Mindfulness Exercises for Groups

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Mindfulness Definition | What Is Mindfulness - Greater Good

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to ...

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Mindfulness | Greater Good

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to ...

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Five Ways Mindfulness Meditation Is Good for Your Health

Mindfulness may also be good for hearts that are already relatively healthy. Research suggests that meditating can increase respiratory sinus arrhythmia, the natural variations in heart rate that happen when we breathe that indicate better heart health and an increased chance of surviving a heart attack.

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The State of Mindfulness Science - Greater Good

During the past two decades, more and more scientists have studied mindfulness—a Buddhist-inspired collection of practices aimed at helping us to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Their early findings triggered an enormous amount of enthusiasm for meditation ...

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How to Teach Mindfulness in a More Social Way - Greater Good

Relational mindfulness practices help students cultivate awareness and connect with each other to facilitate learning and belonging.

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What Mindfulness Practices Can Look Like for… - Greater Good

Here's what we can learn from mindfulness programs that have aimed to serve Indigenous communities.

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Teens Need Compassion to Go with Mindfulness - Greater Good

When we intertwine mindfulness and compassion, we shift away from simply telling teens to “pause and breathe” to manage stress and, instead, acknowledge the human needs that evoked the stress to begin with. In fact, if we start with “I see you, and what you say matters,” we might find that pausing and breathing becomes even easier.

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Why Mindfulness Matters - Greater Good

Still, the term “mindfulness” is likely to raise more than a few questions. For starters: What, exactly, is it? “Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment awareness,” writes Kabat-Zinn in his groundbreaking book Full Catastrophe Living. “It is cultivated by purposefully paying attention to things we ordinarily never give a moment’s thought to. It is a systematic approach to ...

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Three Ways Mindfulness Can Make You Less Biased - Greater Good

Cognitive biases may be partly to blame for prejudice, and research suggests that mindfulness can help us correct them.

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Why We Need Mindfulness at Work - Greater Good

A Q&A with Greater Good's own Jason Marsh about the benefits of mindfulness at work, the topic of our upcoming conference in Berkeley, California.