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• 7 Mindful Prompts for Reading Poetry

  10-01-2025 21:23 via mindful.org
  
  Poetry can seem intimidating, but all it really asks us to do is slow down, get curious, and notice. It’s a lot like meditation! Here are seven mindful prompts to help you discover the nurturing practice of reading poetry.
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• A Guided Meditation to Reset and Let Go

  09-01-2025 09:47 via mindful.org
  
  In this guided mindfulness practice, we release what no longer serves us and anchor in our inner wisdom, peace, and freedom.
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• 10 Mindful Books We Loved in 2024

  30-12-2024 13:00 via mindful.org
  
  Don’t miss these 10 mindful books from 2024 that help us nurture ourselves, one another, and the world we share.
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• The Top 10 Mindful Articles of 2024

  23-12-2024 08:02 via mindful.org
  
  The Mindful editors share the top 10 online articles of the year, all in one handy place for you to read and revisit.
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• Game Over? Tips and Techniques for Mindful Gaming

  19-12-2024 17:47 via mindful.org
  
  Playing video games can help you feel energized and engaged, but they can also be a huge drain on your well-being. Here’s an intro to gaming mindfully, using simple habits to help you keep playing (and feeling) your best.
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• The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2024

  18-12-2024 21:28 via mindful.org
  
  From guided meditations about focus and energy to sleep and letting go of stress, these 10 audio practices were our most popular in 2024.
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• Collective Healing Starts with Deeper Understanding

  17-12-2024 08:00 via mindful.org
  
  It takes more than good intentions to skilfully navigate differences. True healing and compassion emerge from cultivating a deeper understanding of our complex individual and shared realities.The post Collective Healing Starts with Deeper Understanding appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Let Your Pain Be a River: Vidyamala Burch on Living and Teaching With Chronic Pain

  16-12-2024 19:07 via mindful.org
  
  A pathbreaking expert in applying mindfulness to pain, Vidyamala Burch has launched a new 11-week program called HEALS, which aims to offer people living with chronic pain and illness a sustainable way to improve their well-being. She sat down recently to talk with Mindful editor Siri Myhrom.The post Let Your Pain Be a River: Vidyamala Burch on Living and Teaching With Chronic Pain appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• A 12-Minute Meditation for Tuning Into the Present Soundscape

  11-12-2024 19:50 via mindful.org
  
  This week, Melli O’Brien guides us in a practice that invites us to pause and reconnect with the simplicity of being.
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• The Power of Running and Meditation: A Guide to Mindful Movement

  10-12-2024 19:32 via mindful.org
  
  Combining running and meditation can turn an average workout into mindful running, boosting enjoyment and improving well-being.
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• 5 Ways to Make Exercise Less Boring

  10-12-2024 18:49 via mindful.org
  
  In this excerpt from their upcoming book, I Know I Should Exercise, But...44 Reasons We Don’t Move and How to Get Over Them, psychologist Dr. Diana Hill and movement expert Katy Bowman explore one reason we find exercise so hard—and what we can do to savor the movement in every moment.
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• Wisdom Is Our Deepest Source of Strength

  10-12-2024 16:58 via mindful.org
  
  The beauty of our true nature is that we possess its qualities already. Explore these qualities and their connection to cultivating mindfulness, wisdom, well-being, and skilful action in our lives.
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• Deep Resilience: The Wisdom of Making Friends with Your Mind

  10-12-2024 16:43 via mindful.org
  
  We hear the word “resilience” often, but not always from a mindful perspective. Melli O’Brien explores what it really means to be resilient, and how it helps us understand who we truly are.
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• 7 Steps to Relax Your Body

  09-12-2024 14:17 via mindful.org
  
  When was the last time you gave your body a break? And we're not talking about sleep. Take ten minutes and try the body scan practice.  
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• 12 Quotes About Compassion By Mindfulness Teachers

  03-12-2024 00:53 via mindful.org
  
  Ten women who are leaders of the mindfulness movement share what compassion means to them, and how they practice open-heartedness in a divided world.The post 12 Quotes About Compassion By Mindfulness Teachers appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• 13 Life Lessons From Women Leading the Mindfulness Movement

