mindfulness

Every day, we are dealing with a thousand things, overrun by tasks and chores. It can become overwhelming. I’d like to talk about an idea I’ve been working with, called ...

Chronic pain is a cycle affecting an estimated 100 million Americans. It can vary from soreness in the ...

Despite our best intentions, it's often painful and difficult to change our habits, addictions, and strong urges. The ...

Before I started Zen Habits, I was in a place in my life where I had a beautiful ...

Mindfulness has become quite a buzzword in the last decade or so, and for good reason. It’s powerful ...

You may have “senior moments.” Everyone does. You know, those times when your mind wanders when you’re performing ...

For many people, depression is a lifelong battle. If you have one episode of depression, there is a 30 ...

Do you have struggles around eating? If you do, you’re not alone. In the United States, millions of people will ...

Life can be stressful. Whether it’s the stress that comes with having too much work to do in ...

When you wake up in the morning, notice how quickly your mind checks into its physical and psychological ...

Please, for my sake and yours, focus on nothing but the words on this page (or screen) for ...

Bailey Jean Matheson recently died of cancer at age 35, touching people all over the world by writing ...

Cancer is one of the most common diseases of our age, and yet those who face it rarely ...

This column discusses the mental and emotional rewards of attempting to control your thoughts when faced with life's ...

Everyone has at least one dreadful experience in which a small bit of forethought could have staved off ...

Because thinking is effortless, people are oblivious about the importance of controlling what they think, even though that's ...

Very often, our lives are so filled with busyness and distraction that we have no space to actually ...

Tibetan monks have a ritual. They spend hours, sometimes days, creating exquisite, intricate mandalas from colored sand. Once ...

A recent study by Korn Ferry found that job stress is on the rise. This is partly the ...

After struggling with work issues, you decide it's time to start treating yourself better—a little self-care, as they ...

We have been taught to trust our feelings. Being authentic, we are told, is the key to success. ...

Scientists continue to find ways that our thoughts help create the world around us. That makes learning to ...

I’m far from mastering this skill, but one thing I’ve been playing around with is how important mental ...

My family and I flew back to California after nine months of being in Guam, and boy are ...

Sometimes it seems as if life is passing us by. When we are children, time ambles by, with ...

Here I sit, alone, at the keyboard, staring at the blinking cursor. It’s the new year and time ...

A loved one has been going through a hard time, dealing with tiredness, stress, and loneliness, and my ...