Meditation, mindfulness, and wellbeing — one word at a time.
Without compassion, we would not survive. Yet it is not always easy to bring compassion into our daily lives. Learn to strengthen your empathy muscle with these 11 tips and insights.
Elisha Goldstein
Social neuroscientist Dr. Tania Singer discusses her research and findings related to mental training.
Tania Singer
Psychologist Elisha Goldstein discusses how mindfulness practice can help in treating depression.
We treat our memories as perfect recordings of events that happened in our lives. But what if, instead of faithful recordings of our experiences, they were mostly just fictional stories we tell ourselves in an attempt to make sense of situations? This is the question posed by neuroscientist and criminal psychologist Julia Shaw.
Daniele Vargas
If you feel stressed or overwhelmed, don't isolate yourself from other people, says Kelly McGonigal. Instead, strengthen your capacity to recognize and share in others' happiness.
Kelly McGonigal
Spending time alone with ourselves may not be easy or appealing. But it is essential to understanding who we really are.
Elaine Smookler
Phakchok Rinpoche teaches us a simple and accessible practice for cultivating a mind as vast as the sky.
Phakchok Rinpoche
As we contemplate the enormous variety of factors that must come together to produce a specific sense of individuality, our attachment to this "self" that we think we are begins to unravel.
Mingyur Rinpoche
The past hurts, and emotional triggers have a way of keeping us stuck in our patterns. The practice of letting everything go helps us move forward.
Ed Halliwell
Throughout your day, you can pause and wake up to the magic of the world around you. Pema Chödrön speaks about how this kind of practice of mindfulness, broad and accessible, is the most important thing we can do in our lives.
Pema Chödrön
The story of an adventure that tests the limits of body and mind. Eliane Brum spent ten days at a meditation retreat in the interior of Rio de Janeiro.
Eliane Brum
The word "personality" comes from persona, which means "mask" in Latin. But while an actor knows he wears a mask, we tend to forget to separate the role we play in society from our true nature.
Matthieu Ricard
Much of our life is spent trying to live from self-images, and we rarely have the willingness to look at them honestly.
Ezra Bayda
Only after practicing extensively do we begin to notice the habit taking shape: that is, allowing ourselves to be free now and then.
Sharon Salzberg
Kristin Neff discusses the difficulties created by self-criticism and how self-compassion offers the perfect alternative to the problems generated by self-esteem.
Kristin Neff
If there is any joy in our relationship, it comes from love. If there is anger, hurt, envy, and everything else, it is the result of attachment.
Robina Courtin
By creating new pathways in the brain, meditation can transform a chaotic mind into a calmer one.
Richard J. Davidson
It's easy to evaluate meditation based on how you feel while sitting, but that's not a particularly useful way to assess the practice.
Alan Wallace
Our attention is pulled in every direction, from the stress of our lives to the ping of our phones. Neuroscientist Amishi Jha shows us how we can cultivate the ability to focus on what truly matters.
Amishi Jha
It has not been easy to demonstrate the benefits of meditation in concrete terms. Yet as the scientific world deepens its investigation into mindfulness, the brain's capacity to transform under its influence continues to inspire and fascinate.
Hugh Delehanty
Our suffering is instructive: it hurts where we are fixed, it hurts when we act with anger, it hurts when we ignore impermanence…
Gustavo Gitti
Science shows that meditation practices can help cultivate compassion and contribute to greater wellbeing in our lives.
Emma M. Seppälä Ph.D.
Meditation tips for procrastinators and perfectionists.
Kate Johnson
Through direct contact with teachers and other practitioners, we have the opportunity to reflect on our experiences and move beyond the limitations of isolated practice, separated from the reality around us.
Fábio Valgas
We all seek to be happy. This is a fact. But are we searching for happiness in the direction that will actually produce it?
Lama Jigme Lhawang
Without words, without repetitive thoughts, emotions last no longer than a minute and a half. How do we release the stories we tell ourselves?
We rarely recognize that our social identity is shaped and limited by context, and that these outer layers of ourselves exist within an unlimited reality. Habitual patterns obscure this unlimited reality, but it is always there, ready to be unveiled.
“Estamos girando nossos próprios destinos, bons ou maus, nunca poderão ser desfeitos. Cada menor golpe de virtude ou de vício deixa sua cicatriz nunca tão pequena”
Maria Popova
Week after week, we seem to feel almost the same thing, even though much happens in a single week. And this sense of sameness is closely tied to the feeling of being stuck.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
According to Buddhism, our perception of the self as a singular, distinct, autonomous, and enduring entity contradicts reality and thus becomes a source of frustration and suffering.
The author discusses how meditation practice leads us to observe reality with greater clarity.
Luis Oliveira
How can we die with dignity? This is a question that matters deeply to all of us.
Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
What does meditation mean? How can we begin to train our minds?
Recent research offers a whole new understanding of the brain's amygdala, and suggests that happy people take the bad along with the good.
Summer Allen e Jeremy Adam Smith
The difference between empathy and compassion, and why it matters.
Paul Bloom
Like any artistic endeavor, meditation is a matter of practice.
