments.

THE SCIENCE OF WANTING • Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain that helps motivate us...