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

By staying focused on breathing and sending that breath to different parts of my body I could eventually experience relaxation and tingling throughout my body. I was very focused on breathing and giving my body the oxygen it needs.  It makes the blood flow and improved my circulation. I haven’t been getting enough cardio exercise and I can really feel it causing pain in my hands, feet and legs. The only place I continually felt tension was my neck, it been a problem area lately. 

Oxygenate 😮💨

An exquisite journey of body scanning ..relaxing .... calming with great clarity.

Body scan 13 minutes

staying focused on your body and keeping a clear mind makes this a beautiful experience.

beautiful 

I felt like I slowed down the chaos around me and felt so peaceful

Peace

Before starting this meditation, I was very stressed. More specifically, this was the first time I had felt this much stress in weeks and the first time I had cried out of stress in weeks. I searched for a meditation that would calm me down, and this is what I found.
Halfway through the meditation, I felt much calmer. The speaker’s voice soothed me. This is different from any other body scan I have tried, as the meditation doesn’t follow the typical top to bottom pattern. 
After the meditation, I felt so much more relaxed and ready to take on the tasks awaiting me. I felt confident and powerful. 

Calm and Confident

We often live in our heads, unaware of the messages the body gives us. The Body Scan offers a gentle way of bringing the mind in the body, noticing our bodily experiences with curiosity and kindness, in the present moment. This practice can done sitting or lying down.