As John Kabat-Zinn  has said 'Don't be stitching to complete your parachute as you jump out of the plane.   Avoid or work through Burn out, develop positive qualities to serve you in work and home life to increasingly be the best version of you . This collection of Mindfulness guided meditations and mindfulness sessions will inspire, renew, refresh and support you at work and in life.

Corporate Mindfulness Meditations for Resilience, Focus, Calm, Wellbeing & Enhanced Performance

How can you retrieve your composure and balance into safety and ease? ? It's amazing how quickly we can get into a state of panic and anxiety through the thought process taking us away from the reality of what is actually happening right now.

Catastrophising Longer Mindfulness 1 Into Grounded Calm Meditation

How do you work with overwhelm, and create a creative and resourceful place to come from? How do you deal with catastrophising? Learn a simple mindfulness application to regain a sense of balance, centredness, and stability in the face of chaos and overwhelm.

Meet Overwhelm for Balance Stability Resilience Creativity Mindfulness Guidance

And the earth can be a source of stability, empowerment, even confidence. Grounding and centring, and from this sense of earthing, just being available to the body’s whole sensing experience, inviting a warm and kind awareness as we do so, a calming awareness, a calming awareness, a healing awareness, permeating our whole body.  Sensing the whole shape of the body, perhaps noticing some fabric here and there on the skin, keeping you safe and warm, protected. Resting in the flow of breathing, calming in and calming out …..comforting in and comforting out …..soothing in and soothing out. Grounded, kindly aware, spacious, starry breathing, this open dimension always available at all times. Just simply resting in the breathing with a warm and kindly awareness. Whole-body breathing, crystal clear breathing, and if thinking arises, that’s ok, just appreciating the earth, the contact with the ground, and the vast spaciousness of this sensing body, there’s room for everything as well. Inviting a resting with the breathing. And you might imagine a colour or scent or energetic flowing in with that in-breath, filling the body with a scent and aroma of care and kindness, of compassion. Keeping the breathing company in a very gentle and soft way, as you might look and hold a flower. Smelling the rich perfume with each in and out breath, flooding through the body.  And keeping company within you whatever needs to be kept company in this compassionate and spacious way as we too are kept company by nature, by all of sentience, by the stars, sensing this web of connection, resting in the whole of it. We are in a way not just a part of the web, indeed we are the whole web.  Letting it rest in itself as we face the continuing day or night, inviting this quality of presence and connection to keep itself company to express itself in ways that are enriching and meaningful , enjoyable playful and spontaneous in a way that works for you, resting with all of this.

Web of Connection Soothing Comforting Calming Mindfulness Meditation

Time to refresh and invite some inner nourishment, to come home. Mindfulness is a context for authentic expression and creativity from a sense of wholeness. Its pretty normal to start off more cerebral, more thoughtful and there’s more inviting you into the feast and banquet of being. Just letting things be and beginning to come more available to the sensing, coming to our senses even! Perhaps being more available too the shape of your whole body and as we do so inviting a sense of care and warmth and softening. Sensing the flow of breathing and inviting rest and calming with each and out breath, comforting and soothing, whole-body breathing. Inviting stability, safety through this contact.  Sensing outwards, out into space, beyond the canopies of the trees, up into that glittering mass of stars, with feet on the ground, always keeping us company.  Whole body kindly and warmly breathing, inviting a sense of care and compassion with each in and out breath.  Filling the whole body up with care and kindness as you breath, perhaps imagining a beautiful colour being drawn in to each cell, organ and tissue, to flood the whole body. Staying with the whole body breathing.

Feast and Banquet of Being Mindfulness Meditation.

How important it is for the body to sense the visceral-ness of who we are. To sense the elements. Given that we may be in an office or home for protracted periods. Stepping outside and looking up. Look up to that Sky and breath in that universe. Universe, let the universe breathe. Breathing in from the universe. Maybe the sun is on your face. Or just sensing the breeze coolness, with your feet on the ground, taking your shoes and socks off on a patch of grass, look up and let the body become available to this bigger system that we are also part of. Available. The biggest system that we are also part. If you are lucky hearing the beautiful melody of the sound of a bird, a Song thrush maybe, such exquisite variety of sound, or a parakeet maybe. Or the sound of a Bee, or the leaves rustling in the wind, and breathing in this air.  And indeed if we are by the sea, looking at the vast Ocean and the sound of the waves crashing down and ebbing back, and the sand under our feet.

