The Mindful Podcast

Meditation teacher and voice actor Elaine Smookler leads a mindfulness practice that consists of laying down and placing attention on each area of your body, from head to toe.

Episode 3 of Point of View with Barry Boyce, Editor in Chief of Mindful Magazine, and Heather Hurlock, Senior Editor, Digital at Mindful.org, and today we're talking about silence and spaciousness. We live in an age where most of the physical spaces we inhabit are intruded upon by various devices, all vying for a bit of your attention. In fact, your attention is actually traded as a form of currency these days on social media. People get “paid” in audience and “views,” meaning eyes on content. All of this makes seeking out solitude and creating space for yourself a very radical act.

5-minute guided meditation, produced by UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC. For more: http://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/mindful_breathing#data-tab-how

Episode 2 of Point of View, with Barry Boyce, Editor in Chief of Mindful Magazine, and Heather Hurlock, Senior Editor, Digital at Mindful.org, explores happiness. It’s a tricky word, happiness. And even though our Declaration of Independence guarantees us the right to pursue happiness, the word can still seem a bit trivial as a guiding principle. We look at how pursuing happiness can derail the pursuit of mindfulness.

In Episode 1 of Point of View with Barry Boyce, Editor in Chief of Mindful Magazine sits down with Senior digital editor Heather Hurlock to discuss mindfulness in public schools. Recently, the National Center for Law in Policy, a non-profit legal defense organization focusing on religious freedom and civil liberties, sent a legal notice to a Cape Cod School district asking them to end their mindfulness program because the center contends that the mindfulness program is based on Buddhist beliefs and violates the separation of church and state. 




When was the last time you gave your body a break? And we're not talking about sleep. Take ten minutes and try the body scan practice.

Meditation is not all in your mind. In fact, it begins and ends in the body.

Stop tossing and turning and get some quality shut-eye with this bedtime practice from sleep psychologist Shelby Freedman Harris.

Try these simple set of instructions for walking meditation from Barry Boyce, Mindful's Editor-in-Chief.

To be kind to others, you need to start with yourself. This loving kindness practice involves silently repeating phrases that offer good qualities to oneself and to others.