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Meditation versus Mindfulness
We often think of them as one and the same, but meditation and mindfulness are actually two distinct practices.
DIALOGUE: Bonnie Chung
The entrepreneur and cookbook author on Japanese culinary mindfulness and healing traditions, and her twin passions for miso and mental health.
DIALOGUE: Colleen Taylor Sen
The Chicago-based culinary scholar on India’s close relation between food and medicine, unique fasting rituals, and her go-to Indian cookbook.
Heart Health Support
Learn wholesome ways to add the right foods for better heart health.
Understanding Your Carbs
Carbohydrates are macronutrients that are important for energy and sustaining bodily functions. Here’s how to enjoy them in healthy ways.
DIALOGUE: Najat Kaanache
The pilgrim chef on the marriage between Moroccan culinary traditions and global gastronomy, the comfort of a chakcouka, and a wish to cook for Oprah.
Nutritional Power of Fruit
Fruit is a nutritional powerhouse, full of antioxidants and dietary fiber. Eating fruit also supports healthy immune function, skin, and hair.
DIALOGUE: Irena Stein
The restaurateur and author on how the gluten-free arepa is at the centre of Venezuelan life, and how a smile and laugh can contribute to wellbeing.
How does Meditation Affect Personal Growth?
In science and mindfulness, personal growth isn’t just a component of wellbeing, it relates to each element of wellbeing.
Yoga for Better Health
Healthy eating habits, exercise routines and stress management are some of the major factors resulting in good health. A regular practice of Yoga can help establish all these modes.
DIALOGUE: Karen R. Koenig
The eating psychologist on why food in our culture has become eat-o-tainment and the links between anger, fear, depression, stress, anxiety, and emotional eating.
The Nutritional Wealth of Herbs
Unlock the power of herbs and discover how best to use them. And learn to appreciate them for their medicinal properties, health benefits, and culinary delights.
This App Can Make You Healthier
Roundglass has developed a treatment model called Reframe that offers a wholistic approach to wellbeing by integrating a full spectrum of science-backed, mind-body practices.
Drinking Water: Key to Hydration
Hydration is an indispensable part of maintaining good health and wellbeing. Water impacts physical performance, cognitive function, digestion, and skin health.
DIALOGUE: Laura Fuentes
The health coach and busy mom on building a positive relationship with food early on for kids, making treats and desserts with vegetables and fruits, and the versatility of oats.
Kill Your Stress Addiction
How to combat toxic productivity and build a solid "stress-less" routine.
Child Nutrition & Healthy Eating
Introduce a diverse range of plant-based foods to children to build a robust nutritional base and a taste for good food for life.
Q&A: Dr Rupy Aujla
The London-based physician on the impact of behavioral psychology on eating habits, Ayurveda’s relevance to nutritional wellbeing, and the treats he would whip for Drake and Diplo.
Q&A: Dan Buettner
Dan Buettner on how the Blue Zones rule of cooking your own food is important, why “diet is taste,” and the universal benefits of a chunky vegetable soup.
DIALOGUE: Emily Weeks
The nutritionist and wellness expert on learning to cook mushrooms as a little girl, the warmth of green tea, and why fruit make for healthy desserts.
DIALOGUE: Dr. Sheil Shukla
The Chicago-based physician and food artist on the importance of culinary medicine, the goodness of spices and lentils, and how cooking is a great way to unwind.
FOCUS: Chasing Pandan
Celebrated in traditional medicine for its curative properties, pandan connects communities, histories, and memories.
Mindfulness for the Classroom
Try these simple, effective tools for a focused classroom with engaged students.
DIALOGUE: Rodney Dunn
The Tasmania-based gardener-chef on connecting with the earth, how food tastes better when shared, and adding flavor with his favorite herb, lovage.
Nutrition to Boost Brain Health
The right kind of food can offer benefits for brain health including an increase in cognitive function, a reduction in inflammation, and a lower risk of dementia and strokes.
DIALOGUE: Maggie Beer
The Australian culinary icon on whole foods for brain health, the meditative joys of gardening, and the pleasure of cooking in the musical company of jazz.
