How to Know if Meditation Is Working for You
This article was created using personal insights from Insight Timer’s meditation teachers. Many studies have shown the positive impacts of meditation, from improved stress...
Insight Timer Editorial TeamMental Health and Wellbeing
Meditation and mindfulness benefit our mental health in infinite ways. Trauma, anxiety, depression, and unhelpful psychological patterns are each soothed through awareness.
Learn how radical self-compassion and meditation help us conquer negative self talk. Mindfully navigate social media, a stressful workplace or interpersonal relationships. Build new habits and approach addiction recovery with awareness. Work through fears and trauma with meditation.
Explore the connection between mindfulness and psychological wellbeing with posts from leading physicians, spiritual teachers and Insight Timer staff writers.
Discover Deep Relaxation and Mental Clarity With the Silva Method Meditation
Our minds hold great potential but often feel clouded with the noise of everyday life. What if you could enter a deeply relaxed state...
Insight Timer Editorial Team
Voo Breathing Method: Regulating the Nervous System
Stress can feel inescapable in modern life. But there are ways to instantly calm your mind and lower your cortisol levels. The voo breathing...
Insight Timer Editorial Team
Top 10 Mindfulness Grounding Techniques for Stress-Resilient Professionals
This article was created using personal insights from Insight Timer’s meditation teachers. Imagine you’re in the middle of a chaotic workday, juggling multiple tasks...
Insight Timer Editorial Team
Healing the Hidden Self: A Guide to Shadow Work Meditation
This article was created using personal insights from Insight Timer’s meditation teachers. Did you know that the parts of ourselves we often ignore can...
Insight Timer Editorial Team
Affirmation of Commitment
It’s so very easy to drift in meditation and forget why you started. If you forget why you will soon be giving up meditation or...
Christopher Manning
How to Forgive Yourself With Self-Compassion
Over a decade ago, I attended a workshop on forgiveness with Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance. I went in hoping to learn tools to...
Diana Hill
Making Molehills Out of Mountains
You may be familiar with the idiom "Making a mountain out of a molehill," which means "to exaggerate the importance of something trivial" or...
Amy J. Considine, EdD
Resilience Trait #2: Flexibility & Adaptability
Flexibility and Adaptability This article is an excerpt from The Top 10 Traits of Highly Resilient People: Real Life Stories of Resilience Show You How...
Dr. Andrea Pennington
What’s the Difference Between Stress and Burnout?
Stress is a catch all term for any situation that provokes feelings of pressure, distress, overwhelm and urgency. But what is stressful to me...
Dr. Andrea Pennington