Surprisingly, one group that doesn’t need to heed these warnings is executives. In our assessment of 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 more, we found that the more senior a person’s role is, the more sleep they get. There are two possible explanations for this. Either senior executives, with the help of assistants and hard-working middle managers, do less and take more time for sleep. Or senior executives have had the wisdom and discipline throughout their career to get enough sleep and thereby maintain a high performance level without burning out....

Today, the number of well-written, thought-provoking children’s picture books with a mindful component is growing by the moment. Adding a mindful book or two to the current cannon of bedtime stories feels like adding an extra nutrient to the meal. We are planting seeds of empowerment in our youngsters to grow into young adults who can appreciate their world from the inside out. I pulled together seven mindfulness-based illustrated children’s books published over the last year that are worthy of a closer look....

Non-striving Sleep is a process that cannot be forced but instead, should be allowed to unfold. Putting more effort into sleeping longer or better is counterproductive. Letting go Attachment to sleep or your ideal sleep needs usually leads to worry about the consequences of sleeplessness. This is counterproductive and inconsistent with the natural process of letting go of the day to allow sleep to come. Non-judging It is easy to automatically judge the state of being awake as negative and aversive, especially if you do not sleep well for several nights....

Explore the Soft Belly Breathing Practice Read more about Jillian Pransky’s Deep Listening approach in the June 2019 issue of Mindful magazine. Read More Kelle Walsh May 23, 2019

For more about this survey, read Happiness Tracking and Quantifying Life Quality on Mindful.org. 08/18/11

First, grief. My girlfriend K. was twenty-two when her mother shot herself. Her mother covered the couch with a plastic sheet, aimed the gun at her heart, and called the cops just before she pulled the trigger. K. was called across town to come and identify the still-warm body. The cops then bundled her mother’s corpse in a sheet, which they later returned to K. “I had to move into the house and live there to oversee its sale,” she told me....

So here’s the game. I give you some money—let’s say $10—and tell you the following: you’re playing with three other people that you don’t know and may never meet, and each of you have been given the same amount to start with. You are all invited to contribute any amount of your money to a common pool. Once everyone has contributed, the game doubles the amount in the pool, then gives each player an equal portion of that doubled amount....

When I say that now it sounds incredibly antiquated, as if I lived in the time when trains were called iron horses. The sounds and shapes and sizes of those days seem so distant to me, and they’re utterly nonexistent for my children. The staccato click of a phone as it dialed each number one by one, the bulky piece of furniture called the television, the record player with one LP after another stacked up like pancakes....

Then, I remembered how cyclical things are. Once something reaches the point that it’s celebrated on the cover of Time, look out. The knives are being sharpened in the back room. The biting criticism, naysaying, and debunking will soon follow. One of the great things about the media is that we can rely on it to part the curtains on the hype and let us examine what’s really going on....

There is some emerging evidence that more benefits may result from spending more time in mindfulness practice, but I would suggest letting your experience be your guide. What feels right to you? Do you notice the impact of your practice on the rest of your life? Would you appreciate more of whatever it is that you notice? That could be the answer to your question. But curiosity should really be your guide in this situation....

With all this energy buzzing, Mindful is ending 2015 on a high note, and with an expanding and highly engaged community of readers. We’ve accomplished most of our goals from the start of the year, bringing you our iPad digital edition, more videos, as well as more conferences and collaborations. You can learn more about our goals for 2016 on our end-of-year campaign page. And what’s the best way to come down from a high-energy buzz like the one we’re feeling right now?...

Do you believe creativity is learned or inherent? Learned: 14% Inherent: 46% Not sure: 40% Does your creativity thrive in peace or chaos? In peace: 61% In chaos: 8% Doesn’t matter: 31% Do you have a song that pumps you up when you’re doing creative work? “I prefer quiet.”“Anything delightfully cheesy.”“‘Lose Yourself’ by Eminem”“Random Spotify song. One song. Then silence.”“‘Dancing On My Own’ by Robyn.” Are you more creative by yourself or with others?...

Since forever, this has been one of the hardest questions to answer. And until the scientific revolution, unless you had firsthand knowledge (“I tried meditation and it did this for me, but I can’t say what it will do for you”), you had to rely on others you trusted (“The One-Who-Knows-All says that this plant will cure your anxiety”). With the advent of scientific experimentation, the standard for knowledge began to shift, and nowadays with other kinds of authority in decline, the gold standard for knowledge is whether it has been tested in an experimental setting....

Weng is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, core faculty of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and affiliate faculty member of the Neuroscape Center. In August 2020, she and her team published the first-ever peer-reviewed study to decode brain networks during meditation, using machine learning. Instead of treating meditation as a uniform and unchanging process that occurs more or less the same way in everyone’s brain, Weng wanted to accurately portray how internal states ebb and flow during meditation....

Ryan maintains a daily mindfulness practice and talks about how mindfulness has the potential to make a tremendous difference in society: “I felt like I would be derelict in my duty as a member of the United States Congress if I didn’t try to push this stuff out into society. We’ve got a responsibility, when we get sworn in to be a member of Congress, to try and help our constituents and help our country....

CONGRESSMAN TIM RYAN: Recently in my own campaign for re-election I had an opponent who was just bashing me for not doing anything and never got anything done for the area and all this stuff. This kid fly in from New York – he hadn’t been in the area for 10 years – and then he comes in and he starts lobbing bombs at me for not doing enough. I’m like, “Wait a minute....

title: “Uncovering Happiness” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-13” author: “Linda Carter” Occasionally, in some of the seedier bars I frequented, I would come across a mess of a man who was so strung out that he repulsed me. I remember saying to my friends, “God help me if I ever turn out like him.” I thought, since I was managing to succeed at work, I was in control of my self-abusive behavior....