Do you want to know what is open monitoring meditation? Or, are you curious about different types of meditation and heard about meditation techniques like open monitoring or focused attention but don't understand what that means?

In this video, I answer those questions. I explain what is open monitoring meditation. I describe different types of open monitoring meditation, what are the benefits of this technique, the reasons for doing it, and I provide a sample guided meditation so you can try it and see if it's a good fit for you.

Getting Started With Mindful Meditation: An Open Monitoring Technique

This is a 5-minute grounding meditation to pause for a moment of simply being.

Module 1: 5 Min Grounding Meditation to Rest in Awareness

This is a 5-minute standing guided meditation to enhance embodiment and sensory awareness for more mindful living

Module 3: 5 Min Guided Meditation Circling Senses

This 15-minute meditation is a body scan with appreciation for all that your body can do. Appreciating your self, pausing for presence and connecting with your life energy—the life energy that is shared with all living beings offers an opportunity for comfort and care and to enhance feelings of connectedness and gratitude. Creating and radiating feelings of warmth and well-being throughout your body supports a positive mood, happiness, more life satisfaction and better health.

Meditating, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic can help to calm and settle anxiety and fears. Pausing for a few minutes of presence can quiet and clear your mind and support optimal mental health. Many events are out of our control. Regular meditation calms mind and body and is especially helpful to find peace in uncertain times. Mindful meditation can also boost immunity. Studies show that people who practice mindfulness meditation are less likely to get sick and if they become sick, tend to be sicker for shorter times.

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In addition to practicing meditation, follow good hygiene tips during this time:
1. Wash hands frequently
2. Avoid face touching
3. Practice physical distancing whenever possible
4. Avoid crowds and extended stays in confined spaces with numerous people

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15 Min Body Scan Guided Meditation for Self-Appreciation and Care

This 15 minute guided meditation increases self-acceptance, kindness and loving compassion. Be gentle with and supportive of yourself. Meditation is a way to find peace in uncertain times. As we face living with the coronavirus and the possibility of covid-19, we must manage stress and anxiety and be our own best friend. Mindfulness, self-compassion, kindness and loving awareness are all ways in which we can live confidently, embrace uncertainty and extend kindness both to ourselves and to those who face challenges as they live with fears and loss.

Meditating, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic can help to calm your mind, quiet racing thoughts and settle anxiety. Pausing for a few minutes of presence can quiet your mind and support optimal mental health. Many events are out of our control. Regular meditation calms mind and body and is especially helpful in times of uncertainty. Meditation practice can also boost immunity. Studies show that people who practice meditation are less likely to get sick and if they become sick, tend to be sicker for shorter times. Be kind to yourself during the pandemic.

If you want to create more calm in your life, check out my free guide, The Power of the Pause. click here:
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In addition to practicing meditation, follow good hygiene tips during this time:
1. Wash hands frequently
2. Avoid face touching
3. Practice physical distancing whenever possible
4. Avoid crowds and extended stays in confined spaces with numerous people
5. Open windows and enjoy fresh air

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15 Min Guided Meditation - Be Kind to Yourself During Difficult Times

Learn how to observe thoughts WITHOUT reacting or getting caught up can help you, particularly if you tend to replay the same types of thoughts in your head over and over. What do I mean by that? Let's say you tend to replay a negative experience - making a bad experience last much longer. That habit doesn't help you. Learn how to observe through meditation to reveal these mental habits--like replaying bad experiences, worrying about future events, analyzing and self-judging past behavior.  Meditation practices like this can help you gain insight into these habits so you can let go of what doesn't serve or help you.

This simple 2 minute guided meditation on thoughts can help anyone who wants a 2 minute guided meditation to increase awareness of thoughts and habits of mind. It can also be for those who say, "I've never meditated before." I guide you through this short easy guided meditation with mindful meditation cues. You can also use this exercise to launch your own continued meditation after I finish guiding the introduction


This short easy guided meditation offers a refreshing break as well as insight into your habits and yes, you can have mental habits as well as physical habits. Increasing awareness of your thoughts reveals those mental habits that may not serve you, that may heighten anxious feelings or that may perpetuate negative feelings. Use this exercise to bring more presence, loving awareness and acceptance into your life.

Mindfulness reduces feelings of anxiety and stress, as you spend less time lost in worries about the future or upsetting past memories. Learn to let go of bothersome thoughts with this mindfulness guided meditation. Learn to stop worrying about things that have NOT happened. You have everything you need to survive whatever experience that you are going through--in fact, you probably already have survived through many challenging experience. Trust your STRENGTH, not your fears.

