Andy Hobson

Spiritual Teacher and Musician

For when the sun hands the day over to the moon and stars.

A concise summary of the text could be: "Transition from day to night, when the sun sets and the moon and stars appear." (100 characters)

Fall Asleep Amongst The Stars

Fall asleep or find your way back to sleep with a little help from the ocean.

Sleep better with the soothing sounds of the ocean to fall asleep or go back to sleep.

Drift To Sleep

We often battle with ourselves when we're in a low mood or when we're feeling stressed. We desperately want to feel better. There is something healing in being just as we are with all the mess that we usually want to avoid. This meditation is a gentle invitation to be with the low times and allow yourself to feel the way you feel without that sense of strain.

Embrace your low moods and stress, allowing yourself to feel without strain, in this healing meditation.

Relax In The Rain

This meditation has been created to help you relax and wind down in the evening so you can get a good night's sleep. There's something about a campfire that reminds us of our own rhythms and that reconnects us with nature. I hope the crackles and pops of our campfire lull you gently into a deep sleep. Sweet dreams.

A meditation to relax and aid sleep using campfire sounds, bringing us back to nature and promoting deep sleep. Sweet dreams.

Campfire Wisdom

Go on an adventure in a hot air balloon to the moon where you'll meet an old, wise wizard with some helpful advice on how to have fun and enjoy your life. I hope that this meditation brings you some smiles and a lovely sleep.

A hot air balloon adventure leads to meeting a wise wizard who shares advice on enjoying life; meditation for smiles and peaceful sleep.

Wizard Adventure For Sleep

Fly up above the clouds with a little help from a flying cape and some magic dust. On this adventure, you’ll discover your very own special place where you can relax, be yourself, and drift gently off to sleep.

Discover a special place to relax and sleep with the help of a flying cape and magic dust, soaring above the clouds on an enchanting adventure.

Flying Adventure For Sleep

I hope that this cake meditation gives you a big smile and a little calm.

Cake meditation aims to bring happiness and relaxation through a concise practice.

Cake Meditation

I hope it helps you to find sleep, whether you're wide awake in the middle of the night or need a helping hand nodding off at night. It's also a little reminder that you're not alone.

A helpful guide to finding sleep and feeling supported in moments of restlessness or difficulty falling asleep.

Refresh and energize with this quick 5-minute confidence boost perfect for when you have a big presentation at work or in school. Even when your day is hectic and busy, allow a few minutes to reset, recenter, and refocus.

Take 5 minutes to reset, recenter, and refocus for a confidence boost, ideal for big presentations or busy days.

Quick Confidence Boost

Today dive back into our centre, our heart. We’ve already explored following your heart as an inner guide and now we turn towards our heart for healing as we explore how it can bring us to a place of deep knowing and trust in what life sends our way. Our heart can be our inner alchemist turning struggle into love. And when we live from our heart, we return to our true selves and a sense of mystery and wonder.

Exploring the healing power of our heart, finding inner trust and returning to our true selves through love, mystery, and wonder.

Day 15: Living Through The Heart

Today we explore a wonderful short story, originally told by the late Buddhist monk, Ajahn Chah. There are three key lessons from this story which are to be mindful of what we collect and carry with us from the past and in the present moment, cultivate gratitude whenever we can, and we can transform life’s many challenges through acceptance and surrender.

Explore a Buddhist monk's short story teaching us to be mindful of our past, practice gratitude, and overcome challenges through acceptance.

Day 14: Egg Collecting

“Events that happen in the moment belong to the moment. They don’t belong to you. They have nothing to do with you” – Michael Singer. Today is inspired by the wonderful teachings of Michael Singer as we explore how we often take what happens to us in life so personally like it was sent just to us. In reality, our experience is filtered through our conditioned selves so what we see is one tiny view of reality. From its own side, nothing that manifests in life is personal. We just happened to be there to witness it.

Events in life are not personal, but we often perceive them that way due to our conditioned selves; our experience is a limited view of reality.

