ARTICLE
How Not to Be a Slave to Your Brain: Mindfulness for Mental Health
By Big Think — 2015
One of the classic definitions of mindfulness is that it helps us not cling to what is pleasant and not condemn what is unpleasant.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
CLEAR ALL
BY TOPIC
BY TEACHER
BY TYPE
FILTER
TOPIC
- Mindfulness Practices (67)
- Self-Mastery (55)
- Anxiety (44)
- Spiritual Practices (44)
- Awareness (40)
- Depression (35)
- Self-Development (34)
- Healing Approaches (32)
- Honoring Emotion (32)
- Stress Management (32)
- Meditation (31)
- Mind-Body Connection (27)
- Mindfulness Meditation (27)
- Buddhism (26)
- Self-Discovery (25)
- Self-Healing (25)
- Self-Reflection Practices (25)
- Neuroscience (24)
- Self-Care (22)
- Athlete Well-Being (21)
- Well-Being (21)
- Building Character (20)
- Habit Formation (20)
- Inner Peace (19)
- Trauma Healing (19)
- Transformation (18)
- Goal Setting (17)
- Presence (17)
- Spiritual Growth (17)
- Resilience (16)
- Breathwork (15)
- Stress (15)
- Anger (14)
- BIPOC Well-Being (14)
- Brain Health (14)
- Communication Skills (14)
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (14)
- Parenting (14)
- Relationship Challenges (14)
- Self-Limiting Beliefs (14)
- Spiritual Awakening (14)
- Focus (13)
- Happiness (13)
- Human Potential (13)
- Self-Compassion (13)
- Self-Realization (13)
- Black Well-Being (12)
- Empowerment (12)
- Fear (12)
- Inner Life (12)
- Life Challenges (12)
- Negative Self-Talk (12)
- Search for Purpose (12)
- Self-Control (12)
- Spiritual Healing (12)
- Spiritual Life (12)
- Addiction (11)
- Compassion (11)
- Finding Meaning (11)
- Positive Thinking (11)
- Self-Esteem (11)
- Authenticity (10)
- Child’s Emotional Growth (10)
- Confidence (10)
- Connection with Nature (10)
- Courage (10)
- Identity (10)
- Peak Performance (10)
- Physical Health (10)
- Shame (10)
- Entrepreneurship (9)
- Gratitude (9)
- Grief (9)
- Love (9)
- Mental Health Challenges (9)
- Motivation (9)
- PTSD (9)
- Self-Acceptance (9)
- Self-Actualization (9)
- Self-Love (9)
- Spiritual Development (9)
- Vulnerability (9)
- Addiction Recovery (8)
- Cancer (8)
- Children’s Well-Being (8)
- Community Healing (8)
- Forgiveness (8)
- Habits of Mind (8)
- Imagination and Creativity (8)
- Intention (8)
- Positive Self-Talk (8)
- Romantic Relationships (8)
- Setting Limits and Boundaries (8)
- Suffering (8)
- Suicide (8)
- Women’s Well-Being (8)
- Anger Management (7)
- Criticism and Rejection (7)
- Enlightenment (7)
- Fellowship and Community (7)
- Inner Strengths (7)
- Integrative Medicine (7)
- Joy (7)
- Neuroplasticity (7)
- Racial Healing (7)
- Self-Reckoning (7)
- Self-Worth (7)
- Yoga (7)
- ADD/ADHD (6)
- Chronic Anxiety (6)
- Chronic Health Conditions (6)
- Consciousness (6)
- Curiosity (6)
- Failure (6)
- Growth Mindset (6)
- Journaling (6)
- Kindness (6)
- Perception (6)
- Positive Psychology (6)
- Psychology (6)
- Science and Spirituality (6)
- Self-Reliance (6)
- Social Justice (6)
- Trauma (6)
- Values (6)
- Visualization (6)
- Zen Buddhism (6)
- Activism/Service (5)
