Centring Down with Compassion

Using the acronym RAIN we can learn to relate to our emotions with greater wisdom: R stands for Recognise how we are feeling. A stands for Allow the feeling to be there with a kind attention. I stands for Investigate; What am I believing about this situation? and N stands for Nurture; warmly appreciating our ability to be with the whole range of human experience as much as we can.

Sometimes offering ourselves kindness can be hard. This practice has so many benefits for our well being: as we cultivate a loving heart to ourselves this impacts on everyone around us too.

"Do you work gladly" is the first query of this passage. In this meditation we explore how our thoughts and beliefs about our work; whether paid or unpaid, can colour our feelings and influence our approach to our work

Our thoughts can have a powerful impact on our mood and our bodies. Being mindful of our thinking can give us the freedom to choose whether we should believe our thoughts quite so much, as Thich Naht Han said: "Our thoughts don't always have our best interests at heart."

Soothing The Body With The Breath by Carolyn Baynes

As we practice mindfulness of emotions we can learn to observe the changing weather of our emotions with out needing to be caught by them.

Arising And Passing 2 by Carolyn Baynes

Arising And Passing by Carolyn Baynes

Kind Mindfulness Of Breath And Body by Carolyn Baynes

This podcast explores the depths of the teachings in the Quakers' book of Advices and Queries and follows this with a guided meditation.

This is a talk followed by a meditation using Advices and Queries 4 as a way into centring down.

Loving kindness is a type of meditation which can resource us and refresh us. This short meditation starts with mindfulness of breath and body, then invites us to receive love and care so that we are resourced to love and care for others.

This month friends share together their favourite Advices and Queries and bring to life why they are such powerful teachings.

A short but powerful meditation noticing pleasant, unpleasant and neutral sensations.

Take Ten 23 11 21 by Carolyn Baynes

This guided meditation takes us through a Holding in the Light practice.

Unwind with this body scan and breath anchor meditation

A short resourcing meditation to welcome all the parts of our selves.

Take Ten minutes to ground and reconnect to your body to grow a sense of safety and stability in the face of challenge.

Quakers have always valued finding a way to an inner stillness. In this episode we explore Advice and Queries no. 2 as a way to find our way to stillness.

This meditation uses Advices and Queries 1 to draw us into stillness. We will use the body as an anchor for centring down and opening to compassion.