Develop and deepen your mindfulness practice for life.

From birth we develop wonderful and incredibly complex brains, yet none of us has an instruction manual to guide us in their use. By practicing mindfulness meditations we can become familiar with our minds, befriend them, and get to know how they work. Through this process we develop the skills and attitudes that will help us to navigate the endless stream of thoughts, feelings and sensations that we all experience: We begin to respond skilfully to life’s events, rather than reacting to them automatically.

Mindfulness meditations can seem so simple and easy, yet at the same time, confusing and challenging for anyone beginning to practice. My intention with this channel is to help you to cultivate a personal mindfulness practice that can grow and develop within the structure of your life. To help you to achieve this, I’ll be offering a range of mindfulness and compassion meditations that can help you to discover the potential of mindfulness, develop your personal practice in a way that suits you, and to deepen your practice over time: Micro meditations for moments of difficulty, short meditations to help you keep in touch with your practice when life is full, and a spectrum of longer meditations to enable you to deepen your practice at your own pace.

From my background in evidence-based clinical mindfulness teaching it’s my heartfelt hope that I will be able to help you cultivate your mindfulness practice, in ways that will make it engaging, beneficial and long lasting.

3-Stage Breathing Space - Responsive

10-Minute Breath Meditation

Thoughts-Values-Intuitions Meditation

Mindfulness of the Hand Exercise

21-Breaths Meditation

Body Scan Meditation (Guided by the Breath)

The Lake Meditation

The Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness [Info]

Mindfulness of Sound

Mindfulness of Sound - 15mins

Four-Stage Meditation

Four Stage [Less Guidance]

Meditations Bells [Up to 40mins]

Stretching and Breath Meditation

Day One Meditation

Day Two Meditation

Day Three Meditation

Day Four Meditation

Day Five Meditation

Day Six Meditation

Day Seven Meditation

Day Eight Meditation

Self-Compassion Break

Day Nine Meditation

Day Ten Meditation

Mindful Walking Meditation

Day Eleven Meditation

Day Twelve Meditation

Day Thirteen Meditation

Day Fourteen Meditation

Day Fifteen Meditation

William James Davies, DCMT

Psychotherapist & Mindfulness Teacher

Just as with our thoughts, experiences, sensations, emotions and feelings, sounds arise, last a while and then are gone. In this day eleven of the series, William has us focus on sounds in our surroundings in a non-judging, non-elaborating and non-reacting way. 

Sitting in my chair, I began to notice sounds in my surroundings. While I was able to have a non-judging and non-reacting frame of mind, having a non-elaborating frame of mind proved to be very hard for me, as my mind would begin to make mental stories and images of the sounds I heard. Once I noticed that I was thinking about the sounds instead of just allowing the sounds to be, I would the process all over again. After a while, I was able to hear the sounds within the sounds and it was in this moment where I found that hearing and allowing sounds to just be can help me to just go with the flow of life in a non-judging, non-elaborating and non-reacting way. 

This meditation was all about the acknowledgment, allowance and acceptance of sounds that we hear in our surroundings. Indeed, if we can learn to just be with sounds in a non-judging, non-elaborating and non-reacting way, we can apply that learning to other areas in our lives. It is in this way that we can go with the flow of life more easily. Namaste 🙏🏻❤️☮️

Hearing Sounds 

Aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesome, nice!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesome, nice!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Nice

I noticed I went into more subtle awareness when keeping the attention on the wholeness of the sound

I thought it is difficult to focus on the sound when only my heater is the source of the sound

Focusing on the sound

I noticed that my thoughts wandered more trying to focus on sound rather than touch. Needs more practice…

Sound awareness

Lots of sounds, mind wandered, in the cc. Focus and practice breathing 

Route setting 

On Day Eleven we continue to explore the attitudinal foundations of mindfulness, with a light focus on the attitudes of non-judging, non-reactivity, and non-elaboration within a sitting meditation. This is the eleventh recording in a series intended for anyone who is new to mindfulness meditations, but is also useful to people who might have struggled to engage with meditation practices in the past. Day by day you will become more familiar with different aspects of mindfulness meditations and exercises, and soon you’ll be comfortable to guide yourself in meditation, rather than just listening to recordings. Even though these meditations are presented as a sequence, you may wish to repeat or return to some of the recordings, I would simply recommend that you don’t jump ahead, as you may miss some useful content.