- Child’s Trauma (5)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (5)
- Connection (5)
- Family Dynamics (5)
- Guided Meditation (5)
- Guilt (5)
- Holism (5)
- Leadership (5)
- Letting Go (5)
- Neurodiversity (5)
- Prayer (5)
- Racial Justice (5)
- Speaking Your Truth (5)
- Tibetan Buddhism (5)
- Work-Life Balance (5)
- Young Adult Well-Being (5)
- Acceptance (4)
- Accepting Love (4)
- Aging (4)
- Asking for Help (4)
- Belonging (4)
- Chronic Pain (4)
- Creative Well-Being (4)
- Decision Making (4)
- Disconnection (4)
- Dysfunctional Childhood (4)
- Eating Disorders (4)
- Endurance (4)
- Energy Healing (4)
- Generosity (4)
- Healthy Eating (4)
- Inner Child (4)
- Integrity (4)
- Interdependence (4)
- Living with Illness (4)
- Loneliness (4)
- Memoir (4)
- Nutritional Medicine (4)
- Offering Support to Others (4)
- Performance Anxiety (4)
- Psychology and Spirituality (4)
- Soul Mission (4)
- Spiritual Direction (4)
- Storytelling (4)
- Veteran Well-Being (4)
- Willpower (4)
- Access to Education (3)
- Adaptability (3)
- Alcohol Addiction (3)
- Burnout (3)
- Child’s ADD/ADHD (3)
- Clinical Depression (3)
- Collective Trauma (3)
- Competition (3)
- Dharma (3)
- Diet and Nutrition (3)
- Exercise (3)
- Female Empowerment (3)
- Forest Bathing (3)
- Global Challenges (3)
- Goddess (3)
- Humility (3)
- Illness and Injury (3)
- Insight (Vipassana) Meditation (3)
- Intimacy (3)
- Jealousy/Envy (3)
- Lovingkindness (3)
- Marriage (3)
- Military to Civilian Re-entry (3)
- Moral Philosophy (3)
- Neuropsychology (3)
- Passion (3)
- Productivity (3)
- Relationship with Time (3)
- Ritual (3)
- Self-Expression (3)
- Self-Pressure (3)
- Shadow (3)
- Social Anxiety (3)
- Spirituality and Health (3)
- Stoicism (3)
- Trust (3)
- Walking Meditation (3)
- Abandonment (2)
- Affirmations (2)
- Altered States (2)
- Attachment Theory (2)
- Autoimmune Disease (2)
- Awe (2)
- Biofeedback (2)
- Body Image (2)
- Body Positivity (2)
- Child’s Anxiety (2)
- Child’s Challenging Behavior (2)
- Codependency (2)
- Comparing Belief Traditions (2)
- Compassion Meditation (2)
- Conscious Evolution (2)
- Dark Night of the Soul (2)
- Death and Dying (2)
- Diamond Approach (2)
- Divorce and Breakup (2)
- Doubt (2)
- Ecospirituality (2)
- Ego (2)
- Embodiment (2)
- Empathy (2)
- Facing Own Death (2)
- Freedom (2)
- Friendship (2)
- Hypnosis (2)
- Incarceration (2)
- Intergenerational Trauma (2)
- Intuition (2)
- Islam (2)
- Jungian Analysis (2)
- LGBTQIA Well-Being (2)
- Lovingkindness Meditation (2)
- Masculine/Feminine Dynamics (2)
- Naturopathy (2)
- OCD (2)
- Oneness (2)
- Optimism (2)
- Othering (2)
- Panic Attacks (2)
- Patience (2)
- Performance Pressure (2)
- Play (2)
- Problem Solving (2)
- Quantum Physics (2)
- Race and Gender (2)
- Racial Identity (2)
- Racism (2)
- Sacred Feminine (2)
- Self-Discipline (2)
- Sexuality (2)
- Situational Depression (2)
- Sleep (2)
- Social Psychology (2)
- Social Responsibility (2)
- Sutras (2)
- The Divine (2)
- Toxic Relationships (2)
- Wholeness (2)
- Work Relationships (2)
- Zen Meditation (2)
