Barbara Heffernan

Life Coach, Buddhist, LCSW

Gentle breath meditation. Letting go of the doing to be a human being.

"Practice gentle breath meditation to be a human being by letting go of doing." (86 characters)

5 Minute Meditation for Busy People

Enhance your acceptance of the present moment and of everything that is happening for you internally. Peaceful abiding or calm abiding meditation is a Buddhist practice and a wonderful compliment to a mindfulness meditation practice. Surrounding yourself with a feeling of calm abiding allows you to relax into whatever is happening now and increase your internal feeling of peace.

Calm abiding meditation enhances present moment acceptance and internal peace, complementing mindfulness practice.

Calm Abiding Meditation: Acceptance

If you have been trying to go back to sleep for more than 20 minutes, research shows it is best to get out of bed and shift your focus. This gentle relaxation track provides guidance for dealing with insomnia while also helping you relax and let go of worries so you can then head back to sleep. A wonderful companion with the Middle-of-the-night Get Back to Sleep Relaxation track.

If you can't sleep after 20 minutes, get out of bed and relax with this gentle relaxation track to help you let go of worries.

Insomnia Relaxation CBT Chat

This guided meditation and relaxation will gently lead you back to sleep. Have a few extra pillows with you for extra support to allow your muscles to truly let go and sink deeply into a wonderfully restful sleep. Place a pillow or two under your knees, and an extra pillow at your upper back-neck so your head is slightly elevated. Most importantly, make sure you are comfortable!

Guided meditation helps to sleep, use extra pillows for support, make sure to be comfortable.

Middle Of The Night Relax Back To Sleep

Strengthen your true self-confidence. A talk and a guided visualization with butterfly tapping to increase your feelings of truly being ok exactly as you are.

Boost your self-confidence with butterfly tapping and guided visualization to feel truly ok with yourself in a talk.

Authentic Self-Confidence

Meditation to guide you into sleep, particularly if you worry about not being able to sleep. Visualization of a babbling brook to guide you to let go of these worries, combined with a breath focus and body relaxation to bring you into a deep, restorative sleep.

Guided meditation for better sleep using visualizations of a babbling brook, breath focus and body relaxation.

Guided Meditation For Sleep And Insomnia

Start your day alert yet relaxed, energized yet calm. Tap into the earth's energy with this meditation to begin your day with focus and peaceful energy.

A morning meditation to start your day with peaceful energy and focus by tapping into the earth's energy.

Energizing Morning Meditation

Super quick confidence reset for any time during your day. "I'm OK as I Am" and "I'm Enough."

Boost your confidence with a quick reset using the phrases "I'm OK as I Am" and "I'm Enough" anytime during the day.

Confidence Reset

Binaural beats with gentle guided meditation will lead you to fall asleep. When your heart is heavy, it can be very difficult to let go fully and allow yourself the rest you need. This guided meditation combines muscle relaxation with healing light imagery. Delta wave binaural beats help us move into the brainwaves conducive to sleep. Honor your heart and sleep well.

A guided meditation with binaural beats and visual imagery promotes deep sleep and relaxation for a heavy heart.

Sleep Meditation For A Heavy Heart

Emotional balance and resilience help us live a more joyful life. This mountain meditation is a wonderful tool for developing equanimity.

The mountain meditation is a powerful tool for cultivating emotional balance and resilience, leading to a more joyful life.

Mountain Meditation For Equanimity

This meditation will gently guide you to a beautiful place, where you can experience deep, restorative sleep. Binaural beats in the background music stimulate delta waves, which are the natural waves of deep sleep.

This meditation uses binaural beats to stimulate delta waves and help you experience deep, restorative sleep in a beautiful place.

Meditation: Journey To Peaceful Sleep

Help for anxiety. Understanding how your personal CBT anxiety cycle works can help you immensely. It helps you pinpoint where you can intervene and interrupt the cycle of anxiety. Anxiety builds on itself as our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and spiral to increase anxiety. Once we figure out how and when to interrupt this, we can use the interaction to calm ourselves. This is a short and helpful introduction, and I am adding more tracks to expand on this topic.

Understanding your personal CBT anxiety cycle can help you intervene and disrupt it, leading to self-calming and reducing anxiety levels.

CBT Cycle Of Anxiety

Utilizing a combination of Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can accelerate positive change. Five elements, that are developed through both mindfulness and CBT, can help you change destructive thought patterns.

Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy together can speed up positive transformation by developing five elements to change destructive thoughts.

5 Ways CBT And Mindfulness Help Anxiety

Relax and center yourself with this guided meditation designed to enhance emotional regulation. Through mindful breathing and gentle awareness, you'll cultivate balance, reduce stress, and respond to emotions with greater clarity. Perfect for daily practice or moments of overwhelm.

Guided meditation for emotional regulation through mindful breathing and gentle awareness, perfect for daily practice or moments of overwhelm.

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