Ordained Taoist David James Lees shares his spiritual 'Wu Wei Wisdom' on the ‘Tao’ or ‘Way’ of the Cosmos and its fundamental relationship and interaction with all our lives.

Your Cosmic Connection And Spiritual Contract by David James Lees

Listen to an excerpt from THE POWER CD by Rhonda Byrne

THE POWER CD Audiobook Excerpt

This is a led meditation practice, as taught at the City Lit and the West London Buddhist Centre.

I encountered this meditation for the first time when I was finding life a little stressful, and there is no doubt that it has helped me immensely since 2007. I would heartily recommend anyone to have a go.

You could start right now, but you might like to read this introduction that Jinananda once wrote:

The first thing is to find a quality of stillness.  It is possible to move or walk with this quality of stillness, but in this practice, you can start to develop it by being physically still.  You can move during the practice, but the invitation of the practice is not to fidget. 

If you need to, you can lie down to do the practice, but if you can, you should sit up, in a chair or on the floor, either kneeling astride cushions, or if sitting cross-legged, sitting high enough on cushions so that the knees are lower than the hips. 

The aim of the practice is to cultivate a concentrated appreciative attention to our moment-by-moment experience of the breathing process. 

There are four stages, or approaches, to the practice.  Each of these stages represents a slightly different way of being aware of the breath, of being aware of in the breath.  Starting with the easiest, and working towards the stage requiring the most delicate focus of concentration. 

Mindfulness is not about closing down or cutting off our thinking, it is not an exercise in fixing or forcing the attention.  It simply provides our thinking with something to come back to when it becomes aware of what it is doing. 

We are being mindful at the very moment that we realize that our mind has been all over the place.  Coming home to the breath, we are coming home to ourselves.  Without trying to stop the mind doing what it wants to do, we are centring the mind, settling it.

You can find other meditations of Jinananda's on jonfrewin's soundcloud page.

A guided Mindfulness of Breathing meditation for beginners, by Jinananda

http://ActionAffirmations.com - This track will inspire feelings of self-worth and a sense of inner peace. Take a moment to celebrate how wonderful and unique you are. Everyone, including you, has a beautiful presence to offer this world. Meditate daily on your individual value towards the greater good of humanity.

Self Esteem Affirmations

Listen to Deepak's fascinating lecture about the cosmic mind.

The Cosmic Mind Deepak Chopra

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Rising Strong by Brené Brown, read by Brené Brown

This is a guided meditation for teens and tweens coping with grief.  It is recorded by renowned youth yoga instructor, Abby Wills of http://shantigeneration.com. Flute by Matty D.

SG - Guided Meditation for grief

A guided mindfulness meditation practice from Dr. Mark Bertin, mindfulness teacher and developmental behavioral pediatrician.

10-Minute Mindfulness Practice to Foster Forgiveness

Sometimes the world just needs a little extra love. This meditation is designed to promote compassion and kindness, and to offer our support to all those facing challenges. Our hearts and thoughts are with you.

With Love from lululemon: A Meditation for the World

This meditation is intended to assist you in releasing trauma from your central nervous system.

Many empaths, starseeds, or old souls entered into lower frequency or very dark family situations in this lifetime.  The divergence in your frequency versus your primary caregivers can result in an unhealthy attachment.  Attachment trauma alters our baseline for safety and security. This insecurity can leave empaths in constant overload in relationships, your fight or flight kicks in based on memories from the past — even in safe situations.

Even if you experienced a seemingly loving family situation, many old souls carry an inner knowing or remembrance of higher dimensional lifetimes.  You may not perceive your early experiences in this lifetime as traumatic, but may be experiencing the resulting damage in your nervous system simply from incarnating into the 3D matrix of energy.

This held trauma can be released and full healing can occur through awareness and practicing various breathing and meditation practices. This healing meditation is meant to assist in that process.

Meditation for Empaths and Starseeds to Heal Trauma

The miraculous story of a hugely successful New Age teacher’s conversion to Christianity

In this brilliant, utterly captivating memoir, Doreen Virtue chronicles her journey in discovering everything she believed in was a lie. She poignantly shares the price she’s paid for following Jesus.

New Age teachings are based on concepts that sound almost irresistible. But as Doreen discovered, they come with a hidden price: Your eternal destiny. Here is a riveting, personal confessional of how a former false prophet learned to trust God after nearly wasting a lifetime being independent and willful - trying to predict and control the future - and how Jesus saved her soul from deception and opened her eyes to his truth.

Deceived No More can help you learn how to discern dangerous teachings so you can detect and avoid deception. Topics include:

* How to spot New Age teachings, and why they’re dangerous
* Biblical ways to deal with persecution, spiritual warfare, and other post-conversion issues
* How to witness to a New Ager

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