The Snowglobe Project: settling your world one breath at a time: Recent Episodes
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Short weekly meditations, settling conversation and insight from mindfulness teacher Simon Heale to provide a breathing space to exercise your awareness muscles enabling movement towards a life of fulfilment and meaning.
In the second part of this Awareness practice series, Simon Heale guides you through honing and holding focus during practice on a single place and sensation and how something insignificant can be so significant. How our grosser distractions can diminish into the background: thinking, feelings and the body.
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Awareness is the heart of insight practice, it is the bedrock of a settled mind, it is a cornerstone of a meaningful life. When we have awareness we have choice. In this practice Simon Heale guides you through the fundamentals of developing more awareness and how to just sit with it. This is the first part of his Awareness Series.
In this last episode for Mental Health Awareness Week, Simon Heale looks at the issue of being alone, our reactions to it and how we can cultivate a new relationship within our sitting practice to be with it in a more flexible and perhaps healthier way. How to hold an emotion with curiosity and expansiveness, to accept the sensation and not get caught up in the stories.
Not easy but worth the try.
In part 4 of this series of short meditations for Mental Health Awareness Week, Simon Heale guides you through his 'trademark' settling practice, putting together the various processes already explored this week: body, breath, thinking and now taking charge in settling these all down.
In part 3 of this special week of short meditations for Mental Health Awareness Week, Simon Heale guides you through 18 minutes of watching how our thoughts come and go, and how to be with them in a better and more helpful way.
In this short practice, Simon Heale guides you through how to access the body and breath as the anchor for your attention, to get a break from the to-ings and fro-ings of the mind.
Part 2 of the Mental Health Awareness week series
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week, meditation teacher Simon Heale guides you through 12 minutes of a settling body based practice, to ease you into the week.
Each day this week he will publish a new short practice. so subscribe and share this with everyone you feel could do with a calm start to the day.
In this special and short meditation, Simon Heale guides you through ways to be with your loss with open, soft and compassionate hands. How to honour the value of your feelings as well as the inevitable memories of that which has been lost. To find a way to settle into loss.
This episode is in memory of Revi, a 19 year old gift of life. Thank you boy for being such an amazing force of life.
In this wonderfully calming episode, mindfulness teacher Simon Heale, guides you through two practices to help settle the body and mind. One is a short practice for daily, more immediate use and the other is the longer practice which can be used daily but is more realistically a weekly one to use.
These sessions are recorded from Simons weekly online meditation classes.
Enjoy and subscribe to get the next episode: Homecoming Practice
In this meditation practice, Simon Heale guides you through a calming feast of festive treats for yourself to nourish and feed your body and mind and perhaps even your spirit.
Part of the Snowglobe Project, Settle with Simon aims to settle your worls one meditation, one breath at a time.
In this episode meditation and mindfulness teacher Simon Heale guides you through a 30 minute practice exploring how we can re-learn that uncritical quality of the childs mind or the beginners mind. To witness our thinking, emotions or any of the senses as if for the first time, thereby putting our baggage of expectation and judgement down for at least a few moments. Just like a child exploring elements of the world for the first time.
Don't believe me, just try it.
In this new episode of Settle with Simon, part of the Snowglobe Project podcast, Simon Heale presents a short practice for everyone who gives to others every day. You might be a teacher, nurse, doctor, caregiver or therapist, you might be caring for someone at home, or in a nursing home, or a clinical setting: no matter, this short audio is a gift for you to find a little calm and reconnection.
You don't have to be a regular meditator, you just have to be curious.
Enjoy and thank you for what you do.
Simon
Settle with Simon is the new season from Simon Heale and The Snowglobe Project: meditations and short practices to help settle your world, one breath at a time.
In this short podcast, Simon Heale guides you through 4 very short but effective exercises or practices to help settle your mind and body quickly. They are designed to be simple and therefore easily learned, to be able to do them wherever and whenever you need to.
With every breath, help is at hand.
Over the last year we have all experienced loss in some form or another, and in the last week the passing of HRH The Prince Philip has allowed us to mourn not just him but also to sit, to stop and give ourselves time to reflect on loss and our relationship with it.
This latest episode in the Snowglobe Project, presented by meditation and mindfulness teacher Simon Heale, gives you 28 minutes of space to reflect on someone or something that has been lost or has passed. There is nothing to achieve in this practice, it is a breathing and an open space to allow whatever arises to be held and witnessed.
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Get Breathing Space is a 30 minute meditation practice which focusses on using the breath as anchor , cultivating awareness of body and breath together and awareness of the nature of thinking and feelings.
In this episode of the Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale, offers another of his popular bi-weekly live lockdown practices. This practice is for anyone wanting to settle and get some needed breathing space in their life.
