Calm is an award-winning app for guided meditation and sleep. Here, we discuss our editor’s experience with the app and whether it is beneficial for mental health and sleep. Research suggests mindful ...

Choose a quiet spot. This doesn’t have to necessarily be a corner. The key is selecting an area where you can step away from ...

Few things are as annoying (and anxiety-heightening) as someone telling you to calm dow when you are, in fact, not calm at all. But if you are looking for advice on how to calm down that *actually* ...

The Calm and Headspace apps both offer guided meditations and some soothing extras. Here’s how they measure up. Meditation can be a simple path to feelings of calm, balance, and peace, among other ...

If you’re a parent or teacher — or just someone who's witnessed a toddler throw a tantrum in public — you know that children don't always know how to express strong emotions like anger or frustration.

Calm is rolling out a suite of new features to make it easier for people to fit mindfulness into their lives. Most notably, the app is launching “Taptivities,” which are interactive text-based stories ...

A calm home is less about square footage and more about what you choose to keep around you. Certain habits, layouts, and ...

When people are anxious before getting surgery, doctors and nurses often tell them to take slow, deep breaths with long exhalations. It may seem like an inadequate way to quell anxiety, but in many ...

For all the digital tools and AI-guided apps that can help us navigate our mental health and wellbeing, you can't get there without spending time away from screens. Or, in the more succinct language ...

Say the word and it helps conjure itself: calm. The “ah” sound dawdles, insists on taking its time. We ride for a second on the exhale. If only the release lasted longer than a syllable. Perhaps, once ...