Articles
Short, plain-language pieces on how the mind actually works.
Each one explains what the science means for the way we feel and live.
Browse by Topic
Article List
-
Which Step Do I Need Right Now?
Knowing the four steps and knowing which one you need today are different things. Four questions that tell you where the process…
Read more →
-
Open and Allowing
Discomfort runs on resistance. Stop pushing at it and it runs out of fuel. The least intuitive move in the method, and…
Read more →
-
Skewed Thinking
Thinking goes off track in a small number of predictable ways. Catastrophizing, mind reading, discounting the positive. Naming the pattern is most…
Read more →
-
The 5-Whys
The belief causing the trouble is rarely the first one you find. Ask why four or five times in a row and…
Read more →
-
What Your Brain Is Optimized For
Your brain was built to keep you alive, not to make you happy. Criticism sticks, praise slides off, and rest feels unearned.…
Read more →
-
Why Anxiety Feeds on Itself
Sometimes the alarm will not turn off because the thing setting off the alarm is the alarm itself. How a normal stress…
Read more →
-
Nothing Is Broken
Anxiety is not evidence of a defect. It is evidence of a system running correctly on inaccurate information, and information can be…
Read more →
-
The Three Themes: Trust, Value, and Acceptance
Every difficult emotion, however complicated it feels, comes back to trust, value, or acceptance. Fear points to a lack of trust, shame…
Read more →
-
What Your Emotions Are Telling You
Your emotions are a readout of where your well-being currently stands. A difficult one is not a malfunction, it is a signal,…
Read more →
-
Feelings and Emotions Are Not the Same Thing
A feeling is a body sensation. An emotion is that sensation with a meaning attached. Two people with the same racing heartbeat…
Read more →
-
Mindfulness Return on Investment (ROI)
The usual return-on-investment calculation for workplace mindfulness does not survive scrutiny. Here is what the evidence actually supports, and the one variable…
Read more →
-
A Guide to Mindfulness at Work
Mindfulness initiatives fail in a predictable way: a course gets delivered and nothing changes. Here are the seven components that determine whether…
Read more →
In the App
More to Read in the App
83 articles and audio lessons that follow the book, 36 of them free.
Read them on your phone, listen to the audio lessons, and bookmark the ones you want to come back to.
