Mindful https://www.mindful.org/ Healthy Mind, Healthy Life Wed, 13 May 2026 19:46:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.mindful.org/content/uploads/cropped-Mindful-logo-blue-550px-1-48x48.png Mindful https://www.mindful.org/ 32 32 A 12-Minute Meditation to Rest Your Body in Gratitude https://www.mindful.org/a-12-minute-meditation-to-rest-your-body-in-gratitude/ Wed, 13 May 2026 19:46:43 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=56889 Take a restorative moment to release tension and feel deeply into gratitude for your hard-working body. 

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]]> Elisha Goldstein on the Power of Tiny Shifts https://www.mindful.org/elisha-goldstein-on-the-power-of-tiny-shifts/ Mon, 11 May 2026 17:32:55 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=667123 Clinical psychologist and author Elisha Goldstein shares the wisdom behind his new book, Tiny Shifts: You don't need to add complicated techniques to an already-busy life in order to experience change. You just need to meet your life, exactly as it is, in small but intentional ways.

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]]> When Insight Isn’t Enough: An Interview with Juliana Sloane on Imagination, Hypnotherapy, and Deeper Transformation https://www.mindful.org/when-insight-isnt-enough-an-interview-with-juliana-sloane-on-imagination-hypnotherapy-and-deeper-transformation/ Thu, 07 May 2026 21:21:34 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=667111 What happens when certain habits of mind remain stubbornly in place, even after years of meditation practice? Mindful contributor Angela Stubbs sits down to an interview with meditation teacher and hypnotherapist Juliana Sloane to discuss the limits of mental understanding—and what techniques can be helpful in forging new neuropathways.

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]]> Building Self-Compassion for Failure in the Creative Process https://www.mindful.org/maw-m2-building-self-compassion-for-failure/ Wed, 06 May 2026 19:40:58 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=664266 Pushing into areas of new ideas and learning, we can be sure to encounter imperfection. Here’s how we can practice self-compassion for failure so we can keep taking creative risks.

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]]> Cultivating Courage and Confidence in Motherhood https://www.mindful.org/cultivating-courage-and-confidence-in-motherhood/ Tue, 05 May 2026 20:23:27 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=43947 By opening to our own moments of fear and self-doubt as parents, we can lighten the pressure on ourselves to always get it right—which lets us show up for our kids in profound ways.

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]]> A Light, Slow, Deep (LSD) Breathing Meditation https://www.mindful.org/a-light-slow-deep-lsd-breathing-meditation/ Tue, 05 May 2026 19:39:07 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=667102 Our breathing often becomes shallow, tense, or restricted during the day, and we don’t even notice it. Try this Light, Slow, Deep breathing technique to soften, relax, and expand again.

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]]> On the Other Side of Sadness: Teaching Our Kids (and Ourselves) That It’s Okay to Feel Anything https://www.mindful.org/on-the-other-side-of-sadness/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:09:43 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=12632 Do our kids know that it's okay to feel sad? To feel whatever they're feeling? Heather Campbell Grimes explores learning to sit with her daughter’s emotions, and her own.

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]]> 5 Lessons on Vanity: An Invitation to Awareness and Letting Go https://www.mindful.org/5-lessons-on-vanity-an-invitation-to-awareness-and-letting-go/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:17:44 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=667086 Aging and death are inevitable. And while we know this intellectually, it is difficult to accept this particularly in a youth adoring culture. Teacher Patricia Rockman explores vanity and this tender, confusing, frustrating journey with our bodies, our attachment to the delusion of youth, and our halting interior growth towards acceptance.

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]]> A Guided Walking Meditation to Notice the Beauty Around Us—Even in the City https://www.mindful.org/12-minute-meditation-a-guided-walking-meditation-to-notice-the-beauty-around-us-even-in-the-city/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:18:43 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=272045 This guided walking meditation from Kazumi Igus offers an opportunity to slow down and notice the wonder of the natural world in our urban environments.

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]]> Mindfulness and the Rise of Analog Living https://www.mindful.org/mindfulness-and-the-rise-of-analog-living/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:09:01 +0000 https://www.mindful.org/?p=667075 Exhausted with the pervasive, relentless nature of our digital lives, many people are hungry for presence, savoring, and slowing down—which is ushering in a renewed interest in analog activities.

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