The Mindful Journey: Recent Episodes
Jon Barbieri
Guided meditations and tips for a journey towards discovery of the practice of Mindfulness.
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This emotional awareness relaxation is a sensory relaxation process that can allow you to become more aware of feelings based on the sensory experience of an emotion.
This guided meditation is especially relevant for survivors of trauma, but can also be effective for anyone who wants to better understand emotions.
By familiarizing yourself with the sensory experience of emotions, you can become skilled at recognizing what it is you are feeling in a given moment, and address both positive negative emotions you experience in daily life.
... Now sit back, relax and enjoy :)
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These meditations are absolutely FREE and with one purpose: try to help people.
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Sometimes it's difficult to just stop and rest our brain.
Yes, you can sit down, but the mind keeps running and thinking about to do lists, worries, regrets...
This guided meditation will help you visualise yourself floating on a fluffy and comfy cloud to enjoy the present moment, rest, just be...
... Now sit back, relax and enjoy :)
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If you want to know more about Mindfulness and how it can help improve the quality of your life, just go to https://www.thinkfeelnow.com/coaching
These meditations are absolutely FREE and with one purpose: try to help people.
I always welcome comments, feedback & suggestions via Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/thinkfeelnow
and the FB Group 'Mindfulness Vibes'
https://www.facebook.com/groups/think...
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Meditationforanxiety, #Meditationforbeginners, #Meditationmusicrelaxmindbody, #Meditation, #Relaxingmusicforstressrelief, #Relaxingmusicsleep, #Relax
It's important to start the day with the right foot, and sometimes thoughts and emotions jumps on us as soon as we wake up.
With this guided meditation, so quick you can do it every morning, you can start your day with a renewed sense of calm,
grace and loving kindness.
If you want to know more about Mindfulness and how it can help improve the quality of your life, just go to
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... Now sit back, relax and enjoy :)
This is a short guided visualisation for goal achievement, you will focus your awareness on your goals and feel the good feeling of achieving it.
What do you want more in your life? What do you need?
Remember, where your awareness goes, energy flows :)
If you want to know more about Mindfulness and how it can help improve the quality of your life, just go to
https://www.thinkfeelnow.com/coaching
... Now sit back, relax and enjoy :)
As much as we try, sometimes anxiety just slip into the cracks of our mind and it seems we can't get rid of it.
This guided meditation will help you to reduce and manage anxiety through breathing and visualisation :)
If you want to know more about Mindfulness and how it can help improve the quality of your life, just go to
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... Now sit back, relax and enjoy :)
In times of stress, we can always come back to our breath.
Belly breathing is a powerful technique that naturally works as antidote to the body's fight or flight response, which is the root cause of our anxiety, anger and negative emotions.
If done properly you can significantly improve your wellbeing in minutes.
So sit down, relax and enjoy <3
This guided sleep meditation/visualisation will gently lead you on a peaceful walk to a secluded beach where you will watch the horizon in a time of complete tranquility, refreshing and relaxing your mind and body.
You may use this meditation to drift quietly into sleep.
Enjoy and sweet dreams :)
Sometimes it's just difficult to fall asleep, too many thoughts, emotions or just those days where your eyes just want to stay open...
In this guided meditation, I'll help you fall into deep sleep in minutes with a combination of body scan and binaural music.
Enjoy and... sweet dreams <3
While managing anxiety can be a long process, it's true that acute cases can bee mitigated by being focused on the present moment.
In this guided meditation, we'll focus on the breath while visualising a warm light of gratitude, the best antidote against anxiety and depression.
Enjoy, and stay safe! <3
We often try to resist to the experience of the present moment.
We try to face what we perceive as a threat by denying it, pushing it away, but we also try to grasp onto beautiful moment hoping that they'll never end... We are in constant conflict with reality for better of worst, and this is a cause of pain and frustration.
Re-discovering acceptance allow us to be open to the human experience and embrace the changes of life with openness, understanding and freedom.
Enjoy :)
Loving kindness is a powerful emotion... the best cure against a bad day, a bad week...or a bad year ;)
In this guided meditation, we visualise loving kindness as glowing and warm sphere, allowing it to grow and grow and fill our body, mind and soul with its comforting light.
Enjoy :)
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Joy is always with us.
It's sometimes difficult to notice it, because our mind is always focused on the past or on the future, with all the regrets, broken dreams and expectations... but in the present the joy, the bliss, the happiness of the now are waiting for us.
In this guided meditation we're going to look inside of the present moment to re discover our joy.
Enjoy :)
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This is an easy and effective way to ground ourselves and find the answers sometimes we struggle to find. :)
Enjoy!
Metta is a Pali word that means benevolence, kindness, friendship and affection.
This form of meditation is one of the most soothing ways to practice the 4 forms of Love: Friendliness, appreciation and joy, compassion and equanimity.
