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• Addiction, Trauma, and the Problem of Being Present

  14-01-2026 03:01 via mindful.org
  Mindfulness can be a powerful tool in addiction recovery—but it's crucial to understand the role of trauma and how to use mindfulness safely for those who are facing the very things that underlie the addiction in the first place.The post Addiction, Trauma, and the Problem of Being Present appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• A Meditation on Endings

  06-01-2026 20:42 via mindful.org
  By drawing our attention to endings and our developed habits about the way we meet endings, we can learn how to step fully into our lives with appreciation and gratitude, says Frank Ostaseski.
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• 7 Creative Family Gratitude Practices That Make Appreciation Meaningful and Accessible

  31-12-2025 21:22 via mindful.org
  Teaching kids gratitude is important—but how do you shift it from the abstract to the practical? Here are 7 family gratitude practices to make thankfulness a natural habit.The post 7 Creative Family Gratitude Practices That Make Appreciation Meaningful and Accessible appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• What’s Good About Being You: How Mindfulness Helps You Get to Know Yourself

  29-12-2025 09:00 via mindful.org
  Carolyn Rose Gimian on how the courage to be present and aware is the doorway to get to know yourself and genuinely befriend yourself.
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• How to Set an Intention for Your Future

  29-12-2025 07:44 via mindful.org
  This is a 13-minute mindfulness practice from Rich Fernandez that guides us through setting an intention for our future lives.
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• Setting Intentions and How to Manifest Your Deepest Desires

  27-12-2025 23:19 via mindful.org
  By mindfully tapping into your deep-down desires when you're setting intentions, you can align your values with the way you live your life.
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• To Manifest What You Want, Passion Will Spark Your Intentions, Not Pressure

  22-12-2025 21:07 via mindful.org
  It's draining to reach for what you want when you're disconnected from passion. Here are 7 steps to investigate what drives you, so you can get clear on staying the course.
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• Bring Your Practice to Digital Work

  20-12-2025 00:48 via mindful.org
  If you feel that the demands of technology have expanded to fill every corner of your workday—and then some—you’re in good company. Here are four innovative ways to stay focused, communicate authentically, set effective boundaries, and find flow with your team (and with AI).
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• Let Them Lead

  19-12-2025 23:56 via mindful.org
  For some adults, today’s teens are an enigma. How can we support them as they learn, grow, and choose their future path? What matters most is fostering their ability to trust in their own wisdom.
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• Finding Your People

  19-12-2025 22:22 via mindful.org
  While contemplative and mindfulness practices are often seen as solitary pursuits, Mindful founding editor Barry Boyce offers a case for why our search for peace and freedom is a group effort.The post Finding Your People appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Mindful Cooking Tips

  19-12-2025 22:05 via mindful.org
  Bringing intention into the kitchen can both enrich the experience of cooking, and support a connection to the earth and our community.
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• Top of Mind News and Notes

  19-12-2025 21:57 via mindful.org
  Some highlights from the world of mindfulness, where people are seeking connection, solidarity, and compassion in a struggling world.The post Top of Mind News and Notes appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Trust Exercise: What It Means to Trust Yourself

  19-12-2025 20:12 via mindful.org
  It feels dangerous out there. When you engage mindful awareness, you offer yourself an edge to meet life’s chaos with creativity and compassion.
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• Why We Wake Up At Night and How Mindfulness Helps Us Sleep Again

  19-12-2025 19:17 via mindful.org
  There are lots of reasons why wake up at night and might be losing sleep. Angela Stubbs explains what’s happening, and how mindfulness can help us ease back into better rest.
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• Alive, Together

  18-12-2025 22:01 via mindful.org
  A letter from Mindful Magazine's 2026 Editor, Amber Tucker.The post Alive, Together appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Calm and Steady: Simple Ways to Create the Habit of Mindfulness

  18-12-2025 21:56 via mindful.org
  
  
  Like many other areas in life, mindfulness can bring us the deepest benefits when we engage in regular practice. Easier said than done, we know—so we’ve crafted this guide to help you ask the right questions, set intentions, and experience the joy of staying with your practice.
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• Be Kind To Your Eyes: The 20-20-20 Practice for Tech Fatigue

  18-12-2025 21:18 via mindful.org
  If you spend time in front of a screen, your eyes might need a little extra TLC. Here's an easy practice you can do right at your desk.The post Be Kind To Your Eyes: The 20-20-20 Practice for Tech Fatigue appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Beginner’s Mind Q&A With Anu Gupta

