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How Girls Benefit From Sports
Research shows that playing organized sports offers young girls a better shot at a healthy, successful future.
Paging Dr. Google: How to Alleviate Online Medical Information Overwhelm
Medical information on the Internet can easily create confusion and anxiety. Richard Senelick, MD, neurologist and author, offers strategies to calm consumers of online health advice.
The Value of Mentoring
Serving as a mentor can make a powerful difference in another person’s life. Follow these nine expert tips for a successful experience.
How to Start End-of-Life Conversations
It’s never easy to talk about the end of life, including options for care. If you encounter resistance (whether you’re the one facing mortality or you’re helping someone else do so), these suggestions from our experts may help.
What is Mental Performance Training?
Using visualization and meditation techniques, mental performance training helps you to set goals and overcome obstacles, such as negative thinking, to achieve optimal performance. It can also help you to prepare mentally for high-pressure situations.
5 Ways to Ease Digital Eyestrain
The time you spend staring at your screen is taxing for your eyes. Here’s how you can take the edge off.
Be 10 Percent Happier This Election Season
A new app provides an outlet to lower your political stress level.
The Power of Silence
Key insights from a legendary Zen Buddhist master, Thich Nhat Hanh, on how cultivating silence creates a joyful, nourishing life.
Unhappy Pills
Women taking oral contraceptives suffer a higher incidence of depression, a new study finds.
Transform Your Reality With 3 Deep Breaths
Start by breathing in focus, discovery and possibility — then see the world through different eyes.
5 Ways to Be a Compassionate Listener
Transform your relationships by changing the way you listen.
Feel the Beat: Rhythm Retreats
Finding your rhythm can be restorative and joyful. These dancing, drumming, and hula-hooping retreats will get you moving.
The Art of Stillness
In a world obsessed with speed and rife with distractions, there are few things that feel better than sitting still, paying attention — and going nowhere. A celebrated travel writer explains how to get there.
Be Quick — But Don’t Hurry: Achieve Your Goals with Focus, Effort, and Preparation
A former player on Coach John Wooden’s legendary basketball team offers sage advice on what it takes to succeed, on and off the court.
10 Meditations for the Workplace
Consider these mindful approaches to finding more peace and happiness at the office.
5 Ways You’re Smarter Than Your Smartphone
These handheld wonders can make life easier — but is easier always better? Learn why it’s worth the time and effort to take back a few basic tasks.
Make It Stick: How to Learn Effectively
Expand your knowledge and boost your memory with these innovative learning strategies.
The 4 Traits of Well-Being
Well-being is not simply the result of good genes or good luck, says pioneering researcher Richard Davidson, PhD. It’s a skill we can cultivate.
May You Be Happy
Senior editor Jill Patton shares how a simple meditation practice lifted her spirits and helped her feel more connected on a recent visit to her hometown.
The Value of Difficult Conversations
This election season, I’m making an effort to cut through the outrage and lean in to what matters to me, so that I might have some honest discussions with the people I love.
The Willpower Instinct
A celebrated Stanford psychologist, Kelly McGonigal, PhD, shares her cutting-edge strategies for improving self-control.