Mindful Moments: Recent Episodes
Katie McLaughlin, LPCC
Meditations and other mindful practices to help you find peace in the chaos.
Each practice is rooted in mindfulness, compassion and scientifically-proven techniques to calm the mind and body. All are written and recorded by Katie McLaughlin, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor serving the state of Ohio. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mindfulcounselor/support
Come back to the breath with this 10 minute intermediate meditation designed to help you find stillness and peace.
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This 20 minute acceptance and commitment therapy inspired meditation gives you a healthy way to process emotions. So often, we tend towards avoiding and hoping to eliminate challenging emotions. In this meditation practice, we instead will turn towards our emotions, allow them to be present, begin to understand them and ride out the wave of any actions (urges) they are leading us towards. Taking a mindful approach to processing emotions, as experienced in this meditation, allows us to reflect on what is most important to us and to act in alignment with the values we hold so we can live our most authentic life.
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Observing and allowing your thoughts to be present is a strong mindfulness skill to use, especially when dealing with anxious thoughts. To be able to observe and allow your thoughts to exist without making meaning of them all of the time ushers in peace and acceptance. This meditation guides you through practicing and cultivating this life changing skill while easing anxiety, worry and overthinking. Take your mental health into your own hands with these therapist-created worksheets and journals - https://www.cedarrosecounseling.org/w...
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10 Minute Morning Meditation For A Calm Mind
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This calming Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Meditation is designed to relax the body while easing an overthinking mind. A 10 minute meditation will not get rid of your thoughts, as the brain was designed to think, create, plan and make meaning. However, this meditation will assist you with releasing your grip on the thoughts that cross your mind so they no longer have as a great a hold on you. This acceptance and commitment therapy style practice will ease overthinking anxiety while implementing invaluable mindfulness and psychological flexibility skills. Learn anxiety relief strategies that are actually effective AND long-lasting with my Free Guide - https://9812-katie.systeme.io/calmguideGet 15% off your first purchase of all natural supplements to support your mental + physical health with code WELLNESS15 at checkouthttps://www.xtend-life.com?sca_ref=2955835.SHmFWd2xSWhttps://www.xtend-life.com?sca_ref=2955835.SHmFWd2xSW
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This 15 minute guided breathwork for relaxation practice will teach and guide you through the 4-7-8 breathing strategy. This breathwork practice is designed to bring relaxation and grounding to your day, while activating your parasympathetic nervous system. It is only when the parasympathetic nervous system is activated and when the mind feels safe that anxiety relief can occur. This 15 minute guided breathwork practice will help you to send safety signals to your mind, relax your body and melt into the present moment. Learn anxiety relief strategies that are actually effective AND long-lasting with my Free Guide - https://9812-katie.systeme.io/calmguideGet 15% off your first purchase of all natural supplements to support your mental + physical health with code WELLNESS15 at checkouthttps://www.xtend-life.com?sca_ref=2955835.SHmFWd2xSW
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The breath can change quickly when the body feels stressed. This practice is designed to help you reconnect with a deeper, fuller breath so your mind and body can feel calm again.
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This meditation practice is designed to release tension from the body while calming the mind and nervous system so you are able to drift off and get restful sleep.
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This progressive muscle relaxation practice is ideal for helping you detach from your anxious thoughts and to ground yourself in your body. Not only does this type of practice provide a sense of grounding and safety within the body, it also aids with increasing awareness of when tension is being held within the body. This awareness is key for noticing those first signs of stress and anxiety so we know when to begin implementing calming and safety strategies to ease that tension and return to a state of homeostasis.
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- A simple roadmap to implementing effective calming strategies in daily life
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Being able to detach and observe your thoughts is a pivotal skill to cultivate for effective anxiety management and healing. This practice gives you a taste for how to observe your thoughts with the assistance of some guided imagery.
Please remember that:
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You are not your thoughts.
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Just because you think something doesn't automatically make it true
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You actually get to decide what to believe and which thoughts you'd rather not listen to
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This practices gives you some insight into your brain's innate protective mechanism which often leads to those not so helpful thoughts and feelings of despair. During this season of gratitude, let us acknowledge the well-intentioned purpose of our own negativity bias while also cultivating a deep sense of gratitude and peace within our mind, body and soul.
