Day 5: Meditation with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Welcome to the Breathworks introductory free guided meditation playlist.  This list consists of four meditations led by Vidyamala Burch to get you started with a mindfulness and meditation practice. Even if you have been practicing for some time these are still core practices useful in everyday life.

As well as this playlist you will find plenty of other free meditations on the Breathworks Soundcloud account that you might like to try, so feel free to have a browse.

If you haven't taken part in a face to face course or an online virtual classroom course, we highly recommend that you try one of these to deepen your understanding and practice as well as sharing progress and experience with others.

To find a course for you please click here:
http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/mindfulness-courses

The Tension Release Meditation

a meditation exploring the compassionate breath by Vidyamala Burch

Compassionate Breath

An exercise to learn to notice our own thoughts and see them as just that - only thoughts. We can also notice that we don't need to take thoughts so seriously, hook into them or be be pushed around by them. 

thought watching (defusion)

Our 'inner critics' can often be merciless with their negative judgements, blaming and labelling, which can be disconnecting and overwhelming.  This meditation offers a way of interpreting our inner critics, with compassionate understanding and empathy to reveal the underlying needs wanting.
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Self Compassion & Inner Critic Meditation; Connecting With Needs

This is a series of guided meditations led by Breathworks founder Vidyamala Burch to help relieve stress and anxiety.  This playlist is the guided meditations without the accompanying music.  If you would like to buy the CD with accompanying music please follow this link:

http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/cd-for-stress-music

Compassionate Breathing Anchor

This a 7 Minute Lovingkindness meditation from Elisha Goldstein's 6 Month Online Mentorship Program - A Course in Mindful Living. For more information: http://acourseinmindfulliving.com

Lovingkindness Meditation 7 Minutes

Compassionate Body Scan

Life and front line interactions can be demanding and stressful - often with times of anxiety, fear, overwhelm etc being a result. Here are some ready and available resources to meet needs for Resilience, Deep Rest, Grounding, Presence, Balance, Restoration, Sustainability, Connection, Respite, Ease, Peace, Resources for times of action and inaction. 
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Soothing Meditation for anxiety and fear & other strong emotions

Meditating in midst of the Coronavirus pandemic is not easy. It can be particularly difficult because many traditional meditations rely on the breath as an anchor, or focal point, for your attention. So the breath becomes the place you return to when the mind inevitably wanders. 

When we meditate on the breath, we settle on a place where we feel the breath moving (such as the nostrils, the chest or the abdomen), or we follow the whole breath in and out. Many will continue to find the breath a great solace and support at this time. But for some people, the breath may be a relatively uncertain anchor: the sensations of the breath don’t feel quite strong enough to hold their attention. This is especially true if you have an asthmatic condition, or a history of panic attacks, or are experiencing symptoms of Covid-19. 

To help you deal with such issues, we have produced a new collection of meditations that will help you explore alternative anchors for your attention; the feet, seat or hands. There are three versions of the Finding Your Ground meditation of different lengths..... Read more here http://franticworld.com/coronavirus/

Frantic World 2.0

10' Finding your ground

https://self-compassion.org/guided-self-compassion-meditations-mp3-2/

Kristin Neff – Soften, soothe, allow: Working with emotions in the body (guided meditation)

Breathworks is a not-for-profit social enterprise and leading international mindfulness organisation co-founded by Vidyamala Burch.The Breathworks approach is grounded in compassionate awareness, with a gentle, gradual transformation of our relationship to all our life experiences, including our pain or difficulty. We invite everyone engaging with Breathworks practices and courses to take care of their own well-being as fundamental to our approach. If you suffer from physical, emotional or mental health conditions, please take care not to push yourself past your own safe boundaries when following guidance in Breathworks practices. Please remember that you are always the best person to know what is right for you:

- don’t persist with any practice that is triggering difficult experiences that feel too much or harmful for you.
- adapt practice guidance in a way that you feel most comfortable with.
- speak to your mindfulness teacher or health practitioner if in any doubt.

The Tension Release Meditation

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