Best Howtomeditate Podcasts (2023)

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A 12-Minute Guided Visualization Meditation to Fill Your Cup 12:27

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This week, meditation teacher Carrington Kernodle Epperson leads us in a guided visualization meditation for self-care and self-compassion. This meditation helps us invite in abundance and inner peace, and reminds us that we have everything we need within us. This episode of 12-Minute Meditation is one of a series we created earlier this year in pa…

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A 12-Minute Loving-Kindness Meditation to Anchor In Compassion 36:44

7d ago36:44

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This week, meditation teacher Enrique Collazo leads a guided loving-kindness meditation to practice compassion toward ourselves and all others. In our society, we’re often hard on ourselves and strive to reach the high expectations we set. Inevitably, we fall short and this can lead to a habit of self-criticism. With loving-kindness we can learn to…

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A 12-Minute Meditation to Notice the Beauty Around Us—Even in the City 17:20

13d ago17:20

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This week, Kazumi Igus leads a guided walking meditation that invites you to slow down and rediscover the beauty of the natural world, even within the bustling urban environment. If you pay attention, you can hear the call of a bird, notice your favorite color in shop windows, and look up at the vast sky above. In this guided meditation, we slow ou…

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A 12-Minute Meditation to Check in With Your Whole Self 14:49

21d ago14:49

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This week, Wholeschool Mindfulness Director, Ashley Williams shares a practice to help us check in with our minds, our bodies, our hearts, our energy, and our emotions. Earlier this year, Mindful partnered with WholeSchool Mindfulness to create a series of guided meditations to support young people. With the new school year beginning for many peopl…

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12 Minute Meditation: Exploring Challenging Emotions with Dr. Jud Brewer 12:28

28d ago12:28

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In this week's episode, we explore a unique approach to dealing with difficult emotions. Instead of pushing them away, we delve into the power of recognizing and embracing these emotions with kindness and curiosity. Join us this week as Jud Brewer introduces a straightforward exercise that can help shift your perspective towards what you're feeling…

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A 12-Minute Meditation for Holding Your Problems with Compassion 19:56

1M ago19:56

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Embark on a journey of self-discovery and mental growth with the insightful guidance of clinical psychologist Diana Hill in this week's edition of 12 Minute Meditation. Dr. Diana Hill leads you through a meditation designed to sharpen your perspective-taking skills—an essential component rooted in psychological flexibility and acceptance and commit…

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A 12-Minute Meditation for Finding Meaning with ACT in Action with Shamash Alidina 14:38

2M ago14:38

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This week, join mindfulness expert Shamash Alidina in this transformative 12-minute guided meditation, "Finding Meaning with ACT in Action," exclusively on mindful.org. Drawing from his acclaimed course "ACT for Beginners," Shamash will lead you through the 6 flexibility skills of the ACT process, using the acronym ACTION: A - Acceptance: Embrace t…

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A 12-Minute Meditation for Making Space With Your Breathe 21:24

2M ago21:24

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Join clinical psychologist Diana Hill this week as she takes you on a transformative journey of mindfulness and self-discovery. Embrace the soothing power of Thich Nhat Hanh's mantras from the revered Plum Village tradition as you begin with a gentle focus on your breath. From there, expand your awareness, letting your breath flow through your head…

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A 12-Minute Meditation for Strengthening Response Flexibility 13:48

2M ago13:48

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Join Dr. Reena Kotecha, creator of Mindful in Healthcare, in this week's practice, called the 'SOS Response' meditation. This practice uses guided visualization and mindfulness to enable response flexibility when you're experiencing a challenging situation or when you're in the midst of difficulty. You will come away equipped to emotionally regulat…

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A 12-Minute Meditation to Reconnect With Your Senses 12:31

3M ago12:31

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Join Shalini Bahl-Milne in this week's practice as she guides us through a practice to replenish our mental energy. By focusing on our senses, we can rest our thinking mind and fully experience the present moment. Feel the sensations in your feet, listen to the sounds around you, and embrace the scents in your environment. Open your eyes and see an…