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Finding comfort in a heavy world can feel challenging at times. Whether you are feeling heaviness in your personal life or from worldly events, I pray this practice gives you some time to be still and find comfort in the ever present nature of your breath
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This simple meditation for concentration will help you to cultivate the powerful skill of focused attention. It is important to remember that we cannot simply turn our thoughts off - they will continue to exist even when we do not want them to. Even more so, thoughts will become louder when we attempt to suppress them. Practicing acceptance of their existence while gently refocusing our attention to something like our breath can go a long way in cultivating a skill of focused concentration which we can then tap into whenever we need it.
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This 7 minute meditation to cultivate gratitude will lead you through a simple breath focused grounding practice while allowing you to reflect on the good things in your life. If you are looking for a simple daily practice with the power to lead to big change in your life, and the rewiring of your brain, it’s time to try gratitude.Gratitude is a powerful practice which has been proven to lead to decreased anxiety and depression and vast improvements in mood and outlook on life. This guided meditation to cultivate gratitude is just one way to harness the power of this skill so it can become a habit in your life.
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When we crave an improvement in coping, what we really need is to learn to manage thoughts and emotions better. In this 11 minute guided meditation to improve coping, you will practice noticing and accepting the presence of your thoughts and emotions without automatically making meaning of them or attaching any weight to them. Our thoughts and emotions often drive our lives; taking us out of the present moment and lending to self-doubt. I am here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be this way. Acceptance practices like this one, will help you to become aware of your thoughts and emotions, the impact they have on you and how you can best care for yourself through these experiences.
I pray this practice serves you well.
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This Deep Sleep meditation will help you to fall asleep quickly as we follow a progressive muscle relaxation style practice. Progressive muscle relaxations are designed to bring us out of our thinking mind and into the present moment. Not only will this practice assist you with being present, you will also be guided to progressively relax major muscle groups which prepares the mind and body for restful sleep.
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Take a load off with this 6.5 minute meditation practice as you turn inwards and gift yourself with a bit of peace and inner stillness. This meditation practice to find inner stillness will give you a few minutes to breathe, reflect and contemplate what is truly important to you. So often we forget that we are capable of being our own encourager; of providing ourselves with compassion and kindness instead of criticism.
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This anxiety relief meditation is designed to help you cultivate mindful awareness while releasing stress and anxiety stored in the body. These 8 minutes are intended to be a self-care gift. Taking time to care for your mind and body is not only important, but is necessary for the health of your mind and body. This anxiety relief practice will help you to feel calm, grounded, and at peace as you also engage in the work it takes to build a mindful awareness so you can experience presence in your daily life.
This calming anxiety relief meditation is designed to help you build mindful awareness of your thoughts, where your attention lies and how to come back to the present moment. Observing our own thinking patterns empowers us to interact with our mind in a whole new way. Not only that, but when we strengthen this mindful skill of present moment awareness, we are gifting ourselves the ability to become our own method of anxiety relief. While anxiety is a fact of life, we can reduce our own suffering by returning to the present moment again and again.
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This simple meditation for Anxiety & Stress will leave you feeling calm, present and ready to tackle whatever your day has in store. When the mind and body are in an anxious state, this is the time to turn towards ourselves in order to cultivate peace. This meditation practice will help you do just that as it focuses on using soothing physical touch and grounding strategies to bring your nervous system back into a state of safety.
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This 7 minute practice is designed to assist caregivers with giving back to themselves. As caregivers, it is common to continually give and give without ever spending the time to pour back into our own cups. This quick practice helps caregivers to set aside this time to be still and to give themselves the care and attention they deserve.
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This 8 minute meditation to cultivate presence is designed to help you find our center and to experience the beauty and safety of the present moment. If anxiety, stress, depression or any external circumstances have been taking over your thoughts lately, this practice will help you to culitvate presence and to get back in touch with the here and now. Remember, too, that this is a practice. Cultivating presence is a skill which takes time, practice and patience. In time, you will find it easier to come back to the moment and to allow your thoughts, worries and to-do list items fade away, even if only for the few minutes you choose to let them go.
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Belly Breathing is a tried and true technique proven to calm the mind and body. This 8 minute guided meditation focuses on deepening the breath through practicing belly breathing. As you practice belly breathing, you will begin to experience fuller, deeper, more fulfilling breaths while creating safety and security in your body.
