Mindfulness, Without the Jargon
This is where you learn. The how-to guides teach one skill at a time, step by step, from how to begin to how to let a churning mind settle. Below them, longer articles take an honest look at the bigger questions. Need something for a moment you're in right now? Head to Collections.
Four ways in: learn, read along, use, or browse
Step-by-step how-tos that teach a skill properly, plus in-depth articles on mindfulness, mental health and religion. Sourced and worth reading in full.
Read when you have ten minutes and want to understand.
Personal notes from Rennie on practising in everyday Singapore life: the MRT, the hawker centre, kopi, rain and a noisy home.
Read when you want someone else’s real day, not a lesson.
Short pages for the moment you are in, like a sleepless night or an anxious wave. A few things to try straight away and a few lines to hold onto.
Open when you are in the middle of it.
A library of standalone reflections, filtered by theme. No instructions or advice, just lines to read, save, or share.
Browse when a few words are enough.
How-to guides
Step-by-step lessons that teach a skill properly, with the reasoning and sources behind it.
Start a practice
Small, realistic, and built to last.
Quiet a busy mind
Not by force, but by changing the relationship.
Be present
The now is the only place life happens.
Stop doomscrolling
Break the loop without shaming yourself.
Mindfulness for sleep
Stop trying to sleep. Start letting the day end.
Sunday dread
Keep Monday from stealing your Sunday.
Practise self-compassion
Speak to yourself the way you would speak to a friend.
Breathing techniques
The one calming tool you always carry with you.
Grieve gently
There is no right way to grieve, only your way.
Mindfulness at work
Small resets for the busiest part of your day.
Beginner’s body scan
Come home to the body, one part at a time.
Gratitude practice
Noticing what is good, without pretending the hard parts away.
Mindfulness & mental health
What mindfulness can honestly do for anxiety and low mood, where the evidence runs out, and how it sits alongside therapy rather than replacing it.
Mindfulness vs therapy
A skill you practise versus care you receive, and why the difference matters.
Hype vs evidence
What large studies actually found, and where the claims outrun the data.
When it is not enough
The side effects nobody mentions, and the signs it is time to reach out.
Mindfulness vs AI psychosis
Why an always-agreeing chatbot can pull a mind off balance, and how to stay grounded.
Mindfulness & religion in the modern world
Where mindfulness came from, whether it is still religious, how people of faith use it, and what changed when it went mainstream.