Close to Nature and Ryokhan Poetry Mindfulness

Resting in the natural Presence of Availability, carefree open and playful.
Time for some space and rest, come home, to land, to sense the fullness of your experience Pausing and sensing your way forward pausing into presence and inviting a sense of contact with the earth and seat coming to our senses inviting stability and groundedness – a sense of balance and centredness. Being available to the flow of breathing with a warm awareness, flooding each cell, organ, tissue and all the elements of the body.  Just like a big blue sky, spacious and open or a majestic ocean, broad and wide with currents deep, and of course the waves of the mind on the surface, just letting any thinking do its thing as the body rests in the body, we are not adding to thinking nor pushing it away either, just sensing it in the context of the whole vast sensing experience, resting. Surfing the breathing, As you continue to sense into the breathing, the body can sense beyond out into the open and up into the canopy of stars.  Below all beings connected, of which we are an intimate part. Grounded connected, spacious kindly breathing. Resting in the natural Presence of Availability, carefree open and playful.

Carefree Open and Playful Surfing The Breathing Mindfulness Meditation.

I wish to explore the term ‘Idle’ in one of Mary Oliver’s poems (The Summer day) ‘how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields’  
This is more about curiosity rather than education.  In the face of our cultural norm, perhaps something in us can feel hostage to being busy – unless we are seen to be being busy productive and useful, we are therefore not, we are not of value.  Maybe Mary Oliver’s is presenting the value of just ‘Being’, that does not need any comparison, it stands on its own, the value of who we are without additional identities that socially can be valued. Who are we really, in a way?  Just pausing into a space of gratitude, of care, of appreciation for the sensing and the connectedness that we are.  Sensing the earth with gratitude, just the contact, and gratitude to the stars that have actually given birth to us, if not quite literally, we can see the causality. The mystery of this sensing body, inviting awe and wonder, as Rumi would say, ‘Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.’ Bewildered by the stars, bewildered by the trees and the forests and by the lakes and rivers and oceans, bewildered by the beauty of the flowers. Gazing upon one specific flower perhaps bringing to mind those petals and colours, perhaps it has a scent, and breathing this scent, breathing in the colours, and perhaps bewildered and appreciative by the love we receive and give to others. Valuing these connections as the most precious thing, family, friends and all sentience. Resting in this mystery. Inviting a quality of warm awareness and love into this sensing body with each ion and out breath. Resting where the feet meet the ground, resting where the body meets the spaciousness, and resting where this spaciousness meets all sentience and the stars beyond, resting in the perfume of life.

Beingness and Bewilderment. Gratitude to the Stars. Who are we Really?

Returning to the source, that intrinsic nature of wellbeing, that is inherently here, but often, seemingly not but masked by other things.  So, we just pause, landing.  As I said the word ‘pause’ an image came for me, of all things, of jumping out of a plane, I have memories of doing that on a static line, and there’s a lot of intensity and chaos before the parachute opens, but when it does, suddenly there is a pause, there’s a kind of ‘suspended’ well of course, literally being suspended. There is a very beautiful kind of silence, and an incredible vision is presented, the world beneath you, seemingly rocking from side to side, it’s a moment of beauty, everything is suspended, timeless and infinite.  So, pausing and landing, dropping down, feet on the earth. The relief of the earth supporting the body, we are indeed viscerally connected, indeed born from the earth, from stardust. Inviting a sensitivity from the shape of the body, the body knows its own shape, softness, fabric of clothing, cool and warmth. Resting from the whole body. With each in and out breath, according to the body’s needs, grounded whole body aware, softening and soothing breathing. Continuing to be available from the sensing, perhaps sensing outwards, beyond the four walls, above the treetops and through the clouds, if any, into the vastness of the great blue or inky black star-stud skies, keeping us company.  Resting in the majesty of the whole of this grounded spacious whole-body breathing.  Inviting a resting, a soothing and a calming. Perhaps breathing in your favourite colour, a quality of light, a perfume,  into every cell, tissue, every organ every sinew and bone in this body, absorbing the goodness and kindness and rest, and healing that it might enjoy, flooding the whole body, bringing relief, wellbeing and health, inviting resolution and wholeness, inviting peace, space, freedom, inviting connection, closeness and love, safety, play and humour. Just allowing the body to sense the contact with the ground, or the seat, mattress, and from here really sensing the space above extending out and around you, above you. Just resting from the whole of this sense of itself, grounded and spacious ……grounded and spacious. No effort required, always available at all times, grounded and spacious, inviting this sense of whole beingness that continues in a way that works for you….

