Some of us chatter to ourselves all day long while others’ inner lives take the form of pictures or, like Einstein, abstract visual concepts. But as mindfulness urges us to pay more attention, it’s worth asking: What can our interior life teach us? Read more

Humans are inherently motivated to seek out fulfillment in their lives—to thrive, rather than simply survive. New research shows that meaning may be simple to find because it’s all around us. Read more

The ultimate guide to the research on the effects of mindfulness and meditation for our health, psyche, and overall quality of life. Read more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction may not change the structure of our brains, but scientists say that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing Read more

A large UK school-based mindfulness program did not improve the mental health of 11- to 14-year-olds. Here are five takeaways. Read more

When we're facing uncertainty, mindfulness skills may help us to interpret situations as more positive than negative, a recent publication shows. Read more

A look at recent mindfulness research gathered from Stanford University, California State University San Marcos, Pace University, and others. Read more

How an app-based intervention at work helps employees, a program that may reduce postpartum depression, and more from the latest mindfulness research. Read more

By engaging in practices that increase awareness, focus on our similarities, and develop care and kindness, writes Mind & Life Institute Science Director Wendy Hasenkamp, we might also be loosening the hold of implicit bias. Read more

Our ability to pay attention is unreliable when we’re under stress. In her new book Peak Mind, neuroscientist Amishi Jha explores cutting-edge research on elite soldiers revealing how mindfulness training protects our attentional resources, even in the most high-stress scenarios imaginable. Read more