What are Meditations?

Meditations are mental exercises that allow you to learn and improve your skills in a number of areas.  Just like the various physical exercises that you can do, there are many types of mental exercises as well.

Each grouping below contains a number of exercises that will enable you to improve the competencies in those areas.

How to Meditate

There are many myths about what meditation is and how you should meditate.  It’s pretty simple, meditation is an exercise to practice noticing WHEN your mind wanders and then gently guide it back to your object of focus.  It is not a practice to prevent your mind from wandering.  Check out this video…

Meditation Groupings

Meditations to Reduce Anxiety

Meditations to Reduce Anxiety

The following are a series of exercises that allow us to practice experiencing what is happening around us and within us in order to develop trust that we can be with our experiences and we are indeed safe. Building trust in our abilities, trust what we can experience our body sensations and emotions and trust that we can learn what we need to learn to move forward with greater ease, are all helpful stances that naturally reduce our fears and anxieties.

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Meditations to Build Trust

Meditations to Build Trust

The following Meditation helps you build trust. Whenever there is fear present there is a lack of trust present. In order to better deal with the fears and insecurities of our life building trust is the key. In these Meditations we learn to build trust in ourselves, trust in our abilities, trust that we can learn what we need to learn and trust that we can handle what comes our way in life.

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Meditations to Help Release Negative Beliefs

Meditations to Help Release Negative Beliefs

These are a series of Meditation exercises to allow the listener to practice observing what is present and letting it just “be”. Letting our experiences happen is a great way to teach ourselves to just observe them and not to push or pull at any one experience. We practice this observational stance and that allows us to see these experiences as passing and thus we become more skilled at letting things go.

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Meditations to Enhance Mood

Meditations to Enhance Mood

These are a series of Meditations that concentrate on observing our emotions and related beliefs that cause them. These practices allow us to recognize when our beliefs are exaggerated and slowly shift them to something more reasonable and balanced. When we shift our beliefs our emotions shift and our mood changes.

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Meditations to Increase Self-Awareness

Meditations to Increase Self-Awareness

The following Meditation practices help gain greater insight into what is going on with our thoughts, emotions and body. This insight allows us to become more self-aware of the interpretations we have about ourselves and our experiences. Once we become more self-aware we can do something about it.

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Gong Meditations

Gong Meditations

A collection of Meditations that have no voice guide. There are perfect to use when you want to do your own thing.

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