- AAPI Well-Being (1)
- Academic Struggles (1)
- Acupressure (1)
- Adjusting to Parenthood (1)
- Animal Connection (1)
- Art Therapy (1)
- Autism (1)
- Ayurveda (1)
- Body Scan Meditation (1)
- Buddha Nature (1)
- Building Culture (1)
- Cannabis/CBD (1)
- Caregiver Well-Being (1)
- Channeling (1)
- Child’s Autism (1)
- Christian Mysticism (1)
- Christianity (1)
- Clairvoyance and Precognition (1)
- Climate Change (1)
- Cognition (1)
- Conflict Resolution (1)
- Cross-Cultural Dynamics (1)
- Death or Loss of a Loved One (1)
- Despair (1)
- Digital Life (1)
- Divination Systems (1)
- Domestic Abuse (1)
- Drug Addiction (1)
- Ego Dissolution (1)
- Energy Balancing (1)
- Environmental Justice (1)
- Epigenetics (1)
- Faith (1)
- Fate (1)
- Functional Medicine (1)
- Generational Healing (1)
- Genetics (1)
- Guided Imagery (1)
- Handling a Child’s Illness (1)
- Handling a Loved One’s Illness (1)
- Heartmath (1)
- Herbal Supplementation (1)
- Higher Calling (1)
- Highly Sensitive People (1)
- Hinduism (1)
- Homeopathy (1)
- Hope (1)
- Identity Shifts (1)
- Indigenous Healing Approaches (1)
- Indigenous Well-Being (1)
- Inspiration (1)
- Judaism (1)
- Kids and Sports (1)
- Latinx Well-Being (1)
- Learning Styles (1)
- LGBTQIA Children (1)
- Life Force Energy (1)
- Lifestyle Medicine (1)
- Living as an Empath (1)
- Longevity (1)
- Manifestation (1)
- Mantra Meditation (1)
- Memory (1)
- Mentoring (1)
- Midlife Crisis (1)
- Mysticism (1)
- Mythology (1)
- Narcissism (1)
- Native American Beliefs (1)
- Non-Duality (1)
- Personality Disorders (1)
- Personality Typing (1)
- Poetry (1)
- Post-Traumatic Growth (1)
- Pregnancy and Childbirth (1)
- Psychedelic Journey (1)
- Psychoanalysis (1)
- Racial Discrimination (1)
- Regret (1)
- Reiki (1)
- Relationship with Money (1)
- Religious Experience (1)
- Reproductive Health (1)
- Rest (1)
- Runes (1)
- Sex (1)
- Sexual Health (1)
- Sleep Disorders (1)
- Social Presence (1)
- Somatic Practices (1)
- Spiritual Fasting (1)
- Spiritual Quest (1)
- Subconscious (1)
- Sufism (1)
- Sustainability (1)
- Synchronicity (1)
- T’ai Chi (1)
- Taoism (1)
- Tarot (1)
- The Feldenkrais Method (1)
- The Unconscious (1)
- Time Management (1)
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (1)
- Transcendent Experience (1)
- Transitions (1)
- Transpersonal Psychology (1)
- Unfulfilled Career (1)
- Visions and Hallucinations (1)
- Vitamin Supplementation (1)
- Whiteness (1)
- Work Ethic (1)
- Youth Activism (1)
FILTER
TEACHER
- The Dalai Lama (6)
- Amishi Jha (5)
- Daniel J. Siegel (5)
- John Bradshaw (5)
- Lisa Feldman Barrett (5)
- Luisah Teish (4)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (4)
- Queen Afua (4)
- Shauna Shapiro (4)
- Bernie S. Siegel (3)
- Bhikku Anālayo (3)
- Brian Tracy (3)
- Daniel Amen (3)
- don Miguel Ruiz (3)
- Ellen Langer (3)
- Gabor Maté (3)
- Joseph Goldstein (3)
- Louise Hay (3)
- Rhonda Magee (3)
- Rick Hanson (3)
- Terri Cole (3)
- Zindel Segal (3)
- A. H. Almaas (2)
- Andrew Solomon (2)
- Andrew Weil (2)
- Ashley Neese (2)
- Chögyam Trungpa (2)
- Daniel Goleman (2)
