Happier Meditation

Suffering may bring many of us to meditation, but joy is what keeps us coming back.

Burnout is not just a workplace problem, and it is not a switch that flips overnight.

Most of us think good sleep begins with going to bed at the right time. Pastoral counselor and spiritual care scholar Pamela Ayo Yetunde learned otherwise, and the…

Grief can feel isolating, confusing, and overwhelming. But what if it were also purposeful?

Spending time outdoors does more than refresh the body — it can quietly unlock a state of mind that meditation teacher Diana Winston calls “natural awareness,” a calm,…

In the final installment of her five-week series, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Tasha Schumann turns to the last knot: confusion, and the profound wisdom that lives at its…

In the fourth installment of her five-week series on the patterns that run our lives, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Tasha Schumann turns to self-fixation, and how the habit…

In a continuation of a five-week series on the patterns that run our lives, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Tasha Schumann explores striving, the anxious, competitive knot that turns…

The Practice of Practicing explores why returning to the same meditation again and again is essential for real transformation, particularly in loving-kindness practice.

Dr. Susan Pollak shares mindfulness strategies for overcoming shame and self-criticism in new essay.