Mindfulness

Martin Luther King, Jr. once nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for a Nobel Peace Prize. And now the Vietnamese Zen master and poet is on a North American tour. Our encounter with him a decade ago has left a lasting imprint on us. In this radio pilgrimage, you’ll hear a rare, intimate conversation with him and with others who make use of his practical, lyrical teachings on finding buoyancy and "being peace" in a world of conflict.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/thich-nhat-hanh-on-mindfulness-suffering-and-engaged-buddhism/74

Thich Nhat Hanh — Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism

Body scan 20 mins

Sample of sound for Sota-Sati meditation at Sukkasart Institute in Hua Hin, Thailand

Sukkasart  02 June 2014

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

Rainforest Meditation

A short meditation for setting and then paying attention to breathing

Basic meditation: breath

Loving Kindness Meditation (21 mins)– Kovido Maddick: WEEK 2 ONWARDS GUIDED MEDITATION

Mindful Breathing Guided Meditation (24 mins)– Kovido Maddick

WEEK 1 MEDITATION: This is the core mindfulness meditation to use throughout throughout your intro to mindfulness and meditation course.  Choose either this track or another body scan track to listen to.  We recommend practising this meditation once per day.

Body Scan (24 mins)– Karl Baker: WEEK 1 GUIDED MEDITATION

Concentration Meditation (23 mins) – Karl Baker: WEEK 2 ONWARDS GUIDED MEDITATION

Bonus meditations for the BMA Award winning 'Mindfulness for Health' book by Vidyamala Burch (Breathworks) and Danny Penman (Frantic World).

Diaphragm Breathing Meditation - Vidyamala

Vidyamala Burch co-founder of Breathworks Mindfulness tells her moving and inspiring life story. She sees her life living with a painful body as having four phases:

Denial
Bargaining
Accepting
Flourishing

Vidyamala Burch's Life Story

All the recordings from the Breathworks Intensive meditation retreat 'Heart of the Breath' held at Adhisthana, Herefordshire, 2015. Led by Vidyamala Burch, Sona Fricker, Gary Henessey and Colette Power

All Four Compassion Practices Led By Colette

Ellen Langer is a social psychologist who some have dubbed “the mother of mindfulness.” But she defines mindfulness with counterintuitive simplicity: the simple act of actively noticing things — with a result of increased health, competence, and happiness. Her take on mindfulness has never involved contemplation or meditation or yoga. It comes straight out of her provocative, unconventional studies, which have been suggesting for decades what neuroscience is pointing at now: our experience of everything is formed by the words and ideas we attach to them. What makes a vacation a vacation is not only a change of scenery — but the fact that we let go of the mindless everyday illusion that we are in control. Ellen Langer has shown it’s possible to become physiologically younger through a changed frame of mind; to find joy in what was experienced as drudgery by renaming it as play; and to induce weight loss by substituting the label “exercise” for labor.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/ellen-langer-science-of-mindlessness-and-mindfulness/6332


Ellen Langer — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness

Basic meditation focusing on breath and then sound

Basic Meditation: breath and sounds

Awareness of body meditation, also known as a body scan

Awareness Of Body

This is an introduction to awareness of breath with instructions given throughout the medition with short periods of silence. 18 minutes.

Mindfulness

Jan Vining