This meditation should only be done as part of a tailored rehabilitation plan. This should be devised and given by an expert in the management of chronic dizziness or tinnitus.

4 Min Grounding meditation for wobbly times

PT9 Mountain & Elements

Do you sometimes find meditation uncomfortable, overstimulating, or just plain frustrating? Whether you’re neurodivergent, prone to sensory overload, or struggling with overwhelm or impatience, you’re not alone.

In this episode of the Breathworks Meditation Support Clinic, Senior Trainer Ginny Wall shares practical ways to make meditation feel more manageable — and more meaningful — when it doesn’t come easily.

We explore:
🔹 What to do when you feel overwhelmed or impatient during practice
🔹 How to gently adjust your experience by turning sensations up or down
🔹 Reflective questions to help you understand and respond to your needs

👉 About Breathworks:

We’re an inclusive, welcoming global community offering resources, live events, and courses to help people bring mindfulness and compassion into daily life – especially during times of stress, pain, or overwhelm.

👉 Want to get involved?

Our free monthly Meditation Support Clinic is shaped by our community – you vote on the topics, join us live via Zoom, and can ask your personal questions directly to the teacher.

Come be part of it: Join our community of practice here:
community.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/

Finding Your Way into Meditation: For Neurodiversity or Overwhelm

What’s the Difference Between Acceptance & Resignation? | Meditation Support Clinic with Fidelma Farley

Acceptance can be one of the trickiest words in mindfulness. For many people living with pain, fatigue, or illness, it can sound like being told to “just put up with it” or give up hope. In this episode of our monthly Meditation Support Clinic, Breathworks Associate Teacher Fidelma Farley explores what acceptance really means — and how it’s very different from resignation.

We look at:
✨ Why acceptance is not the same as passivity or endurance
✨ The difference between “this is how it is” and “this is how it is for now”
✨ How kindness transforms acceptance from harshness into support
✨ Why acceptance never means condoning harmful behaviour
✨ How acceptance opens up more space and choice in how we respond

Whether or not you’ve joined one of our live sessions before, this conversation offers gentle guidance and reassurance for anyone curious about mindfulness and how it can support life with pain or difficulty.

💙 To find out more about Breathworks and our mindfulness courses, visit our website below:

https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/

Why Acceptance is Not Resignation (and other misconceptions)

In a special edition of the Meditation Support Clinic for Pain Awareness Month, we interviewed best-selling author, and co-founder of Breathworks, Vidyamala Burch. After sustaining a life-changing spinal injury as a teenager, mindfulness became a lifeline for Vidyamala and she later went on to develop the first mindfulness programme specific for pain & illness management.

In this Q&A, Vidyamala shares compassionate and practical advice for building and maintaining a regular mindfulness practice - even when circumstances don't make it easy. 

We explore:
🔹 How to practice mindfulness when energy or motivation is low
🔹 What we can do when pain feels unbearable
🔹 What to if meditation makes you feel worse

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If you would like to try the body scan meditation which Vidyamala mentions in this episode, here are a few options to explore:

💭 Compassionate Body Scan: https://soundcloud.com/breathworks-mindfulness/compassionate-body-scan

💭 Trauma-Sensitive Body Scan: https://soundcloud.com/breathworks-mindfulness/week-1-trauma-sensitive-body

💭 Body Scan (Saturating the Body with Breath): https://soundcloud.com/breathworks-mindfulness/body-scan-saturating-body-with

💭 Body Scan: https://soundcloud.com/breathworks-mindfulness/body-scan-4

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👉 About Breathworks:

We’re an inclusive, welcoming global community offering resources, live events, and courses to help people bring mindfulness and compassion into daily life – especially during times of stress, pain, or overwhelm.

👉 Want to get involved?

Our free monthly Meditation Support Clinic is shaped by our community – you vote on the topics, join us live via Zoom, and can ask your personal questions directly to the teacher.

Come be part of it: Join our community of practice here:
community.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/

Pain Management, Mindfulness and Meditation with Vidyamala Burch

How do you stay positive when life feels relentless? When one challenge follows another, or when you're facing something that feels impossible to accept?

In this episode of the Breathworks Meditation Support Clinic, experienced Breathworks Teacher Mj Stephens shares his personal reflections from navigating several years of significant loss and health challenges.

Mj explores what it really means to "stay positive" in mindfulness practice – and why it's not about toxic positivity or faking it. Instead, he shares how practices like acceptance, compassion, and being present with the whole of our experience can help us through the hardest times.

We explore:
🔹 How to work with grief and loss without pushing it away
🔹 Simple practices that can help when everything feels too much 
🔹 Why staying present, one moment at a time, can change our relationship with difficulty

👉 About Breathworks:

We’re an inclusive, welcoming global community offering resources, live events, and courses to help people bring mindfulness and compassion into daily life – especially during times of stress, pain, or overwhelm.

👉 Want to get involved?

Our free monthly Meditation Support Clinic is shaped by our community – you vote on the topics, join us live via Zoom, and can ask your personal questions directly to the teacher.

Come be part of it: Join our community of practice here:
community.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/

Staying Positive in Challenging Situations with Mj Stephens

How do you find peace in the chaos of Christmas? Mindfulness for the Festive Season
The festive season can feel like everything gets turned up to maximum volume. If social situations are overwhelming, Christmas parties might feel impossible. If you're lonely, the emphasis on togetherness can ache. If you're busy, the endless to-do lists can feel relentless.

In this episode of the Breathworks Meditation Support Clinic, experienced Breathworks Teacher Ginny Wall shares practical, compassionate guidance for navigating the festive period – whether you love it, dread it, or feel somewhere in between.

Ginny offers honest reflections on the "magnifying glass effect" of Christmas and shares surprisingly simple practices that can help you find moments of peace, even in a crowded supermarket or while peeling potatoes.

We explore:

🔹 How to stop before you drop – bringing mindfulness into the middle of busyness, not waiting until everything's done
🔹 The "one aisle technique" and other creative ways to practice when life feels chaotic
🔹 Working with difficult family members and protecting your energy without shutting down
🔹 Why your senses are your "saving grace" when your mind is spiralling
🔹 The deeper practice of "presence" – and why it's always bigger than whatever's troubling you
🔹 How to support friends and family who are struggling this season

👉 About Breathworks:
We're an inclusive, welcoming global community offering resources, live events, and courses to help people bring mindfulness and compassion into daily life – especially during times of stress, pain, or overwhelm.

👉 Want to get involved?
Our free monthly Meditation Support Clinic is shaped by our community – you vote on the topics, join us live via Zoom, and can ask your personal questions directly to the teacher.

Come be part of it: Join our community of practice here: community.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/

Mindfulness for the Festive Season with Ginny Wall

Feel more settled and calm by noticing and experiencing things as they are, without reacting to or judging them.  An Engaging Your Senses mindfulness meditation created by Stop, Breathe & Think. See our mindfulness meditation app at http://www.stopbreathethink.com

Engaging Your Senses

Interval Bell - a silent  10 minute practice with a bell every 5 minutes to keep you focused on the present moment. The bell should enhance your meditation bringing calmness and peace.

Interval Bell

For an introduction to our 8 week mindfulness course download our "Present Mind" app in your app store.
App includes guided tracks, stories and recommended reads.

For Mindfulness courses across the midlands visit our website;  www.presentmind.org.uk/courses/

Present Mind is; Caroline Raven, Emma Wardropper and Roz Kings 🌿

Interval Bell

Present Mind - Mindfulness

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