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Why the Key to Savoring the Moment is Doing Less - Mindful

Why the Key to Savoring the Moment is Doing Less - Mindful

Anxiety about the unknown can change the pace and intensity of our lives. Here’s how doing less for its own sake can be simple and transformative. There is an old story of a...

The tension between intense commitment and physical, emotional, and interpersonal well-being

The tension between intense commitment and physical, emotional, and interpersonal well-being

Around Thanksgiving, the ceiling light that illuminates most of my apartment burned out. I still haven’t replaced it. Instead, I use the flashlight app on my phone to get...

Peak Anxiety? Here Are 10 Ways to Calm Down

Peak Anxiety? Here Are 10 Ways to Calm Down

Continue reading the main story Peak Anxiety? Here Are 10 Ways to Calm Down If the one-two punch of pandemic stress and election stress feels like more than you can handle, try...

Nature shows us how important circadian rhythm is to our overall well-being

Nature shows us how important circadian rhythm is to our overall well-being

Nature demonstrates the importance of circadian rhythm to organisms’ overall well-being in the latest issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

For a More Empathic World, People Have to Choose Empathy

For a More Empathic World, People Have to Choose Empathy

In the late 1990s, Najah Bazzy, a nurse in Dearborn, Michigan, made a house call to an Iraqi refugee family to check on their premature baby. When she arrived, she was shocked...

Being More Authentic On Social Media Could Improve Your Wellbeing

Being More Authentic On Social Media Could Improve Your Wellbeing

It’s become somewhat of a truism that you shouldn’t believe everything you see on social media. Where someone’s life looks perfect, we’re often reminded, there are probably a...

As the world grays, it’s time to ensure seniors’ tech literacy

As the world grays, it’s time to ensure seniors’ tech literacy

To be digitally left behind is the new loneliness. Most of us use mobile communications technology for banking, shopping and social contact. But more and more, seniors struggle....

Why it's time to stop pursuing happiness

Why it's time to stop pursuing happiness

Like many teenagers, I was once plagued with angst and dissatisfaction – feelings that my parents often met with bemusement rather than sympathy. They were already in their 50s,...

What is the Best Mindfulness Practice for Your Myers-Briggs Personality? - Mindful

What is the Best Mindfulness Practice for Your Myers-Briggs Personality? - Mindful

How to use your personality traits to help you find a mindfulness practice that works for you. I’m an MBTI junky—which means I see the world through the mental lens of the...

Neuroimaging study provides new details on the link between stress reduction and green urban landscapes

Neuroimaging study provides new details on the link between stress reduction and green urban landscapes

Viewing green space in urban landscapes elicits substantial activity in key areas of the brain related to attention and stress regulation, according to new research published in...

Your Guide to Natural Plant-Based Treatments For Fall Allergies

Your Guide to Natural Plant-Based Treatments For Fall Allergies

Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! You may think that allergies are for seasons in which...

Study Finds People Who Played Video Games For Longer Had Greater Wellbeing (But Direction Of Causality Isn’t Yet Clear)

Study Finds People Who Played Video Games For Longer Had Greater Wellbeing (But Direction Of Causality Isn’t Yet Clear)

Photo: A user playsAnimal Crossing, one of the games studied in the new research. William West/AFP via Getty Images Video games get blamed for a lot. There are long-standing...