Suspended Timeless and Infinite Open Parachute Mindfulness Meditaiton

Inviting a sense of ease and freedom, to allow those wings to unfurl a little into the big blue, let those thermals lift us up, those thermals of compassion. Inviting a sense of freedom and openness. Perhaps you have a particular place in nature that invited this grounded, spaciousness, vitality, a healthfulness., where you can breathe and breathed by this nature where a health and wellbeing an come from.  Resting in the sensing, earthing and grounding. Really sensing being held by the earth, being supported, stable, balanced centred….. always available at all times. Silky smooth breathing.  Taking a little time to notice your mood, feelings or emotional tones, from a whole sense of your grounded spacious whole sense of yourself, something there raw or tender, vulnerable, or even confident, spacious, how would it like you to be with it? Whole body breathing and keeping company whatever is present there. Inviting kind awareness with each in breath flooding the body with care and warmth.  Inviting these parts within you to feast on this intention for care and warmth, may kindness perfume this body bringing warmth, safety, healing and wholeness. Just as the sun brings light and new growth, the new shoots of healing and wellbeing from the light and warmth of kindness as it permeates the whole-body bringing care warmth a quality of radiance, touching every cell, organ and tissue the whole body with each in and out breath. May kindness and care emerge and evolve here. And as it fills this body up, overflowing beginning to radiate out to receive kindness and care may they be happy and well, imaging light or some energy or whatever works for you, a soft intention radiating out and beyond, around the globe and out into infinity. May all being be well and happy, may their wings unfurl, may their wings be lifted free into the big blue. Whole body, kindly, warm awareness breathing.

Sunlight Warmth New Growth Mindfulness Meditation

An invitation into pausing into a spacious, open easy meditation. Taking time to invite a supportive space for inner nourishment, wellbeing, focus, presence, safety and stability, balance.  Our trusted element is the earth, the Horse of meditation, contact, earthing and grounding.  Mother earth is always available at all times. 
Resting into the shape of the whole-body sensing. Inviting a warm awareness, a kindness a compassion, with each in and out breath, whole body breathing, flooding the body with a sense of care, every cell, organ, tissue is invited to feast on this kindness as it is breathed in, warming, healing, enlivening. Taking time to rest in the flowing of the breathing.  Beyond the four walls space extending out, resting in the spaciousness of all things, up into the stars. Being held by the starriness of all things. And something in us can sense sentience and life in all its forms on the planet.  All the ecologies, the forests and the oceans, the tundra’s the dessert’s, a rich biodiversity. And perhaps a rich diversity within, perhaps something needing some care, some nurture. Perhaps inviting a quality of kindness to increase, breathing a fragrance, a colour, breathing in light through every pore of the body.  Breathing in an exquisite sound, like the running water in a reiver, or crashing waves, leaves rustling in the wind, bird song, something tender refined, healing every cell, refreshing, renewing, inviting the light of kindness and warmth to expand through the body.  As you rest in the whole-body breathing, the body can just rest in itself. Just resting from this quality of beingness with a soft focus, maybe where the feet meet the ground? Just sensing the breathing in a very spacious and open way, inclusive, allowing and grounded, letting it rest in itself. Being responsive to any inner needs, keeping company what needs to be kept company. Feet on the ground and spaciousness rising up to the stars above. Being available. Soft, open, grounded. Taking a moment to sense the kindness within and the inherent goodness and goodness and kindness in the world around us, flowing through us, inviting a healthy trust in this relatedness within this universe, resting in it, being available to the flow.