- Danya Ruttenberg (2)
- Debbie Ford (2)
- Diane Stein (2)
- don Jose Ruiz (2)
- Gary Zukav (2)
- John Sarno (2)
- Judson Brewer (2)
- Karla McLaren (2)
- Ken Wilber (2)
- Larry Ward (2)
- Leah Guy (2)
- Lodro Rinzler (2)
- Lorin Roche (2)
- Marcus Aurelius (2)
- Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin (2)
- Mark Epstein (2)
- Martin Seligman (2)
- Noah Levine (2)
- Pema Chödrön (2)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2)
- Poppy Jamie (2)
- Roger Walsh (2)
- Rudolph Ballentine (2)
- Rumi (2)
- Stephen Levine (2)
- Thubten Chodron (2)
- Alain de Botton (1)
- Amit Goswami (1)
- Amy Scher (1)
- Andrew Harvey (1)
- Andy Puddicombe (1)
- angel Kyodo williams (1)
- Angela Duckworth (1)
- Bessel van der Kolk (1)
- Biet Simkin (1)
- Blaise Aguirre (1)
- Brendon Burchard (1)
- Brené Brown (1)
- Bruce Lipton (1)
- Chalene Johnson (1)
- Chan Khong (1)
- Charles Tart (1)
- Chip Conley (1)
- Connie Zweig (1)
- Craig Hamilton (1)
- Cyndi Dale (1)
- Daisy Khan (1)
- Dan Millman (1)
- Danielle MacKinnon (1)
- David Steindl-Rast (1)
- Deepak Chopra (1)
- Dorothy Day (1)
- Eckhart Tolle (1)
- Edgar Cayce (1)
- Elaine Aron (1)
- Elizabeth Gilbert (1)
- Elizabeth Lesser (1)
- Eric Maisel (1)
- Ervin László (1)
- Evelyn Underhill (1)
- Frans Stiene (1)
- Gary Gach (1)
- Gordon Neufeld (1)
- Harriet Lerner (1)
- Helen Weng (1)
- Hyla Cass (1)
- Iskra Lawrence (1)
- J. Krishnamurti (1)
- Jack Canfield (1)
- Jack Kornfield (1)
- James Baraz (1)
- James Doty (1)
- James Hillman (1)
- James Hollis (1)
- Jan Willis (1)
- Jana Long (1)
- Jay Shetty (1)
- Jeff Foster (1)
- Jeffrey Mishlove (1)
- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (1)
- JoAnna Hardy (1)
- Joanna Macy (1)
- Joe Dispenza (1)
- John C. Parkin (1)
- John Welwood (1)
- José Shinzan Palma (1)
- Joseph M. Marshall III (1)
- Judith Blackstone (1)
- Judith Orloff (1)
- Kabir Helminski (1)
- Karen Johnson (1)
- Kim Eng (1)
- Kristin Neff (1)
- Larry Dossey (1)
- Larry Yang (1)
- Lindo Bacon (1)
- Lise Van Susteren (1)
- Lori Gottlieb (1)
- Marc Ian Barasch (1)
- Mark Nepo (1)
- Martha Beck (1)
- Matt Kahn (1)
- Michael A. Singer (1)
- Michael Bernard Beckwith (1)
- Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (1)
- Mirabai Bush (1)
- Moshé Feldenkrais (1)
- Naomi Shihab Nye (1)
- Nicole LePera (1)
- Noah Elkrief (1)
- Norman Fischer (1)
- Paramahansa Yogananda (1)
- Patanjali (1)
- Phil Jackson (1)
- Philip Goldberg (1)
- Phillip Moffitt (1)
- Piero Ferrucci (1)
- Rachel Naomi Remen (1)
- Ralph De La Rosa (1)
- Ram Dass (1)
- Raymond Buckland (1)
- Rich Roll (1)
- Robert Augustus Masters (1)
- Rolf Gates (1)
- Ruby Wax (1)
- Rupert Sheldrake (1)
- Sarah Powers (1)
- Scott Shute (1)
- Shakti Gawain (1)
- Sharon Salzberg (1)
- Shinzen Young (1)
- Stephan Bodian (1)
- Stephanie Y. Evans (1)
- Steven Kotler (1)
- Tal Ben-Shahar (1)
- Tara Brach (1)
- Ted DesMaisons (1)
- Thomas Hübl (1)
- Thomas Moore (1)
- Tony Gaskins Jr. (1)
- Tony Robbins (1)
- Wendell Berry (1)
- William Bloom (1)
- Wim Hof (1)
- Yogi Bhajan (1)
- Yung Pueblo (1)