Follow your natural breath to help relax your mind and your body. Gently switch into the parasympathetic rest-and-digest state by effortlessly allowing each exhale to drop you deeper into relaxation so that you can sleep sweetly.

A useful tool to get to sleep.

Use this guided meditation to cool off the body and mind and prepare for rest.

Allow yourself to rest with guided meditation as you recover.

Move through a guided relaxation process for your mind, your nervous system, your muscles, and your bones to help you calm down, slow down, and get the rest you need—whether you actually fall asleep or not.

This gentle, progressive breathwork will help your body return to the rest-and-digest state so you can calm down, detoxify, rest, clear your mind, soothe inflammation.

Walk into an evening field and settle by a warm fire to enjoy the stars. Settle into a relaxed state, imagining your ancestors there to support you, your heart making wishes on shooting stars. Let your mind rest while your body makes its way toward sleep.

This simple guided meditation is inspired by the Yoga Nidra meditation practice, which is a progressive relaxation of the entire body.

This meditation is ideal if you need a pause from your day to slow down and calm down, and you may wish to put it on as you are lying in bed at night preparing to sleep.

Fall asleep while visualizing yourself in a field of flowers.

An audio meditation for sweet dreams.

Mindfulness techniques are being incorporated more and more for sleep health. Here are six expert-recommended mindfulness practices to help you fall—and stay—asleep.

You can improve your sleep just by implementing bedtime yoga sequences into your daily practice. Yoga for better sleep can be done from the comfort of your own bed.

Immerse yourself in a colorful city in your mind to rock you to sleep.

The Ajna Light offers a unique opportunity to experience relaxation effects.

A guided visualization to lull you to sleep.

Though you can do this guided meditation anytime, it especially helps you fall asleep at night.

Guided meditation can be used to promote better sleep, reduce stress and anxiety, and even to relieve chronic pain.

A guided visualization for better sleep.

And what to do about it if you can’t

A guided visualization to help guide you to a deeper sleep.

A guided visualization to help you drift off to sleep.

Get to sleep using this guided visualization.

In this guided sleep meditation, we will gently relax the body while we explore a moonlit forest with a peaceful pond filled with lily pads.

If 2 am is when your mind wants to unpack an irrelevant convo from ages ago or wander to worry, these 11 sleep affirmations will help rein in your thoughts for restful slumber.

This guided meditation will lull you to sleep as you walk down a beautiful staircase encrusted with healing gemstones like amethysts, rose quartz, sapphire, and amber.

Not only does yoga nidra meditation help you get a good night’s sleep, it also rids the body of harmful stress-inducing cortisol, boosts the production of “pleasure hormones,” and shifts brain waves into a beneficial state of regeneration and repair.

This gently hypnotic meditation will take you along a dirt path into a candlelit cave with a clear pool filled with healing power. Relax through the guided meditation or allow it to help you get to sleep at night, encouraging your parasympathetic nervous system to wake up your internal capacity for healing.

If you are struggling to get a good night’s rest, you may want to address these common sleep disruptors.

"Meditation takes practice, and in the beginning, like any new skill, meditation can seem challenging."

A guided meditation to calm yourself.

Is anything better than waking up refreshed? Are you unable to answer that question because you don’t remember what waking up refreshed feels like? We can relate. Read on if you or anyone you love needs tips on how to get a good night's sleep.

From meditation to mental health, try these apps to achieve stillness on the run.

If you're looking for ways to naturally sleep better at night, where better to look than in nature?

An interview with Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson about their new book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

The first in three-part meditation series inspired by Ayurveda.

An expert in cognitive behavioral therapies targeting better sleep, Dr. Nicole Moshfegh, author of The Book of Sleep, provides six strategies to help you ward off sleeplessness during the holidays.

Despite the hype, researchers are still exploring the benefits of meditation and how much practice we need to achieve them.

Is sleep eluding you? Some unexpected tools may help you get to sleep and stay asleep.

There are different kinds of quiet, and each one creates its own rest.

“How can you possibly start your day off bright-eyed and bushy-tailed if you don’t get a proper night’s sleep?”

Pull out your smartphone and get ready to download these healthy tools.

Turn the inflammation dial down with these nutrition and lifestyle tips.

