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Avg. Duration 12m
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Since Dec 2015
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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The latest scientific research reveals that 12 minutes of meditation a day yields benefits like increased attention, focus, creativity, calm, resilience and compassion. Start your 12-minute sit with guided meditations from today's leading mindfulness experts, brought to you by Mindful. With a new mindfulness meditation each week, 12 Minute Meditation invites you to bring the benefits of mindfulness to daily life.

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A 12 Minute Meditation to Make Movement Mindful

Jun 12, 2026 14m

Our bodies come in all varieties, and we all have different interests, skills, and abilities. As today's teacher Cara Bradley observes, movement of any kind—from the slightest stretch to the most…

A Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners

Jun 05, 2026 10m

This week, Mindful founding editor Barry Boyce reminds us of the basic why behind mindfulness meditation: We get off-kilter at various times throughout the day, and we need a way to pause and…

A Meditation to Bring Comfort and Kindness to Pain and Illness

May 29, 2026 14m

Learning to live with pain and illness is challenging, arduous work. Often, people can go for months or even years without sufficient answers. Life gets turned completely upside down. The body you…

A Meditation on the Art of Stopping (Extended Version)

May 22, 2026 20m

We often think of mindfulness and meditation as sustained states—when in reality, it's just a collection of micro-moments of stopping, breathing, really noticing our own bodies and our own lives,…

The Art of Stopping (Micro-Practice Version)

May 22, 2026 5m

You can find the extended 20-minute version of this meditation here. Want to explore how micro-practices can help shift your patterns in your real everyday life when you're off the meditation mat?…

A Meditation on Working With Our Fear And Parenting From Love

May 15, 2026 12m

In our concern for our children, sometimes we respond from a place of fear and worry. From time to time, we can even lose touch with the love that lies beneath that concern. Reconnecting with the…

A 12-Minute Meditation to Rest Your Body in Gratitude

May 08, 2026 14m

Our bodies are so overworked and often ignored. This guided awareness practice offers space to feel a sense of gratitude for our body, in all of its beauty and mystery. Rashid Hughes (he/him) is a…

A Light, Slow, Deep (LSD) Breathing Meditation

May 01, 2026 14m

Thanks to our autonomic nervous system, life-sustaining processes like our heartbeat, digestion, and breathing all happen without us even having to pay attention. But our environments, stress levels,…

A Guided Walking Meditation to Notice the Beauty Around Us—Even in the City

Apr 24, 2026 16m

City life can often feel frantic, loud, and cut off from natural beauty. It's not often we slow down and take in all there is to experience. But even in urban areas, if you pay attention, you can…

A Meditation to Meet Yourself Where You Are—No Matter What

Apr 17, 2026 15m

Mindfulness meditation involves a willingness to be with ourselves as we are. It offers a way of learning to work with ourselves, and not on ourselves, especially if we are healing from…

A Meditation to Create Inner Balance in the Face of Change

Apr 10, 2026 11m

Change of any kind—whether it's small, momentous, expected or unexpected—can make us feel so vulnerable and unsteady. This week, Susan Bauer-Wu offers a guided meditation to invite and nourish inner…

A Meditation to Approach the World With a "Don't-Know Mind"

Apr 03, 2026 17m

Our culture prizes certainty and tends to regard not-knowing as weakness or failure. But research has shown that uncertainty is a quality that we're meant to engage, not reject. Not only does it…

A Meditation to Allow Genuine Happiness, Even In Hard Times

Mar 27, 2026 14m

When we are going through a difficult season personally, or we are bearing witness to the pain of others, our relationship to genuine joy or happiness can get complicated and confusing. Happiness can…

A Meditation to Settle Mind & Body for Sleep

Mar 20, 2026 23m

There are so many reasons why we might be struggling to get to sleep and stay asleep. Work or relationship stress, health concerns, hormonal changes, the state of the world—there's plenty to keep us…

A Meditation to (Gently) Interrupt Habitual Reactions

Mar 13, 2026 16m

Daily life is full of irritations: moments of inconvenience, situations where we don't get what we were hoping for, delays, disappointments, prickly interactions that can leave us confused and…

Self Compassion for Nervous System Reset

Mar 06, 2026 13m

It's not always an instinctual go-to for us, but self-compassion is one of the most powerful forms of healing and restoration for our mental and physical well-being. In this meditation, mindfulness…

A Meditation to Nourish an Undefended Heart

Feb 27, 2026 11m

There's a paradox inside mindfulness practice: When we want to heal something, we move toward what hurts, not away from it. It's not easy to keep our hearts soft or open, and a mindful practice…

A Meditation to Help You Let Go and Accept Change

Feb 20, 2026 13m

Everything is impermanent. It's always changing, coming together and falling apart. This, of course, includes small daily things and massive, disruptive, and life-shattering things. It's frustrating…

A Meditation to Return to Ourselves When Practicing Feels Impossible

Feb 13, 2026 25m

Many of us are bearing witness daily to suffering all over the planet. We care about others, and we want desperately to be of use—and seeing the horrors in images and videos and stories every day can…

A Meditation to Tap Into Your Agency When Things Are Chaotic & Uncertain

Feb 06, 2026 19m

We often treat experiences like restlessness, uncertainty, or the overwhelm of difficult emotions as a problem to be solved. And of course, it's normal to want relief. Today, teacher Cherl Vigder…

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