Last Updated on October 14, 2024 by Kari
You want to be more mindful? Great! I do too. I recently found a Mindful magazine and it may be right up your alley.
First, you should know that I love buying a good magazine. I know that we have a ton of magazine-like blogs on the internet, but I’m on the internet all day! I like to sit back with some tea and read a magazine from paper, where there are no Facebook feeds or messages to distract me. So, the other day when I was at the store and saw the Mindful magazine, I bought it instantly.
I’m currently working on being more mindful in my life. I spend a lot of time worrying and wondering and overthinking. I need to develop some better habits in my life to become more mindful so that I can enjoy my days rather than rush through them with a pile of thoughts that stress me out and make me unhappy.
I want to live in the moment and live my life mindfully. This is a goal I’ve had for a long time and a goal that I will have until it happens.
And, I want my friends to be more mindful, and that includes you. Not only will it improve your life, it will improve the world! Imagine having a bunch of people who are aware, living in the moment, not acting irrationally, and understanding of other people? Wouldn’t that be nice? I think so.
It Goes Beyond The Mindful Magazine
I didn’t realize that the Mindful magazine is produced by mindful.org. The truth is that I had never even seen the Mindful site before this magazine. But, I’m glad I found it. It’s definitely the kind of site that appeals to me as I work towards the goal of being more present.
Will the fact that they have a site full of free information cause me to stop buying the magazine? Probably not. According to the website, there are articles that are exclusively in the magazine.
Even though I love magazines, I am a little skeptical of them. I do work online, so I feel like any article I find in a magazine, I could find online.
To test this theory, I quickly typed in the first headline on the magazine cover that I saw ‘3 keys to discovering your life’s passion‘, and found that there are quite a few articles online related to this subject. Are they exactly the same? No. Except for the excerpt that they published on mindful.org, which led me to another discovery – you can get the digital version of this magazine if you don’t want to read off a paper magazine. But you still have to subscribe.
How Good Is The Magazine?
There are about 84 pages in the magazine, but there are a lot of ads. At first, I thought the whole magazine was going to be ads, but as I went on I found some articles in there. The good news is that the ads are relevant to living a healthier life, so you may find some things that you’ve never heard of before.
They included a gift guide inside the magazine, which is relevant to Christmas and gives some ideas for yourself as well. Although, I didn’t bother looking at this because it didn’t interest me at all. But, it is relevant to the season!
There is a section called ‘The Mindful FAQ’ which seems to be questions about meditation with answers. The questions don’t have names attached to them to identify who asked the question and from where, so I don’t know who they are pulling them from. But as I was reading them, I remembered that T. Harv Eker said in his Spiritual Laws of Money Course, you should listen to the answers to other people’s questions and ask, “How does this apply to me?” because, he says, it always applies to you in some way. So, even if the question was a little off for me, the answer was still applicable to my life somehow.
There were a few really good articles in the magazine. One even included a quick mindful meditation to help you come back to center and get out of anxiety or stress. I found that really helpful. And one had a message that I don’t think I’ll ever forget – ‘Shit happens, but shift happens too’. I love that!
And one of the things I’ve always loved about magazines is that they have a little fact thing at the end of them. The Mindful magazine fact thing dispelled some myths about your brain, and I thought that was really valuable. I realized that some beliefs I’ve been holding onto for a long time weren’t true and I’m always happy when I learn stuff like that.
In short, the magazine had articles related to relationships, living, food, culture, and practices, with some interviews and some pieces meant to promote insight. Not all of them were valuable to me. Not all of them were interesting to me. But that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be valuable or interesting to you because they all were applicable to being more mindful and aware.
The Cost Of Subscribing To The Mindful Magazine
Note: This has been updated throughout the years, and what you see now on this review may not be their current offering.
They offer a few different subscriptions. You can pay:
- $21.60 CAD per year: This is the digital route. You can get access to their library of articles, videos, and podcasts plus reicve members only digital content on mindfulness.
- $32.80 CAD per year: This is both a digital and physical offer. You get all the benefits of the previous subscription plus you get their annual print magazine.
- $138.83 CAD per year: Everything in previous subscriptions plus you get 34 mindful courses. You can see them all here. And you get discounts on future courses and events.
Would I Buy It Again?
I took a few days after writing the previous part of the Mindful magazine review to think about it. The answer wasn’t immediately apparent to me.
There were a lot of ads in Mindful Magazine, but they were focused on things that actually matter to someone who is trying to be more mindful, so I appreciated them and was annoyed by them in the same breath.
When I picked up the magazine, I expected to learn things that would help me be more mindful, and I did learn a few new things. So that’s definitely a reason to buy it again.
Let’s just say that I found it valuable enough to think about subscribing to it. And even though I enjoy being offline once in a while, I’m interested in getting the print AND digital version so that I can get my magazines and get access to the online magazine library when I’m online and want to research something or just read about something. I think I’ll add the full subscription to my wish list for the new year.
Do you have experience with a Mindful magazine subscription? Do you get a lot of value of it? Share in the comments below.
Don’t subscribe to this magazine. Once you do it is nearly impossible to get it cancelled. I have called twice and been assured both times it is cancelled. I have sent back an invoice writing CANCELLED on the top. My most recent phone call when I inquired why was I having so much trouble getting this cancelled the girl hung up on me. Funny that it is Mindful magazine that is causing such a huge amount of stress.
The same thing happened to me! I finally had to have Credit Card Company deal with it!
Yikes! Sounds like they need a MUCH better system for canceling.
i’m going thru this now with them. Advised them Nov 2022 NO AUTHORITY to card my cc and to delete all my information. Again I find a charge against my cc. Sent to bank to deal with as already have proof to cancel my cc number etc.
Tried calling their phone number and won’t even put call thru, just hangs up!
WOW!! I was going to get the magazine til I read about the problem of canceling and the bit about “Hanging Up” on the person. Totally weird from a magazine that promotes Mindfulness. Goodness! It appears that person needs some type of Mindfulness training. =)
Hope someone from the magazine reads the comments.
The website is a nightmare. If you subscribe to the digital issue it’s almost impossible to actually access it without using the app. You can’t download it in PDF format, though–if you can ever figure out how to get to it–you can print pages or the issue. If you need to contact them, it’s a crapshoot if you’ll get someone who is actually knowledgeable or helpful. I will not renew my subscription. For a magazine that purports to foster mindfulness, it has been endlessly frustrating and more of a test of patience than a key to mindfulness.
I subscribed to mindful magazine and also bought subscriptions for a sister and a friend.
I was so disappointed with magazine. It’s ful of ads and the articles, in my opinion have nothing about actual mindfulness as I understand mindfulness to be.
I certainly will not be renewing the subscriptions, and am not even looking forward to the next five.
Read Flow magazine. No ads and lovely texts and illustrations:)