Recent research reveals the restful benefits of craniosacral therapy.

Can CBD oil help you get some much-needed sleep?

“While dietary change is a great first line of defense, calming inflammation calls for a multi-faceted approach that delves into all aspects of lifestyle.”

Start or end your day with this breath practice.

Try this audio meditation for slowing down the mind.

Invite your desire to speak to you in your dreams.

A guided meditation to release tension.

Listening to simple meditation or music boosted cognitive function, study shows.

Free 7-Day Health Meditation Program with Prudence Hall, MD from The Mentors Channel

Here’s how to fight chronic inflammation, all day long.

Useful tips to prevent insomnia due to anxiety.

Get a boost of energy with this Ayurveda inspired audio meditation.

Pathbreaking work by Dr. Davidson is tapping the power of meditation and mindfulness for greater wellness.

20 things you’ll want to know about classic meditation mantras.

An excerpt from SaraSwati Shakti's new book.

Sponsored Content from The Chi Center

Put this anti-stress routine on your to-do list for a more zen approach to daily life.

Here are eight ways to build your natural ability to use intuition.

Find the right crystal for your sleep issue, and you'll soon be lost in dreamland.

Take your health into your hands, quite literally, with these finds from S&H.

Yoga and mindfulness can help us recognize that our discomfort has a flow.

Adapted excerpt from Leopard Warrior by John Lockley.

Resilience can help you meet life’s biggest challenges. Discover how embracing specific lifestyle habits can help you build resilience.

Everyone knows the importance that bacteria plays in gut health, but what about fungus? Understanding how to balance your mycobiome, or the ecosystem of fungus that lives in the gut, is crucial for maintaining good health.

“We are all suffering from some kind of stress overload these days, which can cause chronic fatigue, anxiety attacks, insomnia, depression, mood swings, and burnout. What’s the answer? How can we find relief?”

How do we remain healthy while successfully navigating a type-A lifestyle?

Reclaim rest with a rest guided meditation that will take you on a journey of self-exploration.

Pretty much every night, for 46 years, I woke up in a semihypnotic state and ravaged for food…

Wounded in body or spirit? A energy meditation can assist with healing and recovery.

Here are a few tips for keeping calm and taking care during the holiday season.

We can turn to these guides for support and a little nudge when we need help finding the right direction in life.

These tools will help you keep your cool through the chaos of the holidays.

These picks by S&H will help your mind stay sharp and clear.

Science-backed, natural treatments to soothe insanely itchy eczema.

Liminal dreaming is a remarkable mind state, one you can channel for creativity or problem solving, use as a form of metacognition to explore your thought processes, or simply play with as a form of consciousness exploration.

There is so much happening in the world right now that we have no control over. Here are some resources to help you reconnect to your heart and find stability.

“A silent retreat is a gift to yourself to recalibrate, to connect, to learn about yourself in a beautiful way. In such a way that you can only get when your basic needs are taken care of and you are given the time, space, and instruction to meditate in silence.”

The five lifestyle pillars to prevent brain decline.

Lessons on living a better life from the father of yoga.

When we are on screens so much, it is important to find ways to relax and recharge without them. Here are some simple ideas.

For every outward symptom you can see from anxiety, there are even more complex processes happening inside your brain.

Try one of our favorite morning rituals to set the right tone for your day.

A wonderful way to refresh yourself throughout the day, these aromatic mists can help in a variety of ways.

A new study suggests cognitive fatigue can be relieved by playing “casual video games.”

The world doesn’t stop being confusing and cruel just because we decide to think positively. When anxiety has you gripping the sheets, ask yourself these questions to redirect.

Sometimes we set ourselves up for failure by making promises we can’t keep by initiating resolutions steeped in self-blame.

Pass the s’mores—and make them vegan! A new brand of sleep-away camp caters to wellness-seeking adults.

Every choice we make, everything we do, is either inflammatory or anti-inflammatory.

Strengthen your Sadhaka Agni and fight depression with these simple practices.

This year, our Books We Love section examines self-care from an ayurvedic perspective, how food affects mental health and immunity, and how to cultivate a moon practice, and more.

6 ways to nurture self-love.

COVID-19 has anxiety on high. To cope: It’s time to surrender.

