Mindfulness: Leaves on a Stream

I feel I can have a great day.

Life will always be a challenge. It’s how we come out of it that matters. Maintain peace within our souls.

Mindfulness: Leaves on a Stream

I love guided imagery. I also liked how the stream would directly take my mind or thoughts away. Often in meditations I get frustrated when my mind is elsewhere, but this gave me a quick redirection, while allowing me to stay immersed in the meditation. I felt very calm at the end of this.

Day 3

This was one of my more enjoyable meditations recently it was very calming and relaxing.

I could actually send my thoughts down the stream and my thoughts actually stopped briefly.

Picturing nature helps me relax and recharge. I saw every thought land on a leaf and float down the stream. I was slowly acknowledging them and letting them flow away.

Stopping Thoughts

At first I felt a little empty watching all of my thoughts go by, but I appreciated the brief moment of separate serenity that it brought me. It was definitely different.

mindfulness

at first it was a little hard to control all of my thoughts but as time passed, i became aware of all of them

Leaves on a stream

Great way to deal with thoughts while meditating. Place each thought on a leaf and place in the water and watch the stream whisk it away in the current. Thanks

Great Meditation

This was very nice because it made me feel like I never had to worry about anything else ever again. I noticed that the more “Leaves” you sent down the river, the less your body and mind wandered and I felt very relaxed.

Stream

I sat on the soft mossy bank, giant trees surrounded me, grassy knolls spotted the area with small colourful blooming flowers scattered upon them like freckles on a face. In front of me was my stream, pebbled and flowing, diamond sparkles glinted in the sunlight as the water chuckled over its bed. Silvered fish darted between the rocky bottom and autumn coloured leaves meandered their way down. I breathed deep, stood and slid into the water. Cooling my body I undulated and melded into the depths, upon my back I felt the pebbles, within me the water and above me the sky. I was my stream and it was me, I continued my journey, I was the beginning, the middle and the end.

Leaves Floating Down Stream

This meditation allowed me to be a passive observer of my flowing thoughts. As I observed my thoughts floating past me I found inner peace.

Anxiety

Super anxious session, continued meditating after the instruction and I was just a big ball of anxiety. Listening to people give instructions while I have anxiety only makes me more anxious because I feel like I shouldn’t have the anxiety. Meditation is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life, but I keep coming back to it.

Frustration

Nature is the constant. I am not. What is not stable in my life is me. My choices. My choice to not let the negative thoughts float away downstream. Even though a want them gone they stay. The positive float and become a part of nature, a part of me. Why do the leaves with negative thoughts not float eventually to the sea.......

Leaves on river

This exercise is similar to the cloud in sky’s exercise. What i enjoyed about this one is speeding or slowing down your river. We all are magnificent beautiful beings.

Stream

I felt this meditation was very helpful for me as I’m laying down trying to fall asleep.

Thoughts

I love putting all my thoughts on leaves and floating them down the stream. It was so wonderful to have them float away so that I could get some peace and rest.

Floating thoughts

I love putting all my thoughts on leaves and letting them float down the river. This gave me a chance to get some peace and rest.

Leaves 🍁 on a Stream

Having spent countless moments watching leaves float on streams, dancing and bobbing along as they skirt their way around obstructions that would otherwise keep them stuck, I loved loved loved this meditation and the visual connection to our thoughts. Thank you for this! 🙏

Relax/ leaves floating meditation

I felt good visualizing and knowing it was a short meditation. There is some tension between visualizing and not holding on to thoughts, but I didn’t obsess over it or worry about controlling it too much.

...for the first time in a long time

i can honestly say that i haven’t felt this peace in my body for a long time...is like a temporary but lasting emotion...

Floating leaves

Are big enough to hold my worries. Strong enough to hold my hopes. Gracefully float in soothing water. One leaf at a time my mind clears.

Thoughts

My thoughts are floating downstream on leaves. I am in harmony with my well being; relaxed, recharged and fired up - tuned in, turned in, tapped on! I’ve been in my Vortex for a solid 6 days and counting on to infinity. This place of allowing is the best place to be. When I look within there are no worries in life and I’m so excited to be in love with myself and others. #OmShanti #Love #Light

Cleaning...

