A guided meditation to help you get to sleep. There is some progressive muscle relaxation and a bit of visualizing, but none of it is necessary for this to work. Listen, and drift away. 

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Music credit: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dj-cold-duck/bt-force-of-gravity-cold-duck">Cold Duck</a>.

Sleep Meditation- Let Go, Allow Yourself to Drift

Body Scan – Guided Meditation (15 mins)– Lucy Schwabe

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

Body Scan Meditation

Meditation from the book 'Mindfulness for Women' by Vidyamala Burch and Claire Irvin. This meditation accompanies Chapter 8 ‘Find the Good in You’. It is a Self-Compassion meditation 

Mindfulness for Women Track 5 Self - Compassion Meditation

This 30 minute Yoga Nidra takes you through your subtle body and guides you through a journey through the different ways we experience love energetically, and, from the awakening of the development of the individual will through to union with the divine.

yoga nidra - prana body - Uma Neave (Spender)

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 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 Kindness 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 - Male Voice

In the midst of our busy lives, it’s important to take time to step back and reflect. This is how we learn, grow and stay in touch with what truly matters. But it can be difficult to find time to pause and many don’t know what to focus on in that reflective time.

For that reason I have created this ten-minute mindfulness audio for you. It will help you cultivate greater self awareness, kindness and give you a space to integrate the events of your day. 

It’s best done in the evening before bed (It will also help you get a better nights sleep!) and you might even like to have a journal and pen with you so you can write some reflections in there after the practice

I encourage you to try it out for one week each day to see what effect it has on your life.

This is one of many meditations I have recorded for the Meditation Studio app (my favourite meditation app) – you can find more of their high quality meditations here: https://apple.co/2BAFphK

Rose-Bud-Thorn Meditation, from Mediation Studio app

Money magnet meditation - by Helena Grace Donald

"May I accept my sadness knowing that I am not my sadness."

At the end of her interview with Krista Tippett at the Chautauqua Institution in New York on July 11, 2012, Zen abbot Joan Halifax led the audience through this "guided meditation on encountering grief — grief as something ordinary, part of life and humanity." Please share with friends and family.

Loving Kindness Guided Meditation - Female Voice

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