How much good news does it take to balance out a single piece of bad news?

Mindfulness-based strategies that target stress-management, pain-management, and quieting often encourage a light focus on the out-breath because that simple shift in attention can ease both physical and mental discomfort.

Discover the calming power of sound awareness in this six-minute guided meditation. Perfect for teenagers and adults, this live recording from a webinar for parents helps you pause and tune into the sounds within and around you, offering a practical alternative to mindful breathing during intense emotions.

We can broaden our bandwidth and use mindfulness skills to parent with more presence during difficult times.

We’re in the middle of one of the greatest tests for parents in modern memory. Tens of millions of us, cooped up in our homes with our kids, as a consequence of the coronavirus. Susan Kaiser Greenland can help.

Inspired by a Zen practice taught by Thich Nhat Hanh, this guided meditation uses a calming visualization to cultivate self-compassion. Imagine pouring a cup of nectarlike compassion over your head, washing away negativity, judgment, and doubt. Perfect for parents and children to practice together, fostering kindness and emotional resilience.

A fun and engaging conversation about easy ways to make mindfulness part of a family's routine, and how kids want parents to be the "captain of the ship."

Mindfulness practices help you become less reactive, so how can you share it with your kids?

For episode 103 of the Metta Hour Podcast, Sharon Salzberg speaks with friend and colleague, Susan Kaiser Greenland.

Drew Perkins talks with Susan Kaiser Greenland about how mindfulness, meditation, and awareness can help students be more successful learners.

Discover how the law of reversed effort, or the backwards law, applies to meditation in this brief guided practice. Sometimes, the harder we try, the less likely we are to succeed. Learn to let go, relax, and find ease with simple, clear instructions inspired by swim teachers—perfect for busy adults.

A cognitive bias that gets a lot of attention, at least in meditation circles, is the negativity bias. Simply put, having a negative bias means we’re wired to give more weight to lousy news than good news. Let’s change that with this guided practice where we focus on the good.

When strong emotions take over, it’s called emotional hijack—a term from Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence. This guided meditation teaches mindfulness-based calming strategies to quiet your nervous system, helping you regain openness, flexibility, and focus. Perfect for adults seeking balance and resilience.

Susan talks with Tami Simon, the founder of Sounds True, about all things related to mindfulness for kids and parents, including ways to lead a kinder, wiser, and happier life.

The surest way to raise a mindful child is to be a mindful parent.

Is letting go the same as giving up?

Kids whose parents are comfortable saying “I don’t know, at least not yet, let’s figure this out together” have more agency and control. And so do their parents.

Life has a way of throwing curve balls and it’s up to us how we respond. What would happen if we loosened our grip instead of clamping down? 

When our minds change - when we feel more relaxed, less stressed, and less reactive - our bodies change too. And when our minds and bodies change our behavior changes, which shifts outcomes, which in turn affects what happens in the world.  

Fun, wide-ranging conversation with Susan Kaiser Greenland, Dan Harris and Annaka Harris (no relation) on everything from advice for sharing mindfulness with kids, to the origin story of the Inner Kids Foundation, to somewhat controversial topics like careerism and teaching kids a practice that evolved from Eastern spiritual traditions.