The Mindful Soul

When irritated and annoyed, the best thing to do is to honor the experience by feeling. Nothing is permanent anyway, and the faster we allow, the faster things pass : ) 

The suffering that comes with depression is a common human experience and when accepted, becomes easier to work with. Acceptance does not mean passive resignation or that one has to love or like something. It simply means acknowledgment. 

This longer meditation allows for a deeper cultivation of body awareness. With curious compassionate awareness we can re-inhabit our bodies allowing body mind and soul to heal. 

Transform feelings of anger and anxiety with this practice incorporating mindful self-compassion and qigong. 

A mind that wanders, a mind with thoughts - of future and past - a mind that can't calm down - all normal in this being human. How can we cope? We can watch. Just as we watch trains coming through the train station we can watch the trains of thought come and go - with a beginner's mind, non-judgment, and acceptance.

Healing requires the acceptance of all our human emotions - including the uncomfortable and even painful. This meditation provides guidance in the meeting, honouring and processing of grief and sadness. Mindful breath by mindful breath we can integrate sadness, transform and heal.

This short meditation guides you to use the breath as a tool for practising the skill of letting go and trusting.

It's human to judge. Yet it can be challenging to not judge ourselves when we become aware of how we judge - ourselves, each other & life. This meditation guides us to respond to our judgments with joy - joy in the opportunity to grow - every time we notice that judgment has arisen.

Turning our attention towards pain with mindfulness can help us develop a new relationship with pain that allows for the down-regulation of the nervous system. With practice over time research shows a decrease in pain avoidance, attention bias and even pain sensitivity.  

It can be hard to know the needs of our true selves when we are caught in our thoughts. But when we stop to feel, listen and observe ourselves, we put ourselves in a better place to align and connect with our inner truths.

When work stress keeps you up at night unable to sleep give this meditation a try!

We are more than just the fleeting emotions, sensations, and thoughts we experience as humans. More so, the higher, true authentic self is that which is observing the experience of these fleeting emotions, sensations, and thoughts. This mediation helps us to reconnect with the loving awareness naturally exists within us. 

When works stress keeps you up at night and you just can't get to sleep give this short meditation a try!

This is a great meditation to bring the grounding, calming and feminine energies of mother earth. In a world full of masculine energy this practice will help bring balance and harmony to your body. 

This meditation connects us to the inhale which reminds us to inspire & receive that which serves us and the exhale which reminds us to let go and release that which no longer serves our healing and the highest good of all.   

Stress, anxiety and depression can get us stuck in our heads and out of the body - in particular our hearts. This short practice guides our attention from thoughts back to the heart - the home of the soul. With daily practice, we can rewire our ability to live in connection to our true selves

Not all thoughts are always fact - but the breath is always true. Like a loyal friend the breathe is here to connect us to the power of the present. This meditation cultivates our trust in this powerful & free tool - the breath.

If you are feeling out of alignment, confused or simply not yourself, this is a mediation to help you connect to the center of your being where your true and authentic self resides. 

This practice helps us to be with chronic pelvic pain with the open and interested qualities of mindfulness. 

There are external resources and there internal resources that can help us navigate life on this earth. With the trust and curiosity that mindfulness brings we can access our innate resources for wisdom, compassion and healing. Through the power of the present breathing body and the energy flowing within our deepest sense of self we can connect to our inner power. 

When your feet feel sore tired and achey try this mindfulness practice. 

Mindfulness requires beginner's mind, the meeting of each moment with the curiosity of fresh new eyes - like a child experiencing something for the first time. With new eyes we are able to acknowledge the reality of the present moment instead of through the filters of our judgments. With new eyes we are able to experience that which we normally don't notice when we are on auto-pilot. Breathe and enjoy! 

To heal is to integrate all parts of our human experiences. However, integrating the uncomfortable moments of life is easier said than done. But with guidance and practice, we can all experience our human and spiritual potential to meet, honor, and integrate all aspects of ourselves.

By cultivating intention and attention we can use the inhale and exhale to nourish and detox the physical, energetic, and spiritual body. 

This meditation deepens our connection to the body and in particular the pelvic area. For those with chronic pain, healing can arise when we meet pain with curious acceptance. By doing so, we can integrate more of ourselves - for this is what healing is - a return to being whole.

Self-compassion is a skill that can be developed with practices such as this.