  18-12-2025 21:02 via mindful.org
  What's at the root of self-doubt? Anu Gupta weighs in on the role of bias in our lack of self-trust.
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• In Your Words: Trustworthy

  18-12-2025 20:50 via mindful.org
  What does self-trust mean to you? Here’s what Mindful readers said.
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• Bookmark This

  18-12-2025 17:28 via mindful.org
  Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want  Marc Brackett – Celadon Books In his first book, Permission to Feel, Marc Brackett—who teaches at the Yale Child Study Center and is founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence—gave readers tools for building emotional intelligence. In Dealing with Feeling, he […]
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• 10 Must-Read Mindfulness Books for 2026

  18-12-2025 17:28 via mindful.org
  Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want  Marc Brackett – Celadon Books In his first book, Permission to Feel, Marc Brackett—who teaches at the Yale Child Study Center and is founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence—gave readers tools for building emotional intelligence. In Dealing with Feeling, he […]
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• Your 2026 Daily Practice Calendar

  18-12-2025 17:21 via mindful.org
  
  
  7 Days of Mindfulness Practice for Beginners Explore mindfulness meditation with one short practice each day. Totally new to mindfulness? Welcome. Mindfulness means purposefully paying attention to the present moment, without judgment. It’s both a quality and a practice, and it’s available to anyone. The simple exercises in this calendar are beginner-friendly, allowing you to […]
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• Coming Home to Heal

  18-12-2025 00:07 via mindful.org
  Traveling the path of body grief isn’t weakness. We can deeply embody our life as it is, finding our way to self-compassion and body trust.The post Coming Home to Heal appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Trusting Your Senses

  18-12-2025 00:04 via mindful.org
  Ever felt like mindfulness practice just doesn’t work for you? Try sensory anchors in these accessible meditation practices to help focus and calm your mind.
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• The Reluctant Host: How I Left Loneliness By Inviting People In

  18-12-2025 00:04 via mindful.org
  Navigating life can be an intensely lonely experience—but sometimes the world is just waiting for you to invite it in. We can not only learn to host a bigger, more connected community, but we can also embrace deeper confidence and self-compassion—through extending a friendly invitation.
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• You Can Trust Yourself

  18-12-2025 00:02 via mindful.org
  Stephanie Domet digs deep into her own journey toward building real, unshakable trust in herself, what that even means, and how you can discover your ability to meet the moment.The post You Can Trust Yourself appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Growing (Apart)

  18-12-2025 00:00 via mindful.org
  What happens when one person in a partnership goes on a journey of personal growth…and the other doesn’t?
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• 2026 Annual Issue: Bonus Material

  16-12-2025 18:57 via mindful.org
  Bonus articles, meditations, and more from Mindful Magazine's 2026 annual issue, Trust Yourself.
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• Wellness Washing and the Rise of Mandated Mindfulness

  12-12-2025 09:30 via mindful.org
  On the surface, it might seem like requiring mindfulness in schools is a great idea. But are there potential downsides? Alex Tzelnic explores what mandated mindfulness might be missing, and how we can make it truly beneficial for students and teachers.
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• Join the Mindful30 Challenge!

  11-12-2025 22:32 via mindful.org
  Experience the power of mindfulness by joining the Mindful30 Challenge – an online meditation event hosted by Mindful in support of mindfulness programs for schoolchildren across the country.
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• A Meditation for Easing Pain and Inviting Joy

  10-12-2025 00:45 via mindful.org
  This week, mindfulness teacher Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely shares a tender meditation for those in the middle of pain.
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• Are We Wired to Want Stuff?

  05-12-2025 21:07 via mindful.org
  Neuroscience can explain why your kids have the holiday gimmees.
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• What Unexpected Chronic Back Pain Taught Me: 4 Takeaways That Matter

  05-12-2025 18:56 via mindful.org
  Mindfulness teacher Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely shares how sudden-onset back pain turned her life upside-down, and what she discovered on the long journey towards healing.
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• Get It Done With Mindfulness: How to Be Productive with Attention, Kindness, and Wisdom

  03-12-2025 20:26 via mindful.org
  Teacher Kimberly Brown explores how mindfulness practices can help us let go of anxious striving, and allow a more natural productivity to arise.The post Get It Done With Mindfulness: How to Be Productive with Attention, Kindness, and Wisdom appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Busy Times, or Anytime: Nine Ways Mindfulness Reduces Stress

