Mindfulness/Meditation

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How to Be Alone With Your Thoughts

Find it difficult to just sit with your own inner ramblings? Clinical psychologist Noam Shpancer, PhD, offers advice on taming the tumult and finding some mental peace and quiet.

By Jon Spayde

Attitude/Mindset Mindfulness/Meditation

How to Calm Your Monkey Mind

Three experts offer tips for overcoming mental chaos and reclaiming a balanced brain.

By Jon Spayde

Attitude/Mindset Mindfulness/Meditation

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How Daydreaming Boosts Your Creativity

How performing undemanding tasks can kick-start your creativity.

By Experience Life Staff

Mindfulness/Meditation Personal Development

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7 Self-Talk Strategies to Stop Self-Sabotaging Your Diet

Learn how to stop self-sabotaging your diet with proven strategies to break bad habits, reframe negative food thoughts, and build lasting healthy eating patterns.

By Alex Singleton

Metabolism/Weight Loss Mindful Eating

The Strength to Sit Still: A Meditation Retreat

Fitness buff Jen Sinkler tests her limits — at a mountaintop meditation retreat for beginners.

By Jen Sinkler

Attitude/Mindset Mindfulness/Meditation

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What Is the Good-Life Ratio?

Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, PhD, shows how the right ratio of ratio of positive-to-negative emotions can affect happiness.

By Experience Life Staff

Emotional Intelligence Mindfulness/Meditation

How Visualization Can Make You Physically Stronger

Studies show the effect of mental strength on physical strength.

By Experience Life Staff

Fitness Tips Mindfulness/Meditation

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How to Control the Voice in Your Head and Take Your Life Back

Ideas to help you silence that voice in your head and take your life back.

By Experience Life Staff

Mindfulness/Meditation Personal Development

Paying Relaxed Attention

Maggie Lyon on what relaxed attention is.

By Maggie Lyon

Mindfulness/Meditation Personal Development

Forgiving Ourselves Just As We Are

Maggie Lyon on celebrating who you are.

By Maggie Lyon

Attitude/Mindset Mindfulness/Meditation

How to Embrace the Present Moment — and Why It’s So Hard

Maggie Lyon on living in the present moment.

By Maggie Lyon

Mindfulness/Meditation

Seeing Beings, Not Bodies: How to Embrace Humanity in Every Encounter

Untraining the mind, seeing the person and not their label.

By Experience Life Staff

Inclusive Wellness Mindfulness/Meditation

Wherever You Go, There You Are

This classic book from mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn brings meditation down to earth.

By Brian Johnson

Attitude/Mindset Mindfulness/Meditation

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Understanding and Achieving Flow

Although we tend to think we are happiest in our leisure hours - most satisfied when we are relaxed with absolutely nothing to ponder - the truth is quite the opposite.

By the Experience Life Team

Fitness Tips Happiness/Joy

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Mindfulness Practice: The Practice of Arrival

Rick Hanson offers gentle guidance that encourages a shift in our perspective towards acknowledging one's journey and accomplishments while fostering a sense of calm and contentment.

By Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Mindfulness/Meditation Stress

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

From Robin Sharma's bestseller about a celebrity attorney who undergoes an unexpected transformation, wise advice on living your ideals and making every day count.

By Brian Johnson

Attitude/Mindset Mindfulness/Meditation