Day 12: It’s Not Personal

Today is a meditation for sleep or just relaxation. You may want to wait until the evening to listen. This is my offering of a little pause before the final two days of the course as we’ve covered so much. This meditation is also an invitation to connect with other beings on this planet who may have trouble sleeping or just a troubled life right now. Sweet dreams!

A meditation for sleep and relaxation, inviting connection with troubled beings, offered as a pause before the course ends. Sweet dreams!

Day 28: A Heartful Sleep

Today is a gentle meditation practice of letting life be, with all our hearts. In this practice we can embrace our curious traveler selves in order to allow what we experience in terms of thoughts, emotions, and body sensations, to pass through us. No need to hold onto anything. Life is there to be experienced and then let go of. Today we are choosing stillness, openness, and being over our perceived life challenges.

Embrace stillness, openness, and being, letting go of thoughts and emotions, to experience and release life's challenges.

Day 13: Let It Be

Today, we drop a little deeper into the pool of human mystery and ask the question, who am I? This was the core teaching of the great master Ramana Maharshi. To inquire into who we are is to open a door to a life that is less centered on ‘me’ and more aligned with our heart and the ebb and flow of the universe. Who wouldn’t want that? Today also marks a shift in the course where we’ll move into a meditative space with less teaching and more reflective time. I encourage you to immerse yourself in these practices and see where they take you. Remember, you are always enough.

Inquiring into who we are opens a door to a life less focused on ourselves and more connected to the universe; immerse yourself in reflective practices.

Day 19: Who Am I? (Part I)

Today is a smiling heart meditation. In this healing practice, I invite you to offer whatever your present moment experience is, a kind, knowing, and gentle smile. And maybe even some love for those darker places that might be calling for some care and attention. Remember, life is a mystery to be lived, loved, and smiled back at.

Embrace life's mysteries with a smiling heart meditation, offering love and care to all experiences, including the darker ones.

Day 18: Your Smiling Heart

Today we explore the power of 'letting everything be just as it is' in meditation. I invite you to let go of anything that you might be holding on to right now. This day is a little course breather as we move into the final part of this journey. I hope you feel relaxed and refreshed after our meditation today.

In meditation, embrace the power of letting go and find relaxation and refreshment in embracing the present moment.

Day 22: Relax Into Presence

Today we’ll connect to a sense of ‘I am’ in a meditation. This is a beautiful practice also based on the teachings of Ramana Maharshi. When we connect with our sense of ‘I’ beyond our perceived identity, our troubles, and our sense of who we think we are, we tap into our source, ourselves as one. I’ve left the end of this meditation with just a little music as I didn’t want to break your meditative space. But please take a little time to notice how that meditation met you at the end. Knowing that all experiences are valid and you’re welcome to share anything in the classroom. Tomorrow we explore how music and sound can bring us back to a sense of being. Take care and go well.

Connecting to the sense of 'I am' in meditation helps us tap into our source and transcend our perceived identity and troubles. Music ends the meditation.

Day 21: I Am

Today is a meditation that brings together heart and wisdom. I invite you to keep an eye on your spiritual ego here. There’s no mountain to climb, no intellectual exercise to understand. Just a continued softening into life through all your heart, as you connect with a deeper sense of truth and of course mystery and wonder.

Today's meditation encourages the integration of heart and wisdom, urging mindfulness of the spiritual ego, emphasizing the importance of embracing life and connecting with truth, mystery, and wonder.

Day 20: Who Am I? (Part II)

Today we reflect on the whole course and look at where you are right now in your life and meditation practice, having taken this journey. We’ll do a short meditation to explore what really matters to you right now as a way to begin exploring where you might go next in your life. Then I’ll offer a summary of what I believe the key teachings of this course are. This is also an invitation for you to create your summary or scrapbook of what you found was the most enlightening, healing, or transformational in this journey.

Reflect on the course, explore what matters to you now, summarize key teachings, create your own scrapbook of enlightening experiences.

Day 29: What Really Matters

Today we explore how the little voice in our head creates our self-image, the one that we protect at all costs. This is sometimes referred to as ego. Ego creates the feeling of lack and separation, us against the world, and the need for more in order to feel complete. We are all connected and when our strong sense of self dissolves, our hearts open to something bigger, kinder, and stronger. There’s some healing work to be done and it begins with connecting with our vulnerability.

