Mind Training Meditations

We are grateful to the body, that continues to work for us even when it is tired, sick, or injured. We thank the skin, muscles, bones, blood, and heart. We feel the love of consciousness and allow ourselves to rest deeply in the here and now. Inspired by Charlie Morley.

We embrace the stillness of the present moment allowing everything to be just as it is. We come home – to a presence that is always here. Nothing special needs to happen. We don't want to achieve a specific experience, but simply be with "this." Being in the here and now allows us to recognize that love and suffering connect us all. Inspired by Henry Shukman.

If tenderness is at the center of our meditation practice, it gently opens us to love, compassion, and serenity. It broadens our hearts and leads us to the deep realization that our true nature consists of the unity of wisdom and infinite compassion.

Letting go of thoughts and feelings can be a liberating experience. We acknowlege them, recognising that they arise and fade within the vast expanse of awareness.

We can shape our lives by changing our thoughts. Rather than reacting impulsively, we can enable our entire being to ease into experiencing joy, peace, and serenity. Intention serves as a guiding light toward a life-affirming path that our minds can embrace. It aids us in releasing the grip of beliefs and behaviors that color our perceptions. Inspired by Liam Gillen.

This guided meditation helps to relax both body and mind. It grounds you in the here and now, encouraging you to reflect on your day with a sense of calm and serenity. It invites you to set intentions for yourself, others, and the world.

To capture—or recapture—the stillness of that first moment of wakefulness this short guided meditation focuses on clarity, stability, and presence. You can listen to this morning meditation while still in bed or anytime you’re looking to center yourself in the present and find some clarity and stability.

Compassion is important for our happiness, health, and relationships. It enables us to respond to suffering with understanding, patience, and kindness. Self-compassion means treating ourselves with understanding in difficult times.

To feel ourselves fully, we sense the emotional and sensory perceptions in the body. We inhabit it and can accept ourselves as we are. When we connect with the space around us, we can interact with others without losing ourselves. It feels like coming home.

We have experienced events that seem physically and mentally overwhelming. Even if they occurred long ago, our body still reacts as if it were happening right now. By mindfully touching the body, we learn to calm ourselves and experience inner peace. We are taking care of ourselves. Inspired by Bessel van der Kolk.

Yoga Nidra meditation is practiced in a lying down position. We will follow a series of breathing exercises and a body scan. By letting go of thinking and doing we relax into a state of feeling and being. Within a short time, you become submerged in the stillness of loving awareness. We welcome whatever happens without judgement, allowing the body and mind to let go of stress and relax deeply. Ins...

The stream flows through well-worn banks in the countryside. We let our thoughts and feelings drift on it like leaves and observe how they flow with the current. Instead of identifying with them, we view them from a distance. This perspective frees us from the carousel of thoughts.

In this contemplation, we aim to allow difficult emotions to surface. By asking questions we confront shame. We can embrace our imperfections with self- compassion. Without reacting or judging, we can open our hearts, acknowledge or even accept our shame, by trusting in our inner goodness.

A Guided Meditation On Dying by Stephen Levine. Read by Gerald Blomeyer, Shakuhachi flute improvisation by Michael McNamara, with permission of Ondrea Levine. The light body animates the heavy body. We can leave the heavy body behind and float freely as consciousness. With the first breath pure awareness re-inhabites pure form. We are born again into the body to bring mercy and healing to the inju...

Sometimes it is difficult to relax. There may be physical, mental, and emotional reasons for this. Yoga Nidra, the yogic sleep, helps us to let go deeply by following the natural functions of our mind. Inspired by Jennifer Piercy,

Relaxing our mind helps to relax the body. Every smile softens the muscles of the face and helps calm the nervous system. By letting go for just a short while, you will experience trust, more physical energy and mental clarity. Relaxing is also an exercise in self-compassion. Being in touch with the joys of childhood can help in challenging times.

A body scan naturally helps us to let go of thinking and encourages us to deeply relax. This podcast gently guides us from the physical to our subtle body and into sleep. With thanks to Steven Levine.

Pauses help us to interrupt our constant thinking. When the thinking energy subsides, it leaves a gap in which we feel our experiential body.

Emotional pain blocks our compassion. Trusting starts when we trust ourselves. This is also the key to loving ourselves, our connection with others, and our creativity.

Meditation is about letting go of control. Concentration is a discipline, a way of controlling our experience. Meditation is about letting be and welcoming everything as it is.

Compassion helps us to accept others as they are. When we are angry with someone, we are reacting to the memory of something that we feel was done to us. If we can meet difficult people with compassion, they absorb our minds less.

Feeling the body helps us to relax. We are aware of everything that arises in it. We can observe the breath, sounds and sensations coming and going. By welcoming everything our mind remains balanced. There is nothing to achieve or any struggle. We are simply aware, welcoming every experience that arises in the body.

When we listen deeply, we hear sounds, music, our own voice, and others attentively. We receive them as they are, without interpreting. If our minds are distracted or reactive, we can neither hear ourselves nor others. Deep listening means being open and to respect what we hear with both compassion and kindness. By hearing with clarity and without judgment we open up and experience what it means t...

Stories stimulate us in ways that pure facts do not. They create our reality. Fear of the unknown is such a story that we tell ourselves. It seeks validation. That can reinforce our fear, making us feel helpless and overwhelmed. However, once we realize that fear is a story that appears in consciousness, we can begin to let go of the negative spiral, discovering the love that we really are.

Our eyes offer us a paradise of shapes and colours. In this meditation, we feel grateful for this and allow them to rest deeply. By directing our attention mindfully we experience how the eyes, the face, the whole body and finally the mind relaxes. Everything may be as it is.