5 Yoga Poses Anyone Can Do
These beginner yoga poses will help you stress less, sleep better, and strengthen mind-body awareness.
Cooking Healthy with Hemp
Connecting with our heritage can take us down some unexpected paths, for example, discovering the tradition of cooking with cannabis.
Vinyasa Yoga for Beginners
Vinayasa can be seen as a way of flowing in the world as well, framing things in cycles with a beginning, middle, and end.
Health & Nutrition for Women
Find out how certain food and ingredients interact with fertility, pregnancy, menopause, hormones, and overall wellbeing for women.
4 Healthier Social Media Habits
If you find yourself ruminating on negative thoughts or comparisons, try these exercises to pull you back into reality.
DIALOGUE: Sandor Ellix Katz
The award-winning author explains how fermentation not only enhances the nutritional quality of food, but can also teach us much about life and death
How to HALT Crappy Feelings
If the idea of pausing to check in with yourself sounds familiar, that’s because the HALT method is a mindfulness practice.
The Fundamentals of Eating Vegan
Going vegan is not only good for the planet, it has a host of health benefits for your heart, gut, and immunity.
The Best Spices for Gut Health
Dive deep into the best spices for gut health, their nutritional backgrounds, and how they contribute to better digestion.
Sleep Better, Starting Tonight
Integrate one or more of these practices into your daily routine to reap all the benefits of healthy sleep — starting tonight.
Healthy Snacks You Can Make at Home
Looking for more energy and nutrition throughout the day? Healthy snacks can offer a delightful, and surprising, avenue towards wellness.
How to Make Meditation a Habit
Bringing the quality of mindfulness into any activity is a good way to start your meditation practice.
A Better Way to Reach Your Goals
Resolutions declare what you want to start, while goals take action toward a desired future.
21 Days to Less Anxiety
It can be difficult to focus or enjoy life when you’re feeling anxious. These practices can help quiet a racing mind.
Healthy Foods for Better Sleep
Need slumber support? If you want to sleep better, find out what healthy foods can make for a more restful night.
Find Focus With Meditation
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will allow you to make lifestyle adjustments needed to stay productive.
Find Your Natural Energy Source
While everyone has a unique personal rhythm, many may benefit from a midday rest period when feeling fatigued.
Optimize Your Morning Routine
With tons of books, podcasts, and articles promising to reinvent your morning, know which routine is right for you.
Life-Transforming: Brewing Kombucha
Do you ever feel as if you don't have enough say in this matter or that one? While some things really are outside your control, adding the power of possibility to your life can be an antidote to that sense of helplessness.
BAKE: My Experiments with Spelt
From ancient Roman wedding cakes to matzo to modern-day baking, spelt is a nutritious alternative to regular wheat
Tiger Nuts for Gluten-Free Baking
Rich in phosphorus and magnesium, as well as high in fiber, these striped ground tubers are a nutritious flour substitute.
DIALOGUE: Nadiya Hussain
With her practical approach to healthy family-friendly cooking, Nadiya Hussain explains how food can help you take responsibility for yourself and others.
Why Your Child Needs Mindfulness
Being a child is not easy. School and peer pressure are leading to mental health issues among kids. Meditation and mindfulness can help them manage their emotions.
DIALOGUE: Bryant Terry
An advocate for food justice, editor in chief of 4 Color Books, and vegan chef Bryant Terry talks about his wellness practice, his favorite season for cooking, and what's in his pantry.
How You Can Pay It Forward
Giving back is an essential ethic — everyone can and must give back, in whatever way they can.
RG Spotlight: Prakriti Poddar
Poddar’s decision to follow her purpose has led to an extensive career at Roundglass helping others actualize mental health.
A Kitchen Scent Stirs Memories
A trained perfumer finds that this simple Bulgarian egg dish (the secret ingredient — paprika butter) not only stirs the appetite, but interconnects emotions, memories, and wanderlust.
