About r/Mindfulness
In its own words:
Mindfulness is awareness of one's internal states and surroundings.
Community guide
r/Mindfulness (#715, about 1.5 million subscribers) — Mindfulness is awareness of one's internal states and surroundings. A recent sample averaged 8.1 posts a day (~85% text, ~15% image). Its public rules include: Be Cool, Calm and Civil; Content must be relevant to Mindfulness; No NSFW or Unsafe Content; Self-Promotion, Sales and Recruitment; ChatGPT and AI Content.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own channel or shop. Match posts to: Be Cool, Calm and Civil; Content must be relevant to Mindfulness; No NSFW or Unsafe Content; Self-Promotion, Sales and Recruitment.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Question, Advice, Insight, Creative.
The community was created on Feb 4, 2010, which makes it 16 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 360 subscribers (+0.02%). Among the 6 communities on our meditation and mindfulness list it is number 2 by size. It sits just behind r/truegaming (#714) and ahead of r/KendrickLamar (#716) in our ranking.
What sets r/Mindfulness apart
Compared with other large communities, r/Mindfulness leans heavily on text posts (85% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 35%). r/Mindfulness is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 5.8 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.0.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/Mindfulness grew from 1,482,675 to 1,485,422 subscribers (+2.7K, +0.19%). That is about 54 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/Mindfulness this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- Seneca lived above a noisy bathhouse and wrote a letter about itu/VIGIILANTEE · Nov 4 · text post
- Mindfulness is like playing a game in First Personu/stevemahqueen · Nov 1 · text post
- A presence exercise for people who can't sit still and meditateu/Introvert_Advocate8 · Nov 2 · text post
- What is one daily habit that actually calmed your mind better than forcing yourself to meditateu/abhabajaj-wellness · Nov 5 · text post
- A very tired mindu/Unhappy-Drawing5517 · Nov 1 · text post
- Almost 300 days into meditation and breathing!u/dangerous-owl-007 · Nov 6 · image
- How to be present if I am a natural thinkeru/RevolutionaryFail109 · Nov 5 · text post
- Can you actually train yourself to stay calm when your surroundings are constantly distracting?u/DoughnutKey8975 · Nov 4 · text post
- Depression and mindfulness...u/cosmictraveller923 · Nov 7 · text post
- How to actually deal with burnout?u/Cooler_Version · Nov 6 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Mindfulness, from 2020 to 2023, ranked by Reddit.
- When the world slips you a jeffery, you don’t blame the furry wall...u/SinisterAF · Oct 23, 2020 · image
- ′′The Weight of Thought′′ - sculpture by Thomas Lerooy.u/januaryashes · Jan 15, 2021 · image
- Helpful to keep in mind :)u/battlesong · Jan 11, 2020 · 2,983 points · 77 comments · image
- Life after mindfulnessDec 11, 2020 · image
- Your Thoughts Aren’t Factsu/sdraz · Nov 6, 2020 · image
- inside your headu/OddProfit7 · Sep 21, 2020 · image
- Mind full vs Mindful...My dog and meu/Res_Ipsa77 · Jun 21, 2020 · image
- For anyone who worries a lotu/tayrembos · Jan 17, 2021 · image
- And we wonder why we overreact sometimesJun 12, 2021 · image
- Why are you scrolling? Are you aware of your intentions of being on Reddit right now, or are you on autopilot?May 4, 2021 · text post
What r/Mindfulness talks about
Looking at the titles of 60 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “actually”, “practice”, “present”, “moment” and “constantly”. Other frequent themes are mind, person, meditation, overthinking, looking and spiritual. Recurring phrases include “present moment”, “short daily”, “daily practice” and “actually wrong”. By format, 85% are text posts and 15% are images.
Popular post flairs: Question (30), Advice (10), Insight (9), Creative (7), Resources (3), News (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/Mindfulness gets about 8.1 new posts a day. The public archive holds 57,669 posts and 336,980 comments in total, about 5.8 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (12 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (5). Posting peaks around 15:00 UTC and is lowest around 02:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Mindfulness
The moderators of r/Mindfulness list 10 rules. In short:
- Be Cool, Calm and Civil
- Content must be relevant to Mindfulness
- No NSFW or Unsafe Content
- Self-Promotion, Sales and Recruitment
- ChatGPT and AI Content
- Repetitive Posting
- Surveys
- Misleading Content
- Feedback, Suggestions, and Complaints
- Copyright and Takedown Policy
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Mindfulness and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/Mindfulness have?
r/Mindfulness has 1,485,422 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #715 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 2,747 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/Mindfulness?
r/Mindfulness was created on Feb 4, 2010, so it has been around for 16 years.
How active is r/Mindfulness?
Moderately: r/Mindfulness gets about 8.1 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 57,669 posts and 336,980 comments. In a sample of 60 recent posts we counted 59 different authors.
When is r/Mindfulness most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 15:00 UTC, with the fewest around 02:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/Mindfulness about?
The community describes itself as: “Mindfulness is awareness of one's internal states and surroundings.” Recent post titles often mention actually, practice, present, moment and constantly. Most posts are text posts (85%).
Is r/Mindfulness safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Mindfulness as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/Mindfulness?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Mindfulness accepts both text and link posts, with images enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Be Cool, Calm and Civil”; “Content must be relevant to Mindfulness”; “No NSFW or Unsafe Content”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/Mindfulness?
Communities with similar topics include r/Meditation (3.6M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Mindfulness.