Gradual cultivation
Habitual mindfulness practice gradually erodes our tendency to constantly interfere with the natural flow of being alive.
You're Already Training Your Attention
Everyone is already training their attention. It's just that most of us don't realize that we're reinforcing our capacity for internal friction.
See More, Hear More, Feel More
IMAX enhances awareness of the objective world by increasing the intensity. Strengthening your attentional skills elevates awareness of the subjective world — your thoughts and feelings — as well as the interplay between both worlds.
Intensity isn’t required.
One Way to Undermine a Habit You Consistently Regret
Setting limits, establishing healthy habits, and doing things that are good for us can be super uncomfortable. It can feel reassuring to practice embracing the discomfort related to behaviors we don’t regret.
How Mindful Breathing Can Teach You To Design Other Focus-Building Exercises
Expand your options for developing focus and awareness.
Don’t Wait Until Your Deathbed To Realize Relaxing Your Grip On Life Leads To Inhabiting It More Fully
Why not start practicing now?
The No. 1 and No. 2 Sneakiest Ways to Practice Mindfulness Most Meditation Teachers Keep to Themselves
How to be more present while eliminating waste.
A Simple Way To Strengthen Your Focus During Meditation And Other Challenging Circumstances
How to adapt focus strategies people use every day to concentrate on what they’re doing.
To Become More Present, Practice Noticing Where Your Attention Is Instead Of Trying To Calm Down
Everyone is already mindful, but we could all use a little more practice.
Secrets Busy People Can Steal From Spies to Smuggle Mindful Awareness into Their Lives
Pay closer attention to your life without drawing attention to yourself.
A Ten-Second Habit For Hurried People Who Want To Be More Present
Slowing down might help you save time.
Caregiver Paradox
Habitually prioritizing the care of others over your own isn’t sustainable. If we don’t work on treating ourselves the way we treat the people we care about, we’ll inevitably get bogged down by resentment, burnout, and bitterness.
The opposite of not caring
I'm not a snob about contemplative practice. I see zero shame in scrolling through Instagram during moments like these. I'm not trying to maintain monastic levels of composure throughout the day.
I just decided to explore what would happen if I fell back on what has proved paradoxically comforting in the past when waiting for potentially terrible news.
Completely out of my comfort zone
“Life is so very messy! I have spent most of my life trying to control this messiness with all my imperfections. Recently I discovered that no matter how hard I try, it would bring me more anguish in my attempts to control it. Everything is temporary and some things are just out of our control!“
Kalyn Jolivette
We Remember that We Forget
“Ralph Waldo Emerson, toward the end
of his life, found the names
of familiar objects escaping him.”
Lawrence Raab
I Want Wholeness
“I want to be drenched in cold water,
to be fully saturated,
to explode into a nap,
to share a piece of truth so true
that it shakes the schemas we've schemed —
most of all the divisions.”
Jane Klinger
What Mothers Have Known All Along
“Mindfulness is about stepping outside yourself, looking at yourself, and knowing that it’s going to be okay.”
Dr. Jeffrey Smith
Willing to Pause and Feel
Mindfulness doesn’t provide some kind of magical exemption from discomfort. Not at all. It's actually the opposite. It means when practiced consistently—with or without meditation—we can sometimes change the degree to which we fight against some present discomfort.
Know that We are Connected
“Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.”
Lynn Ungar