Rest in the Vast Spaciousness Natural Mindfulness Meditation

Exploring the theme of uncertainty, inviting a space of awareness, a grounded Presence, just sensing contact of your feet on the ground, noticing how it is for the body to connect through the ground and the seat? You are being held and supported by the earth. Connecting with the theme ‘Uncertainty’ not knowing, maybe ambiguity, checking in with yourself how that lands, the meaning for you, what images, feelings, stories – noticing what that is like to entertain uncertainty, at least in this very moment. Right now, we are in a place of not knowing, there is no particular direction to this meditation… in a way right now, we are in a place uncertainty, of not knowing.  And if you explore, you might find uncertainty is more about a mental projection… and if you explore, uncertainty is more of a case of mental projection…. It’s; What are we doing… Where are we going…. I’m not quite sure where we are going….’ It’s how we respond to the stories based on projection. Some of us might really enjoy not knowing, there is not one response, we could respond tin different ways at different times.  Meeting uncertainty is about meeting parts of us, some of which could be really happy, and some really anxious, depending on the time and place.  Maybe were never going to find certainty, that is the nature of uncertainty.  Maybe there is a middle way between uncertainty and certainty, perhaps there’s some kind of refuge that brings us into relationship where we can hold things in Presence and not be overwhelmed, and enjoy some kind of equanimity, equipoise however rough the seas maybe, we can navigate our boat skilfully.  Hoe might we do that?  Well. Let’s look at the stories, is it really what story is here, in other words we are looking at the seas, is it really rough or calm, and just sense into the feeling tone, some nervousness, some excitement, curiosity, anxiety?  Our first port of call is to create some grounded safety in the sensing, always available at all times.  Inviting a sense of contact with the ground feeling mother earth supporting you, from which you were born, stardust, sensing contact and resting briefly with these sensations where the body meets the earth, resting with these sensations, letting them rest in themselves. Inviting the whole body to begin to rest in its whole self, whole body breathing and grounding, savouring contact and sensation. And you body can sense the space around you, beyond the room up into the stars, sitting beneath a canopy of stars above you, and the sharedness of the community also breathing. And now from the whole of this, something in you is like it is, excited, trepidation, excited? And we could put our hand on our chest or tummy, bringing kindness and care to whatever is there.  Its being held by the sensing, held by the stars, being held by the body and if you like you can just say a little ‘Hello’ to the part in you, whether happy, sad, afraid or neutral, I celebrate you. You have needs that you are wishing to connect me with, your intention is to look after me. Thank you! Keeping it company in this way, Grounded, spacious, whole body, kindly breathing, welcoming.  Perhaps you have a need for safety and reassurance, security and in this present moment you have the creativity, resourcefulness, the resilience, the humanity to meet any situation in a way that is enriching and supportive. And now just take time for the body to rest in the body, it maybe you would like to rest in the breathing or where the feet mee the ground, keeping yourself and being kept company for a period of time.  In the broad expanse of existence, there is neither not knowing or knowing, there is just a clear open space that is carefree, always available at all times. Resting Here.

Meet Uncertainty and Fear with Safety Resourcefulness Resilience Presence Meditation

Pausing into a quality of landing and Presence. Pause is like a portal, a portal into the fullness of who we are, whoever that may be, that mystery.  There’s a lot of what we don’t know we don’t know in this mystery.  So, we invite curiosity, kindness and compassion to keep us company as we arrive more fully.  Also inviting a warm awareness with each in and out breathe, a soft and gentle awareness. So, pausing. You might notice the thinking mind may continue, the last thing it wants to do is pause….. we just allow it to be here, as the body begins to feel the earth beneath its feet, finding rest in this sensation of touch.  Arriving, the shape of the whole body can begin to emerge from this grounded whole sense of itself.  Inviting a warm kindly awareness to flood the whole body, being kindly held with care.  Being held by the whole ocean of Being, cool clear waters, sapphire blues, lapis lazuli blues, emerald greens, malachite greens, permeating the whole body with care. Being held by a thousand flowers with their petals gently holding us with their fragrance, being held by the blue sky. Being held by the night sky, with a thousand diamonds glittering. Breathing it all in, being held and supported. And sensing space beyond the four walls. Sensing up above the treetops, into that infinite sky.  Resting in the whole-body breathing, just naturally breathing according to the body’s needs. Resting and comforting and soothing every cell tissue and organ, whole body invited into the comforting and soothing place with each in and out breath, just resting in the flow, no effort required, it just rests in itself.   Grounded, whole body, spacious, kindly aware, breathing.  And perhaps taking a little time to notice your mood, feeling tone and emotional tomes in the body, offering space and care as appropriate, indeed even saying hello, if you are moved to do so to those parts wanting care, tenderness, renewal, healing, regeneration, its ok that these parts are there. They are met or unmet needs for care, for love, for space, balance, connection, freedom, play and fun, joy, health and wellbeing, restoration, community and friendship, progress and engagement, contribution, understating, empathy, communication, learning and growth, the Mystery, continuing to rest in the whole-body breathing in this connected whole way.  Inviting care and kindness to flood through the body like a blazing sun in the heart, its warmth and light radiating through the whole body, gradually and gently glowing warming, enlightening, bringing ease and space, warmth, allowing this glow to radiate out around you, radiating further out, touching the hearts and minds of all beings, all sentience, sitting in this glow, inviting, connection, closeness with all beings, sensing our relatedness and mutuality as a wholeness, indivisible, the light itself, resting in the mystery of this light.  Just letting things be the way they want to be pervaded by a spacious quality of light, always available at all times.