Metta Meditation is free from any form of expectations. We don't do it to prove a point or accomplishing a goal. It's just a process to experience and enjoy, starting from and experience of love and compassion to ourselves, and then show the same love and compassion to others as well by offering some loving-kindness affirmation phrases:
May you be happy
May you be healthy
May you be safe
May you be at ease
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), is a tingling sensation that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine, it's triggered by certain sounds and tones and it brings lots pf relaxation and euphoria.
For this particular loving kindness meditation, other than a soft spoken tone, I've inserted crinkling sounds, which are usually soothing for me.
What's your favourite trigger?
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Happy new year :)
Lockdowns, holidays at home, can't meet your friends and family... lots of things pushes us towards boredom during these troubled times.
This meditation will help you understand the possibilities hidden behind a boring moment.... as boredom is a lack fo Mindfulness, with Mindfulness we can overcome boredom and be fully present in the moment.
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We use to say that everyone is good at Xmas... well, with this big pandemic upon us wouldn't it be nice to be good all year long and send good vibes and compassion?
Hopefully this meditation will guide you to send love, joy and compassion towards people who are now experiencing suffering in their life.
Isn't it better to use our energies to send out good vibes to everyone?
Enjoy :)
Even 5 minutes can be enough to recharge our mind and soul. It seems difficult because we often think that 'being still' is a waste of time and we automatically feel bad if we try to simply rest.
What if, with an accepting and loving mind, you take the time of this meditation just to.... be?
Enjoy!
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There are challenging times... it seems increasingly difficult to find a way to de stress and find some peace.
This guided meditation helps you trough a combination of deep breathing, bod scan and positive affirmation, to find your way to release some stress and build a healthy habit for your mind, body and soul :)
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Our natural breath engages the diaphragm, a thin, but strong muscle between the chest and the abdomen.
When we use this muscle to breathe, the stomach rises and fall with ease, allowing us to initiate feelings of relaxation.
In our fast-paced lives, many of us have forgotten how to breathe deeply, instead, we breath exclusively into our chest.
This makes our breath shallow. And by doing so we promote the body’s ‘fight or flight response associated with feelings of stress, even when we are not necessarily stressed.
Trough the belly breathing meditation we can:
.Increase supply of oxygen and nutrients to cells throughout the body
.Increase the supply of blood and nutrients to muscle blood and bones
.Relax muscle spasm and relieves tension
.Release and reduces muscular tension that eventually may cause structural problems
.Support muscle growth and provides energy to get things done
Enjoy! :)
Meditation it's not immediate for everyone, but definitely it's not an impossible task.
We know that there are certain skills that you can improve with practice, but rarely we think we might need to train our attention, our patience, our understanding (or the lack of it).
Hopefully this short exercise will help you ease into meditation without frustration by understanding a new perspective to it :)
Enjoy <3
Body Scan is a type of meditation that helps you go get in touch with your body, something that we tends to forget...
This particular body scan, focuses not only to pay attention and listen to our body, but also to give thanks for everything that it allows us to do.
Hopefully this will help you to fall asleep with a sense of love for you and your body <3
Enjoy
Sometimes we need some good old love and kindness, but living in the age of social media, it’s easy to assume that our fellow humans are perpetually blissful, and so filled with love that they’ve never known a bad day in their lives.
This belief can feed our frustration making difficult to find the loving kindness we need within ourselves.
What about trying with some warm friendliness instead?
This is not a formal meditation, but more a guided experience that can be done in the company of your pet, that can be an amazing teacher of unconditional love.
Enjoy :)
Perhaps sometimes you may wish that there was an off-button for your mind.
A busy mind can halt us in many ways throughout our lives....and one of the main things a busy mind can interrupt, is a good night’s sleep, every single night...
Why is this so?
To answer this, let’s relax your mind just a little bit right now...
Chronic pain can be very hard to handle, but many times when we create a mental image of our suffering, we tend to aggravate this pain, thus increasing it.
Then every time we feel this sensation, we will have a negative thought attached to it on a conscious and subconscious level.
So what this meditation will teach you are techniques to change the mental image that has been created from this pain, and instead implement a peaceful association with pleasant visualizations that create a warmer bonding between you and your body’s sensations.
This allows you to accept and allow instead of fight and push away.
Enjoy :)
How often we regret what we say or how we say it?
Sometimes words just slip out of our mouth before we can control it...
This guided meditation helps to commit to be mindfully aware of what we say and how we say it, with the purpose of communicating to understand.
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Sometimes we feel like we'll never seen the end of our darkest days.
Discover your natural balance whit this meditation, a wonderful way to experience balancing in the midst of the mind's ever changing nature.
A short guided meditation to take our time to be, to just be.
It's so difficult to find a moment in our busy lives to just be still, but we deserve to give our mind and soul some rest.
