Being mindfully present in stillness and actions is a skilled approach that benefits all aspects of life.

Modern life has become increasingly hectic, with many demands from all directions. Our minds are constantly busy. We are controlled by our thoughts, emotions and habitual patterns. This can lead to automatic reactions and unhelpful decisions, which cause unhappiness and stress, mental and physical health issues. By being ‘somewhere else’ in our head, we miss out on our children growing up; we miss out on the beauty of life.

Mindfulness training helps us to live in the present moment, to free ourselves from the grasp of negative thoughts, to meet our experiences with kindness, curiosity and skills. Daily practice helps to generate happiness, calm, appreciation, insights, healing, compassion and wellbeing.

I have greatly benefited from my daily meditation practice since 1994. I wanted to share the benefits of mindfulness with others so I completed a mindfulness teacher training with Bangor University - I am teaching MBSR in UK. This channel offers various meditations to help you establish a daily mindfulness practice in stillness and in action.

Body Scan

Body Scan 13mins

Pause - Create Space - Breathe

Mindful Movements - Standing

Awareness of Breath

Three Steps Breathing Space

Breathing Space Coping with Difficulty

Meditation for Sleep

Sandrine Cranswick

Mindfulness Teacher & Coach

Sitting comfortably, my awareness of my belly rising and falling as I breathe.  When thoughts or emotions creep in, I start counting 1, 2,3.... , with each inhalation and expiration; that brings me back to my focus.   I’m also aware of my body in relation to its position on the couch; I feel the contact points but aren’t distracted by them.   I think this is a great guided meditation for the breath.   🙏💙

Breath as an anchor 

The best thing about this app might be more about the voices of all these people. Somehow I find them all very soothing, especially when combined with music and deep breathing. This one is exceptional. 

Beautiful 

I was there. Not for all the time, but I was there with my breath. I'm proud of me. 

I was there 

Perhaps it was the extra long length of the session or the plethora of noises in the house tonight, but I grew bored quickly and my mind wandered away completely. 

This didn’t work for me at all

I learned that your body heaves in a upward state and upon releasing your breath your calmness takes over your body face to feet and normal breathing creates a calming body

Body Breath

I relearned the breathing techniques from years ago and had forgotten how great they are. I loved it and will fit it in to my daily life.

Breath

I noticed a loss of judgement and adoption of acceptance. Content. Comfortable. No need to convince my feeling. 

Breath Medi Day 2 

Meditations is a good way to calm down after a busy day of work.

I felt much more content, and accepting of my tiredness.

A lot of our tiredness is due to the overload of our mind. It takes a lot of energy to worry, to ruminate, to let the mind go wild in random thoughts. Awareness of breath is a skillful meditation that will give your mind a rest. Using the breath as an anchor regularly throughout the day will help to rejuvenate, bring clarity and calm.