Meditation & Mindfulness Articles
Curious about how meditation and mindfulness can help you live a healthier, happier life? Read about the health benefits, scientific background, and basic techniques of these practices.
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Animal Walk
Walk like an animal to build body awareness and burn through restless energy.
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Learning to Love Me, Myself, and I
Learning to fully accept yourself through the act of self-love can boost happiness and promote emotional resilience.
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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.
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Nighttime Routines to Curb Anxiety
Add these wellbeing interventions to your nightly ritual to improve the quality — and quantity — of your shut-eye.
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Strong Connections On & Off the Apps
Instead of experiencing love through your likes, apply a little more mindfulness into your day-to-day interactions to achieve the same feeling. See how you can get the most out of your relationships, on and off the apps.
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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.
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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.
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Why Grief Never Expires
The honest thing to admit is that you're never letting go of your grief. It's like gaining the holiday five. Another way to consider your grieving timeline is giving yourself time to remember, not forget.
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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.
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Try This Beginner Visualization
Adding visualizations to a regular meditation practice can have powerful effects on wellbeing. Here’s how to supercharge your meditations with visualizations.
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Kill Your Stress Addiction
How to combat toxic productivity and build a solid "stress-less" routine.
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Mindfulness for the Classroom
Try these simple, effective tools for a focused classroom with engaged students.
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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.
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Try This Practice for Self-Love
Research shows that practicing for as little as 7 weeks reduces stress, improves cognitive function, and increases positivity.
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Ease Pain with Meditation
In the race to find relief, researchers are increasingly looking at non-pharmaceutical solutions like meditation.
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Is Mindfulness a Leadership Trait?
It’s through conscious awareness that we can begin to develop empathy, benefiting both leaders and employees alike.
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4 Healthier Social Media Habits
If you find yourself ruminating on negative thoughts or comparisons, try these exercises to pull you back into reality.
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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.
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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.
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Get Comfortable With Stillness
And contrary to popular belief, sitting in stillness isn’t siloed to meditating in a quiet room —you can also be in motion.
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How to Make Meditation a Habit
Bringing the quality of mindfulness into any activity is a good way to start your meditation practice.
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The Case Against Resolutions
Use mindful awareness to shift your relationship with financial strain, navigating family relationships, and change in routine.
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A Better Way to Reach Your Goals
Resolutions declare what you want to start, while goals take action toward a desired future.
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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.
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Why You Should Meditate in Nature
Reminding ourselves of natural cycles makes living through the ups and downs of life feel less overwhelming.
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Find Focus With Meditation
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will allow you to make lifestyle adjustments needed to stay productive.
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Find Your Natural Energy Source
While everyone has a unique personal rhythm, many may benefit from a midday rest period when feeling fatigued.
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Optimize Your Morning Routine
With tons of books, podcasts, and articles promising to reinvent your morning, know which routine is right for you.
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Are You Lonely or Uncomfortable?
Meditation can help you sit with your feelings and take more control when loneliness creeps up.
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RG Spotlight: Prakriti Poddar
Poddar’s decision to follow her purpose has led to an extensive career at Roundglass helping others actualize mental health.
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How To Raise Mindful Kids
We learn from a handful of parenting experts, and offer parenting tips and tricks for raising an evolved being.
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7 Steps to Manage Difficult Emotions
It might seem counterintuitive but facing your emotions can support you in processing them.
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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.
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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.
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Living with Earplugs Out
Now that I wasn’t able to find time for my regular meditation routine, I wondered how it could help.
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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.
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Don’t Set SMART Goals, Set Big Ones
By choosing a goal that's bigger than yourself, you're acknowledging that you don't have all the answers.
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The Mind-Body Benefits of Meditation
Meditation can even improve the quality and duration of sleep as much as a sleeping pill.
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5 Common Myths of Meditation
Many compare wandering thoughts to clouds – watch them as you would watch the clouds, passing over and impermanent.
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5 Ways to Live Beyond Fear
What you’re most afraid of is usually not based in the reality of the present moment.
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Tricks to Stop Stress Eating
'When people soothe themselves with food, what they are trying to do is calm their nervous system.'
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Mindful Eating For Kids
Call out smells and sensations to get your kids excited about paying attention to their meals.
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Religion Can Learn From Mindfulness
Religion could benefit from mindfulness practices — giving it a radical approach that will resonate with future generations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Winter Solstice Wellbeing Rituals
Winter solstice reminds us to honor taking time to slow down, and release what is no longer serving us.
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Should You Meditate With Your Pet?