In our daily or possibly weekly meditations are we aware of our reactivity with our inner goings on? Our inner chatter, inner conversations, judgements, ruminating and more? If we can learn to step back each time and give ourselves that tiny space then we can slowly cultivate a little more responsiveness and a little less reactivity. We may then be able to take some of that, newly hard-wired, response into our daily lives. Maybe.
In ep 30 of the Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale guides you through 27 minutes of breathing, calm, space and stillness.
In this episode of The Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale offers you two, yes TWO, practices. Conversations is a short meditation on the dialogue we can have with ourselves in practice, about the qualities we can bring though dialoguing.
Choices is the longer meditation which explores the practice of wise-choice: deliberately choosing where to rest our attention, to regain a sense of choice, albeit briefly and in practice, where in our daily lives we may feel, certainly currently, that we have little choice. If we can take a sense of this wise-choosing into our day to day living, we may experience things in a new framework. Maybe.
Enjoy them both.
As we all enter a new year and with current events not relenting, it is a real challenge to be present, to remind ourselves of what is in our control, to then take actions that can be of service, be of value to not just ourselves and those around us, but perhaps to a wider community.
This settling in practice aims to give us 30 minutes of grounding, of breathing, of allowing whatever troubling or repetitive thinking we have, to settle, with a little gift at the end too.
I hope you enjoy it.
Simon
Jan 21
This episode is an interview with CBT Therapist Sacha Khan, focussing on why meditation and mindfulness can be so helpful to all of us, especially now, and then how can we cultivate a more sustainable meditation practice.
WARNING: this interview may lead to you to meditating more!!
During these incredibly uncertain and challenging days we are all facing, it can be almost impossible to stay grounded, calm and balanced emotionally. Our need as humans is to know whats up ahead, what is the threat or more often than not, what can i look forward to. We cannot do this at the moment to the extend we have all become used to. The practice that Simon Heale guides you through is to look at the area of impermanence and how we can in our meditation, be aware of our need to hold on to desires, needs and things, and to let it go as often as we can. Then perhaps in our lives we can bring this awareness to ourselves, to notice when we are falling into the trap of desire and need and suffering because it cannot be how we want it or thought it would be.
Meditation is not the answer to these tough times, but it could be an answer. Enjoy
In this meditation, Simon Heale guides you through the practice of watching our true selves unfold before our inner eyes or awareness, and much like an audience member watching a performance, we just sit and let the images, the words, the 'music' happen. By seeing if we can watch our own show in each practice we may be able to change our relationship with our 'selves'. Maybe.
In this episode Simon Heale guides you through an insight practice examining the difference between our thoughts and our feelings: suggesting the possibility that one is the soundtrack that colours our world. So sit back, upright or lying down, and enjoy listening to your soundtrack.
You cant stop the waves, said Jon Kabat-Zin, but you can learn to surf.
In this episode of the Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale guides you through the practice of 'surfing' on and away from our thinking mind, from our stories, repetitive patterns of thinking, towards a more solid place, that of our body and our breath. Accepting that this is how our minds work and deliberately settling into a more flexible way of being.
In this episode, SImon Heale guides you through a meditation practice focussing on a core Buddhist principle that all things arise, they all change and eventually all will cease. If we can grasp this, especially in todays climate, then we can perhaps get on with living. The risk is that we stay rooted to what we dont have anymore, to what was and what we long for, so by playing with the possibility of impermanence then we may cultivate freedom and choice again in our lives.
Enjoy.
In episode 21 of the Snowglobe Project podcast, Simon Heale guides you through an exploration of how we all get attached to what we want, need or desire, how to cultivate awareness of attachment in practice, and then how to shift our relationship with it all. Within each practice we do is an opportunity to rebuild our relationships with our human tendency for attachment.
Enjoy
In episode 20 of this gentle meditation podcast, Simon Heale guides you through an insight practice focussing on how we can deal with our internal difficulties, in practice, applying a very simple question: is this in or out of my control? By stepping back with anything that arises, we may be able to be with our experiences with more flexibility, choice and ultimately a greater sense of freedom.
Enjoy.
As the Sufi poet Rumi suggested: Being human is like a guest house, every meditation, every moment is an opportunity to welcome each new arrival: a thought, a feeling, a sensation. In this episode of the Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale guides you through the warm-up check in and then through a long 20 minutes of welcoming, being open and kind to every experience that passes our awareness.
A lovely antedote to fear, to worry and to the unknown surrounding us currently.
In this episode Simon Heale guides you through an exploration of the true value of settling our body and minds and the effect it can have on the ability of the body to self regulate or to heal. A short visualisation then imagines empowering resilience and immunity throughout our systems.
Enjoy
Relax, unwind, re-tune and re-charge with this 26 minute full body scan from Simon Heale. This practice is a fundamental insight and mindfulness meditation to awaken our awareness into the minutiae of our experiences: the senses rather than our thoughts.
