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Beginners
A good place to start if you have never meditated, or if it has never quite stuck. These are the classic practices, and they teach the skill underneath all the others: noticing where your attention has gone, and bringing it back without giving yourself a hard time about it.
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Rhythmic Breathing Meditation – 10 Minutes
Keeping the rhythm of your breath steady makes your heartbeat more cohesive, which increases blood flow to the brain and helps you think clearly.
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Muscle Tension Relaxation Meditation – 10 Minutes
Stress carries itself in the body, usually without our noticing. Scanning for tension and deliberately releasing it lets some of that stress go.
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Loving Kindness Meditation – 10 Minutes
The traditional practice. We open up and send good wishes to ourselves first, and then outward to others, because the second becomes much easier…
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Gratitude Meditation – 10 Minutes
Gratitude is one of the most reliable ways to shift how we explain our lives to ourselves. Everyone has more to be grateful for…
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Noting Meditation – 10 Minutes
Noting means observing what is happening and quietly labelling it. That small act of naming creates the gap between having an experience and being…
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Open And Allowing Meditation – 10 Minutes
Open and allowing is a stance rather than a technique. We stop pushing at what is happening and let it be, which is how…
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Thoughts/Images Meditation – 10 Minutes
Thoughts and inner dialogue arrive constantly. We cannot stop them appearing, but we can practise seeing them as passing events rather than facts.
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Breath Meditation – 10 Minutes
A traditional practice in present moment focus. We rest our attention on the breath, and when the mind wanders off, we guide it back…
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Breath Meditation – 5 Minutes
A traditional practice in present moment focus. We rest our attention on the breath, and when the mind wanders off, we guide it back…
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Emotions Meditation – 10 Minutes
A practice in noticing our emotions as they arrive, and recognizing them as information about where we stand rather than problems to be solved.