  03-12-2024 00:39 via mindful.org
  
  No one is exempt from life’s constant change. Here, the Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025 share the lessons they learned when things were tough.The post 13 Life Lessons From Women Leading the Mindfulness Movement appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• The Value of Mindfulness Practice: 13 Quotes from Women Leading the Movement

  03-12-2024 00:24 via mindful.org
  
  10 women who have been practicing and teaching mindfulness for years share what they’ve learned along the way.
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• 12 Inspirational Mindfulness Quotes About Real World Change

  03-12-2024 00:03 via mindful.org
  
  Ten women leading the mindfulness movement share how their practice supports them in advocacy, activism, and compassion in action.
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• Relax and Focus With Shalini Bahl 

  02-12-2024 21:09 via mindful.org
  
  In this audio series, Shalini Bahl offers six short mindfulness practices that help us cultivate presence, positivity, connection, and calm focus.The post Relax and Focus With Shalini Bahl  appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• 5 Minutes to Focus With Shalini Bahl 

  02-12-2024 21:09 via mindful.org
  
  In this audio series, Shalini Bahl offers six short mindfulness practices that help us cultivate presence, positivity, connection, and calm focus.The post 5 Minutes to Focus With Shalini Bahl  appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• A 5-Minute Meditation to Develop Better Focus

  02-12-2024 20:54 via mindful.org
  
  
  Hone your present-moment awareness and focus. You can try this meditation while seated, standing, or walking.The post A 5-Minute Meditation to Develop Better Focus appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• A 5-Minute Meditation to Focus With Ease

  02-12-2024 20:52 via mindful.org
  
  
  Let go of the tension that often arises when we try too hard.The post A 5-Minute Meditation to Focus With Ease appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• A 4-Minute Practice to Build Trust and Connection

  02-12-2024 20:49 via mindful.org
  
  
  You can explore building greater trust and connection, even when you’re by yourself. This practice helps you give someone your undivided attention.
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• A 4-Minute Practice to Clarify What’s Important Right Now

  02-12-2024 20:46 via mindful.org
  
  
  Feeling scattered or disorganized? Pausing to take just three breaths can help you discern what's important right now and direct energy toward that.
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• A 5-Minute Meditation to Shift From Overwhelm to Opportunity

  02-12-2024 20:43 via mindful.org
  
  
  This simple practice helps you shift your focus to see the positive opportunities within challenges.The post A 5-Minute Meditation to Shift From Overwhelm to Opportunity appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• A 5-Minute Practice to Feel the Power of Presence

  02-12-2024 20:39 via mindful.org
  
  
  Tuning in to our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual intelligence helps us cultivate the power of presence, a state of focus and calm.The post A 5-Minute Practice to Feel the Power of Presence appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• 2025 Annual Issue: Bonus Material

  30-11-2024 22:54 via mindful.org
  
  Bonus articles, meditations, and more from Mindful Magazine's 2025 annual issue, The Power of Compassion.
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• Watching Mindfulness Unfold: A Conversation On Mindfulness, Healing, and Film

  30-11-2024 22:48 via mindful.org
  
  Filmmaker Julie Bayer Salzman wanted a fresh way to share the benefits of mindfulness. Through her company Wavecrest Films, she's using short films to document how mindfulness is making a difference in people’s real lives.The post Watching Mindfulness Unfold: A Conversation On Mindfulness, Healing, and Film appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• New Program Helps You Time Travel to Heal Your Relationship With Every Version of Yourself

  30-11-2024 22:27 via mindful.org
  
  The web app timemachine.love aims to help people heal their relationships with their past, present, and future versions of themselves.The post New Program Helps You Time Travel to Heal Your Relationship With Every Version of Yourself appeared first on Mindful.
  
