Self-Care in the Age of Anxiety
Life demands your attention and help everywhere you turn. It's exhausting. If you really want to make a difference, learn to take care of yourself first, then others. Here's how.
The Argument for Empathy
Here's how leaning in, rather than running away, during difficult times can help you become a kinder and more compassionate friend, coworker, partner, and family member.
The Best Cure for Heartbreak
While it's fun to celebrate love this time of year, we can't neglect the equally important emotion of heartbreak, which is inevitable and comes in many forms. Here's how to recover and love again.
Working with Strong Emotions
Whether you're excited or scared about the future of this country, here's how to use these strong sentiments as a way to connect more deeply with your body and mind to find inner peace.
How to Make Peace with Your Faults (and Those Who Point Them Out)
As hard as it can be to receive criticism, these moments can present opportunities for clarity, growth, and gratitude.
The Key to Managing Anger in a Healthy Way
The next time you are tempted to react in anger, try this breath meditation to simply sit with the emotion instead of letting it overpower you.
The Quickest Road to Happiness Is Surprisingly Simple
While we all want to be happy, getting too caught up in achieving this goal can have the reverse effect. Try this advice to feel more fulfilled and joyful.
A Meditation for Sending Compassion
This ancient contemplative practice of sending and receiving compassion, called tonglen, is powerful and transformative.
A Loving-Kindness Practice for Strangers and Loved Ones
This 15-minute guided meditation will help you stretch your feelings of compassion toward all people and beings you encounter.
A Loving-Kindness Practice for Self-Acceptance
Try this 10-minute Buddhist meditation to work toward self-acceptance and self-love the next time you face a trying situation.
What It Means to Take Refuge in Buddhism
A Buddhist meditation teacher shares his experience with taking refuge and explains the ancient understanding of the practice.
What’s Really Holding You Back from Happiness?
Learn how a 14th century Buddhist text lays the groundwork for a very powerful perspective on how we can become more present and more authentically joyful in our daily lives.
What Reincarnation Can Teach Us About Compassion
Learn how a 14th century Buddhist text lays the groundwork for a very powerful perspective on how we can become more empathetic beings, when we grasp the nature of reincarnation.
A 20-Minute Breath Meditation for Advanced Practitioners
This guided 20-minute breath meditation for advanced practitioners can help you deepen your practice to reach a new level of total relaxation.
Would You Be Better Off Spending More Time Alone?
A meditation teacher unpacks an ancient Buddhist text that reveals the answer. It might surprise you.