Exploring the role of ego in shaping our self-image, this text emphasizes the importance of dissolving the ego to foster connection and vulnerability.

Day 8: Our Friend The Ego

“All that is required to realize the self is to be still” Ramana Maharshi. Today we will do one of my favorite practices for connecting to a sense of being through surrendering into stillness. This healing meditation is an invitation for you to allow all the fragmented parts of you to come together. Notice how much you can truly let go of this meditation. No judgment is needed. There is nothing to strive for, no goal. Just sit and let life be.

A healing meditation practice that invites individuals to surrender into stillness, allowing fragmented parts of themselves to come together without judgment or striving for a goal.

Day 25: Healing Through Stillness

“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed” Thomas Moore. Today is a meditation that really changed my life. It simply involves sitting with your eyes open and immersing yourself in the space that you’re in with presence and warmth. It can feel a little crazy just sitting and looking around but I’ve found when you really allow your conscious awareness to be greater than anything else, something magical happens. If you laugh or smile during this practice it’s likely you know what I mean.

"Sitting with open eyes, immersing in the present moment, reveals the soul; a transformative meditation that brings joy and magic."

Day 27: Opening To The Sacred

Today we connect with our joyful breath in meditation. This is an invitation to let go of what doesn’t serve you, smile through your whole body, and immerse yourself in love and light. This meditation is a reminder that life isn’t about just surviving. We’re here to thrive, enjoy, and even delight in our time on earth. Often, we don’t believe this is possible in our day-to-day slog but it only takes a moment to pause, breathe, let go, and smile. Wishing you joy, light, and love through this practice.

A meditation reminding us to let go, smile, and immerse ourselves in love and light to thrive and enjoy life, even in our day-to-day slog.

Day 26: The Joyful Breath

Alas, it’s our last day but the beginning of a new chapter for you perhaps. Today I will offer some guidance on which path could be the right one for you and we’ll gently bring the course to a close with one last story. Now just listen to the session already and stop reading this. I’ve recorded it all so there’s no need to say it again here. Thank you for taking this course. Take care and go well. With love, Andy

This is the last day of the course, with guidance on choosing the right path and a closing story. Stop reading and listen to the session.

Day 30: The God’s Eye View

Smiling is a gift that we’ve been given to live our lives with more grace, lightness, and joy. Today we explore our inner smile, a smile that comes from our heart but can reside in our whole body. Together we’ll discover that a smile doesn’t need a cause, it can just arise from nothing and open us up to everything. A knowing smile can transform our deepest fears and challenges like nothing else.

A smile is a gift that brings grace, lightness, and joy, as it can arise from nothing and transform our fears and challenges.

Day 17: Your Inner Smile

Today we’ll explore how the voice in our head shapes our life, from the moment we wake up to the second we fall asleep. We’ll also look at the narrative that our mind creates about our past, our future, and even our death. Yes, we’re going there. We’re addicted to our thoughts and they pretty much validate our existence. The illusion is that thoughts create safely, and make things known and controllable. But what if we dare look a little deeper, beyond our thoughts for meaning in life? The question of today is, will you take the red pill or the blue pill?

This text discusses how the voice in our head impacts our life, including the narrative our mind creates about our past, future, and death. It questions our addiction to thoughts and suggests looking beyond them for meaning in life. Will you choose the red pill or the blue pill?

Day 6: Our Story Of Life And Death

Today we turn to the beautiful, ethereal giants that are trees in a visualization meditation. We’ll embody the strength, wisdom, and elegance of a tree as it stands silently with the ebb and flow of a day’s cycle. I hope this meditation brings you a sense of grounding, trust in life, and deep peace.

Experience a grounding and peaceful meditation that embodies the strength, wisdom, and elegance of trees as they stand silently through the cycles of life.