Dray Gardner: Embrace Struggle
DIALOGUE: Jenny Rosenstrach
The prolific author/blogger talks about the importance of cooking for others, and how eating less meat is easy — and beneficial for people and the planet
DIALOGUE: Shoba Narayan
The James Beard Award winner on blessed foods that evoke the soul, the healing warmth of ginger chai, and her precious brass kitchenware.
Tiny Gardens Bring Big Joy
An edible garden in even the smallest of spaces brings joy (and can improve your health too). Here's how to start one of your own. Follow this guide to the best pots, planters, and containers for any micro-plot or patio corner.
DIALOGUE: Maunika Gowardhan
The author and chef shares her thoughts on the comforts of khichdi, the importance of a good playlist in the kitchen, and how a thali can be seen as a metaphor for life.
GROW: Mugwort Dreams (and Dumplings)
Mugwort might sound like something you want to avoid, but many cultures associate it with healing and lucid dreaming. Give mugwort a home in your garden — and tuck it into some dumplings
DIALOGUE: Abhijit Banerjee
The Nobel laureate shares his thoughts on cooking as an act of generosity, fruit as a feast for the eyes, and the pleasure of eating mindfully.
DIALOGUE: Dr. Gary Deng
An acclaimed wellness expert shares his insights on diversifying your diet, using your mind to derail sugar cravings, and the right way to do breakfast.
DIALOGUE: Nik Sharma
The trailblazing writer shares his thoughts on the power of nigella seeds, the pleasure of snacking on seaweed, and the problem with the word “healthy.”
DIALOGUE: Hetty McKinnon
The cookbook author, magazine founder & vegetable advocate speaks with us about “third-culture cooking,” dumplings as a mode of meditation & why she’s passionate about salad
DIALOGUE: Hawa Hassan
The author and entrepreneur on her favorite smoothie, the importance of blessing your food, and why you should choose dates over doughnuts.
How to Build Healthier Habits
It’s time to reimagine how we look at habit building and consider shaking up routines with some help from the experts.
On Fermentation and Waiting
Fermentation doesn’t just make vegetables taste good. It can teach us how to conduct our lives with patience & perseverance.
Why You Need to Start Meditating
Maintenance of the mind should be a daily priority, but it takes a back seat to our physical needs. Enter meditation, a source for healthy balance in a busy world.
Care for the Planet: Eat Sustainably
We need to change our daily food habits to do our bit in saving the planet.
Change Your Habits with Meditation
We see meditation as not just a healthy habit, but as one of few enablers of building healthy mental and behavioral habits.
Healthy Habits to Boost Productivity
With homeworking expected to remain commonplace for many — even as the pandemic recedes — executives recommend habits that can promote healthy bursts of work, and leave enough time for rest.
Yoga: The Antidote to Chronic Fatigue
While there is no cure for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), yoga is an effective and proven way of dealing with its effects. Read on to know more.
Best Ways to Maintain a Straight Posture
Encourage your employees to stop slouching and have a straight posture by avoiding text-neck, investing in an ergonomic workstation, and shifting positions often.
BAKE: The Tao of Dough
How whole-wheat Sonora flour brought my baking into focus — and deepened my connection to home
Fun Ways to Stay Active at Home
Don’t let remote working ruin your employees’ physical wellbeing. By introducing walking meetings, virtual yoga sessions and encouraging a balanced diet, you can push them to stay active at home.
What Has Remote Working Taught Us?
Make remote working more productive through flexible schedules, creating an organized workspace, socializing and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Creating a Stress-Free Environment
By building trust, listening to your employees, and encouraging collaboration and work-life balance, leaders can create a stress-free environment at work.
Destigmatizing Mental Health at Work
The Roundglass Wellbeing at Work Survey 2019-20 suggests a majority of organizations are not doing enough to promote mental wellbeing at work. Here’s how your organization can destigmatize mental wellbeing.
Role of Wellbeing Champions in Wellbeing Programs
Wellness champions in the workplace are integral to understanding the needs of your employees and ensure the success of your wellbeing program.
Think you have work life balance? Answer these questions
How is your work-life balance? Answer these questions to see for yourself.
Successful Virtual Teams Stay Socially Connected
Virtual teams are here to stay in the midst of this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how a successful virtual team stays socially connected.