The sunshine playfully danced its way thru the multi-colored leaf canopy & down to my bubbling brook. . . I find a sunny rock & sit down to watch the mesmerizing water as it rolls along, over & around the rocks & branches making its way “lazily” downhill. The warmth of the rock contrasts sharply with the Crisp, clean-smelling air. “Fall is definitely here” I think, as I watch the orange & brown leaves parachute from above. I notice one particularly beautiful one fall right into the middle of the current. As it changes directions instantaneously & is whisked away, I notice writing on the underside...! I jump up to follow it to see what it says. Scrambling along, over & around the rocks & branches is not as easy as it is in the movies. After awhile I finally catch it and it reads “Dreams” !?! Have I been chasing after someone else’s dream... ouch! I wake up to hear... “place your thoughts on a leaf and let it go,” allow it to flow... so I Do !! I put work on one, my boss on another, projects on others, my garage goes on a big burnt leaf! I put everything I am concerned about on them and watch them go downstream...👋 bye! (I hope no one chase them). Then she says to put Every thought, good or bad, on there and I start to unload my car, my new garage plans and everything else dreams & goals, etc. onto a bushel of leaves. And the next thing I Know - I am freely blank... blissful nothingness - aware of everything & nothing but I Am

Letting go

Letting go of all emotions liberate you to create beautiful things.

🍁 on a Stream

A favorite that I return to again and again. ♥️ Perhaps this resonates with me because I have spent countless hours watching leaves dance and drift on streams. Close your eyes and Cassandra expertly brings you right to the edge of the stream, feeling the cool fresh breezes as you watch the leaves drift on by. You will feel calm and refreshed after 3 short minutes.

Refreshed

After having a stressful day, I found that this meditation really bought me back to basics and after just 3 minutes I felt so much more relaxed and ready for whatever else the day may bring to me!

I feel like I’m the only one who really understand what I’m going through i just broke up with my bf

It’s ok to feel that way just let them float right by it doesn’t matter what they are just let them float right on by

attempt three

what a day, long and successful listening to people thoughts and opinions and stories and coming back at the end to refresh rethink and recharge about everything is very worthwhile and fulfilling

Mindfulness Leaves on a Stream

I think that I have found my new favorite mediation. I love to be in a forest with water. I pictured myself there in the fall. I let all my stress and worry and planning just float away. Those things will not change what will really happen. Let the water take them

Good

I can have a good day 😁it is really really good and you should try it 😀

Mindfulness in a forest

I like to be in nature and a forest is a good example for that. It’s calming, quiet and peaceful, the best place to meditate and connect with yourself and the nature :)

Nature

The place where I long to be. I have a certain place, Hoggsback, which is my place of comfort and imagining myself there sitting next to the stream alongside a beautiful waterfall brings nothing but peace inside of me.

Love it

I came panicking I did this one and I was so calm I forgot my bad thoughts. I think everyone should do it.

First day

I have my first day at a new job today so I was feeling anxious about it. But this was a lovely way to start my day now I feel like I can take on anything.

Nice one Cassandra!

I recommend adding about 50% river and just a smidge of music to this track when enjoying it. Had a weird, stressful sort of day today.😳 Volunteered to run a STEM activity for this evening's ”Spring Fling” event at our school tonight, but it wasn't what I expected it to be at all! The principal wanted me to run a LEGO robotics demonstration, and we found out the hard way that after our school was used as a staging ground for the district to bring in new furniture for all the schools, someone had moved most of our expensive LEGO robotics supplies, but NO ONE knew where! We spent the afternoon scouring the campus trying to locate our bins of LEGO and last season’s robot game playfield! Luckily our most expensive supplies; robot brain bricks and motors, had been secured in my co-coaches’ own classroom! Thanks to a few dedicated team members I managed to put on a good demo with what we could find! Super proud of the kids who helped out! Wouldn't have had a demo to present without their help!

I felt stressed but after listening I felt better like the running water in background

I learned to put my thoughts on the floating leave and let go

Relaxing break

The leaves on a stream imagery was very effective for me in releasing thoughts as they arose. This was a nice break during my day.

Simple

Controlling mindfulness and focus. Action of moving leaves. 😁

Leaves

I want to do this one again. I wish that it was longer than 3 minutes! 🙂

Letting Go of Thoughts

This visualization guides you sitting by a stream, smelling the fresh air and watching leaves float down the stream. Each thought that enters your mind is placed on a leaf as it is guided by the current of the stream. This meditation makes your mind feel relaxed, calm and refreshed. 🍃🙏🏻

Everything is so stressful

Im supposed to be on break but everything stresses me out immensly for some reason. Im sorry

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Anxious

This was a great exercise for fighting against your anxiety and nerves.

Nice but...

This meditation requires putting your thoughts on leaves as they float down a stream. Nice idea, but the facilitator literally never stops talking which is very distracting and thus the meditation failed. Even in the short meditation, facilitators need to give you time to do what they’re asking you to do so that you can learn to do something and accomplish some of it during the initial meditation.

Too fast

I learned to place my thoughts on leaves so they will drift away

Wednesday before Napa. Stressed.

