Mindfulness

The Two Ingredients for Deepening Love

What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Partnership and Its Challenges
Polly Young-Eisendrath

To love another, it's important to get a sense of how you see, hear, and feel, so you can recognize your subjective picture or story of your partner and... Read more

Developing Racial Literacy

How to Confront Our Unconscious Taboos

Howard Stevenson’s program promotes “racial literacy” through skills that help us confront unconscious taboos and more effectively read and resolve... Read more

Therapy and the Limitations of Mindfulness

When a Technique Becomes a Goal

Surprisingly, the bestselling Buddhist author and therapist Mark Epstein doesn't believe that mindfulness is a panacea. Read more

What Really Heals and Awakens - Symposium

Highlights from Symposium 2018

Weaving together Buddhist philosophy and storytelling, clinical psychologist and spiritual teacher Jack Kornfield explored the nature of therapeutic... Read more

VIDEO: Tara Brach on Awakening from the Cybertrance

Dealing with the Challenges to Mindfulness in a Digital World

It should come as no surprise that, in our culture, immersion in cyber activities far outpace the interest in mindfulness. But how do you deal with the... Read more

A push to make mindfulness practices more racially sensitive. Read more

VIDEO: Dan Siegel on the Therapist's Mission in the Modern Age

Attending to How We Relate to Each Other and the Planet

In this video clip from his 2015 Networker Symposium Keynote address, "Healing and Hope in the Human Age," psychiatrist and bestselling author Dan Siegel... Read more

VIDEO: Richard Schwartz on Being a Compassionate Witness to Yourself

How Internal Family Systems Gives Traumatized Clients Their Power Back

According to Richard Schwartz, the originator of Internal Family Systems therapy, the natural state of the mind is to be subdivided into parts, which carry the... Read more

Tips for Living the Life You Want

Think Your Greatest Success is Out of Reach? Think Again
Andrea Brandt

In this second part of a three-part series adapted from the upcoming book Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life after 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy... Read more

Bringing Dreams into the Consulting Room

Helping Clients Awaken More Fully to the Life Around Them
Richard Handler

By Richard Handler - Throughout history, humans have tried to make sense of the baffling, nonlinear fleetingness of dreams. In A History of Last Night's... Read more

Ten Best-Ever Anxiety-Management Techniques

There are Effective Alternatives to Medication

The sensations of doom or dread or panic felt by anxiety sufferers are truly overwhelming. The very same sensations, in fact, that a person would feel if the... Read more

VIDEO: Moving Forward When Treatment Seems to Make a Problem Worse

Chris Germer on shifting the focus from fixing a problem to embracing it with compassion

What someone resists persists. It’s a paradoxical dynamic that you’ve probably seen in the course of your own clinical work. In this video, Chris explains... Read more

VIDEO: The Mindful Path Out Of Depression

Zindel Segal on Helping Clients Take The First Step

What’s happening when a client suffering from symptoms of depression is willing to follow the therapist’s voice with eyes closed? According to Zindel... Read more

Therapists are far more impressed with clinical fads than they should be. Read more

Seven Myths about Meditation

A One-Size Approach Doesn’t Fit All

Seven myths about meditation for clinicians to ponder. Read more

The Power of Commitment

Mindfulness Is Only the Beginning

Despite its popularity among therapists, mindfulness is only a beginning in the process of change. Read more

Meditation for Slow Learners

Mindfulness Goes Big Time

Over several thousand years, different cultures around the world have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity for mentally stepping... Read more

Editor's Note - January/February 2015

Nurturing the seed of the specifically human capacity.

Over several thousand years, different cultures have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity—a saving grace, as it were—for... Read more

The Mindfulness Explosion

The Perils of Mainstream Acceptance

By replacing the exotic aura of spirituality with the language of science and a down-to-earth self-help approach, mindfulness has brought practices once... Read more

VIDEO: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Your Practice

Exploring Sensations with Mindfulness Techniques

Clients who struggle with PTSD, depression, and other stress-related conditions may have a tough time staying engaged in the consulting room. No matter how... Read more

Practicing Meditation Against All Odds

Zindel Segal on the Three-Minute Breathing Space

Zin Segal discusses how clients can achieve mindful awareness of their emotional states in just three minutes. Read more

Bringing Stressed Clients Into The Present Moment

Elisha Goldstein On The “Mindful Check-In”

Psychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon talks with Elisha Goldstein on the meditative technique he calls a "mindful check-in." Read more

Going Beyond Meditation with IFS

How to Move from Acceptance to Healing

Meditation supports clients in being more present and accepting. But if it’s transformation they want, IFS can help them take the next step. Read more

Editor's Note: September/October 2011

The Mindfulness Binge/Minding Mindfulness

I first became aware that there was such a thing as meditation as part of my immersion in the cascade of mind-body-spirit esoterica unleashed by the human... Read more

West Meets East

Creating a New Wisdom Tradition

As mindfulness practices work their way into the psychotherapeutic mainstream, we’re starting to ask more clinically sophisticated questions: Who needs what... Read more

Suggesting Mindfulness

Awakening the Hypnotist Within

As a clinical intervention, mindfulness is best understood by stripping away its aura of mystical spirituality and understanding the crucial role suggestion... Read more

Shadow Side Of Meditation

Getting Stuck in the Present Moment

A Zen teacher describes the benefits and limitations of traditional meditation practice. Read more

Relational Meditation

Moving from Conflict to Attunement
Bruce Crapuchettes and Francine Crapuchettes Beauvoir

While meditation is usually considered solitary, two therapists discover that the couples intervention they’ve been using for over 20 years is actually a... Read more

In Search of a Lost Self

Reclaiming Our Missing Experiences

A primer on the specifics of incorporating mindfulness into therapeutic practice. Read more

The Mindful Internet User

It's About Knowing When to Stop

How mindfulness can reduce the stress of multitasking and information overload. Read more