I wish this for you in your life's journey.

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2 Min Guided Meditation: Learning to Observe Thoughts

This is a 15 minute meditation to avoid emotional overwhelm and anxiety and to allow you to find calm in the storm. When current events are upsetting, meditating can calm your mind, quiet racing thoughts, settle anxiety and help you to feel more grounded and centered. Emotions can start to overwhelm. A guided meditation that focuses on present-moment awareness and that supports being, rather than doing, can create calm during unrest and offer anxiety relief. This 15-minute guided meditation focuses on resting in spacious awareness to find peace in uncertain times and social unrest. 

Meditation practice can also boost immunity. Studies show that people who practice meditation are less likely to get sick and if they become sick, tend to be sicker for shorter times. Enjoy this loving awareness guided meditation for mindfulness.

If you want to create more calm in your life, check out my free guide, The Power of the Pause. click here:
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15 Min Guided Meditation to Find Calm in the Storm

Want a break right at your computer -- a short easy guided meditation to increase kindness and self acceptance? This simple 2 minute loving kindness meditation is for YOU or for those who say, "I've never meditated before." 
Relax, release stress and feel more peaceful. This short easy guided meditation encourages you to have more self-compassion, to accept yourself as you are and to let go of what no longer serves you. Give yourself a self compassion break.

Loving kindness cues take you through this 2 minute guided meditation to help you feel more safe and secure, at ease and happy and bathed with a sense of love and kindness toward yourself as you are. Bring more presence, loving awareness and self-acceptance into your life.

I wish this for you in your life's journey.

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2 Min Guided Meditation Self Compassion

This is a 5 minute guided meditation to feel better. When you pause to send love and care to those important to you, it feels good and boosts your mood. This also is a 5 minute meditation for self care. It helps you to connect with feelings of loving kindness and self compassion and helps you avoid emotional overwhelm and anxiety and to allow you to find calm in the storm. When current events are upsetting, meditating can calm your mind, quiet racing thoughts, settle anxiety and help you to feel more grounded and centered. Emotions can start to overwhelm. 

A guided meditation that focuses on feelings of kindness, compassion, caring and love, can create calm and foster positivity to offer anxiety relief. This 5-minute guided meditation focuses on giving and receiving kindness, compassion and care.

Meditation practice can also boost immunity. Studies show that people who practice meditation are less likely to get sick and if they become sick, tend to be sicker for shorter times. Enjoy this loving awareness guided meditation for mindfulness.

If you want to create more calm in your life, check out my free guide, The Power of the Pause. click here:
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5 Min Meditation for Self Care, Compassion and Kindness

This is a 15 minute meditation that focuses on connecting with gratitude in my series of meditations to avoid emotional overwhelm and anxiety. When current events are upsetting, meditating can calm your mind, quiet racing thoughts, settle anxiety and help you to feel more grounded and centered. Emotions can start to overwhelm. It's important to find calm in the storm. 

A guided meditation that focuses on gratitude and all the good things in your life can help to shift what you see, especially during difficult times and much news is bad. This 15-minute guided meditation focuses on connecting with positive feelings of gratitude and appreciation for those who have supported you specifically and then generally to all the things that we can be grateful for -- all the various elements that make our lives possible. This helps lift your mood and give you energy.

I chose the outer space background because sometimes it helps to take a really big picture view to step back and realize how much we're blessed to be supported by friends, family, community, networks of workers, our ancestors, nature—all the elements that make our very life possible—are things that we can pause to appreciate.

Sometimes, when we face so much negative news, it's hard to find reasons to feel positive and to make time for appreciation of all that is good. But, it's precisely at those times when life is so challenging that it's more important than ever to acknowledge all the good in your life and extend appreciation for all that makes your life possible. Gratitude can be very empowering, particularly when things are difficult.

Meditation practice can also boost happiness and boost immunity. Studies show that people who practice meditation are less likely to get sick and if they become sick, tend to be sicker for shorter times. Enjoy this loving awareness guided meditation for mindfulness.

If you want to create more calm in your life, check out my free guide, The Power of the Pause. click here:
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15 min Gratitude Meditation Guided: Finding Joy Amid Difficult Times

Like green tea, this podcast is filled with goodness just for you. Join me, the Wellness Sensei aka Shirley Archer -Eichenberger on the path to optimizing your health and wellness with my special blend of Japanese wisdom and Modern science.

Getting Started With Mindful Meditation: An Open Monitoring Technique

Shirley Archer -Eichenberger, the Wellness Sensei