31 Fun & Calming Mindfulness Activities for Teens

31 Fun & Calming Mindfulness Activities for Teens

Mindfulness activities for teens are similar to the activities you’d practice as an adult. But it’s important to put them in a context teenagers are interested in. That means you need mindfulness activities for teens that are relevant to their lives (like meditating to make studying easier) or doing exercises that spark curiosity (like mindful…

Calming Mindfulness Activities for Adults

25 Quick Mindfulness Activities for Adults (+ PDF)

Mindfulness activities for adults are much more diverse than the typical activities we think of first, like seated meditation and yoga. From gratitude to self-compassion, from mindful eating to mindful hugs, the options for incorporating mindfulness into your everyday life are endless. Mindfulness is such a vast topic that sometimes it’s hard to know where…

61 Mindfulness Journal Prompts for Students

61 Mindfulness Journal Prompts for Students (+ Printable PDF)

Mindfulness journal prompts, together with a mindfulness journal, are tools to help students understand how they’re feeling. Teachers often use mindfulness questions for students as a framework to give students another way to understand themselves, and to get in touch with their emotions. It’s hard to know how you’re feeling sometimes. Journaling is an excellent tool for…

Emotional Vibration Chart Raise Your Frequency

The Emotional Vibration Chart: 7 Ways to Raise Your Frequency

The Emotional Vibration Chart maps the range of human emotions to higher and lower frequencies. Peace and joy are higher vibration emotions, while shame and guilt are lower vibration emotions. By using the chart, you can understand which emotions are “higher vibration” and start to cultivate more of those in your life. You’ve heard people…

17 Mindfulness Activities for Virtual Meetings

17 Mindfulness Activities for Virtual Meetings (For Zoom & More)

Virtual meetings can be chaotic. Whether you’re trying to manage a virtual classroom full of students, running a business meeting, or conducting a remote seminar, mindfulness can help. Try including mindfulness exercises to start a meeting, or to reset a meeting’s energy in the middle of long sessions. Right now, at this very minute, thousands…

21 One Minute Mindfulness Exercises

21 Quick Mindfulness Exercises (Less Than One Minute Each)

A one minute mindfulness exercise is anything you can do in 60 seconds or less to center yourself, ground yourself, and pull yourself into present awareness. These short mindfulness exercises help you incorporate the principles of mindfulness into your life — especially when you’re short on time. In an ideal world, every day we would…

Mindfulness Activities for Couples

13 Mindfulness Activities For Couples

Connecting with your partner requires intention and presence—things that can be challenging to cultivate in our busy modern lives. Mindfulness activities for couples help you and your partner enhance your bond by being fully engaged with each other. Practicing mindfulness techniques together offers a number of benefits for couples. Mindfulness activities can reduce stress, increase…

One Minute Meditations

15 One Minute Meditations (For A Quick Reset)

A one minute meditation is any practice you can do in 60 seconds or less to calm your mind, connect inward, and pull yourself into present awareness. These short meditations help you incorporate reflection into busy days — especially when you feel too overwhelmed for longer sessions. In an ideal world, we’d all have time…

How to Be More Grateful

7 Ways to Train Yourself to Be More Grateful

Every year, a handful of countries around the world celebrate Thanksgiving—an annual excuse for family togetherness, and a reminder to be grateful for what we have. When I was growing up, we got together with my extended family for Thanksgiving dinner. Before eating, everyone went around the table and read a gratitude-related quote. (For example,…

15 Mindfulness Exercises At Work To Reduce Stress Fast

15 Mindfulness Exercises At Work To Reduce Stress Fast

Mindfulness exercises at work have a few requirements: you need to be able to do them in a professional environment; they need to be quick; and they need to be simple enough to remember them when you need them. This list of workplace mindfulness exercises is full of stress-reducing exercises you can do in three…

101 Journal Prompts for Kids

101 Fun Journal Prompts for Kids Of All Ages

It’s never too early to teach journaling skills. Journal prompts for kids are one of the best ways to help all children, from elementary students to high schoolers, navigate how they’re feeling. As a parent or a teacher, providing prompts can help kids conquer the blank page while providing essential structure that teaches key mindfulness and…

When Your Nervous System Is Fried, Start Fresh Tomorrow - Here's How

If Your Nervous System Is Fried, Start Fresh Tomorrow (Here’s How)

Let me paint a picture for you: It’s 9:00pm after a long day of work, chores, and childcare. The dishes are piling up, and meanwhile, I only got 40% of my to do list done. Vague feelings of unaccomplishment are replacing the optimism I had in the morning. Try as I might, I can’t nudge myself back into…

Mental Health Subscription Boxes

The 10 Best Mental Health Subscription Boxes for 2024

The best mental health subscription boxes include TheraBox, Introverts Retreat, and Goddess Provisions. What is a mental health box? These monthly deliveries range from therapist-backed exercises to self-care activities and mindfulness journaling. If you’re looking for a mental wellness box, the first thing you want to decide is this: are you looking for a monthly…

Herbs & Apothecary Subscription Boxes

The 9 Best Herbs & Apothecary Subscription Boxes for 2024

Top herbs & apothecary subscription boxes include Owl and Moon Apothecary, The Witches Roots, and Mindful Souls. Common items include herbs, crystals, earth medicine products, and other witchy and spiritual tools. Read on for a comparison of each to see which is right for you. Herbalism boxes are the most convenient way for aspiring herbalists…

Why Hugs Are Important

Why Hugs Are Important (And Why You Should Hug More!)