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A 12-Minute Loving-Kindness Meditation to Tap Into Gratitude with Jessica Morey 14:53

3M ago14:53

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Join us for a transformative meditation led by Jessica Morey, as we explore the power of connecting with our own goodness. By anchoring ourselves in feelings of love and gratitude, we can cultivate a sense of loving-kindness and compassion that extends beyond ourselves and into the world. In this practice, Jessica guides us through various steps to…

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A 12-Minute Meditation for Finding Meaning in Pain with Diana Hill 17:01

4M ago17:01

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Join clinical psychologist Diana Hill as she takes us on a journey to uncover the profound meaning that can arise from our greatest pains. Drawing from her extensive experience straddling the realms of pain and meaning, Diana guides us through a thought-provoking experiment. Through a series of activities, we explore the discomfort we feel and the …

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A 12-Minute Meditation for Healing Through Hope With Rose Felix Cratsley 13:28

4M ago13:28

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Join us this week as Rose Felix Cratsley shares powerful affirmations that nurture self-compassion, encourage personal growth, and bring about healing through hope. With a firm belief in the importance of mindfulness as a fundamental human right, Rose reminds us that we enter this world with openness and curiosity, yet often find ourselves burdened…

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A 12-Minute Meditation for Synchronized Spinal Movement with Cara Bradley 14:05

4M ago14:05

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Join expert Cara Bradley for a transformative mindful movement practice, synchronizing mind and body through breath and spinal movement. This practice integrates mindfulness into movement, unlocking the power of the mind-body connection. Experience increased calmness, clarity, relaxation, and alertness. Cara Bradley, renowned in mindful movement, g…

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12 Minute Meditation: A Meditation on Abundance in Nature With Mark Coleman 14:41

5M ago14:41

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As this week’s meditation teacher Mark Coleman says, "We know being in nature is good for us, but how do we put this into practice in a way that will really serve and nurture us?" This is a question we address in our course, Nature Meditations. And with Spring blossoming around us, it seems like the right time to get outside and appreciate what the…

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12 Minute Meditation: 4 Ways to Savor the Dance of Cooking with Lynn Rossy 12:18

5M ago12:18

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Delicious means enjoyable, delightful, and pleasant—and we can bring that perspective into the kitchen as we cook. This week, mindful eating expert Lynn Rossy offers four ways to savor the dance of cooking. Lynn says Delicious is the term used to describe the type of food she hopes to eat, but also the way in which she moves. For this practice, fin…

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12 Minute Meditation: A Laughter Yoga Practice to Get the Giggles Going with Elaine Smookler 14:21

5M ago14:21

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This week we're offering something a little different. Elaine Smookler guides a laughter yoga practice. The amazing thing about laughter is you don’t even have to really have something funny to laugh at. We can actually induce laughter as an experience and the body will still release the same endorphins. This gentle movement exercise is Elaine’s fo…

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12 Minute Meditation: Explore Your Habitual Reactions with Patricia Rockman 15:41

5M ago15:41

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This week, Patricia Rockman offers a practice to explore your habitual reactions. This meditation is about working with habits. In particular, our habitual reactions to difficult situations that commonly arise. These could be anger at being stuck in traffic, sadness at not getting what we want, or frustration when dealing with companies that keep u…

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12 Minute Meditation: Train Moment-to-Moment Awareness with Kimberly Brown 14:13

6M ago14:13

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Wisdom arises out of our mind’s capacity to be aware—which is not the same as thinking. Meditation teacher Kimberly Brown says, wisdom is a moment-to-moment awareness of what’s arising internally and externally. So, this week, Brown offers a practice to train our awareness. It begins with developing concentration, which allows us to let go of our t…

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A Guided Walking Meditation for Daily Life with Mark Bertin 12:53

6M ago12:53

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Walking meditation can be a formal practice, like watching the breath, or it can be informal, simply bringing awareness to this everyday activity whenever we need to travel from point A to point B. It’s an opportunity to gather our awareness which so often becomes distracted or even stuck when the mind is left to its own devices. Whether moving bet…

