Tools & Insights

From @Work 2018. Leo Babauta founder of Zen Habits, shares his journey of how he transformed his life by changing one habit at a time, and how he used mindfulness to implement these changes. He discusses how he overcame fear, uncertainty, and discomfort with devotion and focusing on his purpose by conditioning new habits with mindfulness and love. He discusses how to use mindfulness to catch the triggers and discomforts, and how to stay balanced between pushing and giving up, to stay...

How to start meditating right f*cking now
Mashable
Why everyone is panic buying and four things you can do to help (Coronavirus anxiety update #7)
Dr. Jud
Why Now Is The Time To Start Meditating
Esquire
6 Expert Insights: How To Combat And Manage Anxiety During Quarantine
Forbes
Feeling Stressed? These Meditation Apps Are Free Right Now
Apartment Therapy
"Our calm is contagious”: How to use mindfulness in a pandemic
Vox
Fear of Covid-19 is a mental contagion – and that's something we can...

Resource Bundles

Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus. 
Greater Good
A list of practices, articles, podcasts, live sessions, and more to help you throughout this pandemic

Coronavirus Sanity Guide (FREE)
Ten Percent Happier 

Pandemic Care Resources
Tara Brach
This list of talks and guided meditations will support you through these difficult times.

Resilience in Challenging Times
Sounds True
In response to the growing uncertainty and heightened stress during this unprecedented time, Sounds...

Last week, we asked our readers to share their favorite quotes with us on social media and they delivered. Here are some of those quotes, including the one we shared last week as a favorite of the team.

(This quote is from Mother Teresa)

Self‐compassion and acceptance of experiences may explain the link between meditation and mental health
PsyPost
How to manage uncertainty and anxiety: mindfully taking one day at a time (Coronavirus Anxiety #4)
Jud Brewer
Practicing in a Pandemic
Tricycle Mag
What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Mindfulness
Psychology Today
I tried the meditation app Jen Aniston uses and whoa, it actually worked
body+soul
Mindfulness Practices to Lower Anxiety
Psychology Today
How to recover from burnout and chronic work...

By Becky Greiner

What is Coronavirus?

Of all the newsworthy events that have happened so far in the new year, there’s one word that has stayed consistent in the media and is now at the center of a lot of daily coverage – Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. While Coronaviruses are actually a large family of viruses that can range from the common cold to more severe diseases, this one in particular has been getting a lot of attention because it’s a novel virus, meaning...

By Fleet Maull

During these times of great uncertainty and anxiety, I believe we need to begin a serious conversation about resilience. Resilience is simply no longer a luxury. It's becoming essential and even critical to our very survival… in much the same way that His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a global voice for peace and nonviolence, has said that compassion is not a luxury, that it's actually critical to our very survival in the highly complex, interdependent world in which we live...

By Ted Meissner

Recent developments in our global community have shown just how small the world has become. Just last week, the World Health Organization designated the COVID-19 infection as a pandemic (1). Countries update their response daily, and the Center for Disease Control has issued informational fact pages about the virus (2).  And unfortunately, misinformation is also making the rounds (3), as well-intentioned people share what they've heard without critical thinking and...

By Wendy Quan

Everyone knows about COVID-19. This is a time filled with volatility, fluidity, and uncertainty, followed by fear, worry, or anxiety. Now more than ever, it’s important for people to learn mindfulness and meditation tools to deal with these stressors.

It is a perfect time to mobilize our skills as mindfulness facilitators to go online and open our reach to more people.  

If you have been trained as a mindfulness facilitator, you know the delight and relief people...

By Marc Brackett

When we are overly stressed and worried, like many of us have felt lately with threats like the coronavirus, it becomes even more difficult to regulate our emotions with effective strategies.

But what exactly is effective emotion regulation?

Emotion regulation is how we deal with the feelings we experience from moment to moment to have wellbeing, build positive relationships, and achieve desired goals. When we’re feeling disappointed or joyful or anxious or...

By Breon Michel

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind… but we won’t break. – Mr. Rogers

My favorite professor in the U Penn Positive Psychology program, the late, Christopher Peterson, closed his lecture by saying, “If we were to distill the research on happiness into one phrase, it would be: other people matter.” I can still remember...