Blazing Sun in the Heart Kindness and Healing Mindfulness Meditation

The theme today is balance, perhaps the verb is a little more accessible, balancing, centring, off beam, out of kilter, off beam… something in us knows when we are out of balance.  The invitation here is to entertain an increasingly centred and grounded quality of being present.  When you are grounded and centred you are automatically available. Ther e is a sense of more acuity, more aware, more spaciousness and the satisfaction of the feet on the ground, both metaphorically and literally, you are ready. This quality of readiness can just be.  I call it availability. 
So like a mountain, grounded cantered, and yet spaciousness radiating out. In no time, infinity is always present, up into the stars, being breathed by this infinite spaciousness. Resting in the sensations of the whole-body breathing. Taking time to notice elements of the body that might like to soften even more…. The shoulders, often slightly hunched or tight, can just drop down even more.  The face can be sometimes a little hard, inviting a softening, the lips softening, the jaw softening and relaxing, around the eyes, and the eyes, soothing and softening with each in and out breath. Noticing any other elements of the body that might like to softening and finding their own comfort in their own unique way, and yet remaining alert in a natural equipoise.  Just noticing the quality of balancing between the grounding and earthing, and the speciousness that is infinite. Visceral and embodied, yet spacious. And qualities of stillness in this ‘like a mountain’ stillness of yourself, balancing that with movement; the flow of breathing, the pulse - movement and stillness in the dance.  Resting in the movement and the stillness of this dance, letting it rest.  Like whirling dervishes in a perfect spin; stillness and movement. Being available to the life within, your mood, emotions and feelings.  And the balance between emotion and body, sensing in context, making room to welcome, say hello even, something raw and tender, something open, something ok. Inviting a resting in the whole of this, letting rest in the whole of itself, spacious and grounded, flow and stillness, emotion and matter, a playful curiosity and a quiet attentiveness in Presence.  Embodied Relational Presence.

Natural Equipoise Centreing Calming Balancing Mindfulness Meditation

This will invite a spaced of deeper rest, a quality of presence, a quality of wholeness, a sense of self-care, and a quality of landing, coming into Grounded Embodied Presence.  And a natural kind of clearing of the mind as a result. Being available from the sensing body, inhabiting the whole of you.  Experiencing a foundation of solidity, stability, balance.  From here safety can emerge, confidence and a quality of centredness, earthing and grounding, always available at all times, resting here.
Inviting in a quality of warm awareness. Perhaps in the breathing, flowing in and flowing out, a warm and kindly awareness, flowing into every cell, healing, enlivening, permeating, vitalising, refreshing, earthing and grounding. Kindly awareness, warm awareness, filling the whole body up with a sense of care.  And perhaps the whole body can begin to emerge as a whole experience, the shape of the body from the skins sense of itself, sensitive to touch, the fabric of the clothing wrapping around the whole body. Temperature, the pulse of the heart, tingling maybe, whole body energising and enlivening allowing it to rest, grounded whole body warm awareness breathing and sensing outwards into the space around it, into the room maybe, and beyond the room outside, above the treetops and above the clouds, into the infinite sky up into that infinity of jewels and diamonds. This universal context that we are always in, always available at all times, we can sense our connection as if being breathed by it, resting in the breathing, resting in the space, resting in the grounding, flowing in and flowing out, resting in the great flow of breathing in a very natural way, not too tight and not too loose, it just looks after itself in a very unique way, grounded spacious breathing.  Thinking can have a place in the majesty of things, probably moving to one side, as the body rests in itself.
And taking a little time to sense what is alive in you in the body, something new, familiar, just give it space to be received, they want to be felt, and in doing so will naturally move into the freshness of the next moment. Generally, always a complexity we can hold, we don’t need the labels, just the experience, coming close or taking space, sensing the stars afar, the feet on the ground can offer a spaciousness and an ease even with intense feelings and we can say Hi hello, its like that its been a tough week or tough moment, of course. You have underlying needs for peace, healing, wholeness, integrity, connection, spaciousness, connection, closeness, intimacy, boundaries, privacy, and more. As we meet these parts, also resting in the whole-body sensing, there’s the part but there’s the whole as well, the integrated sense of self in wholeness. Resting in the natural sensations, resting in the flux of the comings and goings of experience, in the constancy in the flow of breathing and the constancy of the feet on the ground providing stability, balance safety and peace. The peace of the infinity of the glittering diamonds that surround us always offering us their light and beauty, just we too can offer our light and beauty in this quality of Being in Presence. Resting here.