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A Guided Meditation to Find Your Flow with Nate Klemp 13:12

6M ago13:12

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The opposite of feeling checked out or distracted—the unfortunate reality for many—is the experience of flow state, bringing your skills and focus together to meet whatever challenge you face. This week, Nate Klemp offers a practice to rest in the flow of effortlessness. Here’s how you can train your mind to cultivate the ease and joy of being “in …

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12 Minute Meditation: A Soothing Yoga Flow to Help You Choose Yourself with Dianne Bondy 24:01

7M ago24:01

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Movement is a valuable ally in bringing more calm, focus, and clarity to our state of mind. So, this week, Dianne Bondy offers a soothing yoga flow to help you choose yourself. Gentle movement helps us tune in to the daily routines that we might otherwise go through on autopilot. Savor this gentle practice as part of your time to simply be present …

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12 Minute Meditation: Practice the Power of the Long Exhale with Georgina Miranda 9:43

7M ago9:43

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When we lengthen the exhale, we’re better able to find our power and invite a sense of relaxation to high intensity movement. Longer exhales cause the vagus nerve to send a signal to your brain, activating the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) and easing the sympathetic nervous system (fight, flight, or freeze). You’ll find this prac…

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12 Minute Meditation: Rest in the Movement of Nature with Jeanne Corrigal 11:35

7M ago11:35

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Even when we’re sitting still, we can sense the movement of nature around us, full of moment-to-moment reminders of the continuous state of growth and life surrounding us. This week, Jeanne Corrigal offers a practice to rest in the movement of nature. You can do this meditation outdoors, or anywhere. You’ll find this practice as a web extra to our …

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12 Minute Meditation: Connect with Your Brave Heart with Boo Boafo 18:27

7M ago18:27

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There are countless ways we can shift our world for the better—whether it’s volunteering weekly in our communities, engaging someone in a compassionate conversation, joining an activist group, or creating art that envisions what positive change might look like and energizes us to get there. But that’s not the whole story. We need to care for oursel…

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12 Minute Meditation: Turn Awareness Into Action with Michelle Maldonado 16:50

8M ago16:50

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It is easy to feel overwhelmed and confused about how to engage with the world from a place of strength, groundedness, and calm. So, this week, we’re sharing an awareness practice to foster three key insights: clarity of intention; understanding of our power, presence, and impact; and opportunities for wise action-taking. We don’t have to know all …

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12 Minute Meditation: Let Compassion Open Your Heart with Sharon Salzberg 18:16

8M ago18:16

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We tend to focus all our love on the people we care about—yet, to connect more deeply with others, we must turn toward the one person we keep on the shortest leash: ourselves. We often reject other people’s care or attention when we believe we don’t deserve it. This practice reminds us that there’s nothing special we must do to deserve love. You ar…

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12 Minute Meditation: Unwind From Stress with Nate Klemp and Eric Langshur 15:12

9M ago15:12

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The simple act of questioning the thoughts that shape our reality (especially when they create stress, anger, or frustration) opens the door to living a life with more compassion, ease, and openness to new possibilities. This week, Nate Klemp and Eric Langshur offer a practice (recorded by Mindful editor-in-chief Heather Hurlock) to inquire into ou…

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12 Minute Meditation: Set Your Intentions for the New Year with Mark Bertin 13:00

9M ago13:00

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While many of us take stock at the end of a year, and use the fresh page of January to set goals, or make plans, that sense of letting go of what we're caught up in and the habits we've been living through can be an integral part of our everyday mindfulness practice. Each time we sit for a few minutes, there's an opportunity to let go of wherever o…

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Top Guided Meditations of 2022: Healing Through Hope 10:16

9M ago10:16

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For the month of December we're rounding up our most popular meditations from this year. This week, Rose Felix Cratsley offers affirmations for self-compassion, embracing growth, and healing through hope. She says, “I think mindfulness is an essential and fundamental human right. We come into the world open and curious, but oftentimes self-judgment…