We often come into meditation postures with a gentle touch and a lightness in our energy that invites our pets closer.
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Mindfulness for Every Meal
To move away from habits and compulsions, and toward awareness, we must chart our body’s day-to-day requirements.
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Why You Need A Gratitude Jar
Once your brain is trained to focus on positive experiences, you bring more positivity into your everyday life.
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Start A Daily Meditation Habit
The more we practice meditation, the better we are at tracking what’s going on in our lives and the world around us.
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Try This: Mindful Listening
Once you have awareness of what you are hearing outside and within, mindful listening encourages letting go of distractions.
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Pushing Past Pain With Meditation
I saw how our ancestry can shape us. And I saw how, along with generational trauma, comes generational wisdom.
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What Is Attention Activism?
Use this practice that highlights the need to reclaim our attention with intention.
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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.
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The 5 States of Mind
To reach the state of absolute calmness and balance, we must first understand the different states of mind.
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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.
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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.
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What's Your Meditation Style?
Some prefer guided-meditation, and for teachers or individuals with an advanced practice, self-meditation may work better.
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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.'
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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.
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5 Ways to Heal Your Inner Child
When you feel old wounds drowning out your authentic self, use these tools to help heal your inner child.
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Here’s How Music Can Help You Sleep
Few adults fall asleep to lullabies anymore, but studies show we might want to consider it.
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How Meditation Can Help You Sleep
While focusing on fluffy white sheep can be helpful, focusing the mind through meditation practices is even better.
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What Are the 8 Limbs of Yoga?
When practiced, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras function as steps to controlling the mind in pursuit of liberation.
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What Happens When You Meditate Daily?
Long-term mindfulness may influence your approach to pain, inviting curiosity and acceptance rather than fear or denial.
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The Secret to Stronger Relationships
Try and love one person without limits or bounds. If you can commit to this, everything else will feel small compared.
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How to Find Life’s Purpose — Hint, It’s Not What You Think
Rather than searching for your purpose, or dharma, outside of yourself, ask why you’re feeling lost or unfulfilled.
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How to Meditate for Beginners
Let go of what you think meditation is, what you believe meditating looks like, and if you're doing it 'right.'
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Buddhism Helped Heal My Addiction
When I brought awareness to my dark parts and understood the chaos they were causing, my true healing began.
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Meditation: A Powerful Tool for Radiant Health
It is tough to focus our mind, but science now proves an inherent correlation between the mind, breath, and energy.
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Magnetism: The Key to Success and Wellbeing
When our willpower is bound heavily by habit, it ceases to draw upon inspiration. Here's how to change that.
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Breathe Your Way to Deep Relaxation
Not surprisingly, diaphragmatic breathing slows the heartbeat and lowers or stabilizes blood pressure.
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The Secret to True Self-Acceptance
To build the world each of us deserves, it's important to truly love our ethnic background from a place of compassion.
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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.
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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.
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5 Ways to Find Calm—Fast
Don't be fooled by the simplicity of these quick, accessible, and in-the-moment practices; they function this way for a reason.
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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.
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How I Made Deep Adult Friendships
Just the awareness of the way I was walling myself off from others, changed me. Something started to soften.
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Feeling Lonely? Ask Yourself This
Like a stomach rumbling, the feeling of loneliness is an alarm bell. In this case, it’s telling us that we need connection.
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3 Mindfulness Tips for New Parents
Instead of letting your mind make up a story about how it's going to be, embrace the unknown.
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Understanding Your Fear of Failure
If we want grow in the way that I think we are meant to in our journeys — we have to look right at that fear and deal with it.
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3 Virtues That Benefit Humankind
As you cultivate these virtues, you’ll find you’re giving a gift not only to yourself, but to the world around you.
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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.
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Meditation Reveals More of What We Are
After some time, your whole life becomes meditation. Suddenly, you're alive in a life you mainly were distracted.
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My Life Changed From Meditation
Meditation became the investigation and the practice of expanding the capacity for choice.
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Emotional Sobriety Through Meditation
Through meditation, wellness mentor Ceasar Barajas has learned to better life with grace, and is helping others.
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How Meditation Supported My Ph.D
It took a long time to recover my mental health after getting my degree, and meditation was the one thing that stayed.
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This Blue Dot Helps Me Meditate
Every time I see the sticker, I stop and take one breath. It brings me back to this place of presence
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Healthier Ways to Digest Emotions
Become aware of your internal communication system when someone enters your sacred space.
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Balance Emotions With 5 Elements
Knowing a bit about each element and its properties can support you in staying present and balanced in life.