How much good news does it take to balance out a single piece of bad news?

You can train your mind to pay attention to even the littlest things. Like sounds. Enhance your awareness, deepen empathy, and bring more presence to your interactions. Ideal for both beginners and experienced meditators.

Discover the calming power of sound awareness in this six-minute guided meditation. Perfect for teenagers and adults, this live recording from a webinar for parents helps you pause and tune into the sounds within and around you, offering a practical alternative to mindful breathing during intense emotions.

Discover how the law of reversed effort, or the backwards law, applies to meditation in this brief guided practice. Sometimes, the harder we try, the less likely we are to succeed. Learn to let go, relax, and find ease with simple, clear instructions inspired by swim teachers—perfect for busy adults.

Young children learn how everything changes when they listen to the rain.

A cognitive bias that gets a lot of attention, at least in meditation circles, is the negativity bias. Simply put, having a negative bias means we’re wired to give more weight to lousy news than good news. Let’s change that with this guided practice where we focus on the good.

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? 

We imagine biting into a lemon to help us understand the connection between what’s happening in our minds and what’s happening in our bodies.

Learn this beautiful folk song for children of all ages, shared by Tom Nolan from the Crossroads School and the Council in the Schools program. With lyrics encouraging connection to inner freedom and guidance, it’s a heartfelt way to explore mindfulness through music.

We think of things we have in common with someone who seems different than us and silently say, “he or she is just like me.”

In this 10-minute guided practice with Susan Kaiser Greenland, we notice how our minds and bodies feel when we stop, breathe, and be.

We listen to the sound of the rain and remember that everything changes. A 6-minute guided meditation for all ages.