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In this sleep meditation, connect with the energy of the earth element to help you cleanse any unhelpful energy, find support and relaxation, and meet the unconditional love that Earth is a conduit for. Use this meditation if you are feeling stressed, anxious, ungrounded, or simply need help drifting off into a restful sleep.

Allow yourself to drift off with the gentle reminder of all that is good and worthy within you.

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

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.

Wander through a delicious fantasyland filled with benevolent flowers with nourishing, healing properties.

Visualize a circle of protection around your body. Sleep safe and sound.

Allow yourself to rest with guided meditation as you recover.

Savor the flavors of frothy cherry moon milk while you visualize being bathed in a peaceful pink light.

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.

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.

When there is so much to think about, winding down to sleep is vital to your wellbeing.

Insomniacs can take solace in this guided meditation.

This guided meditation will help you navigate your own healing journey by gifting you with a healing elixir.

Drift off to sleep peacefully with a 17-minute guided meditation into the garden of the Goddess.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Clark Strand walks the path toward a new appreciation of the night.

Fall asleep while visualizing yourself in a field of flowers.

A guided visualization to lull you to sleep.

An audio meditation for sweet dreams.

A guided visualization for better sleep.

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

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.

Enjoy this relaxing visualization through beautiful landscapes as you drift off to sleep tonight.

Trouble sleeping? Enjoy this gentle, relaxing guided meditation to help you slip into dreamland.

Through dream incubation, yoga nidra, or a general meditative practice, spiritual sleep can bring on creativity and help you problem-solve.

The pineal gland is the size of a grain of rice, but it is responsible for sleep and sexual development and acts as a strong antioxidant, among other functions.

And what to do about it if you can’t.

Rediscovering an ancient hour alone, at night, with God.

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

Get to sleep using this guided visualization.

A guided visualization to help you drift off to sleep.

Trying to fall asleep but feeling weighed down by the day? Drift off with this peaceful guided meditation to clear your energy.

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.

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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.

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A novel study found that patients who practice meditation and mindfulness experience better sleep and relaxation patterns and have a more accepting outlook toward living with a long-term illness.

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.

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.

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

Try this guided meditation to explore the chakras and gain insight.

Poor sleep has massive consequences for our wellbeing. Aim for better sleep through yoga, meditation, supplements, crystals, and more with these ideas for better sleep from S&H.

Steve Jobs understood Death’s Secret and was a master of Lucid Living.

Cold therapy, vocalization, and socializing are just three of six ways to improve vagal tone and reduce stress.

Lying down during the day can lower stress, boost productivity, and help you sleep at night.

Vibrational healing isn’t new, but it has recently become more mainstream.

Let your imagination lead you into an inner realm of emotional discovery and spiritual growth.

Visualize a peaceful letting go for your loved one.

Just like our physical bodies, our homes can become cluttered with energy that doesn’t serve us.

“The most important thing determining the quality of your life is your mind and your own ability to master your mind.”

“Whereas conventional psychology has traditionally looked at so-called ordinary experiences and mental illness, transpersonal psychology is interested in non-ordinary experiences.”

Repel mosquitos, chill out, and get a good night’s sleep with catnip.

You can thank the ancients for everything from democracy to libraries, the alphabet to zoology. What do they say about happiness?

Vibrational energy healing has a direct correlation to our overall health and wellbeing, especially our gut health.

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.”

Spirit is always with you in whatever form makes sense to you.

Yoga Nidra lineage holder Tracee Stanley doesn’t want you to fear rest.

When it comes to improving sleep, do measuring apps and biohacks help or hinder? The answer isn’t the same for everyone.

The Ayurvedic clock tells time in 4-hour dosha blocks. One of these is optimal for falling asleep; another for the best rest.

Slow, deep, diaphragmatic—breathwork sounds, and is, so beneficial for treating insomnia. But they call it work for a reason.

ASMR calms and engages with materials that clink, rustle, clack, swoosh, brush, smoosh, and slurp.

Intuitive healing practitioner Muneeza Ahmed lists eight steps to get your energy back.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hypnosis can help you get to the root of an issue quickly. It’s increasingly being used as a supplement to psychoanalysis.

Meditation, yoga, retreats, and intensives can accelerate growth but sometimes result in disorientation and an urgent need for radical change in work, relationships, and personal values. We can learn how to manage this within ourselves and to support others.

Honoring your pet with friends helps healing begin.

While researchers are still exploring the mechanism of sound medicine, studies show that sound therapy boosts spiritual wellbeing and reduces anxiety and pain.

