To help you deepen your practice (or get started), we’ve rounded up 10 guided meditations that have resonated most with you, our readers, over the past year. The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2021 The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2021 1) A 10-Minute Gratitude Practice to Notice, Shift, and Rewire Your Brain When things don’t go according to plan, it’s easy to spot all the ways things have gone wrong....

Generations of children and the adults reading it to them (it’s 55 years old now!) have reveled in this miniature version of the hero’s journey—at least partially because it is a great metaphor for the mind. The mind is indeed where the wild things are. It contains our fears for the future and the future of those we love, our regrets and shame stored up from the past, our confusion about who we are and who we ought to be, our anger with the ogres of the world, our annoyance with people who just aren’t fitting into our version of how they ought to be, and our annoyance at being so petty in trying to fit people into boxes....

“Mommy! Can we get some scary Halloween stuff for the house?” My seven-year-old daughter, Opal, treated the exhibition of terror and faux-death as if it were as inviting as a row of jolly elves at Christmas time. It put her in the spirit. The next ten minutes consisted of talking Opal down from a sign that said “beware” in what looked like the dripping blood of someone who was actively dying, to something less disturbing, like, say, a spider made of oversized pipe-cleaners....

She writes: The cult of productivity continues to grow. We’re encouraged to have more productive mornings and commutes, and even Sundays are becoming a day to squeeze in just a little more structure. But zoning out isn’t the issue here. Equating mindfulness with paying attention sells the practice short. It also suggests that mindfulness requires a Jedi mind—that all the folks Dhal imagines commuting and practicing mindfulness are doing so with the intention of levitating their crashed spacecraft out of a bog....

Also, if you haven’t checked out our printable Family Camping Trip Kit yet- ummm you NEED to! Trust me when I say, it will make your life a WHOLE lot easier!! There are so many great ideas here, you should pin this bad boy so you can look it over and over again. Really, you should! Alright, let’s get started…We’ve broken the tips down into a few different categories (hint: click on each link to be taken down to that particular content):...