We see a world where everyone everywhere can effortlessly join a mindful practice together any hour on any day.
Toward this goal, @2:50 offers daily mindfulness reflection periods free to the world. Register for a daily email or download calendar reminders. Anyone can join. At two-fifty was created at MIT (Cambridge, MA) and is now open to the world. Daily, volunteer-run events help you reflect and recharge. @2:50 does not promote any creed, sect, organization, or ideology. We just meet every day for ten minutes of quiet. Everyone, everywhere is invited.
Learn about how at2:50 was born.
The daily event has brought together people from every continent for over 500,000 person/minutes of quiet reflection. Experiential MIT@2:50 ten-minute daily mindfulness convenes for its 250th consecutive day. (Nov, 2020.)
Insights on a community of practice after 250 consecutive days.
The founding member of @2:50 reflects on insights after 250 consecutive days.
- Commitment, regularity, and simplicity open the door to a mindfulness practice.
- Having no end in sight meets uncertainty and life change on their own terms.
- Making mindfulness together makes a quantum connection.
- The group determines the outcome, and we’re forced to be unattached.
Read more: Four insights from 250 days of @2:50 from arthurgrau.com.
Contact the organizers art@at250.org
Local mindfulness hosts serving the community
Arthur hosts EST@2:50. Professionally, he serves as a marketing and communications director. Personally, he enjoys cycling and art-making. As an @2:50 host, he draws on experiences from yoga and meditation practices. https://arthurgrau.com
Partha hosts EET@2:50 from Finland. Professionally, he is a Supply Chain practitioner focused on S&OP / IBP. Personally, he enjoys walking in the forest. And as an @2:50 host and life in general, he draws inspiration from non-dual (Advaita, Sanskrit) philosophies from the East and the West.
VK sub-hosts EET&EST@2:50. Professionally, she is an academic research scientist in fluids & structures. Personally, she likes poetry, opera, and Scottish dancing. As an @2:50 host, she is into short mindfulness practices, easily incorporated into the day.
Billy hosts PST@2:50 from Singapore. Professionally, he is a full-time student in Singapore American School. Personally, he is a classical music, rocket, and sleeping enthusiast. As an @2:50 host, he explores different philosophical schools of thought through meditation and tries to answer the age-old question: “What is the meaning of Life?”
Mindfulness resources to start or deepen your habit
Nalu | Mind the Flow. Use tracks from this 28-day journey to familiarize yourself with several mindfulness and meditation practices and techniques.
Using the breath, guided audio. Attending to the breath is one of several techniques we practice daily at @2:50 p.m. Breath attention is one of the simplest, most effective practices available to anyone anywhere. We return to it again as foundational to the rest of the day.
Body observation guided audio. Observation of sensation is one of several techniques we practice daily at @2:50 p.m. Watching sensations is a simple, effective practice available to anyone anywhere at any time. We return to it again as foundational to our daily practice.
Gratitude mindfulness guided audio. Gratefulness practice is one of several techniques we practice daily at @2:50 p.m. Enjoying gratitude and gratefulness can evoke sensations and feelings that resonate with us for the rest of the day. We find attention to gratitude to be foundational to daily practice.