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Begin to train your attention with this simple guided meditation. By focusing your attention you can learn to choose what you’d like to focus on instead of getting lost in a wandering mind.  Show notes: Meditation by Mark Bertin. Mark Bertin, MD, is a pediatrician, author, professor, and mindfulness teacher specializing in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics.

Take a break and boost your mood with this guided walking meditation. The practice guides your mind out of autopilot and helps refocus your attention on the present moment. You can do this practice indoors or outdoors and in a formal or informal way.  Show notes: Meditation by Mark Bertin.  Mark Bertin, MD, is a pediatrician, author, professor, and mindfulness teacher specializing in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics.

A three-minute guided mindfulness practice: how to tune into the present moment and acknowledge wandering thoughts.

A guided mindfulness meditation from meditation teacher Carley Hauck.

Formal Practice: Interconnection Meditation from "A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety" by Bob Stahl, Florence Meleo-Meyer, Lynn Koerbel This meditation will help strengthen your sense of interconnection. Set aside about twenty minutes for this practice. You can do it in a seated position, standing, or even lying down. Choose a position in which you can be comfortable and alert.

This guided meditation can be done anywhere. By tapping into the noise of everyday activities you can find a space to rest and settle your mind.  Show notes: Meditation by Diana Winston.  Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and author of several books including The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness.

A guided meditation from mindfulness teacher Ed Halliwell, author of "Into the Heart of Mindfulness." Find more guided meditations at EdHalliwell.com

Calming the Rush of Panic in Your Emotions This mediation can help you explore how panic affects you not only physically, but also in your emotions and feelings. In a quiet place, find a position in which you can be alert and comfortable, whether seated or lying down. Turn off your phone and any other electrical device that could disturb you. Read and practice the script for this guided meditation below, pausing after each paragraph. (Note: Before beginning this meditation, please consider whether this is the right time for you to do it. Do you feel reasonably safe and open? If not, do some mindful breathing and come back to it at another time.)

A guided mindfulness meditation practice from Dr. Mark Bertin, mindfulness teacher and developmental behavioral pediatrician.

Resting in the flow of experience — a 20-minute guided meditation with Ed Halliwell.

To practice shifting into being mode, try this 7-minute guided practice called "Two Ways of Knowing" from The Mindful Way Workbook by John Teasdale. We can learn to switch out of automatic pilot by bringing our awareness to the present moment. When we do this, we start to see that we have a choice, and this is often the first step in taking care of ourselves.

Mindfulness Teacher Vinny Ferraro, a longtime meditator and senior trainer with Mindful Schools, talks to Mindful about why it's so difficult to soften the heart and how we can engage the compassionate response.

A mindfulness practice from Shamash Alidina's "The Mindful Way Through Stress: http://www.shamashalidina.com/books/

This is one of hundreds of 5-minute practices from mental training coach Graham Betchart you can find on the Lucid App—Their goal is to have one thousand practices available soon. Betchart calls these guided practices “MVP” which stands for meditation, visualization, and positive self-talk. Visit getlucid.com for more details. We featured this practice in our article: Train Your Brain to Thrive, Four mindfulness skills athletes learn in order to stay in the moment with razor focus. By Kelle Walsh.

Episode One of the On Relationships with Elaine Smookler, relationships columnist of Mindful magazine, and Stephany Tlalka, Deputy Editor, Mindful Digital, explores the relationship between mindfulness and happiness. Do you input mindfulness on one end (through meditation and mindfulness practices) and then happiness comes out the other? Why can't we just make that feeling of well-being happen for us when we want it to? Through our chat, we'll also get to know Elaine a bit more. She tends to face things with a sense of humor, even when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Armed with laughter, and a lot of resilience, she's gained a great deal of knowledge about what makes her happy, and what drives her, particularly in moments of uncertainty, discomfort—and even in pain.

8-minute breathing space practice by Patricia Rockman from the Centre for Mindfulness Studies *Adapted from Zindel Segal et al. (3-minute Responsive Breathing Space, 2002, 2013)

An adaptation of The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy by Mark Bertin.

A mindful eating practice from Eat Right Now, a new app developed by addictions expert Dr. Judson Brewer http://goeatrightnow.com/

Addressing the inner critic: an in-the-moment exercise with Dr. Mark Bertin, mindfulness teacher and developmental behavioral pediatrician — featured in the June 2016 issue of Mindful magazine http://www.mindful.org/magazine/