Calm
How Habits Can Get in the Way of Your Goals
Habits are key to achieving your goals—but only if you don’t get tired of them, research suggests.
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Daily Practices
Rethink Your Food Cravings with the Art of Savoring
Emotional eating fulfills a real need in our bodies, but goes off kilter when we don't check in with our minds. Strike a balance between momentary cravings and long-term nourishment with these four steps.
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Compassion
Four Self-Care Habits to Practice at Work
We are our own worst critic — and it could be holding us back in the workplace. Here are four ways to stop being so hard on ourselves and use simple moments during the day to wind down when we feel overwhelmed.
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Tame Bad Habits with This 10-Minute Mindfulness Practice
Your mind is built to crave. We can respond to cravings in two ways: sate them, or notice our triggers and work with them. This guided meditation helps us build awareness around how cravings surface in mind and body so we can break free from unhealthy habits.
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How Habits and Happiness are Linked
Happiness doesn't always make us feel happy, says New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Rubin. That's because it's a complex state of well-being that requires awareness of both positive and negative emotions, personal values, temperaments, and habits.
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Calm
What to Do When Things Fall Apart
How to stay steady when it feels like the world is against you.
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Anxiety
A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit
Psychiatrist and addiction expert Judson Brewer on how we can use mindfulness to harness the brain's habit-forming process to build more nourishing habits that aren't steered by cravings.
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Calm
The Flighty Nature of Attention
Meditation teacher Will Kabat-Zinn explores how meditation allows us to stumble upon something we've always wanted: a settled, stable mind in the midst of the chaos of life. We live at the mercy of our thoughts and thought patterns, he says, and as we begin to cultivate attention—which requires us to move counter to much of the mainstream direction of our society and economy—we gain a little stability.
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Daily Practices
5 Ways to Kick Bad Habits
How to finally get rid of those pesky old habits that no longer serve you.
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Calm
A Simple Strategy for Creating New Habits
Four research-backed tips that will help you stave off temptation, follow through on your goals, and shift out of old habits and into new ones.
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