Mindfulness Insights

Emotions

Pitfalls of Suppressing Emotions and Pros of Processing Them

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on March 5, 2024

Here's your brief emotion crash course: Key pitfalls of emotional suppression and key benefits of processing emotion.

Here's your brief emotion crash course: Key pitfalls of emotional suppression and key benefits of processing emotion.

Emotions

Why It's Vital to Identify, Process, and Express Your Emotions

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on January 2, 2024

Many, especially men, are conditioned to suppress and downplay their emotions. Here's how this can get us into trouble.

Many, especially men, are conditioned to suppress and downplay their emotions. Here's how this can get us into trouble.

Anxiety

The Overlooked Tyranny of Quick Fixes

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on December 8, 2023

This is what these quick fixes could take from you.

This is what these quick fixes could take from you.

Resilience

Embracing Life's Hardest Moments as Learning Opportunities

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on October 18, 2023

Six simple and easy ways to embrace life's hardest moments and turn them into sources of growth, joy, and learning.

Six simple and easy ways to embrace life's hardest moments and turn them into sources of growth, joy, and learning.

Relationships

The Magic Pause: Secrets to Avoiding and Resolving Conflict

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on October 5, 2023

Simple, brief, and easy-to-implement strategies can prevent and resolve relational conflict.

Simple, brief, and easy-to-implement strategies can prevent and resolve relational conflict.

Mindfulness

Busting a Key Misconception About Mindfulness

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on September 21, 2022

Mindfulness in the West is often portrayed as a solo practice for well-being, but it's a social project.

Mindfulness in the West is often portrayed as a solo practice for well-being, but it's a social project.

Happiness

Busting the Most Harmful Happiness Myth

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on September 1, 2022

Sick of striving? There's an overlooked alternative that's not easy, but may be simpler than you think. Here's a crucial step.

Sick of striving? There's an overlooked alternative that's not easy, but may be simpler than you think. Here's a crucial step.

Productivity

Work Mindfully: 3 Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on April 22, 2022

Learn three key mindfulness tips to help you take control of your life, enhance your happiness, and maximize your time.

Learn three key mindfulness tips to help you take control of your life, enhance your happiness, and maximize your time.

Productivity

Reexamining Productivity with Mindfulness

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on December 6, 2021

Perpetually burned out from your to-do list? Mindfulness can be a kind of "un-productivity hack" that helps lead you to a wiser and calmer existence.

Perpetually burned out from your to-do list? Mindfulness can be a kind of "un-productivity hack" that helps lead you to a wiser and calmer existence.

Mindfulness

The Paradox of Mindfulness

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on November 3, 2021

Mindfulness is often misunderstood because it's not what it seems. Here's what it really is, and how its practice can improve and deepen your life.

Mindfulness is often misunderstood because it's not what it seems. Here's what it really is, and how its practice can improve and deepen your life.

Mindfulness

A Mindfulness Secret to Breaking a Bad Habit

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on September 3, 2021

How to have more executive control of your behavior, break bad habits, and feel much better about yourself.

How to have more executive control of your behavior, break bad habits, and feel much better about yourself.

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The Potential Dangers of Mindfulness

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on July 12, 2021

Mindfulness isn't magic, and there aren't enough people talking about the risks or possible negative outcomes of mindfulness meditation.

Mindfulness isn't magic, and there aren't enough people talking about the risks or possible negative outcomes of mindfulness meditation.

Bias

What White People Should Know About Racism

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on May 28, 2021

Here's what we should have learned in school about racism and race to create a more just world.

Here's what we should have learned in school about racism and race to create a more just world.

Bias

Hacking the Brain's Negative Bias

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on May 8, 2021

The brain tends to focus on the negative for survival reasons, but a few relatively effortless strategies can retrain it to be more positive.

The brain tends to focus on the negative for survival reasons, but a few relatively effortless strategies can retrain it to be more positive.

Resilience

4 Ways Mindfulness Traits and Practices Build Resilience

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on March 11, 2021

The intriguing and interconnected relationship between mindfulness and resilience simplified into four aspects.

The intriguing and interconnected relationship between mindfulness and resilience simplified into four aspects.

Mindfulness

The Problem with Mindfulness

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on January 10, 2021

How mindfulness has become overly watered down, and what we need to realize to begin to recapture its substance and wisdom.

How mindfulness has become overly watered down, and what we need to realize to begin to recapture its substance and wisdom.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness Secrets for Emotional Balance in Hard Times

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on October 4, 2020

Feel constantly controlled by your emotions? Here's what you can do differently from a mindfulness standpoint.

Feel constantly controlled by your emotions? Here's what you can do differently from a mindfulness standpoint.

Addiction

Why You're Addicted to Your Phone and What you Can Do

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on May 15, 2020

Are you feeling like a slave to your phone? This may help.

Are you feeling like a slave to your phone? This may help.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness and Relationships

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on May 7, 2020

Stressed in your relationships? Here's the case that developing your own mindfulness practice could help.

Stressed in your relationships? Here's the case that developing your own mindfulness practice could help.

Anxiety

Mindfulness & Equanimity in the Panic of Coronavirus

Jason N. Linder, PsyD on March 17, 2020

There's a possibility that you can reconnect with yourself and grow from this panic, whether you are infected or not.

There's a possibility that you can reconnect with yourself and grow from this panic, whether you are infected or not.