Day 24: The Healing Tree

Today is a healing meditation for opening our hearts to all that life sends us. I hope this practice brings you a sense of peace, respite, and ease. If you feel an aversion to this practice that’s ok. For some, connecting to the heart is something new and unfamiliar so be curious and go easy on yourself. Especially if you read about magical experiences in the classroom. Remember, we all have our own path. We all find our own way and that is always the right way.

A healing meditation to open our hearts, bringing peace and ease, even for those unfamiliar with connecting to the heart.

Day 16: Opening The Heart

Today nature will also be our doorway into being alongside life. Join me in my garden for a live meditation filled with the sounds of nature and the city. The practice of today is simply to notice how you meet each moment and whatever it is, let it be. This includes sounds, thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Let it all be as best you can. That’s all. And you’re very welcome and I’m very happy to have you sit with me in my garden : )

Join a live meditation in a garden to be present and accept each moment, including sounds, thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Welcome!

Day 23: Nature Our Teacher

Today is a meditation based on the wonderful work of Douglas Harding. In this practice, we’ll explore the true nature of reality, beyond our identity and what our thoughts tell us about our lives. The filter of ‘me’ lives through our past narratives and our memories. But when we let this sense of self soften a little, something magical happens and we begin to see the world through new eyes beyond our limited perspective. Just to note this meditation will begin with a self-hug. If you’re not a hug person then please skip through this part or listen at your own risk.

A meditation practice exploring the true nature of reality beyond our identity, thoughts, and limited perspective, starting with a self-hug.

Day 4: This Moment Untouched

Today is a gentle meditation where we’ll meet that little voice in our head and maybe make friends with it. We’ll explore what it is to choose just to ‘be’, as a kindly presence. You are not your voice. It’s tricked you into thinking it’s you but it’s not you. Please bring lightness and a touch of humor to your practice as always.

In today's meditation, we'll meet the voice in our head, learn to choose to 'be' as a kindly presence, and detach ourselves from it.

Day 7: Choosing Being

Today I invite you to be enough, just as you are. With all that you have and don’t have, with all your hopes, fears, and self-doubts. When we live from a place of being enough, of being at home as ourselves, we bring a quality to our life that is true to our heart and that guides us on a more authentic path. We’ll also explore how stress is a doorway to our hearts and can bring us a sense of trust in life. Today is about beginning to enjoy the bumpy ride that is life just a little more and looking a little deeper at who we are underneath our life story.

Embracing our true selves and finding trust in life can lead to a more authentic path, even amidst stress and self-doubt.

Day 2: You Have Arrived

Today in meditation we will gently meet, feel into, and listen to our vulnerable self to get to know it a little more. Then we will invite this part of us to soften by offering stillness, space, and of course kindness. Maybe a little light. When we do this, the healing happens naturally without us getting tangled up in our story, without feeling we have to fix anything. Today is about allowing your knowing, wise self to shine through. I hope you find this meditation meets you wherever you’re at right now.

In today's meditation, we explore our vulnerable self, offer stillness and kindness, and allow our wise self to shine through for natural healing.

Day 9: Meeting Your Vulnerable Self

Today we also explore trusting and following our hearts in the deepest sense. We’ll take a look at our persona and how it manifests in our everyday life and how we edit ourselves for the world outside whilst also holding things together on the inside. Doing this is exhausting and creates endless pushing and pulling. It’s no wonder we’re such restless beings. I’ll also include a little recap of the journey so far just to consolidate learning to ensure you’re up to speed. Most importantly, today is about trusting that your heart can hold anything in when you are in the present moment with all your heart.

Today's exploration focuses on trusting our hearts, examining our persona, and the exhaustion that comes from editing ourselves for the outside world. Trusting our hearts in the present moment is key.

Day 10: Your Inner Guide

Today our doorway to being is through our body. We connect to the world through our body, it’s our inner barometer and translator. Our meditation practice today is about feeling the depth of any given moment through sensation and meeting the world from that place. Is our body more than just sensation and energy? What truly matters when we are in a place of being?

Today's meditation focuses on connecting with our body, using sensation to feel the depth of each moment and discovering what truly matters in our state of being.

Day 11: What Is Truly Essential?

