12 Minute Meditation

Cool the Fires of Reactivity with Willem Kuyken

Equanimity helps us understand that when we allow difficult thoughts and feelings—when we don’t over-identify with them or cling to them—they will change and pass. This guided meditation will help you cultivate equanimity, find steadier ground and meet the challenges of the day.  Show notes: Meditation by Willem Kuyken.  Willem Kuyken, Ph.D., DClinPsy, is Director of the University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre and Ritblat Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological Science at the Universi...

Cultivating Equanimity: A Guided Mindfulness Practice to Cool the Fires of Reactivity and Find Steady Ground

Rhonda Magee STOP Practice

STOP Practice with Rhonda Magee

Navigate reactivity and distressing moments with the STOP practice. The four steps create space for you to interrupt thought patterns and call on the resources within. This practice can be used whenever and wherever you need it. Show notes: Meditation by Rhonda Magee. Rhonda V. Magee is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco. Also trained in sociology and MBSR. She is a facilitator of trauma-sensitive, restorative MBSR interventions for lawyers and law students.

Where Does the Path of Mindfulness Lead?

The Gift of Being Alive: A Q&A with Rhonda Magee

RAIN Meditation with Tara Brach

Explore RAIN as a stand-alone meditation or move through the four steps in a more abbreviated way whenever you feel stuck or anxious. Show notes: Meditation by Tara Brach.  Clinical psychologist Tara Brach is the author of True Refuge: Finding Peace & Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart.

Practice the RAIN Meditation with Tara Brach

Tame Feelings of Shame with Patricia Rockman

Exploring difficult emotions and experiences may be the key to loosening their hold over us. Patricia Rockman guides us through the experience of shame, offering a chance to let go and shift the narrative.  Show notes: Meditation by Patricia Rockman. Patricia Rockman, MD, CCFP, FCFP is a family physician with a focused practice in mental health. She is the Senior Director of Education and Clinical Services at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Toronto.

Tame Feelings of Shame

Exploring difficult emotions and experiences may be the key to loosening their hold over us. Try this 10-minute mindfulness practice from Patricia Rockman, MD.

Being Bored is A Gift: Here’s How to Use It

Founding editor Barry Boyce speaks with Stephanie Domet about how adding curiosity to moments of boredom improves the quality of your perception.

Asking For and Receiving Help with Tara Healey

This mindfulness practice is meant to help you tame your inner critic, so you can reach out for help simply and gracefully. Show notes: Meditation by Tara Healey. Tara Healey is the program director for Mindfulness-Based Learning at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

Learning to ask for, receive, and accept help

Being with pain: calling up your inner support group

A Mindfulness Practice for Pain with Christiane Wolf

Find your inner support group with this guided meditation for working with physical pain and internally connecting with people who have a similar experience. Show notes: Meditation by Christiane Wolf. Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD is a certified MBSR and mindfulness teacher and teacher trainer, and coauthor of A Clinician’s Guide To Teaching Mindfulness.

Soften, Soothe, Allow

Reflection on Core Values

How Would You Treat a Friend in Pain

Zooming Out for Pain

Zooming in for Pain

Mindfulness and Pain: What the Research Tells Us

When Pain Leads to Loneliness and Isolation

What Mindfulness Is…and How It Could Help with Pain

Letting Go of Guilt: Discovering Strength in Self-Compassion

Chronic Pain

Chronic Pain: The roommate we would rather not have

A Conversation on Mindfulness, Bias and Racial Justice

It's difficult to have a conversation about racism, privilege and fragility without things getting heated. In this Point of View Podcast, experts weigh in on the role mindfulness plays in understanding and navigating racial justice.

Desk Chair Body Scan

Meditate right where you are with this 10-minute guided practice.

Point of View Episode 11: Mindfulness and Emotions

Mindful editor-in-chief Barry Boyce talks with Stephanie Domet about the power of emotions, and how we can become aware of our feelings without being overwhelmed by them.

A Mindfulness Practice to Notice the Mind-Body Connection

Our bodies have power to influence our minds, and vice versa. This guided meditation shows you how.

