Name: Embodied Lovingkindness (2-4-21)(14 min) by YaleUniversity in Yale
Duration: 13 min 50 s
Description: This embodied practice invites you to balance out any proclivity to live in your head and also, as a lawyer in training, to be on high alert. Catherine will guide you in relaxing, remembering a happy moment, imagining a small creature that evokes care and tenderness, turning that caring toward yourself and soaking in any good feelings.

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Welcome to Episode 3 of The Daily Meditation Podcast! The first week of this daily podcast will be all about laying the foundation of your meditation ritual. In this third episode you explore your breath -- a meditator's best  friend. You learn two different breathing techniques that instantly calm you. They are so simple to do that you can do them all day long.

Be sure to head over to www.SipandOm.com for the Weekly Slow Down Guide with all the techniques that I share this week. You'll also find a Meditation Bundle waiting for you there that includes a Meditation Journal, A List of Affirmations that Work, and The Guide to Top Herbal Teas for Stress Relief. Settle yourself in for 15 minutes of peace, energy + clarity.

Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clarke. Licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com.

Episode 003 Your Breath

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

Breathing Meditation

Meditation - Relaxing, Smiling, Being Here - TaraBrach

Meditation - Letting Life Be Just As It Is - TaraBrach

Audio track by Mark Bertin, author of "Mindful Parenting for ADHD."

Body Scan Meditation

Calm & Heal are two guided yoga nidra meditations by Elena Mironov.
Yoga nidra practice not only helps to calm the mind and release stress, but also promotes a state of deep relaxation and rest. The practice has been scientifically proven to reduce anxiety, enhance healing, stimulate creativity and strengthen the immune system.

The practice is suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners, and is guided in English.

Read more about Elena's work: 
sparklingyoga.com
sparklngyogaretreats.com
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Calm Yoga Nidra Meditation

Research has shown that a meditation practice is associated with a host of positive benefits. A body scan meditation is less about relaxation and more about awareness and taking inventory of how your body feels in the moment.

Body Scan Guided Meditation - Female Voice

Research has shown that both gratitude and meditation practices are associated with higher levels of happiness. Use this guided meditation to bring awareness to the people and things in your life that you are grateful for.

Gratitude Guided Meditation - Female Voice

Research has shown that Loving Kindness meditations can boost social closeness and implicit liking of strangers (Hutcherson et al. (2008). While this is a laboratory study, the results suggest this simple technique may help increase positive social emotions and decrease social isolation.

Loving Kindess Guided Meditation - Male Voice

Gratitude Guided Meditation - Male Voice

Borislav Meandzija, MD, chief of Behavioral Health at Yale Health discusses what our stress response is and ways deal with it, especially during the pandemic.

Coping with Stress During the Pandemic

It’s the beginning of a new semester in a difficult year. Practice offering your thoughts, emotions & sensations some acceptance and rest in the wisdom to be found in the words of prose-poet Oriah Mountain Dreamer.

Resilience & Self-acceptance in the Midst of Transition – 2/1/21

Spend six minutes practicing being centered, balanced and present for the breath and bodily sensations and, in this way, becoming ever more aware of this changing life.

Mindfulness of Body & Breath – 2/8/21

This embodied practice invites you to balance out any proclivity to live in your head and also, as a lawyer in training, to be on high alert. Catherine will guide you in relaxing, remembering a happy moment, imagining a small creature that evokes care and tenderness, turning that caring toward yourself and soaking in any good feelings.

Embodied Lovingkindness (2-4-21)(14 min)

YaleUniversity

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