Deep Rest and Calming Mindfulness Meditation

An exploration of abundance and mindfulness, especially the theme of never enough time, being overwhelmed by the thinking mind, the to do list, planning – often some kind of impending disaster can accompany this etc. Initially then coming into a grounded space.  Contemplating when we have been driven or anxious. The scarcity paradigm is here, ‘I’ve not got enough time,’ I’ve got to do it by a certain time, etc, its quite contracted it can lead to a low or high grade anxiety, lack of sleep, lack of connection with others as we withdraw, restlessness, lack of connection to ourself. .  The driven ness is propelling us through musts, should and ought’s….. driven by some external or internal ‘authority’.  We are ‘driven’ by the needs to survive, make progress, to stay connected to our work. So just pausing and saying hello to the parts that have been driving us, and just thank them, helping me to survive for progress but not meeting my needs for space, for ease, for abundance, for carefreeness to feel happier and easier.  I wonder what other parts might need to come forward for more ease, flow, playfulness especially when there is a more pressured time.  Something in you knows how to respond, perhaps with the reflection that ‘Life is bigger than this’! we could call this values management, not living just from time management - what is really important to you?  Spaciousness, ease, playfulness, carefree, yes of course, to make progress too, to be creative. To invite a dance between meeting pressure creatively, meeting stresses with space and compassion, inviting this creative natural ease that can come in to help you complete, and knowing you can pause anytime, take a rest, go out for a walk, make a cup of tea, put music on, smile, do a bit of yoga, invite some gratitude for the life you have. Indeed, what is the worse that can happen is something is a bit late.  Ultimately valuing your existence, it is far bigger than any task that can hold it hostage temporarily, looking up to the stars, looking out to the forests, sensing what you love doing, sensing the feelings coming from them. Moving forward in a more spacious resilient and creative way. Always available and all times.

Carefree Resilience Abundance from Feeling Deadline Pressure Anxiety

This is a brief exploration of sleep in the context of mindfulness, there are classically many things you can do to set a context for better sleep.  However, when you are laying in bed, and there is a sense of not getting to sleep.  Often anxiety is a major factor in not sleeping coming from actually and paradoxically trying to get to sleep. It does not have to be like that, we can reframe how we get to sleep. We can instead focus on resting and not trying to get to sleep. Setting ourselves up for failure and further anxiety.   Resting all night will allow you to function the next day ok, rather than with anxiety generated through not sleeping by trying to get to sleep!  With resting we can just invite a sense of contact with the mattress, sensing contact with what ever is underneath you and letting the muscles soften. Being available to resting, perhaps working from the feet upwards etc.  The breathing inviting a natural rhythm, which becomes more prolonged and becomes longer on the out breath. And if you like placing your hand on your tummy or chest if anything is agitated in you.   And if it helps you can invite a pleasant scenario, somewhere in nature, or somewhere you can remember that is very very comforting. Maybe hearing the sounds that you herd maybe it was a sunrise or sunset, maybe it was the sound of rain, something inviting comforting, some lazy day or lazy night, some realm, someplace that s safe and comfortable. Allowing the body to rest in each ion and out breath, If the body wants to fall asleep or drop off to sleep in its own time, it will in its own time.

Sleepy Resting Comforting into Sleep Guided Invitation

'Becoming alike a deep still, cool ocean, bathing in the magic of the cool waters; sapphire blues, turquoise, deep greens, deep healing waters of being'.