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• Guided Meditations by Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025

  28-11-2024 21:14 via mindful.org
  
  
  The Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025 share guided meditations to help you find more compassion, resilience, and ease.
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• Grieving the Old You: What to Do When You Feel Lost in Motherhood

  28-11-2024 21:07 via mindful.org
  
  Mothers often have to let go of the person they were before—a rocky road that can lead to grief, anger, and pain. Yet, with surrender and self-compassion you can navigate the difficult emotions and discover the mother you’re becoming.
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• Reclaiming Our Attention From “Convenience”

  28-11-2024 18:08 via mindful.org
  
  Technology both saves and eats up our time. Beyond the digital detoxes and “dumbphones,” reckoning with our tech habits is as simple as returning to our breath.
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• 10 Must-Read Mindfulness Books

  28-11-2024 18:05 via mindful.org
  
  Whether you’re interested in the foundations of mindful living, deepening your meditation practice, or how mindfulness inspires real-world change, hereare 10 of the top books about mindfulness.
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• What Compassionate Organizations Look Like

  28-11-2024 17:51 via mindful.org
  
  Two compassionate organizations that are leading the way through education, innovation, and community.
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• How Compassion Changes Our World, According to Science

  28-11-2024 17:44 via mindful.org
  
  Offering compassion to ourselves and others is essential for promoting real change for the better. Caren Osten Gerszberg reports on scientific studies of compassion, showing how this innately human quality benefits our health, our communities, and our fractured world.
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• Radical Love for Troubled Times

  28-11-2024 17:40 via mindful.org
  
  What does it mean to practice radical love in a turbulent world? How do we safeguard our well-being and also relate to others open-heartedly? Sharon Salzberg shares practical wisdom from her most recent book, Real Life.
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• A Year of Self-Care Practices to Help You Grow

  28-11-2024 17:33 via mindful.org
  
  Inspired by the four seasons, this meditation guide is designed to guide you through a year of mindfulness practice for self-care.
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• 10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2025

  28-11-2024 17:18 via mindful.org
  
  Get to know 10 women of the mindfulness movement who are leaders in their fields, doing revolutionary work to make the world a better place.
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• Your Brain Wants to Oversimplify—Here’s How to Move Beyond Black-and-White Thinking

  28-11-2024 17:15 via mindful.org
  
  Binary thinking (“It’s all or nothing”) is an evolutionary habit, but in today’s complex world it doesn’t help us to only see things in black and white. Here’s a skill experts recommend for moving beyond it.
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• Don’t Hold Back: Speaking Your Truth at Work

  28-11-2024 17:10 via mindful.org
  
  Your perspective matters—but that doesn’t mean speaking up is easy. Conflict management expert Elaine Lin Hering provides key insights on why we often silence our own voice.
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• Bring Back Your Spark

  28-11-2024 17:08 via mindful.org
  
  How do you let your inner light shine, even when things get tough? It begins with a spirit of curiosity, writes beloved mindfulness teacher Elaine Smooker.
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• How to Befriend Your Body

  28-11-2024 17:02 via mindful.org
  
  We only get one body, writes Christiane Wolf: the one we’re in. While our always-onscreen culture can amplify self-criticism, returning to the wisdom of our sensory experience helps us befriend the body.
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• How Mindfulness Could Change the Field of Psychedelic Therapy

  28-11-2024 16:59 via mindful.org
  
  Explore the history, science, and controversies surrounding the combination of mindfulness and psychedelic therapy in our age of “psychedelic renaissance.”
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• You’re Bigger Than the Present Moment

  28-11-2024 16:57 via mindful.org
  
  The Institute for Love and Time’s research shows that the narratives we tell ourselves about our past and future can affect our well-being in the present.
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• How Hope Helped Me Get Unstuck

  28-11-2024 16:54 via mindful.org
  
  Writer Sharon Ross shares how paying attention to her hopes and daydreams helped her leave her toxic marriage and build a more fulfilling and joyful life.
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• Meditation Calendar: 14 days of Guided Practices

  28-11-2024 16:51 via mindful.org
  
  The benefits of meditation increase when you practice regularly, but it can be hard to set a new routine. Here’s a 14-day guided calendar to help you get started
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• 3 Mindful Movements to Release Tension

  28-11-2024 16:42 via mindful.org
  
  Muscles feeling stiff from sleeping or sitting down all day? Explore these three simple, mindful movements to help you wake up and release tension.
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