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Let this meditation practice be a reminder that It's okay to slow down. So often we are rushing from one thing to the next, barely taking a moment to ensure we are getting full breaths. All of this rushing leads to increase cortisol levels, racing thoughts and feeling more anxious than we'd like to. Give yourself the gift of slowing down, listening to your breath and being reminded of your innate worthiness.
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This 7 minute meditation was designed to help you make space for your emotions. So often we turn away from our internal experiences, but here you have an opportunity to face them, to become curious about them and to care for yourself as you make space to feel them. It is only when we allow ourselves to feel that we begin to make space for healing and a deep appreciation for ourselves. Let this meditation be your guide as you learn to face your emotions and ultimately to face yourself. You deserve to experience goodness, peace and freedom.
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Urge Surfing is an Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Expansion Practice designed to help for when emotions feel too big to carry. Oftentimes our default response to these types of emotions is an urge to avoid, distract, eliminate or control. Acceptance & Commitment Therapy shows us another approach to managing these emotions so we can lean to live with them rather than being in a constant struggle with normal human emotions. Once we become aware of these emotions and the impact they have, we can then decide how we'd like to proceed, instead of being swept away by behaviors which are not serving our values or the life we'd like to be living.
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This guided meditation gives you an opportunity to be kind to your mind. As you imagine your mind as a garden to tend to, you will find grounding, calming of the nervous system and a simple check in with how you are caring for your mind these days. Practicing a simple check in like this allows for you to realign your choices and daily habits with the life you are hoping to create.
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This guided box breathing practice is perfect to come to in times of anxiety, or if you are simply wanting to find some stillness and calm in the middle of a chaotic week. Practicing guided box breathing for anxiety allows you to take the thinking out of the practice so you can simply focus on your breath and what this moment has to offer you. This practice will gift you grounding, encouragement, thought observation and acceptance, and, of course, breath work as well.
Breath work is a wonderful place to begin in your anxiety and stress management learning. The breath has incredible power in calming the mind, body and nervous system. If you'd like to learn more about how breath work calms our anxious minds and bodies, head on over to my YouTube channel to check out this video where i dive deeper into they how and why of breathing techniques - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3BhzSgduk
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Join in on this inner healing meditation to process your emotions mindfully. So often we try to ignore, suppress or even shame ourselves for experiencing the emotions we feel. While this practice is common, it certainly does not serve us well in any capacity. There are many healthy ways to process your emotions, but in this practice we are choosing to utilize mindfulness to do so. Using mindfulness to process our emotions allows us to take a step back, and to observe our emotions without them completely overwhelming us. The final phase of the practice offers affirmations in order to cultivate compassion, healing and inner strength.
This body image healing meditation practice turns your attention to all the incredible things your body allows you to enjoy. This guided meditation is a progressive muscle relaxation style practice which incorporates grounding of the body, relaxation of your mind and muscles, as well as practicing gratitude for all your body does for you. When we begin to acknowledge our bodies in this way, we can experience relief and healing in our relationship to our body, rather than solely judging it for how it looks. Join in on this practice if you are craving calm and freedom from body judgement.
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This 2 minute grounding meditation will guide you as you take a brief two minutes just for you. Taking even just two minutes to breathe and set down our to-do lists can have a widespread positive impact on the rest of our day. Add this quick practice to your lunch break or use it as a transition between work/school and leisure time.
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This 8 minute affirmation practice will aid in the promotion of restful sleep, a calm mind and a rejuvenated spirit for the day to come. Affirmations have the power to encourage, calm as well as to create brand new neural pathways in the brain. New neural pathways mean brand new thoughts and beliefs about ourselves, others and the world. This type of affirmation practice, when practiced regularly, can positively impact many facets of life.