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Top Guided Meditations of 2022: Savor the Moment by Tapping into Your Senses 13:28

9M ago13:28

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For the month of December we're rounding up our most popular meditations from this year. This week, Elaine Smookler offers a practice to help savor the moment by tapping into your senses. One morning in early October, Elaine Smookler glanced at her cell phone and noticed the weather app ominously predicting many days of snow and icy temperatures ah…

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Top Guided Meditations of 2022: Tune In to What Your Body Needs 11:51

10M ago11:51

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Sometimes we need to drop into our body to discern what we need in this moment. In this episode of 12 Minute Meditation, author and mindfulness teacher Dr. Christopher Willard offers four prompts to help us self-regulate by attending to what our difficult emotions or physical sensations may be telling us, using the acronym H.A.L.T. H is for asking …

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12 Minute Meditation: Let Go of Limiting Habits with Caverly Morgan 6:58

10M ago6:58

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When love feels scarce, we are conditioned to slip into survival mode. We cling to our beliefs about who we are in order to feel safe, to compensate for the belief that we are lacking. But seeing these conditioned habits for what they are can help create pathways for returning, for remembrance, for releasing into our inherent belonging. This mindfu…

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The Calm Mind Podcast with Zoe Turner

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intentionsforgratitude 15:23

10M ago15:23

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Join my 7 Day Meditation Challenge HERE The Calm Mind Podcast is a MabeMedia Production. MabeMedia is a Podcast Production Agency that elevates Powerful Female Voices. If you would like to launch a podcast - reach out to the team at MabeMedia.

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12 Minute Meditation: Cultivate Gratitude for Small Things with Steve Hickman 11:38

10M ago11:38

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If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving this week, we’re sending you warm wishes for a safe and happy holiday. And, in the spirit of season, this week, Steve Hickman offers a gratitude practice for small things. You’ll find this practice featured in our Gratitude Journal, which is a beautiful, lovingly designed collection of essays, articles, and practi…

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12 Minute Meditation: Tap Into Gratitude with Loving-Kindness with Jessica Morey 15:24

11M ago15:24

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Sometimes gratitude can be tough to tap into, so this week, Jessica Morey shares a meditation to help us connect with our own goodness. When we're anchored in feelings of love and gratitude, we can bring loving-kindness and compassion with us out into the world. This practice as a web extra to our guide to gratitude, in the December issue of Mindfu…

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12 Minute Meditation: Counteract Resentment with Gratitude with Barry Boyce 18:46

11M ago18:46

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One of the biggest obstacles to gratitude is resentment, says Barry Boyce, Mindful’s founding editor. From time to time, we need to undercut our own perspective and see things from the other side—maybe even from all sides. Here, Barry shares a gratitude practice to help us stop clinging to our ideas of what we want, and to work with the feelings th…

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12 Minute Meditation: Awaken the Flow of Gratitude in Nature with Georgina Miranda 9:45

11M ago9:45

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While moving through nature, we have the opportunity to enter a state of being, be present with all of our sensations, and awaken gratitude for the Earth that is also part of us. So, take this moment to connect with the breath as Georgina Miranda, social entrepreneur, outdoor adventurer, speaker, writer, and mindful leadership expert guides you in …

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12 Minute Meditation: Give Gratitude for Your Body with Elaine Smookler 16:01

11M ago16:01

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When we take a moment to appreciate what's happening in our bodies, with a spirit of curiosity, we honor all that our bodies do for us every day. This week, Elaine Smookler guides us in a moment to bring appreciation to our embodied experience right now. Show Notes Find more from Elaine Smookler here: Elainesmookler.com Elaine Smookler, Author at M…

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12 Minute Meditation: Nurture a Felt Sense of Gratitude Gina Rollo White 13:54

11M ago13:54

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This week, experienced mindfulness practitioner and instructor Gina Rollo White offers a gentle way to connect with each area of your body, while nurturing a felt sense of loving-kindness and gratitude. This somatic (embodied awareness) practice is a bonus that adds on to the “Guide to Gratitude” that you’ll find in the December issue of Mindful ma…