Learn how a renowned Ayurvedic and yoga practitioner moves through her day.

Align with nature’s rhythm and see your own radical change

When you decalcify the pineal gland—known as the third-eye chakra—you remove calcium phosphate deposits. This can lead not only to better health and wellbeing but to higher consciousness.

Try yoga nidra for deep relaxation and profound healing.

It is possible to live a stress-free life with completely natural methods.

“Technology has changed our behavior drastically, and yet we are still humans—social beings who crave connection and affection, who eat, sleep, laugh, cry, and love.”

Kids stuck at home due to coronavirus pandemic? Here are some ways to keep them mentally and physically fit.

Take these classic Ayurvedic autumn meals and turn them into an early winter cleanse.

Psychologist Rick Hanson shares how meditation changes the wiring in our brain, how to make your practice your own, and how science and contemplative practice are connected.

Five novel ways to tamp down daily anxiety.

Musician Miriam Jameson shares the story that inspired her new album.

How you can create some new traditions to celebrate the winter solstice.

See how a renowned instructor and dedicated yogi and ayurvedic practitioner, Mas Vidal, kicks off his day.

Explore the most accessible ways to achieve natural vagus nerve stimulation.

My 5-Week, $500 Vacation from Anxiety

Try these methods to boost a frazzled brain.

Stop feeling frazzled and find ways to slow down, find balance, and recharge.

Based on their experiences, here are some how to make love last tips.

Andrew Holecek wants to change the way you dream, and then change the way you live.

This week, learn why adopting a dog is a lot like dating; how to deal with uncertainty; and sneaky ways to reset your body clock. Want to know more? Read on.

Meditation teacher and psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa, author of Don't Tell Me to Relax, offers advice for living fully through difficult times.

It’s time to stop the stress cycle for good. Here are five ways to indulge in chocolate without the guilt.

When you have small children, the morning centering routine has to come early. Real early.

Let go of being weighed down by an overly complicated life.

If these signs feel familiar, here's what you can do about it.

“Sound and music can quickly alter your mood, affecting your subconscious mind. Listening to music is a relatively inexpensive, easily accessible solution to elevate your awareness and your emotional states.”

Modern medicine is driven by huge, randomized double-blind trials that may not apply to your own particular genes or lifestyle. Here’s how to join the truly personal medical revolution.

“I was intrigued three decades ago when I learned that Mahatma Ghandi ate all of his food out of one bowl. I decided to emulate him, starting with a medium-sized very plain wooden bowl that someone had already given me as a gift.”

Is coronavirus news ramping up your anxiety? Does the thought of social distancing make you fret? Try these five strategies to help you cope.

Is a yawn simply a silent scream for coffee or is it something more? Understand why yawning is a spiritual practice, and how you can include more of it in your daily routine.

10 powerful paths toward finding optimum wellness—and a better you

I woke up at 4:00 a.m., meditated for 11 hours, and ate my last meal of the day at 11:00 a.m.—for 10 days. Where to begin?

Try these tricks to handle the pressure of performance.

In the California desert, a vipassana pioneer prepares for the next stage of her remarkable life.

Don’t run away. Engaging with dreams—even nightmares—can teach us a lot about our emotional selves.

“Wellness is essentially being in tune with nature and aligning ourselves with the inherent wisdom that is within us all.” Here are seven ways to connect your body with nature.

Dying awake is a journey rather than a single moment during the dying process. There’s a rigor, and there’s a letting go.

We can’t seek the deepest rest. We can relax the activity that obstructs our contact with it.

An excerpt from Body Intelligence by Joseph Cardillo

Two new books in the field of positive psychology show us how to find real-life joy in our relationships.

Let go of unnecessary mind baggage

Discovering your strengths and passion.

Pitta, you are the light of the world. You bring us color, vision, clarity, focus, enthusiasm, adventure!

Integrative psychiatrist Judith Pentz, MD, shares six ways Ayurveda can rejuvenate mind, body, and spirit.

Scientific researchers are clear that food intolerances are different from allergies and may take longer to show up in the body than allergies.

There is a sacredness that is found in the first moments of the morning. While it may feel overwhelming to change your entire morning routine in one day, consider slowly adding components to it that will set the tone for your day.

