Cooking for Calm: Meditate In Your Kitchen
Stirring, watching, noticing. Cooking risotto, or any other meal with delicately chosen ingredients, can become a restorative and mindful meditation break that engages all...
Laurie J. CameronTips and Guides
Whether you’re brand new to mindfulness or a seasoned meditator, there’s always something more to learn. Browse our collection of advice, how-to’s and explanations.
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What If Quarantine Was Our Best Opportunity For Growth, Healing & Self-Development?
Millions are struggling due to the current challenges faced by humanity. We cannot control our external circumstances but we can choose how we respond....
Daniel Matallana
How To Be Humble And Why It Matters
Do you sometimes wonder how to be more humble without being hard on yourself? This article explores how to practice quiet confidence and let...
Amy Pattee Colvin
How Visualization Can Help Ease Anxiety
Visualization can influence and forge our realities as we know it. Explore how to use this meditation technique to ease anxiety.
Insight Timer Editorial Team
Managing Fear In Uncertain Times With Your Own Goodness
There is little we can say about the recent global events that hasn’t already been said. These are exceptional times. We all feel overwhelmed...
Jane Murray
Exploring Impatience: Washing Hands As A Mindful Practice
The Coronavirus advisories have been warning us how important it is to wash our hands often, and each time for a good 20 seconds....
Serge Prengel (Active Pause)
How Can Meditation Help Relieve Coronavirus Anxiety?
The coronavirus is here and the whole world is talking about it. But what does it have to do with meditation? Can meditation help...
Giovanni Dienstmann
What Is The Ego? And How Do We Reduce It?
Darren Cockburn explores the workings of the ego, what it consists of, how it manifests and how mindfulness helps to become its kind observer.
Darren Cockburn
A Guide To Understanding Mindfulness And Meditation
Combining the informal, wakeful awareness of daily mindfulness with a formal meditation practice is the most effective way to manage our stress and increase...
Kathryn Remati
Tips for Pain-free Meditation Sitting Positions
Back pain and other discomfort-causing sensations are common during meditation mostly because cross-legged meditation requires great strength to maintain perfect posture. When people don’t...
Isabelle Pikörn