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Wake Up to the Wild

Wilderness expert and renowned mindfulness teacher Mark Coleman shares how he is learning to hold the intense beauty of nature— and devastation of climate change —in perspective.

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Make Peace with Your Anxious Brain

The latest research in neuroscience is revealing how mindfulness can help rewire—and calm—ancient brain networks tied to stress, anxiety, and overwhelm.

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Tuning In to the Body

Mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn explores the primary relationship between our physical body and our mind.

Mindful Living

18 Mindful Eating Creamy Contrast

It’s silky, subtle, and oh-so-spreadable. Here’s our take on the best way to savor an avocado.

20 Inner Wisdom

How May I Help You? A lesson on cultivating kindness in the most unlikely of situations: the customer service call.

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Q&A: Taryn Toomey Blood, Sweat, & Fears Creator of The Class, Tayrn Toomey, wants to work out her issues. She wants to work out yours, too.

36 Walk the Talk Coming Full Circle For Dena Simmons, growing up poor in the Bronx meant discovering her unquenchable inner strength.

Departments

4 Point of View Please Excuse Me Modern life has fomented a contagion of rudeness. Barry Boyce on how you can respond with grace.

32 Brain Science

Picking Up the Pieces What causes us to move on from traumatic experiences? Psychologists find resilience is not always about bouncing back.

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6 The Mindful Survey

10 Top of Mind

15 Mindful–Mindless

71 Bookmark This 80 MindSpace

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Barry Boyce Editor-in-Chief barry@mindful.org

Our must-read story this issue: In “Wake Up to the Wild,” on page 40, renowned mindfulness teacher and wilderness expert Mark Coleman reveals why our relationship with nature is more important than ever in the age of climate change.