How Writing Three Lines of Poetry Can Open Your Heart
Poetry can be a kind of meditation, explains Rashid Hughes. He explores how the art of haiku can bring a sense of peaceful, awe-inspired expressiveness into your practice.
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12-Minute-Podcast
A 12-Minute Meditation to Welcome Everything
Frank Ostaseski offers six steps to open up to the present moment—whatever it may bring.
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Calm
5 Guided Meditations to Fill Your Heart with Gratitude
Here are five guided meditations to help you feel grateful for all things, both big and small.
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Embracing the Gift of Being Alive with Rhonda Magee
Rhonda Magee sits down with Mindful’s managing editor Stephanie Domet to talk about her work, how she navigates difficult emotions, and how love can carry us through.
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Anxiety
3 Ways to Be Kind to Yourself When You’re Feeling Blue
Feeling unwell can be hard work sometimes—and that might be a sign that it’s time to stop trying so hard. Taking the mindful path means making room for suffering, too.
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Compassion
Why Self-Compassion is Essential to Healing
There’s nothing wrong with us when we feel strong emotions like irritability or anger, in fact, says Tara Brach, they are primitive forms of self-love.
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Compassion
Here’s How You Can Make Compassion a Habit
Life can make it difficult to check in on those we love and care about. Follow this compassion practice to become more aware of opportunities to extend compassion to others.
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Compassion
Healing in the Deep Ocean of Grief
Grief can hold our heads beneath the waves, but, as Bryan Welch writes, its tides can also open us to compassion for ourselves and others, showing us the value of a broken heart.
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