Health
The Mindful Art of Foraging
Chelsea Fuss explores how the art of gathering wildflowers lets us embrace openness, presence, and imagination, all while feeling more at home in our corner of the world. Read More 
creativity
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Compassion
How Kindness at Work Encourages Creativity
CEO Andrew Swinand shares how working mindfully became the norm at Leo Burnett Group, and the simple practices that have helped to unlock new levels of creativity and innovation across his teams. Read More
Focus
How Do You Tap Into Creativity?
Mindful readers share what inspires them and how they bring their creative ideas to life. Read More
Audio
A Guided Practice to Notice What’s Present—and What Isn’t
In the spaces between objects, people, sounds, and time, we can find definition, potential, and meaning. Authors Chris Willard and Olivia Weisser offer a mindfulness practice to explore what we often don’t focus on. Read More
Audio
Being Bored is A Gift: Here’s How to Use It
Founding editor Barry Boyce speaks with Stephanie Domet about how adding curiosity to moments of boredom improves the quality of your perception. Read More
Anxiety
The Brain Goes into “Repair Mode” When People Think We’re Not Competent
What if we rethought the drive to succeed, to be competent, as a basic need for our brains? Dr. Michael Gervais speaks with psychologist and science writer Scott Barry Kaufman on what drives creative—and possibly intellectual—leaps. Read More
Focus
How Creativity Frees the Mind
Hugh Delehanty embarks on a creativity and mindfulness retreat, where he discovers that the key to being creative is to strip away all but the essentials of who and what you are. Read More
Calm
4 Rituals of Highly Creative People
Four successful artists demystify the creative process. Read More
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