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Discover the best articles, videos, and resources on mindfulness from around the web. From meditation to stress reduction, from mindfulness apps to mental healt. Follow along on Refind to get the most relevant new links picked for you.

9 Best Articles in 2021

Harvard Business Review

The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time

Harvard Business Review
3 min read · From 2017 · It’s essential for strategic thinking.
spirituality
meditation
stress
The New York Times

Stop Trying to Be Productive

The New York Times
7 min read · 2020-04-01 · The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty.
productivity
mental health
better living
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“I’m trying to be more OK with just being.”
This urge to overachieve, even in times of global crisis, is reflective of America’s always-on work culture.
LessWrong

100 Tips for a Better Life

LessWrong
10 min read · 2020-12-23 · The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in. Possessions 1 .If you want to find out about people’s…
better living
sleep
mindfulness
Entrepreneur

How Reading Books Helps Your Brain Recharge

Entrepreneur
4 min read · 2020-02-15 · It may seem counterintuitive, but absorbing information through old-fashioned books gives your brain a break.
brain
mindfulness
reading
Ness Labs

From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out

Ness Labs
6 min read · 2019-09-07 · JOMO—the joy of missing out—is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose.
attention economy
self
mindfulness
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Associated with a fear of regret, FOMO is the apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which you are absent.
In essence, JOMO is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose, and that you don’t need more time.
New York Magazine

Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours

New York Magazine
20+ min read · From 2016 · An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
distraction
news
meditation
The Cut

How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running

The Cut
5 min read · 2020-04-08 · Research in neuroscience shows a solid link between aerobic exercise and cognitive clarity.
running
brain
neuroscience
The Guardian

The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world

The Guardian
20+ min read · From 2018 · We check our phones every 12 minutes, often just after waking up. Always-on behaviour is harmful to long-term mental health, and we need to learn to the hit the pause button
focus
concentration
digital
Leo Babauta

Coming Back to Powerful Habits (plus 6 Powerful Habits)

Leo Babauta
3 min read · 2020-02-28 · I was talking with a client about how he felt constantly behind on his email, Slack and other messages and small tasks. I suggested having regular times to do those things: 15 minutes in the morning…
mindfulness

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Inside the First-Ever Scientific Study of Post-Mortem Meditation
Tricycle Magazine
Mindfulness meditation can increase selfishness and reduce generosity among those with independent self-construals
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Brain Pickings

Can People Change? The Psychological Möbius Strip That Keeps Us from Ending Painful Relationships

Brain Pickings
3 min read · Jul 17th · Facing the logical fallacies that fuel painful emotional patterns and what it takes to break them with dignity, mindfulness, and emotional maturity.
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While the death of a loved one can make the notion of moving on unfathomable at first, it also makes it, by definition, inevitable — there is no other recourse, for such loss is unambiguous and irreversible.
Because the unwillingness to walk away from a hurtful person is rooted in the belief that people change, the predicament gnaws at the fundaments of human nature and our ongoing effort to better understand what we are made of.
PsyPost.org

Mindfulness meditation can increase selfishness and reduce generosity among those with independent self-construals

PsyPost.org
5 min read · Jul 17th · When Japanese chef Yoshihiro Murata travels, he brings water with him from Japan. He says this is the only way to make truly authentic dashi, the ...
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Mindfulness developed as a part of Buddhism, where it’s intimately tied up with Buddhist spiritual teachings and morality. Mindfulness in the U.S., on the other hand, is often taught and practiced in purely secular terms. It’s frequently offered simply as a tool for focusing attention and improving well-being, a conception of mindfulness some critics have referred to as “McMindfulness.”
Taking something out of its geographic or cultural context often changes the thing itself.
plumvillage.org

How to Grieve

plumvillage.org
~12 min read · Jun 26th · How can we find meaning, peace, and orientation for our lives in times of change? Whether it’s our personal journey of grieving, or our grieving for the losses sustained by our planet Earth…
mindfulness
Tricycle Magazine

Inside the First-Ever Scientific Study of Post-Mortem Meditation

Tricycle Magazine
6 min read · Jul 28th
mindfulness
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Three days after his heart stopped, Geshe Lhundub Sopa was leaned upright against a wall, his odorless body perfectly poised, his skin fresh as baked bread. He looked like he was meditating, remembers Richard Davidson, a prominent neuroscientist and friend of the late Buddhist monk.
By conventional Western standards, Sopa died on August 28, 2014. Five days later, and two days after Davidson’s initial visit, the neuroscientist returned to Deer Park and observed his friend’s body a second time. “There was absolutely no change. It was really quite remarkable,” he said.
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