Focus
How Your Phone Can Teach You Mindfulness
Every time you feel the urge to check your phone is an opportunity to pause, get curious about your experience, and practice present-moment awareness. Read More 
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Calm
5 Ways to Organize Your Phone to Unhijack Your Mind
Your phone was built to distract you. Here are a few simple things you can do from your home screen to create a more mindful experience. Read More
Calm
5 Ways to Fight Fake News
Filter bubbles and fake news exist because all of us tend to ignore facts and stick to our own social enclaves online. To heal the division in America, we must fix one of our most important methods of gathering and sharing information: the internet. Read More
Anxiety
The Trouble with Mindfulness Apps
When your favorite mindfulness app says it’s based in science, check twice. Few actually are. Two mindfulness experts and app developers talked to Mindful about how most apps rely on the science of mindfulness in general to back up their claims, and how that could lead to problems—and fines—in the future, like it did for the brain-training company Lumosity. Read More
Calm
6 Tips for Reading Emotions in Text Messages
Text messaging can breed disastrous misunderstandings between people. Here’s how to stop that from happening. Read More
Calm
Phone Addiction? Try this Practice—Phone in Hand
This mindfulness practice can help transform your relationship to your phone—the very thing that can sometimes pull us toward mindlessness. Read More
Calm
Do You Have A Fear of Missing Out?
When it comes to our phones, it's not just fear of missing out (FOMO) that keeps us attached and scrolling with abandon. It's fear of keeping up (FOKU). Read More
Compassion
Smartphones Hurt Our Face-to-Face Relationships: Sherry Turkle
MIT professor and bestselling author Sherry Turkle on how our tech habits are breaking down our relationships. Read More
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