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Cultivating Mindfulness is all about learning to drop into the here and now. Present moment awareness is the cornerstone of a mindfulness practice. This 8 minute meditation guides you as you learn to return to the present moment over and over again; allowing you to enjoy what the here and now has to offer. Kindly leave judgment and criticism at the door of this practice, as they will not be needed here 🙏🏻
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This 9 Minute Mindful Break will guide you through using your breath to become grounded in the moment. In essence, a grounding practice is finding safety in the present moment. It is an intentional action which tells our brain and our body that we are okay. In this 9 minute meditation practice, you will be guided through grounding breath work as we change our relationship to our thoughts and experiences. A changed relationship to thoughts and experiences requires a practice of neutral observation of the activity in one's mind. This type of practice is a cornerstone in building the mindfulness skill essential to finding inner peace, while gifting you a sweet break from your anxious thoughts.
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This self compassion meditation guides you through learning to love yourself as a friend or loved one loves you. This 9 minute practice leads you through grounding, observation of thought, cultivating self compassion and empowering affirmations.
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In this 'Choose your own adventure' style guided imagery practice, you will get the opportunity of creating your very own safe/happy place to return to anytime you wish. Having a go-to safe/happy place to escape to assists with getting through the hard difficulties of life while building emotional resilience. Sometimes we are able to identify a pleasant memory to utilize for a practice such as this, but it can also be challenging to identify pleasant memories for one reason or another. The world is your oyster in this practice as you engage your imagination to create your very own safe and happy place.
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Progressive Muscle Relaxation Practices have been long used to assist with deep sleep and relaxation. This practice will guide you through moving your focus from your busy thoughts to your grounded body. Throughout this deep sleep meditation, practice kindness with yourself as you gently tense and relax each major muscle group in your body.
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Allow this practice to help you become unburdened by your responsibilities. Lay down your to-do lists and simply be here in this moment. Throughout this unburdened practice, we will find your center, cultivate calm, ease anxiety and learn to find freedom from your thoughts.
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In this practice, we are raising our awareness of that which is happening in this moment. We do this without judgment, without making meaning of it and without trying to change any of it. This is not something we commonly do in our everyday life and so when we practice this present moment awareness with intention we allow space for our awareness, and therefore our self-control, to grow.
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This Grounding Body Scan helps to bring you out of your mind and into your body as you slowly release tension. Body Scans help to calm anxiety, allowing you to find peace and safety in the present moment.
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“Slow down, you’re doing fine, you can’t be everything you wanna be before your time” - Vienna by Billy Joel
I heard these lyrics from a fresh perspective this morning and they hit me hard. Why is it that we all seem to be rushing towards that next best thing, that next achievement? Why does it seem so challenging to simply be in this moment? When did that become not enough? My hope and prayer is for this practice to help you slow down and to remind you that you are doing so well. It’s okay to take a breather. It’s more than okay to relish in what you have already accomplished. You are amazing and you have already done amazing things. Take good care.
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Learning to allow your thoughts to pass in the background of your mind is a key skill to build when you are wanting to manage anxiety well. This Mindfulness technique helps you to feel in control of your own mind. While it does take time and practice for this skill to build, it is possible to use Mindfulness to lower your anxiety, decrease stress and improve self-esteem.
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Our observing mind gives us the power to allow the chatter of our thinking mind be background noise. If you find yourself becoming fixated on any particular thoughts, try out this 8-minute guided practices which takes you through the strengthening and cultivation of your observing mind.
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It has been a little while since sharing another meditation here. Sometimes we need to step back, take a break, refocus. I needed this in my own life. But I have come to realize how important slowing down truly is; taking time to practice mindfulness, to be still if able, to simply breathe. It really does go a long way. As life gets busier, it becomes so easy to let practices drop out of our routine, even when they benefit us. I hope this practice will help you incorporate a beneficial pause into your busy days.
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We all have an inner critic, and when it comes to coping when life gets hard, this inner critic seems to grow stronger. As if harsh words will assist us. This practice leads you through a different approach, while cultivating compassion and an inner strength.
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Using the breath to calm the mind and relax the body is a powerful tool that we can all bring with us into our busy lives. Take the next 6 minutes to follow along with the practice - gifting yourself a bit of stillness so that you may have a renewed mindset for the rest of your day.
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Spend the next few minutes centering yourself while you practice the art of accepting that which you cannot control.
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In today’s practice, we find support of the body, the mind and our emotions.
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This Breathe & Reflect meditation guides you through becoming grounded with your breath, reflecting on a bit of gratitude and slowing down to replenish and refresh your mind.