A practice to help us meet and integrate all parts of our human selves including the parts that make mistakes and even cause harm to ourselves and others. Remember, all parts of ourselves deserve to be acknowledged without judgment : ) 

The body scan meditation helps us to get out of our heads and back into our bodies. Only when we are living in our bodies can we feel the fullness of life and express our souls. 

WIth the body and mind on the go all day it can be hard to just turn the switch off at the end of the night. This practise will help prepare the body and mind for sleep not in a striving-forcing way but with the mindful ways of curiosity, acceptance & non-judgment. 

This practice is great for moments when you need to get out of your head and need a new perspective on a situation.

Acceptance is easier said than done - especially when what the moment presents is unpleasant, uncomfortable or painful. This meditation guides us to simply acknowledge & allow what's here to be here - even when we don't like it. 

We often meet the world and ourselves through the filters of our thoughts. This meditation cultivates our ability to meet life through through our sense perceptions as if for the first time. Because really, each moment is always happening for the first time.

When thoughts fueled with emotion pull us away from where we want to be this meditation will help us to return to the center, to the core of who we really are. 

As human beings with minds we can often find ourselves experiencing moments through the filters of our perceptions. "What is really happening right now" is a humble practice in cultivating our wisdom and ability to experience reality more clearly as it is.

Whenever we connect to the present through the breath we re-connect to a piece of who we really are. 

This practice offers mindful cues to integrate back pain as part of our moment to moment experience.

Can meditation provide a form of medication? Inspired by Dr. David Etlin's poem called "If Breath were a Pharmaceutical" this practice guides us to explore the breath as a pill - yet unlike other pills, this pill has no side effects and is universally free. 

Self-Doubt is part of being human. Sometimes, the best way out of it is right through the centre of it...meaning we have to feel it mindfully.

During times of stress, pain and anxiety we can turn towards the wisdom of the body for insight and guidance. Your body is always guiding you, expressing information to help you make decisions...you just need to take a moment to listen.

A simple way to practise meeting our body and mind with curious acceptance and move forward with compassionate self-care.

When you align and connect to your 3 brains, you nourish your nervous system and energy body and connect to your inner resources for wisdom, creativity and healing. 

Jon Kabat-Zinn teaches that there are 7 foundational attitudes of mindfulness: One of them is NON-STRIVING. Here is a practice that cultivates our ability to meet the body and mind with the accepting quality of non-striving.

This meditation follows the "one through four" steps as practiced in Medical Qigong. One is fun (because body scans are fun) Two is shoe, Three is tree and Four is Core! This is an easy grounding practice that you can incorporate into your daily self-care routine. 

Whether you're a mom to be or a new mom mindfulness can help you to bring curiosity and acceptance to your body and breath which has changed and continues to change. 

This practice connects us to the wisdom and cellular intelligence of the uterus. 

There is nothing wrong with thinking. But if we are thinking more than we are feeling, then we can miss out on what the present moment has to offer. 

This meditation cultivates our connection to the wisdom innately available within every cell and organ in the body.

Every part of your body deserves kindness. Even when it does not feel and do as you want it to feel and do. This practice trains us to give ourselves the kindness we are meant to give and receive

Loving-kindness, like any muscle, can be strengthened with practice, leading to the opening of our hearts and minds to ourselves and each other. In the end, we may discover that which we truly are - loving awareness.

This meditation cultivates our ability to step further back into open awareness as we observe non-judgmentally where the minds attention is - wherever it is - be the body, mind or breath.

During times of stress, we can use the breath to connect us with our innate resources for wisdom, strength, and love

A beneficial practice that gets us out of our heads and into the presence of our own bodies and the ground beneath us. 

This meditation helps us to step back into the "observer" mode - our state of awareness that is grounding and centering because it is constant and broader than the fleetingness of our human thoughts, emotions and sensations. 

Our conditioned habit of resisting life's moments (including our own selves) is the source of much of our stress & suffering. Thus, acceptance is one of the foundational attitudes of mindfulness allowing us to meet ourselves & each other as we are. In cultivating acceptance, we put the welcome matt out for the soul to be free. Let's do this!

This longer meditation allows for a deeper cultivation of body and mind awareness.

The act of letting go of a thought is actually quite easy. What's challenging is the repeated letting go of thoughts every time they arise which requires perseverance, patience and of course...practice. Let's begin!

 This is an exploration expanding our curious open awareness to include the energy body, widely acknowledged by Chinese and Vedic medical systems as integral to our physical and mental wellness.