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12 Minute Meditation: Staying with Awareness of Difficult Emotions with Sharon Salzberg 17:38

12M ago17:38

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When we’re caught in the throes of an emotion like sadness, loneliness, or anger, shifting our awareness into the body allows us to experience the ever-changing nature of these strong and often unpleasant emotions. This practice will help you get used to the feeling of paying attention to difficult emotions in the body with curiosity and without ju…

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12 Minute Meditation: Investigate Tough Emotions with Dr. Jud Brewer 12:01

1y ago12:01

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This practice is a web extra in the October issue of Mindful magazine where we look into the science and practice of meditating—not to push away your painful emotions, but to see and recognize those emotions with kindness and curiosity. This week, Jud Brewer offers this simple exercise to help you shift your attitude toward what you’re feeling. Cur…

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12 Minute Meditation: Soften, Soothe, and Allow Difficult Emotions with Kristen Neff 17:33

1y ago17:33

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This practice is a web extra in the October issue of Mindful magazine where we look into the science and practice of meditating—not to push away your painful emotions, but to see and recognize those emotions with kindness and curiosity. By allowing ourselves to experience where tough emotions are present in the body, and opening up to them with lov…

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12 Minute Meditation: Tune In to What Your Body Needs with Chris Willard 11:42

1y ago11:42

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Sometimes we need to drop into our body to discern what we need in this moment. In this episode of 12 Minute Meditation, author and mindfulness teacher Dr. Christopher Willard offers four prompts to help us self-regulate by attending to what our difficult emotions or physical sensations may be telling us, using the acronym H.A.L.T. In a nutshell, H…

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12 Minute Meditation: Make Peace with Change with Kimberly Brown 15:29

1y ago15:29

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This week, meditation teacher and author Kimberly Brown offers a loving-kindness practice variation to help us cultivate more ease and openness within the moment-to-moment unfolding of our lives. “Everything is impermanent. It's always changing, coming together and falling apart,” she says. When we can accept that not everything is up to us, and le…

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12 Minute Meditation: A Breathing Meditation with Ni-Cheng Liang 12:34

1y ago12:34

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Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang leads us in a 4-7-8 breath practice to release stagnant air and find calm. Ni-Cheng is a pulmonary physician, podcast host, and mindfulness teacher. In the early days of the pandemic, she recruited eight medical colleagues from across the United States to create the Mindful Healthcare Collective, which offers free online mindfuln…

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12 Minute Meditation: A Meditation to Bring You Home to Yourself with Georgina Miranda 15:03

1y ago15:03

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This week, Georgina Miranda shares a guided practice to help us feel more grounded and at ease, especially during stressful or fearful moments. Georgina is a global leader in change, transformation, mindfulness, conscious leadership development and the advancement of women. She is also a highly sought after international transformation coach, publi…

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12 Minute Meditation: Offer Loving-Kindness to Yourself with Andres Gonzalez 14:11

1y ago14:11

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In order to be giving, we need to be nourished. This week, Andres Gonzalez shares a practice about learning to check in with yourself and to do so with love. Andres is cofounder of the Holistic Life Foundation. For twenty years, Andres has taught yoga to diverse populations, including Baltimore City Public School, drug treatment centers, mental cri…

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12 Minute Meditation: A Breathing Meditation to Cultivate Attention 13:24

1y ago13:24

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Founding editor of Mindful and mindful.org Barry Boyce offers a simple practice for cultivating your attention. He says, "The simple act of paying attention is really the kindest thing you can do for yourself. When our mind is scattered it creates pain and disconnection, and that pain and disconnection gets picked up by others." But paying attentio…

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12 Minute Meditation: A Song for Restoration with Michelle Chatman 14:54

1y ago14:54

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This week, we're offering something a little different. Dr. Michelle Chatman shares a practice that she's been singing since 2020, when we saw the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor; when the COVID-19 pandemic began and we saw its devastating effects upon Black and brown communities; and we also saw protests and uprisings in…

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