Supporter power animals offer potent energetic medicine, wisdom, and teachings. Your core power animal is with you every day for your entire lifetime.

Wrapping your arms around anxiety is about speaking directly and compassionately to your anxiety.

“Not letting ourselves age is a way of not letting ourselves live.”

Part of our happiness experience comes from allowing ourselves to be in relationship with all of our life experiences, without labeling them good, bad, or neutral.

You get to feel, sense, decide, and direct the life that lights you up. This is the call of divine timing.

Humans lean toward the negative, but we can overcome this tendency. Discover five Buddhism-inspired ways to be happier right now.

Having a hard time falling asleep? Listen to a boring story.

Place blindness is a form of apathy that sets in when we don’t spend enough time outdoors. Overcome place blindness “to feel alive, to feel good.”

Can’t concentrate? Wear, carry, or display fluorite and other crystals for focus.

Learn to listen to your internal “yes” and “no” signals. Teach your body that what you want matters.

Defining yourself as someone with sleep problems can compound them. It’s time to wake up to winding down.

Struggling to escape the heat? Cool it with tips from Ayurveda, yoga, Western herbalism, traditional Chinese medicine, and everyday common sense.

“Every time I have gathered in community ritual or personal ceremony, I have experienced a healing.”

The spiritual meaning of the summer solstice is tied to warmth, fertility, and harvest. Celebrate energetically!

Create adaptogenic, crystal-infused face and body mists to revitalize and boost balance.

What does it mean to suffer effectively?

Breathwork is an active form of meditation in which you manipulate your breath to change the way you feel.

Chrissy Holm details three mindfulness practices that can improve your ability to lead others, as well as yourself during times of stress or discomfort.

Use these full moon crystals to receive deep insights and downloads from the higher spiritual realms.

Giving and receiving gifts can be a true joy. But accumulating more things can feel like a burden.

Mindful mimicked fasting combines a novel formula of nutrients with deep spiritual connection.

Researchers are continuing to learn what role forests play in everything from human happiness to cancer treatment.

Acknowledging other animals’ capacity for still minds might be a helpful tool for quieting our own.

Embrace darkness as a source of deep wisdom.

Winter marks another completion around the sun—a perfect occasion to contemplate what’s most important to us.

Chanting a mantra can counter dementia, help you sleep, and more.

On a tragic anniversary—a traumaversary—ask yourself: What does your body need?

Connect to the earth with a 15-minute grounding meditation to calm anxieties and manifest desires.

Enlightened dog training offers a peaceful approach to communicating with canines.

ABC News anchor/correspondent Diane Macedo’s new book is titled The Sleep Fix: Practical, Proven, and Surprising Solutions for Insomnia, Snoring, Shift Work, and More.

Acroparesthesia is often a burning feeling in your hands or feet and can cause pain, discomfort, and anxiety.

Sound healing benefits include stress relief, better focus, and energy alignment. And it all depends on the frequency you’re listening to.

Are you suffering from these emotional detox symptoms? It may be time to make a change.

Find some water—in a fountain, a pool, infused in a glass on your nightstand—and balance your energy center with water meditations.

Candle gazing benefits your vision, cognitive function, yoga and meditation practices, and more.

The ancient “science of life” offers potential healing for chronic pain and fatigue—explore how to utilize Ayurveda for fibromyalgia.

If you’re tossing and turning or just can’t get a restful night’s sleep, Ayurveda may have just the wisdom you need.

Suffering from acne? Ayurveda may have the answers you need to clear your skin.

Meditation allows us to find the "rests" in the music of life—learn how with one particular lineage of practice.

Use these five lessons to start the Year of the Rabbit on the right foot by making sleep a priority and allowing an abundance of rest to hop through your front door.

Ayurvedic self-care offers holistic, sustainable ways to nourish your body for the long term. These five tips will help you manage your life with more ease.

It's important for animal advocates of all kinds to take care of themselves. Discover some top tips on how to steward trauma instead of letting it consume you.

Struggling to get up in the morning and feeling anxious? Experiment with these 14 techniques to start the day strong.

For this year’s gift guide, we asked S&H contributors and readers for some of their favorite gifts—gifts they’ve given or received, or even gifts they wish had been exchanged.

During menopause, the body’s needs change. Try these five options for different ways to move the body during this transition.

Use one of these thirty affirmations to sink into a deep, restful sleep tonight.

