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Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
This essay contains mild spoilers for the novel Klara and the Sun. The baby, my baby, was to be named Josie. Josie Joy. But when she was born, she was decidedly not a Josie. The name was too soft, too ethereal for such a sentient...
Mindful Mind
A reflection on the late poet Mary Oliver, and what her work modeled for us and asks of us now.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
On the shores of Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania, a small number of people still hunt and gather their food. Today a Hadza hunter has taken down an animal—a kudu. He can’t carry it by himself, so he cuts his poisoned arrow from its flank...
The Conversation: Health Mind
Therapy during pregnancy for those who need it may have advantages for the next generation.
The Conversation: Health Mind
Kids have found ways around most of the safeguards meant to keep them off social media platforms.
Mindful Mind
October’s Teacher of the Month is a new voice to Mindful: musician Thaddaeus Washington. As a Toledo-based artist and founder of MIND Music, Thadd sees music as medicine and offers his original compositions as meditative practices.
Mindful Mind
We have more technological assistance with daily tasks, more self-care, and more sedentary hours than any previous generation. So why are we still so exhausted? And what do we actually need to help us feel restored?
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Dr. David Spiegel leads us in a practice of cyclic sighing, a simple breathing technique that uses slow, extended exhales to calm your nervous system, ease stress and anxiety, and help you feel more relaxed.
Mindful Mind
One of the core principles of mindfulness is learning the practice of not reacting to everything that's going on inside and around us. But where do we begin?
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Raising a teen is one of the last chapters in parenting. During these years, it’s easy to prioritize your child’s grades, sports, and other accolades, especially as they inch toward leaving the nest. While achievement is one marker of...
Mindful Mind
Teacher and founder of Treeming.org Jörg Sprave leads a guided meditation to introduce listeners to the ancient practice of shinrin-yoku (forest bathing).
Mindful Mind
Garden meditation is a simple way to turn time outdoors into a mindfulness practice—no garden required. Here's how to start, even from a balcony or park bench.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
My 10-year-old son came to me recently with a question about black holes. Not in the way children usually do, restless and easily redirected, but with the focused intensity of someone who had already been thinking for a while. He had been...
Mindful Mind
Ever wonder why your emails tend to be better when you wait a little before replying? Choosing to take a pause before we act may sound simple, but it yields powerful results. Longtime mindfulness teacher and author Andrew Safer shares a few...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Knowledge workers such as scientists, teachers, lawyers, and business leaders are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence applications for tasks that demand imagination, creativity, and problem solving. Ironically, perhaps...
Mindful Mind
What the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku ("forest bathing") can teach us about attention, emotional well-being, and finding moments of quiet in a world that rarely stops.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and selectively sharing food. The behavior offers a glimpse into humanity’s prosocial evolutionary past. But a question has...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Artificial intelligence can summarize research, generate ideas, and analyze enormous amounts of data in seconds. The power of that little “Ask anything” AI prompt box is immense, but can it help us make wiser decisions? Cheryl Strauss...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Explore how cyclic sighing, a simple controlled breathing technique, can help reduce anxiety, promote relaxation, and bring greater calm to everyday stressful moments.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Picture this: 71 adults signed up for a study comparing brief to longer mindfulness practice. Many had never meditated, while others had dabbled years before. Participants were divided at random into three groups: One group got 20 minutes...
Mindful Mind
Jay Pitter, author of the book Black Public Joy, offers placemaking concepts and practices for cultivating a healthy sense of connection with ourselves and the outside world.
Mindful Mind
In this guided meditation, Caverly Morgan invites us to move beyond “positive thinking” in difficult moments and instead tap into a deep well of unconditional love for ourselves
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
As an undergrad student decades ago, I attended a dorm presentation describing the importance of giving and receiving sexual consent. The workshop leaders explained that if your partner said “no” or “stop” but you proceeded to have sex...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
In a genre built around sweetness and ease, one “cozy” video game did something far greater: It put me back together after I lost Mary. Mary was not only my then-boyfriend’s mother, but she also became an important maternal figure when my...