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This week, we celebrate International Women's Day. While this day is set to celebrate women, this practice was created to encourage and to be a reminder of your innate worth, no matter your gender.
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Research studies continue coming out on the topics of using mindfulness and positive psychology to improve challenging relationships to both food and body image. This practice was created to assist you with cultivating a peaceful relationship to food.
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It can be hard to set aside time for meditations each day. That is why this episode will give you a taste of an informal mindfulness practice that you can do with any drink or meal throughout your day. No formal meditation required - Just you, your food/drink and your senses.
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This 5 minute practice leads you through laying down to do lists, refocusing on your breath and changing your relationship to your thoughts.
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This 7 minute guided meditation leads you through acknowledging, accepting and being thankful for all your body has done, and continues to do, for you.
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While gratitude may appear to be a simple, and therefore unimportant, aspect of well-being, studies continue to show the positive and lasting benefits. With a regular practice of acknowledging that which we are thankful for, not only does our mental and emotional well-being flourish, but our physical health is greatly impacted as well. As with most things, a regular practice will certainly have the largest and most lasting impact. As you decide whether you’d like to engage in a regular gratitude practice or not, try your hand at this practice to get a taste of what a gratitude practice could feel like.
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Follow along with this brief guided practice to check in with the big tension-holding areas of the body. Raising body awareness while bringing relaxation and softening.
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Using our body as a source of grounding can be incredibly therapeutic. These types of practices can help us to become more in tune with ourself while also finding safety in our body. Sometimes using our bodily sensations to come back to the present moment can also be helpful as we are learning how to continually come back to our current experience.
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Oftentimes it can be much easier to practice kindness towards others, rather than towards ourself. If you have been curious about practicing kindness and compassion towards yourself, enjoy this brief practice to get a taste of what a self-compassion practice can be like.
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The start of a new week can easily become rushed. Practice this 4-minute guided meditation to reset your focus and intention as you enter this new week.
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One effective way to disrupt anxious thoughts is to intentionally focus our attention elsewhere. This practice leads you through becoming aware of anxious thoughts and refocusing attention on a positive memory or an imagined safe place. Engaging in a practice like this can, of course, disrupt worried thoughts, as well as make it easier for our brain to become aware of and enjoy positive experiences.
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This guided breath practices leads you through the process of calming down the nervous system, which leads to decreased anxiety in about 15-20 minutes. While this practice actively turns on the body’s calming system, it is perfectly normal to still feel a bit jittery or nervous following this practice. Practice giving your body permission to take the time it needs to feel safe.
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As we find ourselves continuing into the busy holiday season, your mind may desire some quieting. Follow along with this practice to give your mind and body some much needed R&R.
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Beginning your day with stillness, intention and compassion has the power to frame your mindset for the day ahead; priming your mind to find both acceptance and positivity.
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Reflecting on the good while refocusing on the present moment can certainly be helpful throughout the year; however, the Holidays tend to bring extra challenge for some. This practice is meant to help you to find your center again through the hectic holiday season.
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Practicing mindfulness is the continued practice of coming back to the present moment. This brief practice takes you through a break from you day and a sweet reminder to simply be.
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Continually returning our focus to the breath is at the core of practicing mindfulness. This brief, 6-minute practice leads you through this tenant; helping you to strengthen your mindfulness muscle and feel more present in your life.
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To be mindful is to be intentional. This practice is a reminder to bring a bit of patience to the art of setting, and responding to, intentions.
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Find your center and feel grounded once again with this standing meditation.
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Gift yourself these 6 minutes to allow your mind and body to rest. Observe how different you approach your day after even a brief practice of tuning into the present moment.
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So often we become lost in our critical thoughts. This practice allows us to slow down, notice the process and choose a different path; one of kindness and compassion.
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So much of life is outside of our control. Come back to this practice for a refresher of how to cope with the hard stuff we can’t change.
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Instead of fighting a constant inner battle with your thoughts, take a slowed-down approach to shift perspectives. Try out this brief practice and see how it feels to respond to your inner world in a different way.
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Process difficult emotions and learn to comfort yourself with this 6-minute practice.
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When you find it difficult to escape your thoughts, come to this practice to find relaxation of the body and the mind, preparing you for restful sleep.