Time to find a bit of ease, comfort and relaxation.  Space for you, you time! Mindfulness offers a portal into innate resources, an innate pool of creativity and okayness.  Not necessarily apparent when we are overwhelmed or disconnected, or under pressure or in a narrative that does not serve us but there is a certain quality within us that knows the way forward, an alchemy, just how do we become available to that quiet magic, it knows its own flow, it knows how to heal and untangle.  The conscious mind is not so good at that, its good at other things.  Of course, the matrix for this magic is Embodied relational presence.
So, inviting ourselves through the portal into this bigger nourishing space begins with the pause, it’s as simple as that really. Nothing necessarily stops, but we are taking a wider perspective, kind of suspending and hovering in it all. Just becoming available as we settle. Inviting a more sensory quality. Perhaps the body can hear different sounds, near or far background sounds, just tuning in gently, listening without judging, just hearing.  Hearing beyond the room, beyond the four walls, hearing outside sounds.  We are taken into a real of spaciousness, beyond the sounds, beyond the clouds, into the big blue, or even night sky, space extends infinitely. Its as if we are being breathed by it even, as we breathe out sensing up into the stars, the milky ways, beyond the beyond, that holds us together. Inviting a quality of resting here in this spaciousness, it kind of rests in itself, no effort requited, suspended in rest. Suspended in restful spaciousness, clear and open. This visceral earth body can sense the ground, contact, earthing and grounding. Becoming like a mountain, immoveable, strong, yet spacious and open. Resting in this spaciousness. Maybe parts of the body would like to soften…….  Whole-body softening, soothing, comforting with each in and out breath.  
Taking a little time to make space for what is alive in the body……. Inviting a kindness and care to whatever is here. Perhaps breathing in a quality of care and warmth, breathing in a particular perfume or care, or energetic. Breathing in a magic position into every cell, tissue and organ in the body. Becoming alike a deep still, cool ocean, bathing in the magic of the cool waters; sapphire blues, turquoise, deep greens, deep healing waters of being. Continuing to rest in the breathing, flowing in and flowing out. Inviting a magic and sensitive awareness in Presence. Sensing a quality of kindness and care in your heart, like a blooming flower, radiant soft petals, emanating colourful light from the body, radiating kindness and care to all beings around you, wishing happiness and wellbeing, outwards into the world, to your colleagues, your friends, all beings, all creatures and animals.  And further out around the globe, a magical radiance or energetic, or just intention. May all beings be well and happy. Resting in this spacious and ground quality of kindness.  It’s a kind of Magic.

Its a Kind of Magic Mindfulness Meditation

Inviting a spaciousness, a softening, a place of ease, just being available to whatever is here especially a quality of sensation maybe your body can sense the fabric of clothing on your skin here and there, inviting comfort and safety, a sense of wholeness as the body is invited to sense itself more fully. Especially this time of year, Autumn, when the sky is blue and crisp, the air is clear, often cool, there is a vividity a clarity in the seeing. Vivid colours, beginning to shift, the leaves beginning to change towards, yellows, golds and oranges, there is an aliveness, something more vital.  And you can sense outwards noticing any sounds… if you are lucky, a sound of a bird. And through the sound, an awareness of spaciousness along with this clarity of Autumn, clear, open spacious, up into the blue sky, up into the stars beyond. Resting in this quality of clear spaciousness, being breathed by it, all that clarity flowing in and flowing out, clear vitality into each cell of the body, bringing spaciousness and healing with each in and out breath, Breathing in that blue sky, perfuming the whole body, a quality of clear light.