The Mind-Body Benefits of Meditation
Meditation can even improve the quality and duration of sleep as much as a sleeping pill.
5 Common Myths of Meditation
Many compare wandering thoughts to clouds – watch them as you would watch the clouds, passing over and impermanent.
Yoga: Relaxation, Fitness, or Both?
Much has been made of yoga's mental and emotional benefits, but what are its physical virtues?
Tricks to Stop Stress Eating
'When people soothe themselves with food, what they are trying to do is calm their nervous system.'
Exploring a New Creative Activity
Mindful Eating For Kids
Call out smells and sensations to get your kids excited about paying attention to their meals.
Religion Can Learn From Mindfulness
Religion could benefit from mindfulness practices — giving it a radical approach that will resonate with future generations.
Welcoming New Beginnings in 2022
Expand Your Practice: Doshas
A central theme of the practice is to create a balanced lifestyle that supports energy flow in the body for wholistic health.
Expand Your Practice: Ayurveda
Ayurveda aims to find a state of equilibrium in the body, and meditation is one of the modalities used for this harmony.
International Universal Health Coverage Day
Democratizing Wholistic Wellbeing starts by democratizing universal healthcare
Mindful Eating: Unpack Your Hunger
Discerning the type of “hunger” we are experiencing is crucial in removing any negative feeling that affect our food choices.
From Hedonism to Eudaimonia: finding the true sense of lasting happiness
Winter Solstice Wellbeing Rituals
Winter solstice reminds us to honor taking time to slow down, and release what is no longer serving us.
From Practical Meditations to the Practice of Meditation
We shouldn't think of meditation as something to do in our spare time, but as a constant state of being that gives us more spare time.
Mindfulness for Every Meal
To move away from habits and compulsions, and toward awareness, we must chart our body’s day-to-day requirements.
Why You Need A Gratitude Jar
Once your brain is trained to focus on positive experiences, you bring more positivity into your everyday life.
What Is Attention Activism?
Use this practice that highlights the need to reclaim our attention with intention.
The Benefits of Eating Like a Yogi
The need to keep your body in a state of calm involves focusing on the timings and quality of food.
Moving Your Body and Breath through the Power of Yoga
There are many different kinds of yoga out there. In this article, I set out to explore their different benefits.
Using Wholistic Wellbeing to Reappraise Fitness
Fitness and exercise are more than just a health pastime: they’re part of a lifestyle.
Planetary Wellbeing for Personal Wellbeing
Being mindful of your carbon footprint can enhance both your own wellbeing and that of the planet.
5 Tips For Mindful Eating
When we are not appreciating and enjoying, we then tend to think more of quantity rather than the quality of food.
How to Start a Meditation Practice
Starting small with a 30-second practice sends a powerful message to the brain that we can quiet our thoughts briefly.
The Truth About Stress & Mindfulness
'Breath control is the most effective way to control our stress, and regulate the stress response when we're reactive.'
Yes, You Should Meditate in Your 20s
Being twenty-something is prime-time to understand your mind and heart, and to undo any intergenerational trauma.
Here’s How Music Can Help You Sleep
Few adults fall asleep to lullabies anymore, but studies show we might want to consider it.
What Happens When You Meditate Daily?
Long-term mindfulness may influence your approach to pain, inviting curiosity and acceptance rather than fear or denial.
How Food Affects our Wellbeing Daily
Breathe Your Way to Deep Relaxation
Not surprisingly, diaphragmatic breathing slows the heartbeat and lowers or stabilizes blood pressure.
Reconnect with Nature From Anywhere
Don’t let being inside or the busyness of the day keep you from getting your daily dose of the natural world.
3 Ways to Find Presence Right Now
Feeling dull or disconnected is a byproduct of the overdrive and hyperactive states we often find ourselves in.
Meditation to Live More Fully
Mindful pauses allow you to experience brief moments of beauty or intensity you may have been too distracted to notice.
How Mantra Changed My Life
One of the remarkable things about mantra is it does deep work on you, but not in a flashy way. It’s steady and consistent.