Today is inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s wonderful book, A New Earth. In this session, we’re going back in time to explore the evolution of human consciousness as a way to understand why things are going a little sideways here on planet Earth, and where we might find some healing. Our heart will be our refuge in meditation today as we connect with the space that it can bring to our busy and often overwhelmed minds.

Exploring human consciousness and finding healing through meditation by connecting with the space in our hearts, inspired by Eckhart Tolle's book.

Day 5: Awakening On Earth

Welcome! Today we’ll take the first step towards embracing the mystery and wonder of life as we set the stage for this journey together, with the help of a little story about a bug in a rug and my own tales of the sea about how this course came about. I’ll also offer some guidance on how you can get the most out of this course and enjoy the adventure. Today I invite you to embrace not knowing what will happen next as we open the door to a new beginning.

Embrace the mystery of life and embark on a new beginning, with guidance and tales of the sea, in this course about the bug in a rug.

Day 1: The Bug In The Rug

Today is a meditation on being enough just as you are and letting life be just as it is. When we listen to guided meditations it’s often the ‘being given permission’ to be how we are that validates our experience and this can be so healing. We feel heard and understood. My hope along this course is that my voice dissolves and your own inner voice and wisdom come forward so that you can give yourself permission to be just how you are and know that deep down you are enough.

This text explores the healing power of guided meditation, allowing individuals to embrace their true selves and find validation in their experiences.

Day 3: You Are Enough

A short meditation that will help you to get your feet back on the ground in times of need. This could be when you're feeling overwhelmed, anxious, in a low mood, or just when you need a rest and reset.

A brief meditation to find grounding and inner calm during moments of overwhelm, anxiety, low mood, or the need for rejuvenation and clarity.

Quick Reset

An uplifting track to get you energized and moving. Perfect for Yoga practice, movement meditation, or just as you walk to work.

Energizing track ideal for yoga, movement meditation, or a lively commute.

Get Energised

In this gentle practice, I invite you to offer kindness to yourself and others who are in search of a good night's sleep. Along the way, we'll bring space and stillness into our bodies, as we embrace the mystery and wonder of the night.

A gentle practice of offering kindness to find a good night's sleep through bringing space, stillness, and embracing the mystery of the night.

Drift into a deep sleep on a journey towards a warm, sunny beach. This meditation is designed to help you to get a good night’s sleep. You can also use it to unwind and relax. Best experienced with headphones.

A soothing meditation to promote restful sleep and relaxation, guiding you towards a serene beach; best enjoyed with headphones.

This is a gentle mindfulness practice for when you have an overactive mind. When we sit in stillness, we can find a newfound sense of calm, clarity, and presence. Allow Andy to guide you to let go of any tension or effort, as you simply sit back and notice your experience.

A mindfulness practice to calm an overactive mind by sitting in stillness, guided by Andy to let go of tension and notice the present moment.

Calm Your Busy Mind

Bring the qualities of a mountain to your meditation practice and life. Life can send us all sorts and at times it can feel too much. But deep down our beautiful hearts can hold it all, the pain and darkness, the light and joy, as well as the mystery and wonder of life unfolding. May your inner mountain be your guide. Take care and go well. Andy

Find strength in your heart to embrace life's challenges and wonders, let your inner mountain be your guide. Take care and go well.

Mountain Meditation

A little soundscape that I hope takes you wherever you need to go. Please use this to meditate, daydream, sleep, reflect, relax, walk the dog, yoga up, yoga down, or just sit with eyes wide open with a smile.

A versatile soundscape to aid meditation, relaxation, sleep, and various activities, designed to transport and uplift the listener.

Beautiful Abyss

Relax, recharge, center, and go on a magical journey into the night sky at the end of your day. You can use this to relax in the evening or to go to sleep although the music does swell towards the end. Music written and performed by Andy Hobson.

Unwind and delve into a celestial experience with enchanting music by Andy Hobson, ideal for relaxation, sleep, or a nighttime adventure.

Night Sky

A gentle soundtrack for focus and work or just to relax and dream up something new.

A soothing soundtrack to help you concentrate, unwind, and inspire creativity.

