Peace Out: A Beginner's Guide to Achieving Mindfulness

Just when you thought the health-kick lexicon couldn’t grow anymore (remember juicing and yogalates?), it seems you can’t go anywhere without hearing about “mindfulness.” A form of meditation, the practice aims to get you to a calmer sense of being in your everyday life, as well as becoming less reactive to things that affect you negatively. Studies — actual ones, that involve science — show that mindfulness can in some cases help mental health as