Calgary Mindfulness Weekly Meditation

Our meditation today, actually as usual--is based on some our group's emails to me regarding developing resilience in children. As meditators, our first stop is looking within before we try to "fix" others. As meditators, we share resilience by embodying it ourselves rather than packaging it for others. Originally broadcast March 5, 2023

In our meditation today, we use the basic anchors of sound and awareness of body and environment to extend our awareness beyond our own bodies, as well as visualize ease and equanimity in conflict management. Originally broadcast March 12, 2023 by Calgary Mindfulness.

Today's meditation is a traditional mindfulness meditation, with a body scan, self-directed loving kindness, and gratitude. These are staples of a meditator's self-care practice. Originally broadcast March 19, 2023 by Calgary Mindfulness.

Today we use the breath as an anchor to connect to the spiritual strengths of clarity, wisdom, respectfulness, peacefulness, loving-kindness, generosity, and ease, and to release those attributes which interfere (shame, fear, worry, anxiety, comparisons etc). We direct this awareness inward and outward to our community of friends, family and strangers. It is a tightrope we balance, to ground withi...

The Easter promise that love and forgiveness overcome the worst evil and even death is the focus of our practice today. In this Easter meditation using thoughts as an anchor, we explore where we are stuck in the "crucified" mind-- where we feel like victims, hold on to betrayal, conflict. Each of those "stuck" moments is an opportunity for healing, new beginning, if we choose. Jesus provides such...

Today's episode, interrupted with tech trouble and my cat, is a visualization meditation to connect ourselves to the wider community. Often we feel isolated, and a short meditation to remind ourselves of our true shared community is a very important antidote to isolation, loneliness and fear of being alone, or, it's opposite, the fear of mixing with others and then getting hurt or rejected. Let's...

Today, we explore visualization, an important meditation anchor to reduce performance anxiety symptoms, and of course for successful conflict management. We call to mind a stressful situation and mentally walk through the process of keeping it cool, speaking thoughtfully instead of reflexively, and sticking to our goals for communicating to serve the highest and best. Originally aired April 23, 20...

In today's meditation, we explore a body image meditation, releasing false expectations of perfection and completeness and reminding ourselves of our true identity as givers & receivers of love and forgiveness. This is an important practice for those struggling with body image, shame, and working toward self-compassion, self-acceptance and loving-kindness toward ourselves. Originally broadcast...

Originally broadcast May 7, 2023 by Calgary Mindfulness. In this meditation, we use the metaphor of spring (happening now in the northern hemisphere) to connect to renewal and hope from the inside. Sometimes we can feel really stuck in our minds and bodies, and exploring the world around us can offer connection, release and flow. Join us on this spring meditation!

Originally broadcast May 14, 2023 by Calgary Mindfulness. Mother's Day can be very joyful when we have many positive experiences of mothering in our lives, from both family and community, or it can be negative if we have had fraught relationships with our own mothers and a community that was not caretaking. Similarly as mothers sometimes we excel and sometimes we mess up. In this practice we explo...

Originally broadcast on May 28, 2023 and video available on YouTube. CalgaryMindfulness.ca . Join today's weekly practice for a body scan where we explore compassion and kindness for our own bodies as a starting point to feel compassion for others.

Portable Relaxation Meditation by Calgary Mindfulness Many listeners write and say, "I need to relax," or, "I can't meditate but I relax doing other things." First of all, ALL input is needed and welcome so thank you for your questions! To clarify, relaxation is a possible and wonderful side-effect of meditation, but not its purpose or goal. For those meditating who are experiencing chronic illnes...

Many of my weekly Sunday meditations are direct responses to listener emails, and one common thread I see is that perfectionism is creating dis-ease and mental illness in a lot of people. I see it more commonly in women and girls, actually, but I suspect men are just not telling me about it as much! In this episode, we'll practice being mindful about our need to have perfect control over our envir...

In today’s practice, we honor our fathers and father figures with a gratitude meditation. The divine masculine can appear in women and men, so even if you don't have a father figure, you can honor these qualities in yourselves and others - wisdom, selfless leadership, protection, caretaking, respect, compassion and so on. Originally aired June 18, 2023 in honor of Father's Day. Thanks, Dad, for al...

In today's final online meditation before summer break & in-person meditations begin, we review mindfulness basics - body, breath, stress release, sound, loving kindness and gratitude. As we gain experience and discipline, it's really easy to cycle through these incredibly dense, interesting focal points to stay on topic our whole practice! Thanks for joining me for so many years! Originally a...