7 Benefits of Visualization
Creating better outcomes isn’t just about visualizing a situation; it’s also about being your best self.
Use Kundalini To Deepen Intuition
I was always aware of my intuition, but I did not always have the wherewithal to act on it before practicing Kundalini yoga.
Chase Peace of Mind, Not Happiness
I believe we should set our sights on peace of mind, because when our mind is calm, it doesn’t matter if you’re happy.
5 Steps to Change Any Habit
To change our lives, we need to analyze the behaviors we don’t like and think of different ways to act.
To Love Yourself, Know Yourself
It took a cancer diagnosis, lots of inner work, and a lifestyle change to help me realize I needed to cultivate self-love.
How Compassion Improves Your Life
As I learn to be more compassionate with myself, I've noticed I seek out others all the time for assistance.
Loving-Kindness & My Mother-in-Law
It wasn't that she changed at all; I just saw her very differently, with the help of loving-kindness.
Meditation is More Than a To-Do
Meditation as a to-do item becomes rooted in a wrong view of our fundamental human nature, inherent goodness.
Stop Meditating On Your Own
A group atmosphere or 1:1 coaching can help you move past emotional blocks to reap the rewards of meditation 24/7.
Mindfulness Belongs in Schools
The students learned to be better citizens and I learned to be a better educator.
What Complements Meditation?
A meditation teacher suggests certain activities to bolster a mindful existence.
Weave Meditation Into Daily Living
Sometimes being mindless can help us arrive at deeper mindfulness — and a deeper mind.
How to Let Go Of Old Stories
The ability to be comfortable in my skin and to show up for my life daily has allowed me to be more fulfilled.
A Daily Meditation 3-Part Practice
Our thoughts and feelings aren’t permanent, but learning this can take time.
Does Meditation Ever Get Easier?
As we get more experienced with meditation, it allows us to reap more of the benefits, outweighing the discomfort.
How I Get Ready to Meditate
The best preparation for meditation is cultivating joy, which leads to openness and receptivity.
Be More Playful With Meditation
A playful attitude keeps us going given the repetitive nature of meditation.
Why I Use a Variety of Meditation Styles
We all have different personalities, and our minds work in various ways.
My Life Changed From Meditation
Meditation became the investigation and the practice of expanding the capacity for choice.
4 Tips for New Meditators
At first, you'll likely have enthusiasm, but that can give way to discomfort. Stick with it, though, and you'll be richly rewarded.
I Found Meditation On the Ice Rink
While most of my friends hated figures, I fell in love with the quiet along with the sense of feeling focused.
Racing Mind? Try Meditation
Get used to being with yourself and fighting off the urge to stop because your mind is going to tell you it's not working.
From Skeptic to Meditation Teacher
Cultivating a state of being that allows me to connect and feel deeply adds a richness to life.
Concentration for a Mind at Peace
We tend to have a fixed and solid sense of self, which is not an accurate view and may also cause suffering in the long run.
Healthier Ways to Digest Emotions
Become aware of your internal communication system when someone enters your sacred space.
How to Mindfully Work from Home
If we allow ourselves the luxury of having a lie-in on workdays, we'll develop a bad habit.
Vibrational States & Life Decisions
It's from high vibrational state that clarity, opportunity, synchronicities and joy enter your life.
10 Ways to Be Mindful at Work
These simple practices may help you release any work-related stress and remain focused, motivated, and inspired during your workday.
Drop Mindfulness Into Each Day
Focusing on the present can change your entire perspective.
What Meditation Did For My Sanity
Little by little, I started to feel like myself again — I could feel and see the shifts in my body, especially on my skin.
My Life-Changing Gratitude Journal
I was searching for hope, for something to help with anxiety. Then, my life improved with a gratitude experiment.
Use Your Senses to Get Present
Like our senses help us tune to the external world, they help us tune into our inner world during meditation.
My COVID Story: Finding Gratitude
When feeling overwhelmed, being grateful interrupts that neural pathway and shifts your brain chemistry.
The Benefits of Theta Brainwaves
Getting to a relaxed state that generates theta waves naturally happens, but what if you want to go there on purpose?