Voyage To New Lands

An energizing soundtrack to start your day with a bang. Ideal for movement practices, yoga, or just as background music for working.

A lively soundtrack perfect for energizing mornings, movement practices, yoga, or as background music for work.

Get Up And Go

Glide, float, and twirl your way, alongside a falling leaf, on a journey of surrender. Let go and reconnect with a place of calm, stillness, and freedom. Turn over a new leaf.

Embark on a tranquil journey, surrendering to the flow of nature, finding peace, stillness, and freedom by letting go and turning over a new leaf.

Falling Leaf Music

A gentle track to bring you to a greater sense of calm and clarity. Ideal for yoga, background music for work, or at a low volume in meditation.

Gentle track for calm and clarity, suitable for yoga, background music, or meditation at low volume.

Levelling The Land

Go on a journey into the day cycle of a lake. I hope this music brings you a sense of stillness, peace and grounding with all that is happening on planet earth right now. I hope you find your healing lake. With love, Andy

Andy's music takes listeners on a calming journey through the day cycle of a lake, offering stillness, peace, and grounding amidst current global events.

Music Of The Lake

This is an opportunity to take 10 minutes out of your day to reset and recharge. Napping is a great way to re-energize and refocus.

Napping for just 10 minutes can help you reset and recharge, offering a great way to re-energize and refocus.

Power Nap

Take 20 minutes out of your day to rest and recharge. This is an opportunity to fully relax and allow your body to re-energize so you can finish your day with focus and a smile.

Take 20 minutes to relax and recharge, allowing your body to re-energize and finish the day with focus and a smile.

Rest And Recharge

Begin your day a little clearer, happier, and lighter. Become a beautiful, majestic lake and reconnect with your inner resources. This is an opportunity to relax, recharge, and gain some new insights as you rest at a lake, watching the sunrise. All music written and performed by Andy Hobson.

Start your day by connecting with your inner resources and becoming a majestic lake, allowing relaxation, recharge, and new insights, accompanied by Andy Hobson's music.

Lake Meditation

A gentle piece of music to help you to let go and switch on the curious part of your being.

A soothing melody to ease your mind and awaken your curiosity.

Just Let Go

This is a Mindfulness-Based, ASMR-style 'Meditator Check Up' with Andy. This light-hearted meditation is an opportunity to relax and de-stress when you don't have much time and need a quick reset and a smile. The practice for this session is letting go. Recorded in 3D Binaural audio for an immersive experience. Best listened to with over-the-ear headphones. This is an ASMR-style 'Meditator Check Up' with Andy. This light-hearted meditation is an opportunity to relax and de-stress when you don't have much time and need a quick reset and a smile. The practice for this session is letting go. Recorded in 3D Binaural audio for an immersive experience. Best listened to with over-the-ear headphones. Music by Sergii Pavkin.

Quick and relaxing ASMR-style meditation with Andy for a stress-free reset, focusing on letting go, in immersive 3D Binaural audio.

3D Sound Meditation Check Up

A special 3D Audio meditation for kids. Take the 'Cheeky Monkey' test with Andy and discover that you're awesome no matter how you feel or what you think. This meditation is designed to help kids with self-esteem and emotional regulation. Best listened to with headphones to get the 3D experience.

Kids' 3D Audio meditation with Andy helps boost self-esteem and emotional regulation, reminding children they're awesome regardless of feelings.

Cheeky Monkey Meditation For Kids

Today we’ll explore practical applications of mindfulness in daily life and how the awareness you’ve been cultivating on this course can help you work with challenging situations. We’ll also go back in time and have a look at how our brains have evolved to be so reactive and often unhelpful in the modern world.

Discover how mindfulness can be applied in daily life to navigate challenging situations and understand our evolved brain's reactivity in today's world.

Mindfulness In Action

Today you’ll learn the practice of choiceless awareness. This practice is about allowing our mind to wander off a little to see where it goes, rather than constantly trying to keep it in check by returning to our breath. This practice is a great way to take the rigidity out of meditation and bring a little curiosity and playfulness to it. You’ll also learn a really simple and effective mindful practice that you can use with unhelpful thoughts when you’re out and about in daily life.

