MBCT

Harvard researchers use brain scans to explore how 8-weeks of training in present-moment awareness might break the cycle of self-rumination. Read more

Mindfulness asks us to simply notice the storylines we create in our minds without trying to change them. Meditation gives us the space to choose not to react to those things that trigger our anxiety. Read more

How our goal-setting mind causes us to fixate on one track, and how we can become more responsive to the richness and complexity that each moment presents. Read more

Our mental habits can be both useful and far from useful—to start sorting out the difference we first have to notice them. Read more

When your favorite mindfulness app says it’s based in science, check twice. Few actually are. Two mindfulness experts and app developers talked to Mindful about how most apps rely on the science of mindfulness in general to back up their claims, and how that could lead to problems—and fines—in the future, like it did for the brain-training company Lumosity. Read more

Parenting is beautiful and rewarding, and it is hard work, even on the best of days. Try leaning on this mindfulness practice when things get rough. Read more

This mindfulness practice is about moving attention in specific ways to help us free ourselves or to get unstuck from some of these automatic routines. Read more

Welcoming and letting tough emotions be—instead of pushing them away—might be the key to riding out unpleasant experiences. Read more

When handling turbulent feelings, we can gain a mental foothold that allows us to short-circuit what otherwise could become a destructive emotional hijack. Read more

The report's recommendations are practical, based on a summary of existing evidence for mindfulness.  Read more