mindfulness resources for adults
“Mindfulness,” and “meditation” have become buzzwords or even shorthand for how “enlightened” someone seems to be, but in reality, these tools for becoming more present, peaceful, and joyful in your life don’t need to be so serious. The most enlightened people in the world tend to be the most joyful, playful, and compassionate.
Modern life is hard enough without trying to adopt every “successful” guru’s approach to living. The truth is that many of the things that help us most in our everyday lives come from universal themes that have been practiced throughout the world for thousands of years. We’re lucky enough to live in a time where we now have access to these ancient wisdom and cultural traditions as well as new adaptations to help us bring these meaningful practices into our lives, even if we’ve only a few minutes to spare.
Below you’ll find some of the tools curated to help you in your daily life.
Take a break from the busyness and chaos of life and try out one of these simple practices to bring a moment of joy and peace to your day.
Simple, mindful insights & lessons to try out or easily integrate into your daily life.
Deepen your practice, or find more ideas and tools in Susan’s books and audio offerings.
Take a deeper look into the background and philosophy behind some of Susan’s tools
If you’re new to meditation, it can be helpful to start with brief, frequent practices to build up your “mindfulness” muscle. As adults, we have become so accustomed to the lightning speed and the cacophony of modern life that it can take some time to adjust our minds to moments of true calm and mental space. But keep at it and you’ll begin to develop greater mind-body awareness, cultivate more caring, connected relationships, and reduce stress. These practices are designed to keep it simple and helpful.
How much good news does it take to balance out a single piece of bad news?
Mindfulness-based strategies that target stress-management, pain-management, and quieting often encourage a light focus on the out-breath because that simple shift in attention can ease both physical and mental discomfort.
For six short minutes, pause and listen to what's happening in and around you. In this live recording from a webinar for parents.
We can broaden our bandwidth and use mindfulness skills to parent with more presence during difficult times.
We’re in the middle of one of the greatest tests for parents in modern memory. Tens of millions of us, cooped up in our homes with our kids, as a consequence of the coronavirus. Susan Kaiser Greenland can help.
In the following visualization, we cool strong emotions by filling an imaginary coconut shell with compassion and pouring it over our heads.
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50 practical tools to ease anxiety, overwhelm, and stress by recognizing the enduring sense of love and well-being that’s with us regardless of our circumstances.
Mindful play is a great way for kids to develop focusing skills while learning to regulate their emotions and respond to any situation calmly, with kindness and compassion. Here are sixty simple and accessible games that can bring mindfulness to your daily routine.
The mindful awareness techniques have helped millions of adults reduce stress in their lives. Now, children—who are under more pressure than ever before—can learn to protect themselves with these well-established methods adapted for their ages. Based on a program researched by UCLA, The Mindful Child is a groundbreaking book, the first to show parents how to teach these transformative practices to their children.
50 practical tools to ease anxiety, overwhelm, and stress by recognizing the enduring sense of love and well-being that’s with us regardless of our circumstances.
A deck of fifty-five mindful games for kids that takes a playful approach to developing attention and focus, and identifying and regulating emotions--by the author of Mindful Games and The Mindful Child.
Look through our video library of lessons and activities for kids and adults. And be sure to also check out Susan’s YouTube channel for more.
Simple, effective ways to bring mindfulness into daily life.
A video of my presentation at the 2019 Simms / Mann Think Tank exploring mindfulness-based ways to free yourself from emotional reactivity, patterned thought, and biased thinking.
Are you game to try a pizza meditation?
You can think of anything you like in this meditation.
Except for pizza.
We use an awareness meter and barrel of plastic monkeys to demonstrate how to work with thoughts and emotions when we meditate.