Mindful15: Stress Management | Mindfulness | Meditation

Episode 128 - Multitasking and continuous partial attention are two poor practices that cause exhaustion, stress, and low productivity. You can do better!

Episode 127 - Dr. Andrew Weil’s 4-7-8 breath helps you get to sleep more easily and assists in the management of anxiety. Learn how to do it.

Episode 126 - The most helpful way to manage anger is to offer it mindful compassion. Accepting your anger and sitting with it can help it dissipate all on its own.

Episode 125 - Sound meditation is a lovely alternative to breath meditation. Learn how to attend to sounds both internal and external to your body.

Episode 124 - Mindfulness can help you manage pain by teaching you to suffer less. Much of the suffering that accompanies pain comes from your habitual reactions to the pain. When you’re mindful of these reactions, you can learn to react in different ways, ways that cause you to suffer less.

Episode 123 - So many listeners ask me how to introduce their children to mindfulness practice. Here are some ways to begin.

Episode 122 - Chogyam Trungpa taught that fearlessness isn’t about experiencing less fear. It’s about being beyond fear. Learn how mindfulness gets you there.

Episode 121 - There’s a confusing array of instructions on how to breathe during meditation? Which one’s right? All of them, and none of them. Let me explain.

Episode 120 - When you understand how somatic markers work, you can learn to use mindfulness to notice them and make changes in the way you react to the world around you.

Episode 119 - Why is it that we put our meditation practice on hold just when we need it most? Learn how to keep practicing during stressful times.

Episode 118 - Instead of chasing temporary happiness you could be experiencing long-term satisfaction and peace. Contentment is highly undervalued but there are practical ways to foster it.

Episode 117 - Happiness is well and good, but it’s based on external conditions. To feel more positive, try boosting joy. Here are our practical strategies.

Episode 116 - Unlike joy and contentment, happiness is a response to external conditions. You can learn to boost it by noticing the little daily things that make you feel good.

Episode 115 - Instead of always moving forward to meet our experience, we can sit back and let it come to us. This attitude of receptivity is calming and peaceful.

Episode 114 - An exploration of the qualities of your awareness can teach you a lot about the relationship between your awareness and your experience.

Episode 113 - Some think you need to stifle thoughts during meditation. Not true! Focus your attention on them to learn how to create a healthier relationship with them.

Episode 112 - It’s difficult to meditate when you’re feeling sleepy, especially when the meditation itself is relaxing. In this episode, we’ll explore three reasons for sleepiness and some practical methods for dealing with them.

Episode 111 - Good TV programs capture our attention, but is this kind of attention the same as mindfulness? Can you watch TV mindfully? And if so, why would you do it?

Episode 110 - Part 3 in the Mindfulness at Work series. These mini-mindfulness practices come to work with you to help you be mindful throughout the day.

Episode 109 - This is the second episode in the Mindfulness at Work series. Meditating with others reinforces your mindfulness habit, and meditation groups in the workplace can improve communication and relationships and relieve stress.