Take your outdoor self-care to the next level this spring. Explore how creating a forest apothecary garden can help manage anxiety.

After periods of stress and deep anxiety, our nervous systems need nourishment. See if one of these eight Ayurvedic methods can support you.

Traditional treatments not cutting it for migraine management? Explore the root of migraines and some potential options for support.

"March 11th was a normal day, filled with typical responsibilities and joys, concerns and endeavors, practices and distractions. March 12th, I awoke to a new normal…"

The western medical model would have us believe that aging is a curse, while Ayurveda holds a more holistic, optimistic perspective. These eight tips can support healthy aging for all.

Is it an overactive nervous system, or is it unprocessed emotions keeping you awake at night? Learn more about the spiritual meaning of insomnia to get a better night's sleep.

The founder of Northwest Memory Care Center explores a potential healing regimen for Alzheimer's—one backed by research data.

Feeling wilted in the middle of summer? Channel the spiritual energy of thunderstorms and heat with July’s Thunder Moon.

Learn how to move away from anxiety about raising children, and into a place of balance and ease.

Discover six practices rooted in Buddhist teaching that can dissipate anger.

If you're feeling stagnant and in need of renewal, try one of these yoga cleanse techniques.

Learn why mixing alcohol and menopause can be a recipe for unease.

Soothe yourself from the inside out with this gentle meditation.

Your eyebrows are a major source of emotional expression. Even if they are masked, we can often tell what a person is feeling based on eyes and eyebrows alone. What are your eyebrows doing right now?

Nourish your lungs this fall and winter by keeping warm, processing grief, and releasing emotions that aren't helpful anymore.

Now matter how much time you have, these strategies will help you feel more rested and energized all season long.

Connect with the spiritual meaning of the December full moon and the wisdom it offers us for slowing down.

Utilize one (or all!) of these tips to become healthier day by day.

Explore how meditation can provide profound health benefits, especially for seniors.

In need of more quiet time? Concerned about noise pollution? Practice mauna.

The November full moon is the perfect time to wrap up projects and turn inward for the winter. Explore the spiritual meaning of the Beaver Moon.

Ayurvedic wisdom can help us have a healthier and happier holiday season—learn how with these five tips.

Use these mindful methods to prepare for the holiday season with greater ease and less anxiety.

Learn how to embrace Divine Feminine energy this autumn and winter as the days grow long and cold.

Use the ancient art of alchemy to transform wakefulness into a good night’s sleep—the process is easier (and less mystical) than you might think.

When we walk the path of personal transformation, our actions are no longer only for ourselves. They affect the world.

These ten skills can help you navigate through murky waters with grace and wisdom and build reserves of strength for the future.

A somatics coach and meditation instructor debunks six myths about why you feel you can’t meditate. What's holding you back?

Not every type of meditation is suited for everyone. Which style of meditation is best for your dosha?

For one author, rock climbing became an empowering bastion of physical and mental wellbeing and an unexpected source of community. Explore the benefits of this exciting practice.

Sadness, while deeply uncomfortable, has a purpose and lesson to teach us. What medicine can your sadness offer you?

Explore these simple ways to incorporate cannabis into your daily routine.

When your nervous system needs a reset, try yoga nidra. Learn more about the power and benefits of this practice.

Aligning your daily routine with the rhythm of day and night can drastically improve your sleep.

Does a yoga instructor’s cue of “just relax” cause you to tense up even more? Experiment with the act of softening.

At winter's halfway point, take time to honor the past year's losses and harness the cleansing power of fire. Learn more about the spiritual meaning of Februalia.

Endometriosis is a complicated but common condition. When Western medicine offers no explanation, you may want to explore the spiritual meaning of endometriosis.

Our lead digital editor reports on one master herbalist's suggestions for our current age of anxiety.

Explore sage advice and a powerful 12-minute guided meditation from psychotherapist Andrea Wachter that can help you embrace your emotions and experience healing and relief.

Qi gong master Lee Holden teaches how to return to the body for balance, peace, and vitality.

Yoga can be a powerful aid to people experiencing aches and swelling in the body. Try these five yoga poses to lower inflammation.

Ever caught yourself waiting before making a decision, but not knowing why? Explore how hesitation can be a meaningful manifestation of intuition.

A seasonal affective disorder expert and light therapy pioneer shares how mindfulness can strongly support other treatments for SAD.

Brian Cox was born in Kenya in 1960. A three-time winner of the President’s Trophy at Seattle University, he received a Master of Arts in Holistic Studies in Mind-Body Regulation f…

If you feel caught in a fear loop, work with these five Buddhist methods to ground yourself.