Pardon the 1980s cartoon reference, but The Care Bears were onto something: Hugs are powerful. via GIPHY More powerful than we want to admit. I’ll sometimes find myself mindlessly ruminating on something or other, assuming that THOUGHTS will solve whatever the problem is. But in reality, it’s my nervous system that needs settling. Why doesn’t…

11 Grounding Exercises for Meetings

11 Grounding Activities For Meetings To Invite Calm

Meetings can be chaotic, but using grounding exercises for meetings can invite a sense of calm and relaxation for participants. Whether you’re running a meeting or conducting a seminar, group grounding exercises can start your session off on the right foot—or reset a group’s energy in the middle of long meetings. A Mini-Guide to Grounding…

The 7 Best Tarot Card Subscription Boxes

The 7 Best Tarot Card Subscription Boxes for 2024

Top tarot card subscription boxes include the Nine of Earth Tarot + Oracle Box, The Witches Moon, and Magickal Earth. Most of these tarot membership boxes focus primarily on tarot cards, but others also include items like crystals, earth medicine products, books, and other witchy and spiritual tools. Read on for a comparison of each…

The 9 Best Gemstone Subscription Boxes

The 9 Best Gemstone Subscription Boxes for 2024

The best gemstone monthly subscription boxes include Mindful Souls, the Crystal Variety Box, and the Natural Stone Collection Box. Each box includes unique gemstones. Read on for a comparison of each box, so you can decide which is right for you. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the number of gemstone boxes out there. In this…

21 Mindfulness Activities for Older Adults

21 Mindfulness Activities for Seniors & Older Adults

Some mindfulness activities that may appeal to seniors and older adults include mindful breathing exercises, gentle yoga or tai chi, nature walks, meditation, mindful art, journaling, and mindful listening to music or poetry. Mindfulness skills such as self-compassion, patience, awareness, emotional balance, and calming the nervous system can be especially beneficial for older adults. By…

mindfulness for college students

31 Mindfulness Activities for College Students

If you’re teaching mindfulness for college students, here’s the key: put your mindfulness activities in a context students will be interested in. That means making mindfulness exercises relevant to their lives—like meditating to make studying easier. Mindfulness skills such as self-compassion, patience, awareness, emotional balance, and calming the nervous system can benefit university students who…

High school student practicing mindful drawing

27 Mindfulness Activities for High School Students

They key with mindfulness activities for high school students is to put the activities in a context teenagers are interested in. That means making mindfulness exercises relevant to their lives, like meditating to make studying easier. Or, doing exercises that spark curiosity like mindful coloring and mindful music listening. Anyone going through their teenage years…

How to Stop Projecting Anger

How to Stop Projecting Onto Others

Here’s a hard-won truth that, once you experience it for yourself, can save you some serious headaches: You can’t always trust your thoughts.  Knowing when not to trust your thoughts is a skill. Cultivating this skill can save your relationships, improve your sanity, and generally make life easier. But first—aren’t you supposed to trust our gut?…

Mindfulness Activities for Middle School

The 17 Best Mindfulness Activities for Middle School Students

It’s important to put mindfulness activities for middle school students in a context they’re interested in. That means mindfulness exercises that are relevant to their lives: interactive mindfulness activities like mindful eating, mindful music listening, and movement exercises. Middle schoolers can benefit as much as anyone else from mindfulness skills like self-compassion, patience, awareness, emotional…

Brain dump journal

How to Manage Worries with a Brain Dump Journal

Brain dump journals help you transform vague feelings of worry into concrete ideas that you can take action on, or at least understand better. In this article, I’ll give you three behind-the-scenes examples of my own brain dump journaling process so you can decide if this journaling method is for you. I’ve recently been digging…

Using The S.T.O.P. Method To Battle Stress

Using The S.T.O.P. Method To Battle Stress

Stress finds its way into everyone’s life. When it does, how do you manage? My humble answer: Not too well. Despite writing about mindfulness, having attended a 10-day silent retreat, and possessing an off-and-on relationship with meditation, I continue to be at the whim of external circumstances. Right now, I’m going through a season of this kind of stress….

The 9 Best Wellness Subscription Boxes

The 9 Best Wellness Subscription Boxes for 2024

Top-rated wellness subscription boxes include TheraBox, Bath Bevy, Aster Skincare, and Goddess Provisions. A wellness delivery box commonly includes items like scented candles, journals, bath salts, and incense to remind you to take care of yourself. A monthly wellness box makes the perfect treat for yourself, or a thoughtful gift for a friend or family…