So sit down by the fire with me, and for a moment be. Just be.
This short meditation helps you ground yourself by focusing your attention on the space between in breath and out breath.
This space is something we rarely notice, but it can be a great resource to focus on in particularly stressful situations.
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This guided meditation allow you to focus your attention not only onto your breath, but also though visualisation, allow you to focus on the color of the rainbow highlighting the connection and the meaning of this colours with your body, mind and soul.
Mindful breathing is a very basic yet powerful mindfulness meditation practice.
The idea is simply to focus your attention on your breathing—to its natural rhythm and flow and the way it feels on each inhale and exhale.
Focusing on the breath is particularly helpful because it serves as an anchor–something you can turn your attention to at any time if you start to feel stressed or carried away by negative emotions.
Enjoy :)
Less than 10 minutes to relax body and mind with this guided relaxing meditation.
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Lovely time with Natasha (ARA Radio - Luxembourg)
Discussing about Mindfulness, stress and balance...
Here's a 10 minutes meditation around the breathing, it's really effective to help re gain balance and ground yourself :)
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Quick guided meditation to help us press 'pause' for a moment and ground ourselves.
Enjoy!
It's time to take a break.... and relax.... to deal with anger in a healthy, productive way.
Anger is a normal and natural emotion, and there is nothing wrong with having feelings - you are human, after all. You have the power to decide how to deal with this emotion you are experiencing.
Anger management does not mean holding anger in. It does not mean that you will never feel angry. Anger management is managing the responses that can arise when you are feeling angry.
All you really need to do right now is take a few moments just to relax, for you, to help you feel relaxed and calm. It feels good to relax. After this short relaxation session is over, you can proceed with your day, and react in a way that you choose.... relaxing for a moment now will help you to react calmly, rather than acting out of emotion.
It's okay to be angry. Just allow yourself to feel however it is you are feeling right now, noticing this feeling, but not reacting just yet. All you're doing is observing. Emotions are neither right nor wrong... they just are.
Today's meditation is excellent to work on the capability to drive our focus inward and outward.
The 5 different sections allows you to experience focus on different aspects of your mind and body.
This 15 minutes meditation is also good if you need a moment to ground yourself or need to recharge the mind for a bit.
Enjoy :)
Forgiveness isn’t the same as condoning ourselves or anyone else for misbehavior. But we so easily hold ourselves infinitely responsible, often for experiences utterly out of our control or from decades past. With forgiveness, we make amends when needed but let go of the extra baggage. We give ourselves the same benefit of the doubt we’d offer a close friend.
On the other hand, we sometimes allow someone else to influence our lives long after they’ve gone in a similar fashion.
In this 25 minutes guided meditation, we'll work on the experience of forgiveness and letting go trough Chakra's visualisation and focus on our breathing.
Metta is a Pali word that means benevolence, kindness, friendship and affection.
This form of meditation is one of the most soothing ways to practice the 4 forms of Love: Friendliness, appreciation and joy, compassion and equanimity.
Metta Meditation is free from any form of expectations. We don't do it to prove a point or accomplishing a goal.
It's just a process to experience and enjoy, starting from and experience of love and compassion to ourselves, and then show the same love and compassion to others as well by offering some loving-kindness affirmation phrases:
May you be happy
May you be healthy
May you be safe
May you be at ease
30' guided meditation to help accepting the emotions of fears and anxiety.
Acceptance is a key component of Mindfulness. By accepting our emotions, we open ourselves to the experience instead of challenging them.
If an emotion is not challenged, it follows its natural course and impermanence and as it has come, it will fade away, allowing you to reflect upon a negative situation in a rational way with an efficient problem solver approach.
Enjoy <3
Use this guided Meditation to awakening the spirit, relax your physical body and become one with your inner-self and your inner-journey.
This meditation allows you to focus on your inner sensations and feelings and accept them, by grounding yourself through your breath.
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Progressive muscle relaxation is a guided meditation exercise that reduces stress and anxiety in your body by having you slowly tense and then relax each muscle. Do not listen to this video while driving or in any situation where your attention and reflexes are required.
Soundtrack by Peder B. Helland
The body scan, as the name suggests, entails bringing awareness to each part ofthe body, starting with the feet and moving up from there.
The body scan teaches us to recognize and experience physical sensations. Much of our attention focuses on our thoughts and on matters outside our body, such as our job, social environment, etc.
This increases the risk that one will pay very little attention to physical signals. The recognition of physical signals, such as tension or restlessness, is important, especially for the prevention of stress and burn-out.
It guides you to draw attention to a specific point. In the body scan, the point of attention is one part of the body. The effect of such training of attention can also transfer to other areas, such as focusing (concentrating) the attention on a specific task, a conversation with someone, etc.
The body scan method teaches us to detect when attention wanders. Being able to notice when attention wanders is a critical component of successful self-control.