In this episode Simon Heale guides you through a short check-in practice, followed by the main practice which is all about the language or internal dialogue we experience moment to moment and specifically during our meditation. How do we relate to these words? Are we open to them or do we push them away with frustration? This episode is a chance to change how we relate to this constant exchange.
Enjoy.
This is not a sing-along, sorry! It is a meditation practice to explore one of the foundations of insight practice, to be able to deliberately let go of any attachment to a thought, a feeling or a sensation and to settle on a single place. Mindfulness is the zeitgeist but sadly it has been stripped of its true meaning and is now sold off as a cheap imitation around the world. Here, you can experience how simple it is to be aware, to be mindful in any moment and then to let it go, for nothing, apart from your time.
I hope you enjoy this exploration.
Simon
In this podcast Simon Heale poses the possibility for us to sit and be with our experiences, our 'sea of troubles' as Hamlet says in his famous soliloquy, and to 'suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'. Do we fight them or can we oppose them? So in this practice, it is an opportunity to sit back, to practice non-attachment, distance and allow our 'sea of troubles' to pass or rage or settle.
Enjoy your 30 minutes of being the Dane!
The Loving Kindness or Metta practice invites you to offer yourself, others and the world four affirmations or requests to be well, to be happy, to live with ease and to be free from suffering. These are not demands but offerings or possibilities from the heart. The practice opens with Simon Heales check-in and then leads into the 22 minute main meditation.
Enjoy.
Inspired by the poem Leisure by WH Davies, Simon Heale guides you through a practice to encourage you to simply take a stand and stare at your experiences, to let these be enough for you and to give you a break from the tyranny of your thinking mind, albeit for 30 minutes or so. But with a little bit more practice.........
In this practice we examine the constant need for need and how in practice we can check whether just sitting and breathing can be enough, a real challenge for most of us mere busying mortals. I have included four short emergency interventions or exercises which are wonderful for all ages, especially at this time of massive uncertainty.
With all your fears, doubts, perhaps pain, can you still be grateful? In this new episode, Simon Heale guides you through ways to see if you can bring gratitude to your experiences that would otherwise be ignored such as your breathing, your body, your feelings. By narrowing our focus onto our micro world in practice, we may be able to be with our macro world with a renewed awareness. Perhaps.
In episode 9: Simon Heale shows you how practice is the ideal place to watch our human tendency to avoid our pain, loss, suffering and the need to experience more pleasure or what we know we like and need. By recognising our feelings, by trying not to follow our stories or thoughts and by settling on the physical: breath and body, we will change our relationship with our own pleasure and loss experiences.
Enjoy
In episode 8 Simon Heale guides you through a settling 10 minute check-in and breathing space, followed by the 18 minute main practice which involves bringing kindness and curiosity to how we relate to ourselves in practice. Enjoy it.
All of the Snowglobe Project episodes are recordings from Simon Heale's online meditations during our recent lock-down.
In this practice, Simon Heale will guide you through 28 minutes of insight meditation, focussing on bringing patience to our experiences, through the language we use and the quality of patience. The simple phrase "its OK" can be so effective to bring patience to ourselves not only in practice but moment to moment and day to day.
Settle down while Simon Heale guides you through his personal favourite settling practice utilising imagery, language, imagination and somatic awareness. This peaceful settling meditation is the foundation of a solid daily practice. Enjoy.
The bodyscan is a lovely practice to calm the whole body and mind and if done at night can aid a restful sleep, due to the effect on your nervous system. This episode is one of the lock-down sessions with Simon Heale, so the recording is raw and untouched. Simon would love to get your feedback, even requests for further episodes info@corehealthsuite.com
Two short practices: a walking or moving meditation to bring you into the present moment, followed by how we can utilise the quality of and language of softness (13:30) The last practice focusses on the language we use on a daily basis internally and how in meditation awareness we can modify and alter our relationship with it. (14:20)
Learn to settle thoughts, feelings and the body with these four short and easy practices from Simon Heale for younger and more curious minds: Short Daily Meditation 1:36-4:12, FOFBOC practice 4:16-9:35, Short Snowglobe practice 9:37-15:26, 10 Minute Breathing Space 15:27-25:35
In this episode Simon guides you through three short practices: Being Present 11:49, Winding Down 11:10, and A Body and Breath Practice 9:12
The Snowglobe Project is a series of short meditation practices taken from Simon Heale's online lockdown sessions for anyone who desires to have more stability, more choice, more control and perhaps more freedom in their lives. In this episode Simon guides you through his short Bookend Practices: a morning and an evening practice.
Simon would love to get your feedback, suggestions or questions to help improve the content each week. Please contact him at info@corehealthsuite.com