Mindfulness Meditation

Meditation teacher and voice actor Elaine Smookler leads a mindfulness practice that consists of laying down and placing attention on each area of your body, from head to toe. 

30-Minute Body Scan for Beginners

It is with great pleasure that I share with you the second masterclass with Tara Brach, following on from Tara's presentation on 'How To End The Trance of Unworthiness &amp; Move Through Fear' during the Mindfulness Summit in 2015.

Tara Brach is as an internationally recognised meditation teacher and clinical psychologist, and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC (IMCW). She has practiced and taught meditation for over 35 years and successfully published two bestselling meditation and spiritual awakening books, True Refuge and Radical Acceptance. Her podcasts are also downloaded over one million times per month, which is a real testament to her work and ongoing commitment to helping us live with more peace and ease.

During this masterclass we speak about one of the things that can really hold us back from wholehearted living, and that thing is fear - the fear we’re not enough, we won’t be loved and that we’re not worthy. Tara’s relates to this as the 'Trance of Unworthiness', and illustrates how it can hold us back from being the person we want to be and the life we want to live.

Also shared in this masterclass is Tara’s personal story of how she’s had to self-nurture through feelings of unworthiness, even after publishing Radical Acceptance.

Tara Brach - How To Overcome Fear With The Power Of Mindfulness

Mindfully Coping With Stress – Body Scan (30 mins)— Kovido

Calming the Rush of Panic in Your Emotions
This mediation can help you explore how panic affects you not only physically, but also in your emotions and feelings.

In a quiet place, find a position in which you can be alert and comfortable, whether seated or lying down. Turn off your phone and any other electrical device that could disturb you. Read and practice the script for this guided meditation below, pausing after each paragraph. (Note: Before beginning this meditation, please consider whether this is the right time for you to do it. Do you feel reasonably safe and open? If not, do some mindful breathing and come back to it at another time.)

Calming The Rush of Panic

30-Minute Mindful Inquiry Meditation to Calm the Rush of Panic in Your Emotions

Self - Compassion break with Dr. Kristin Neff

This practice from Bob Stahl involves deep investigation into the causes of anxious feelings so you can discover the story lines that trigger and drive your emotions.

Read more: https://www.mindful.org/meditation-anxious-emotions/

A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety

Meditation on Anxious Emotions (20 min)

Response provided by Thich Nhat Hanh to a written question on June 20, 2004 at Plum Village during the 21-Day Retreat with the theme of The Feet of the Buddha. The teaching offered is called Beginning Anew.

The Feet of the Buddha

How Do We Deal With Regrets?

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

Explore this guided meditation to calm your body and improve your quality of sleep.