Sample tracks from Sharon Salzberg's, "Real Happiness at Work"

Drinking Tea Meditation

Breathing Meditation Introduction from Sharon Salzberg's, "Real Happiness"

Breathing Meditation Introduction

Taken from the 2010 Open Your Heart in Paradise retreat, Sharon relates the act of meditation to an alchemical process in which we convert the conceptual into the felt presence of direct experience. The array of what we might encounter in meditation is broad, but we welcome it all. Meditation is a skills training in learning to gather energy. Our attention is brought into focus and we begin to connect the fragments of our lives. When we tap into our ‘inner abundance’, our experience changes and we naturally settle into a more compassionate state of awareness.

Sharon Salzberg – Metta Hour – Ep. 02 – Meditation

Self - Compassion break with Dr. Kristin Neff

Tara Brach Compassion Meditation

Traditional Chinese medicine and Taoist wisdom for optimum health during the Autumn and Winter seasons. https://www.wuweiwisdom.com/

In EPISODE #30 of our Walk the Wu Wei series, ordained Taoist monk and traditional Chinese medicine doctor, David James Lees, offers practical tips and advice on how to harmonise your mind, body and spirit to the ‘Yin’ energy of the Autumn and Winter period.

You’ll discover: 

~  the Chinese Five Elements seasonal cycle and how this relates to you

~ how the dominant 'Metal' energy of Autumn and ‘Water’ energy of Winter can affect both your emotional and physical health – plus the key warning signs to watch out for

~ why it’s vital to support the energy of your Lungs and Large Intestine in Autumn and Kidneys and Bladder in Winter and how you can do this

~ practical lifestyle, diet, meditation and qigong advice for nurturing your health and happiness during the Autumn and Winter seasons. 

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In the video we refer to some simple Eight Silken Brocade Qigong exercises for supporting your Lung and Kidney energy – you can watch them here: https://www.wuweiwisdom.com/meditation-classes/ 

You can also read our extended blog posts on Autumn and Winter health here:
https://www.wuweiwisdom.com/autumn-health-the-chinese-medicine-taoist-way/
https://www.wuweiwisdom.com/winter-health-the-chinese-medicine-taoist-way/

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Taoist master and therapist, David James Lees, and life-coach, Alexandra Lees, share their inspirational Wu Wei Wisdom on the real-life challenges faced by their clients and community members in their Walk the Wu Wei series.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine Tips for Autumn + Winter Health and Harmony - Walk the Wu Wei #30

Kristin Neff guides us through a twenty-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others.

Breathing Compassion In and Out

Concentration is the skill of undivided attention, the super power of committing our attention to what we want at a given time, and nothing else. When all our faculties converge in a single activity or direction, the mind and the body are happy. Our background worry programs often fade, and we can find ourselves in “flow” states of optimal performance. The opposite is having our minds pulled in a dozen discontinuous directions, forever finding and making new problems, never collected, never satisfied. The research is clear; to cite the title of one famous paper, “A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind.” Over time, concentration leads to more stability and peace in the rest of life. Somehow, the flow flows out. For this reason, concentration is the foundation of many meditation practices. 
 
This meditation is the first in the book Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, coauthored with Dan Harris and Carlye Adler. The book's dozen or so other meditations can be found on the 10% Happier app. Enjoy!
 
Jeff
For more free meditations, see www.jeffwarren.org

Resources:

A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind : http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6006/932
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics : http://jeffwarren.org/books/meditation-fidgety-skeptics/
10% Happier app: http://www.10percenthappier.com/

Concentration 101

Here’s a 5-minute guided meditation called "The Most Basic Meditation,” from the 10% Happier app. It’s about staying open and centred even when we’re tense. You can do this meditation sitting, or while walking around.

Just a few minutes can feel like a mini-reset.

The Most Basic Meditation

A Meditation to Gather Your Energy from Sharon Salzberg

A 6-Minute Guided Meditation to Focus Awareness

Jeff Warren is a writer and meditation teacher. He is the co-author of The New York Times bestselling Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, author of The Head Trip - a travel guide to sleeping, dreaming and waking - and founder of The Consciousness Explorers Club, a nonprofit meditation adventure group based in Toronto.