Use these five creative tools to shift from the sympathetic nervous system into the parasympathetic nervous system.

Explore how one app is helping people fall asleep each and every night with their library of soothing sleep tracks.

Our animal chaplain gives the scoop on the most ethical, mindful ways to snap pics of our beloved animal friends.

Have you looked up at the cosmos lately? Learn all about the health benefits of stargazing.

Litha, a pagan summer holiday, marks the longest day of the year. Explore more about the spiritual meaning of Litha and what it represents.

Learn more about the benefits of nose breathing for your health—it might just change your life.

How can life’s most difficult struggles also be blessings? Andrea Sherman explains, and shares her own experience with Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder and how it's affected her spirituality.

When you can no longer distinguish between your waking and dream lives, how do you view your Self? Rabbi Rami shares his thoughts.

The process of acceptance can be deeply healing. Explore how one spiritual leader manages chronic pain through self-compassion and acceptance.

Entering midlife brings with it many challenges, opportunities, and questions. Rabbi Rami shares his thoughts following a conversation with Chip Conley for the S+H podcast.

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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.

Dive in to our special section on 100+ books we love.

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

Our senses offer an immediate doorway to the present moment, and there are potent added benefits to these three sensory experiences. Try one the next time your stress and anxiety m…

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.

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.

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.

"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."

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

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

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

A guided meditation to calm yourself.

The contemplative life of women mystics.

An interview with Sara Gottfried MD

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

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A guided meditation to release tension.

Cooling foods help you beat inner inflammation.

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

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

“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.”

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

Find ways to pause, rest, and be mindful.

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

Invite your desire to speak to you in your dreams.

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

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

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

No matter your spirituality or background, it's possible to turn every day into a living, breathing ritual. Explore how one author transformed her life by doing so.

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

Start or end your day with this breath practice.

"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."

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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.

Keep your immune system strong—now more than ever!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

“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.”

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

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

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.

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

Yoga nidra affects the brain by shifting brain waves into a beneficial state of regeneration and repair.

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

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

An expert in cognitive behavioral therapies targeting better sleep provides six strategies to help you ward off sleeplessness during the holidays.

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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An Interview with Robert Wright

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

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.

The five lifestyle pillars to prevent brain decline.

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

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

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Tap into the power of the moon with these easy practices for moon spirituality.

Adapted excerpt from Leopard Warrior by John Lockley.

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

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

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

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

Try these methods to boost a frazzled brain.

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

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

Discovering your strengths and passion.

Try this audio meditation for slowing down the mind.

Five novel ways to tamp down daily anxiety.

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6 ways to nurture self-love.

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

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

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

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

In our spiritual luminary series, each week we will feature someone who personifies a key spiritual value. In the first installment, we chat with yogi and activist Seane Corn, who …

Maybe at some point you decided to try meditation. Maybe the practice you began back then fulfills you still. Or maybe not.

Welcome the spiritual power of the sun into your awareness first thing every morning. Harness the potential of each day.

A soon to be mother asked me what prayers she could do for the child in her womb. It brought me back to my days as a pregnant lady. There was a sensation of something incredible on…

“Creativity is God’s will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice – one day at a time.” – Julia CameronAs a child, being creative is a natural part of ever…

Throughout human history, spiritual seekers have used sacred plants and fungi for healing, visionary encounters, and mystical experience. Though this history has been largely obfus…

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

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Throughout human history, spiritual seekers have used sacred plants and fungi for healing, visionary encounters, and mystical experience. Though this history has been largely obfus…

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

(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.

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

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.

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

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.

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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.

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

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Consuming too much sugar harms the body, brain, and spirit. Boost your spirituality by ignoring your sugar cravings.

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

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Fibromyalgia (FMS) is a debilitating mix of pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and depression that is resistant to treatment. Part of the difficulty in treating the millions of Amer…

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

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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.

There is growing interest in using sound for various ailments and to boost human health. Do healing frequencies work? Research suggests they do.

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The issue of stress is rampant in our culture. Mindful Yoga Therapy, supported by Give Back Yoga Foundation, is offering a path to healing for these individuals.

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

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Stress can make getting to sleep at night a very real challenge.

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.

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The two biggest mistakes we make when trying to start a meditation practice: Saying we cannot clear our mind of thoughts, so why try?; and saying we don’t have enough time.First, l…

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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.

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“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.”

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