Meditation & Mindfulness

The question that nearly all prospective meditators have: Will you actually have greater health and well-being if you meditate? Mindfulness teacher Steven Hickman addresses the question from a scientific (and pragmatic) perspective.

Q: I keep hearing that science has proven the

Practicing mindfulness and compassion helps us see our lives more clearly. Instead of staying caught up in unskillful habits and reactivity, it encourages us to live with more awareness and intention. While mindfulness and compassion serve a uniquely supportive role

Summary

What Is a Body Scan Meditation? A guided practice where attention is systematically moved through different parts of the body to release tension and increase awareness.

Benefits for Sleep:

• Improves sleep quality, especially among those with sleep disturbances

Habits are formed and strengthened as we journey through a continuous loop seeking to satisfy our urges. Here’s how mindfulness interrupts the cycle to break bad habits.

If there’s a patch of open lawn at a corner, children will cut

Curious about how to start your own mindfulness meditation practice? This infographic from the Garrison Institute is a great place to begin.

When it comes to learning a mindfulness meditation practice, or learning anything new for that matter, it helps

How can we be at peace with how things are right now? In this week’s guided meditation, Dr. Mark Bertin offers a practice to help us be gently aware of sensations, feelings, and thoughts that come up in practice, building

Meditation is everywhere these days. Guided meditations or visualizations, mindfulness, walking meditations, body scans, and even mantra meditation are taught in classrooms and workplaces as well as being featured on popular meditation apps. Some people swear by their

This mindset in today’s world, however, isn’t nearly as useful. Yes, it can help us have a sense of focus and urgency when we need to meet a time bound goal. More broadly, however, a mindset of scarcity limits our

Time required

15 minutes daily

Loving-kindness meditation:

Relax Your Body:

Close your eyes. Sit comfortably with your feet flat on the floor and your spine straight. Relax your whole body. Keep your eyes closed throughout the whole visualization and bring

Mindfulness teachers and programs often point to what Jon Kabat-Zinn called the Nine Attitudes of Mindfulness: qualities like non-judging, patience, beginner’s mind, trust, non-striving, acceptance, letting go, gratitude, and generosity.

While incredibly useful, these attitudes were never meant