Ken Mcleod
Anxiety often involves feelings of separation and isolation, making it nearly impossible to feel at ease and safe in your own body and being.
Bob Stahl
Rather than suppressing or running from our emotions, they can become the catalyst for our own awakening. And by remaining present with the sensations tied to our reactions, we can truly become like a warrior, confident and authentic.
As Shantideva says in the Way of the Bodhisattva, when someone goes to war, they study their opponent. This is how we must study our disturbing emotions. These "poisons" are, in a sense, nothing more than our own reactions.
It is deeply important to recognize that the reactions we feel are not necessarily who we are. These reactions that seem to be part of us, the way we respond, say much more about who we were as beings in the past.
Richard Davidson, neuroscientist and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds, sits down with ABC News correspondent Dan Harris to discuss science and wellbeing.
Richard Davidson
The young Buddhist master Karmapa teaches in simple and direct ways about these
Creating a life free from anger is an individual responsibility that carries profound and immediate consequences in all our relationships. So-called "passive aggression" — manipulating, trivializing, avoiding, ignoring — is just as harmful and far easier to deny. The deeply valuable words below on this subject come from Buddhist nun and social activist Robina Courtin.
Stephanie Dowrick
Buddha said that the greatest teaching of all is impermanence. Its final expression is death. Buddhist teacher Judy Lief explains why awareness of death is the secret to living. It is the ultimate plot twist.
Judy Lief
Meditation was not designed to heal early psychological wounds, explains Debra Flics. She cautions us against viewing meditation as a substitute for psychotherapy.
Debra Flics
Psychologist Lowri Dowthwaite explains how the positive psychology movement has shown that happiness is not something stable and unchanging.
Lowri Dowthwaite
As a child, Buddhist practitioner Leslie Davis escaped her painful reality by daydreaming. Through meditation, she learned to resist the urge to flee into her mind and to focus on the present moment.
Leslie Davis
Charles Hastings, an instructor with the Imagine Clarity app, discusses the relationship between creating space within busy routines and the emergence of creativity.
Charles Hastings
Over the past three months, I've been running an experiment. It's something I've never done before, and in some ways it's been quite challenging. In other ways, though, it's brought enormous relief from stress, and I'd call it a successful effort. What I did seems to go against conventional wisdom, but that doesn't mean
Benjamin Fishel
Monk Matthieu Ricard converses with neuroscientist Wolf Singer about meditation, therapy, and their effects on the brain.
Anger can be our undoing, but according to psychiatrist Jeffrey Brantley, it doesn't have to be.
Jeffrey Brantley
People who constantly talk about themselves are more likely experiencing emotional problems than simple narcissism. How often do you catch yourself saying "I"?
Olivia Petter
A conversation with Patricia Rockman about when mindfulness practice should or should not be used as a treatment for our mental health.
Kelle Walsh
With noisy neighbors and homeless people camped on street corners, city life offers us many opportunities to practice kindness. Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche speaks about how urban life can open our hearts.
Whether you believe in having more freedom or more commitment in your intimate relationships, desire is involved, and it comes down to a matter of heart-to-heart connection.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
While tension and imbalance manifest as mental chatter, a truly balanced and relaxed body is the natural foundation for an awake mind.
Will Johnson
Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Zenkei Blanche Hartman, and Narayan Helen Liebenson respond to a reader's question.
Tenzin Wangyal e Zenkei Hartman e Narayan Liebenson
As human beings, we share in common our universal tender heart. We may think of ourselves as separate from others, and others may think of themselves as separate from us. Yet we are all equal.
Commentary in two verses from the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, by Tokme Zongpo.
We can suppress anger and aggression or act on it anyway, making things worse for ourselves and others. Or we can practice patience: wait, experience the anger, and investigate its nature. Pema Chödrön walks us through this powerful practice step by step.
Pema Chodron
Jack Kornfield teaches the transformative practice of mindfulness known as "Rain"
Jack Kornfield
Insight meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein explains how to treat consciousness as an object of meditation
Joseph Goldstein
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche reflects on how we can become addicted to pursuing pleasant feelings and how we might cultivate a vision that extends beyond this.
Often our mindfulness becomes too focused, too squeezed. Squeezed attention, you know? When you focus too much on mindfulness, it can actually sometimes be counterproductive.
In his new book "Attention: Toward a Politics of Care," writer and zen practitioner Alex Castro examines the different ways we can practice attention, not in pursuit of personal self-development, but rather in caring for others and as an instrument of political action.
Alex Castro
On his first visit to Brazil, the director of the Center for Healthy Minds discusses mindfulness practice and its relationship to cultivating wellbeing from a scientific perspective.
Cortland Dahl
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche speaks about how we can relate to our thoughts during meditation.
Research shows that we have the capacity not only to quiet the chatter of our stories, but also to reduce our stress, rewire our brains, and transform our relationships by responding to them differently.
B Grace Bullock
Ed Halliwell, a mindfulness teacher, shares how he came to meditation after struggling with anxiety and depression.
What is it about something as simple as sitting in silence and watching the breath that stirs up panic, fear, and even hostility?
Ed e Deb Shapiro
We speak often of the possibility of change. How does this actually happen within contemplative practice?
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