Practice choiceless awareness in meditation to allow the mind to wander and bring curiosity and playfulness to the practice.

Choiceless Awareness

Today you’ll learn how to work with the wandering mind and not get pulled into the content of your thoughts so easily. Thoughts play a huge part in how we perceive the world around us and if left unchecked they can often take us down some negative paths. You’ll learn a meditation technique that will help you to get less caught up in thinking.

Learn to manage wandering thoughts to avoid negativity by practicing meditation technique for a clearer mind and better perception of the world.

Our Wandering Mind

Today we’ll explore how we spend much of our lives on autopilot, unaware of what’s happening around us and lost in our thoughts. In this mode, we are more likely to “get our buttons pushed” and respond in an unhelpful reactive manner to unpleasant events that can trigger negative thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Mindfulness can help us to shift out of this mode and return to our senses. We’ll also explore the seven pillars of mindfulness and how they can help us to navigate life with a greater sense of calm. Finally, you’ll learn another breathing meditation technique to help the wandering mind.

Explore mindfulness to break free from autopilot living, navigate life calmly, and cultivate awareness of thoughts and emotions through meditation.

Autopilot

Today we’ll expand on yesterday’s meditation practice by exploring how emotions can show up in our bodies. This is a way to take a step back from our emotions to see them more clearly and gain a deeper insight into their true nature. You’ll also learn useful ways to change your relationship with challenging feelings and body sensations using the mindful awareness you’ve been cultivating in this course so far. These practices can also be used to work with pain, tension, and anxiety.

Explore how emotions manifest in the body, gaining insight and tools to change relationships with challenging feelings using mindful awareness.

Emotions And Body Awareness

Today is a gentle introduction to the course that will set the stage for your journey ahead. You’ll learn what meditation and mindfulness are and how they can help you to live significantly more of your life in the present moment with a sense of peace and joy. We’ll also take a look at how we are often caught up in the past and future and rarely allow ourselves to be in the present moment.

Intro to course on meditation and mindfulness, teaching how to live in present moment with peace and joy, avoiding dwelling on past and future.

Course Introduction

Today you will reconnect with your forgotten body as a way to shift back into your felt senses and out of the constant stream of thinking. When we’re more in tune with our bodies, we are more able to recognize and respond to body states such as hunger, tiredness, and anxiety with kindness and wisdom. We will also reflect on all of the distractions that can pull us away from sitting down to meditate and you’ll learn some more facts about the neuroscience of meditation for a bit of motivation.

Reconnect with your body to tune into feelings and respond with kindness, reflecting on distractions and learning neuroscience of meditation.

Connecting With Your Body

Today we’ll explore some of the challenges that can come up in meditation such as boredom, frustration, and worrying if we’re doing it right. We’ll also have a closer look at how thoughts can shape our present-moment experience and you’ll learn another helpful way to work with and relate to thoughts.

Exploring challenges in meditation: boredom, frustration, worrying; shaping present-moment experience with thoughts; new method to relate to thoughts.

Watching The Thinker

Today you’ll learn the basics of meditation, from how to sit comfortably to how to work with a wandering mind. Together we’ll explore the power of the breath in helping us to shift back into the present moment. You’ll also learn about the neuroscience of meditation and how it can change your brain in a very positive way. This is called neuroplasticity.

Learn meditation basics, including posture and breath control, to harness the power of the breath and the neuroscience behind neuroplasticity.

The Basics Of Meditation

We’re constantly trying to change our external circumstances to fit our fairly narrow view of what we need to be happy, but what if we could be more at peace with what we have and what we are right now? Today is a meditation around opening your heart to however you are right now. This is a very gentle but powerful practice of self-kindness, you will create a space where you can just be yourself in a state of present awareness. It can be incredibly freeing to have a space each day to let go of who we think we should be or who we think other people think we should be and just be ourselves, just as we are.

Embrace self-acceptance and present awareness through gentle meditation practice to find peace and freedom in being your true self.

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