  02-12-2025 16:50 via mindful.org
  You've probably heard that mindfulness reduces stress levels. But how does it help? Shamash Alidina shares the research—plus, a meditation you can turn to anytime.
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• Attention! How Mindfulness Training Is Helping People Reclaim Their Ability to Focus

  29-11-2025 00:17 via mindful.org
  In 2025, mindfulness teacher Andrew Safer tracked the effects of attention training for workshop participants with ADHD. What he learned has implications for all of us.
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• Thanks for the Stuff that Isn’t Just Stuff and Gratitude for What Matters Most

  26-11-2025 00:15 via mindful.org
  Barry Boyce, Mindful's founder, reflects on the ravages of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and is thankful for people who remember what matters most, especially in trying circumstances. 
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• A Meditation for Working With Our Self-Judging Voice

  25-11-2025 20:09 via mindful.org
  A guided meditation to get familiar with our self-judging voice and how we relate to our flaws, so that we can cultivate compassion and recognize our own worthiness.The post A Meditation for Working With Our Self-Judging Voice appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Thanksgiving All Year Long: 5 Simple Gratitude Practices for Daily Life

  24-11-2025 18:03 via mindful.org
  
  
  Explore a collection of meditations to help you appreciate moments of beauty and connection.
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• Workplace Wellbeing in This Digital Age: Mindful Guidance for Digital Fatigue and Burnout

  21-11-2025 09:01 via mindful.org
  Mindful tech expert Dr. Kerry Crofton shares a Mindful Tech Plan that targets daily screen-related stress, and a Nature Remedy that can counter burnout, improve workplace wellbeing, and recharge our batteries.
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• Henna as Mindfulness: A Creative Practice for Calm and Connection

  20-11-2025 00:22 via mindful.org
  In this practice, mindful teacher Rose Felix Cratsley invites kids and caregivers to explore henna as an art form and as a gentle mindfulness activity that nurtures stillness, creativity, and cultural appreciation.
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• A Guided Meditation to Foster Forgiveness and Let Go of Added Suffering

  18-11-2025 18:47 via mindful.org
  Explore this mindfulness practice to foster forgiveness and let go of the tendency to add to suffering during challenging situations.The post A Guided Meditation to Foster Forgiveness and Let Go of Added Suffering appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• How to Beat Creative Blocks at Work

  13-11-2025 20:36 via mindful.org
  Hit a wall at work? This quick video shares one piece of advice to help you beat creative blocks and generate fresh ideas.The post How to Beat Creative Blocks at Work appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• A 12-Minute Meditation to Meet the Body In Pain

  12-11-2025 16:46 via mindful.org
  This week, Christiane Wolf offers a guided practice to meet your own body in pain and relieve that sense of isolation by internally connecting with others who understand your experience.The post A 12-Minute Meditation to Meet the Body In Pain appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Why Mindfulness Helps Us Feel Good About Helping

  10-11-2025 21:11 via mindful.org
  A study looks at mindful qualities like present-moment attention and how helping with mindfulness makes us feel good.
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• Mindfulness Practices to Get Back in Touch with Your Body

  07-11-2025 23:30 via mindful.org
  Shift from a "fix it" mindset to more kindness and acceptance with these practices to get back in touch with your body.
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• A 12-Minute Meditation to Get Curious About Your Cravings 

  04-11-2025 17:35 via mindful.org
  This guided meditation helps you get curious about your cravings so you can break free from unhealthy habits.
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• A 12-Minute A Meditation to Get Curious About Your Cravings 

  04-11-2025 17:35 via mindful.org
  This guided meditation helps your get curious about your cravings so you can break free from unhealthy habits.
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• Where To Start When There Is So Much Suffering

  31-10-2025 18:52 via mindful.org
  When everything feels like it’s in total chaos, it can be difficult to know where to even begin addressing the overwhelm. Wendy O’Leary offers tender and practical wisdom for facing personal and collective suffering, starting with self-compassion.The post Where To Start When There Is So Much Suffering appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• A 12 Minute Meditation on Our Relationship to Thoughts

  28-10-2025 20:57 via mindful.org
  Meditation teacher Vinny Ferraro offers a practice to notice our relationship to thoughts: to see them clearly as they arise, gently note them, and return to the breath and body.
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