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So often we get lost in our thoughts without even realizing it. Finding our inner world consuming our whole day. Follow along with this practice to build your mindfulness muscle, learning to be truly present in the here and now with the help of the breath and the body.
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Not all mindfulness practices have to cultivate stillness. Sometimes the mind or the body are a bit too antsy to start out sitting still. Meet your mind and body where they are at with this movement practice. This practice can be a bridge into a seated practice or allow it to awaken your senses and carry you into your day.
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The start of the week holds abundant opportunities for the vast expanse of emotions. Before being pulled in various directions or flooded with stress, take a few minutes to center yourself with this meditation geared towards calming both body and mind.
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How often do we go about our days and continually push off emotions for a later time? This meditation makes time and space to feel and process through your emotions in the safety of your control. Fear not the power of your emotions; instead, embrace your ability to feel deeply. For within this gift is an immeasurable strength.
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Gift yourself a few moments of stillness to reset and refocus your mind.
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Setting aside time for practicing mindfulness is one of the most common hesitations I hear and the biggest barrier to engaging in the well-known and beneficial practice. Remove this barrier entirely by learning a simple grounding technique you can practice anytime, anywhere.
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Try out this breath focused meditation to find relaxation while learning how to turn on your body’s calming system.
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Learn to take back control of your mind with this 7-minute guided meditation, as you practice observing your thoughts without attaching weight to them.
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Nature has immense and everlasting beauty. If you choose this practice today, find yourself a nice outside space to be present in your surroundings.
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Before you enter into your hectic day, take a few minutes to feel centered with this brief breath-focused meditation. This simple practice will help you to grow your mindful attention while bringing a sense of calm to the body and the mind.
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So often we begin our week feeling rushed and frazzled; completely caught off guard by the start of a new work week after experiencing the peace and freedom of the weekend or a vacation. Ease into your week with the help of this 5-minute grounding meditation.
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Learn to move through overwhelming emotions without feeling out of control with this guided grounding exercise.
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It is no challenge to get caught up by life; easily frazzled, jittery and feeling out of control. Gift yourself these next 7 minutes to be still, breathe and allow your body to relax.
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Build into your confidence and self-compassion with this guided meditation meant to remind you of who you are and all you can accomplish.
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The great thing about mindfulness is really how versatile the practice can be. Any activity we engage in on a daily basis can be practiced mindfully. Today’s practice will bring a sense of intention to the everyday activity of walking.
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Often times, anxiety and stress make it feel impossible to be present. As if it is threatening to slow down for even one moment. When we feel like this, taking some deep breaths and trying to be still is exactly what we need.
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Allow your thoughts to drift away with this brief guided imagery practice.
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If you are feeling rushed, as if you don't have time for even 5 minutes for yourself, it it likely that this time is exactly what you need. Give yourself this gift. The next 6 and half minutes are just for you.
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Sometimes we all just need a break; an opportunity to leave our troubles, experience joy and to remember life has a lot of great moments. This meditation will take you through the practice of remembering the good and learning how to use these good memories to combat those really tough days.
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Shift your attention and reflect on the good stuff with this 10 minute gratitude practice.
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Similarly to a body scan, Progressive Muscle Relaxations guide us through scanning over the body to increase awareness of how our muscles feel. This particular practice adds in an intentional engagement and relaxation of the muscles. This teaches the brain and the body how tense muscles compare to relaxed muscles so we can better notice when it would be beneficial to engage in stress-reduction activities. This practice also aids with falling asleep, as it focuses our brain on the body rather than on our thoughts.
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If you are feeling frazzled and believe you don’t have time to sit and be still for 5 minutes, that is likely exactly what you need. Reset and clear your mind with this brief and simple meditation.
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Emotions can so easily control us if we allow them to. With this episode, you'll learn how to accept, name and feel your emotions, rather than avoiding them at all costs.
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Give your mind a chance to settle, as we shift our focus to the body to let go of rumination or anxiety.
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This technique is a great option to practice when you are feeling extra anxious. An uncommon piece of knowledge about calming down anxiety – it takes between 15-20 minutes to actually feel calm following an episode of higher anxiety or panic. Stick with it, the calm will come as you practice.
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Calm the mind as we learn to deepen the breath with this guided, belly-breathing practice.
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Slow down and refocus with this short, breath-focused guided meditation.
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