An interview with Sara Gottfried MD

Try positive self-talk to eat better, feel stronger, and rejuvenate your body.

Creating balance in your gut can help to alleviate your anxiety.

An Interview with Robert Wright

The effects of constantly being “on” can wreak havoc on our bodies and minds. Try candle gazing and these other practices to induce stillness and relieve stress.

Mindful eating means being intentional about what, when, and how you eat. It can become more intuitive the more you practice.

This Swedish practice will start your morning on the right note.

Yin yoga helps us experience acceptance and connection in a physical way

Incorporate Ayurvedic eating principles into your life to increase ojas and support your immune system.

Here are three spiritual and holistic techniques that you can use to help you with SAD

Silver has numerous health benefits, including a property that suffocates bacteria.

Are you burned out? It may feel insurmountable at times. The key is finding strategies that work for you. To start ... avoid numbing, feed your soul.

Does your gut tell you not to trust your gut? Maybe you should listen.

Experience Ireland on a wellness tour with singer-songwriter Tara O’Grady, author of Migrating Toward Happiness, the inspirational memoir that reveals how to awaken your soul’s blissful state of being.

Research suggests that self-care can reduce stress and exhaustion—if we know how to practice it.

Mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. James S. Gordon shares a technique to shake loose trauma from the body.

Keep your immune system strong—now more than ever!

Cooling foods help you beat inner inflammation.

Submerge yourself into complete bliss.

For 20 years, Judith Orloff has helped make being an empath “something that caring characters would aspire towards.” She shares practices from a lifetime of overcoming shame and creating empowerment.

This goddess encourages us to courageously churn the oceans of our inner selves, to explore the painful feelings and old traumas in our psyches and let them teach us something.

Trauma affects all the systems of the body, mind, soul and spirit; its treatment must go beyond talk centered therapies.

“Thirty minutes spent grounded and expressing yourself through visual arts is 30 minutes of fresh, pure creative energy flowing through your body and infusing your cells—to flush old energy out and wash in new life, giving energy on a spiritual level! … A renewal of spirit.”

It’s holiday season. Take advent beyond the four walls of your own home.

I know of no spiritual teacher or person who more fully embodies peace and compassionate understanding than Thich Nhat Hanh, or Thay, as he is lovingly known by his students.

This one simple strategy can help you significantly reduce your anxiety and stress.

Find ways to pause, rest, and be mindful.

We can’t second-guess every choice we make. So how do we know what it means for something to feel right?

The foundation of mental, physical, and spiritual health is rest. Four rest experts provide insight on sacred rest.

Suffering is Optional. Here’s how to find the teacher inside.

Learning how to tap into the phases of the moon can be a powerful practice.

One woman shares her top four lessons learned from practicing Karma Yoga.

Parent to a nervous cat? Body-Mind-Spirit connection isn't just for the humans—help your cat cultivate its inner peace through music.

In our special section we explore CBD from a variety of angles. Dive in to get up to speed on this huge trend.

Dr. Jenna Macciochi shares tips for building a strong line of defense.

Find the right tea to soothe yourself, body and soul.

A didgeridoo concert reveals the instrument’s powers to reduce stress, blood pressure, and pain and promote an intense feeling of peace and wellbeing.

Excerpt from The Foundations of Mindfulness

There's growing interest in using sound frequency for various ailments and to boost human health. Are healing frequencies effective? Research suggests they are.

This next month can be fertile ground for renewal of spirit and for clarity of mind and heart.

“In terms of achievement, relaxing and ‘doing nothing’ can be extremely beneficial for nurturing creativity.”

Step away and create an “oasis time” for restoration, communion, and grace.

Consuming too much sugar harms the body, brain, and spirit.

If you know there’ll be at least one toxic relative to face this holiday season, here's how to protect yourself and navigate your way forward as sanely and serenely as possible.

Get comfortable, close your eyes. And say to yourself, over and over again, I might die today. I might die today. I might die today.

"I realized at some point along my own journey that alcohol was not my problem; I was my problem, and I was unconsciously using alcohol to change my reality."

An examen practice can assist in finding and interpreting the thread of spirituality that is always in your life.

The contemplative life of women mystics.

Would you give the shirt off your back? This practice has brought the author joy and challenges.

