Category: Mindfulness in Your Life
How Many Copies? – Embrace Change
Embrace Change: leading Buddhist teachers and writers offer stories, teachings, and meditations to help us embrace the change in our lives.
A Real Education
In the May 2012 issue of Lion's Roar, Barry Boyce's Mindful Society column explores how mindfulness is being used in children's education.
Video: Kids say the darnedest things… about meditation
A message from kids who are participants in the programs presented by Baltimore Holistic Life Foundation. Watch it and just try not to smile.
The Kindness Instinct
A guest post by writer and psychotherapist Jennifer Hotchner on kindness as a nurturing force for our basic goodness.
Video: What’s a “Yoga Gangster”?
A video snippet detailing the work of Yoga Gangsters, a non-profit which seeks to bring yoga to at-risk youth.
Lasting Happiness
The hard part of lasting happiness, says Mingyur Rinpoche, is getting over our bad habit of seeking happiness in transient experiences.
Video: BBC reports on mindfulness meditation, happiness, and the science that may show their connection
Via David Sillito of the BBC comes this report — with more to come — featuring Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard (aka, the “happiest man in the world”) and others, exploring the connection behind mindfulness meditation and science.
So much for “Mad Men” — Former monk Gregory Burdulis brings mindfulness to an ad-world leader
Gregory Burdulis is a former Theravadan monk who now teaches mindfulness meditation to employees at a famous advertising agency.
Snakes on the Brain
We can control our fears—even primal fears. The key, says Jeff Greenwald, is the stories we tell ourselves, as individuals and as cultures.
The Mindful Society: One Moment at a Time
Addiction mocks hope, kills people, destroys families. David Swick reports on how mindfulness practice is helping people change.