Autumn Clarity Vitality Vivid Colours Meditation

This is an invitation into a quality of presence, mindfulness, kind awareness, compassionate holding. We always begin with where we are, there is nowhere else to begin and its in the pause and invitation into some self-awareness.  Its very gentle, there is not smash and grab, more like a bud gently opening into the flower.  You might have a favourite flower or remembering a particular flower and recollecting what the bud might be like for that particular flower.  Just being available to this gentle opening, flowering, blossoming even. The flower draws from the earth, the nutrients the richness from the soil, the sun, the ambient temperature eh atmosphere. The flower is an emergent, cocreated process, so too is Presence. We too can draw from the earth sensing contact, touch, pressure.  Just resting here with these sensations, just being available to the sensing of the body and invitation into a heightened aware ess that is natural and easy.  Something in you can sense contact with the chair or earth, contact of the clothing around the body, bringing warmth and safety, soothing and comfort maybe. Resting with these sensations on the skin, warmth, softness, a sense of being held, wrapped around. And your body can sense the space around it, the office, the room, extending out above the tree tops into the sky, spreading infinitely in all directions including that sea of stars, as if being breathed by his infinite space, flowing in and out of the lugs as you sensing air, calming and soothing. Inviting a warm awareness with every breath. A perfumed awareness even, of the blossoming of the flower, permeating every ell of your body perhaps with a beautiful breath permeating scent or colour, or texture, just like a soft petal, touching the whole body. Resting in the invitation into a deeper calming and comforting, a softening.  Also being available to a sea of sounds, keeping us company. Grounded, whole-body, kindly aware breathing. Maybe parts of the body might like to soften, further relaxing, inviting a deeper ease.  The shoulders, the neck muscles, and the jaw dropping down slightly, inviting a deeper rest and ease in the body and also inviting a quality of deeper ease and care and kindness.  As this bud opens, the light of its petals shining through the whole body maybe through the heart area, opening up, warming, healing, calming every cell of the body, every limb. Pausing in the richness of warm and kindly awareness, a colourful, a perfumed awareness maybe, flooding the whole body. Continuing to rest in whole body breathing. Grounded aware, spacious, perfumed breathing.   Perhaps something within is calling for some support, care, healing, or even some celebration for something joyful and open, or maybe both, contracted as well. Connecting that something within, as not who you are but as an element withing passing through. Perfuming it with the flower of kindness, a soft holding, a soft coming alongside, companioning.  Whole-body breathing and keeping company whatever is here.  Continuing to rest in the whole body breathing as perhaps like a bud continues to blossom in its own time, in its own fulness. And we can allow the bud to keep transforming into the flower, into a fuller opening throughout the day or night, The ground always available, as it’s the space and the ability to say hello to anything that arises and keep it company in compassion, the ability to rest with it all. As it is. Always available at all times.

Flower Power Mindfulness Meditition

Precious time set aside for you... Perhaps something from home or work is with you. We're marking a space, a boundary, maybe even something sacred, being available to the universe, both inner and outer. In today's world, preoccupied with shopping and the internet, this space is an opportunity for something more real. It's an invitation to the clear light of reality, offering healing, growth, wellbeing, and creativity—all here in the relational field of being.

We pause, being available to the soothing ocean of being. Perhaps you sense the earth beneath your feet or body—through the chair, settee, or ground. This point of contact is always available, grounding you in balance and solidity, whether walking, sitting, or lying. Coming home to a foundation of balance, terra firma, and briefly resting with these sensations. From here, sense more broadly—the relational field of the body, the sensations offered: touch, taste, pleasure, pain, neutrality, pulsing, and breathing.

This relational field extends beyond—into the space around you, above the treetops, through clouds into the clear open skies, and beyond, into the star-studded infinity we sit in. Grounded yet spacious and open, as if being breathed by the stars themselves. Perhaps breathing into those parts of you that need extra care, permeating every cell, cleansing, healing, vitalizing, connecting with each in-and-out breath. The starlight floods through the body, inviting kindness, gentleness, comfort, and peace.

If there's anything less than peaceful, that's okay too. We welcome these parts, supported by the whole relational field of being. The connection with others and all life sits with us, offering safety, power, and care. As we rest in the whole-body breathing—grounded, kindly, starlight breathing, flowing in and out. Resting. If there are thoughts, that's okay—giving them the space they need, while also inviting the body to sense the earth, sensing its whole self in the infinite space it inhabits. There's plenty of room for everything here, even thoughts—just letting them be, letting them find their place. Returning to the visceral sense of beingness in the relational field, which supports itself in its own balance and wellbeing.

Perhaps you notice a warm awareness in the body, a slight glow, an ember, or a spark—like a bud opening in the chest. Soft, warm petals of kindness emanate outward, or perhaps a sun rising in the chest, flooding warmth and care through your body. This light extends beyond you, touching the hearts of those near you, wishing them well. Quietly, this light radiates out, further into the world, wishing harmony and peace to all beings—plants, animals, and humans alike. Beyond the planet, into the great sea of diamonds, who knows what's out there? May all life find peace and happiness in its own way.

We sit here in this relational field of peace and care. Each cell in your body holds within it a thousand suns, radiating outwards. Letting everything be as it wants to be, from this grounded, warm sense of self—or whatever sense of self feels true. Honoring its truth, inviting a deepening sense of joy, peace, freedom, naturalness, playfulness, and abundance. And we rest here.

Starlight Breathing Healing Relational Field Mindfulness Meditation

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