"After experiencing silence and surrender in yoga, I returned to ancient Christian prayer techniques and postures with renewed interest and a willingness to be playful. In the process, I discovered prayer practices that have opened places in my heart to which I didn’t previously have access."

On the front lines fighting for the dignity of an invisible workforce, Ai-jen Poo aims to rehumanize society.

Get tips on how to strengthen your intuition, the critical tool you use to listen to that inner voice that often knows the best way forward.

Maybe you’ve come across one of those bumper stickers that reads Let That #$!% Go, or you’ve seen a T-shirt with the same expression and a serene image of Buddha. But how to let go?

One-third of the new homeless are living in their vehicles with laptops, tablets, and cellphones. My husband and I were two of them.

The delicate new leaves and buds of each new tea shoot contain ingredients that deliver a number of health benefits to our bodies.

How to connect through our bodies with the transcendent dimension of our lives.

“We do not get to choose what feelings arise or how intensely we feel them. Our only choice is in how we relate to them.”

Self-care is not a luxury. In order to build resilience, putting yourself first is critical. Here are seven of the self-care roadblocks we erect and how to break through them to find love and compassion for ourselves.

Take a month to figure out what you can and can’t eat.

Menopause symptoms are a harsh reality of life. But “they should be seen not so much as the end of the reproductive years but as the beginning or rebirth of a whole new you.”

It’s hard to focus when there’s so much stimuli competing for our attention every second. These tricks can help.

Adapted excerpt from Awake at the Bedside

(Re)learn to read deeply. The mental stillness required for a long read allows your mind to formulate a moral position. This kind of bibliotherapy provides a healing place for the soul.

An interview with with the founder of The Work and author of numerous best-selling books Byron Katie.

Drs. David and Austin Perlmutter explain how we can rewire our brains to develop healthier habits.

Your frequency impacts every aspect of your life. The good news: You have the power to up your frequency at any moment. Here is how to raise your vibration.

One Doctor's Story

Classic research grounds our moods in the body, not in the head, and points toward simple steps to happiness.

Gratitude is powerful. Building your sense of thankfulness the Buddhist way.

From medical appointments to yoga classes, the world has gone virtual—and it’s working. Brandi-Ann Uyemura digs into the future of care.

Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are modern-day witches—swapping potions and rituals for age-old proven herbal medicine formulas, acupuncture, moxa burning, and more—providing healing power not only to physical beings, but also to mind and spirit.

With one in five Americans now unaffiliated with organized religion, a new generation is on a journey to create—or discover—the next great sacred space.

In his book Breath, veteran journalist James Nestor explains the fundamental importance of how we breathe and why “the conclusion was always the same. When it comes to breathing, less almost always equals more.”

“We tend to think of stress as something that happens outside of ourselves; something that happens to us. But science is showing that it’s not the stressors in our life, but how we perceive them that determines how much we suffer.”

Generative people tend to be those who have worked through their identity crises. Their life stories -- good or horrible -- tend to be coherent. They're dealing with their stuff, figuring out who they are. In other words, self-help isn't selfish.

The secret to empowered action is learning not to beat yourself up.

Damien Echols, once on death row, says deepening his study of Western mysticism helped him survive and transcend prison.

According to Dacher Keltner, there are important evolutionary reasons: It's good for our minds, bodies, and social connections.

Antidepressants leveled out the highs and lows. So I found ways to supercharge them—to fully experience the agony and the ecstasy. And that feels better…

“So, what are you doing now?” my well-meaning friends would ask after I had quit my job with no apparent employment or other occupation in sight. The only honest answer I could give was to say, “I’m rewiring my brain.”

“We all want our future self to be happy, so we ask: ‘What can I do to relieve this person’s suffering?’

The goal of The World Wisdom Bible is not to create a world religion, but to create peace, 12 coffee cups at a time

As her family begins the restoration of a traditional Japanese-style garden, Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller receives a teaching of love—and of letting go—in the fleeting beauty of its flowers.

The renowned spiritual teacher on getting stuck in the future and saving the planet.

If you’re into exploring other worlds, altering your sense of gravity, and playing in some of the biggest waves on the planet—you just may want to jump in.

These seven spiritual leaders represent a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and traditions. They are creating change on the ground, touching lives, and helping to define the future of spirituality.

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