How Mindfulness Can Help us Talk About the Things That Divide Us

Mindful editor-in-chief Barry Boyce talks with writer and editor Stephanie Domet about how mindfulness helps us deepen our caring not only for ourselves, but also for others, no matter how different from us they may seem. And, we meet the Mindful Vulgarian, and talk a little about MOMing, also known as Mouthing off Mindfully.

Stay in the Moment with JG Larochette

This meditation guides you through one of the fundamental practices of mindfulness: breathing. For seasoned meditators and beginners alike, this practice will bring your awareness to your breath, mind, and body.  Show notes: This practice has been adapted from The Mindful Life Project.  JG Larochette is a former classroom teacher, community organizer, and mentor in Richmond, CA who is the founder and executive director of the Mindful Life Project.

A Breathing Practice to Stay in the Moment

Explore this six-minute breathing practice from JG Larochette. 

The Power of Seeing The Whole Picture

Point of View Podcast Episode 9: Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce and Editor Stephanie Domet talk about using mindfulness to slow down and see beyond our first impressions.

Soft Belly Breathing Practice

Experience a grounded sense of ease and safety by relaxing deeply from your center.

Soft Belly Breathing with Jillian Pransky

This guided meditation takes you through the power of soft belly breathing. Jillian Pransky says the belly is our emotional center and softening it can bring up a mirage of feelings. This practice allows you to tune in to your innermost emotions.  Show notes: Meditation by Jillian Pransky.  Jillian Pransky is an international presenter and the author of Deep Listening. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist recognized by the International Association of Yoga Therapy and the director of Restor...

Find Your Loving-Kindness Phrases with Chris Germer

This pen and paper practice guides you into finding your loving-kindness phrases which you can use in meditations. After writing, reflecting and writing some more, Chris guides us in using our phrases. Show notes: This practice originally appeared on ChrisGermer.com. Christopher Germer, PhD, has a private practice in mindfulness and compassion-based psychotherapy and is a psychiatry lecturer at the Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance.

Find Your Loving-Kindness Phrases

Chris Germer leads you through a guided meditation designed to help you discover loving-kindness and compassion phrases that are deeply meaningful to you.

Cultivating Our Attention

A basic mindfulness practice raising our awareness and stirring our curiosity.

Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners

5-Minute Breathing Practice

A simple meditation to connect to your breath.

A Meditation on Observing Thoughts, Non-Judgmentally

This guided meditation from Jon Kabat-Zinn lets thoughts come and go, so you can avoid being sucked into them.

Observe Thoughts Without Judgment with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Don’t fall into the trap of thoughts that swirl through the mind, especially those laced with judgment. Instead, learn to let them pass through without getting sucked in. Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mind...

A Body Scan with Diana Winston

Take a moment to relax your body and focus your mind. This guided meditation is a simple way to cultivate mindfulness and bring your attention inward throughout the week. Show notes: Meditation by Diana Winston. Adapted from Greater Good In Action. Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and author of several books including The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness.

A Body Scan Meditation to Help You Sleep

Explore this guided meditation to calm your body and improve your quality of sleep.

Rest in Awareness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

This guided meditation allows us to move out of our own experience and open up to what is happening around and within us. This meditation cultivates awareness in a detailed way to deepen your mindfulness practice.    Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our...

A Meditation for Resting In Awareness

Explore this 30-minute guided meditation from Jon Kabat-Zinn to expand your sense of awareness.

Trying Compassion on Capitol Hill

Can you extend compassion toward a difficult person in your life? Congressman Tim Ryan tries a practice to help him reach across the aisle.

Feeling Lonely? Embrace Compassion

In a world driven by competition and comparison, Sharon Salzberg contends shifting our definition of love might be the key to reconnecting to what matters most.

Point of View Podcast Episode 8: Mind(ful) Your Manners

A conversation with Mindful’s Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce and editor Stephanie Domet on the direct line between mindfulness and manners, and issues a challenge to listeners to help take a mindfulness practice off the cushion and into everyday life.

How Meditation is a Practice of Resilience

As part of the “Real Love with Sharon Salzberg” event hosted by Women of Wisdom and Mindful, meditation teacher and author Sharon Salzberg discussed the true meaning of love for ourselves, others and life. The following is an excerpt of her talk.