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.

A fun and engaging conversation about easy ways to make mindfulness part of a family's routine, and how kids want parents to be the "captain of the ship."

Mindfulness practices help you become less reactive, so how can you share it with your kids?

For episode 103 of the Metta Hour Podcast, Sharon Salzberg speaks with friend and colleague, Susan Kaiser Greenland.

Drew Perkins talks with Susan Kaiser Greenland about how mindfulness, meditation, and awareness can help students be more successful learners.

Sometimes, the harder we try, the less likely we are to succeed. That’s called the law of reversed effort or the backwards law.

When we get caught in the grip of strong emotions our nervous systems shift to high-alert. Then it’s difficult, if not impossible, for us to be open and flexible, to listen and to learn.  

Susan talks with Tami Simon, the founder of Sounds True, about all things related to mindfulness for kids and parents, including ways to lead a kinder, wiser, and happier life.

The surest way to raise a mindful child is to be a mindful parent.

Is letting go the same as giving up?

Kids whose parents are comfortable saying “I don’t know, at least not yet, let’s figure this out together” have more agency and control. And so do their parents.

Life has a way of throwing curve balls and it’s up to us how we respond. What would happen if we loosened our grip instead of clamping down? 

When our minds change - when we feel more relaxed, less stressed, and less reactive - our bodies change too. And when our minds and bodies change our behavior changes, which shifts outcomes, which in turn affects what happens in the world.  

Fun, wide-ranging conversation with Susan Kaiser Greenland, Dan Harris and Annaka Harris (no relation) on everything from advice for sharing mindfulness with kids, to the origin story of the Inner Kids Foundation, to somewhat controversial topics like careerism and teaching kids a practice that evolved from Eastern spiritual traditions.