Leaves are floating by me on a stream and my thoughts can too.

Mindfulness: leaves on a stream

This mindfulness helped me clear all the Thoughts that were giving me stress/anxiety. At least for now. Thank You 🙂...

Helpful

I found it helpful to have something concrete like the leaves to deal with the thoughts that keep coming into my mind when I am trying to meditate. My mind doesn’t want to be blank so it helps to have the leaves to focus on.

Coming back to the moment

I struggle with doing it right and I need to work on letting that go. I am okay not to do things right.

Leaves on a Stream

Delightful visuals to gently empty the mind of thoughts! My thought bubbles floated and landed on the leaves, leaving my mind with a stillness that lasted longer than the session. This stillness is excellent ground for the seeds of insight to be planted after this meditation. Plans and solutions come clearly and easily for me to face the day.

Great for disconnecting from less beneficial thoughts

I enjoyed this meditation because it offers another way to disconnect from thoughts that aren’t beneficial. The visualization of a stream is calming, the water flowing past, taking certain thoughts with it gently, is beautiful imagery and very effective.

So helpful

This meditation was so helpful!! I really enjoyed putting my thoughts of my crush, organic chemistry, physics, my quiz today, and everything else on a leaf and letting it float on the river. Symbolically I think this helped me to let things go

Grateful

I can be relaxed as I handle the inconveniences of the day!

Osho

Where there is no mind, there are no thoughts. A peaceful, still, empty mind.

Let them pass by

Not every thought needs my attention and energy. Some I can take on and others ai can gently let them pass by

I felt so relaxed as I placed each thought on a leaf

I learned a new way to meditate.. With so much things on my mind I felt all of my worries, fears, and thoughts just float by on each leaf I placed them on... What a relaxing experience.

I feel I care too much what other people think about me.

I need to care about myself and my home forget what everyone else thinks

Whoaaaa!

I loved this!! So easy to not focus on things that I didn’t need at the very moment I needed to focus on what mattered, the innocent stream and the calming sweet winds of youthfulness, and the stream that carried my weight! Beautiful! This medication/meditation could be so useful for healing! It is healing! Thanks for these awesome moments! Thank you! 🌸💡

The best yet

I love this exercise! My therapist introduced me to this technique years ago and it’s so fun to find it again here! I have found this technique so useful in so many ways through the years- it really Luis so grounding and balancing

Stress

I am so relax after using this app it makes all of my stress and worries go away

Refreshing...

I always like these kinds of meditations! Picturing yourself beside a nice clear stream and watching the leaves float downstream. When a thought come along, just place it on a leaf and watch it float downstream. Simple & effective way to becoming the ‘Observer’ of the situation. Within seconds of doing this I am in a calm relaxed state of being... and within just a few minutes I am refreshed, clean & whole again. I have mentally done this one a lot whenever I need a quick mind cleanse & refresh. Do-able almost anywhere! Try it... ❤️👍🏼🍀

A great practical tool

It worked. And am looking forward to using it when I get out of bed to see if it really really works 😊

Thoughts

When I am meditating, my mind seems to bounce from thought to thought. When I prepare myself to let those thoughts float downstream, I seem to stay focused on the image of the stream with very few thoughts.

Leaves On The Stream

I learned that bringing my mind to something to focus on besides just leaving it to wander is a great way to slow the thoughts.

I feel amazing this morning, great sleep

I learned that going to bed early pays dividends. I want to test using sound just before sleep and consider the impact.

Thoughts Are Like Leaves on a Steam

In many ways our own thoughts are just like leaves floating on a steam; sometimes our thoughts come and go. There will be times where we get too many thoughts/ leaves that they are harder to deal with and other times we have less thoughts to deal with and things are very peaceful

Simply amazing.

Being able to visualize my thoughts slowly drifting away helped me clarify my thoughts and my mind. 🍂

Leaves

I tried to let go of my thoughts of anxiety and let them leave my life on a leaf on a stream. Very relaxing.

Leaves.

I tried letting go of the thoughts always on my mind that always contribute to the tense nature i always find myself in

Amazing

I love the analogy of letting go of worries. I definitely feel relaxed and ready for the day

Detaching from thoughts

Visualizing my thoughts moving on leaves really helped me not get attached to them and feel like they were me.

Letting thoughts drift by

This is a really nice mental/visual metaphor for the process of thoughts coming and going during mindfulness

Leaves on a Stream

I think this might be a really good practice to try without the meditation. That way, you wouldn’t feel distracted by her voice or any other elements of the meditation and could simply focus on the stream. The time also seemed to fly by so I think it would be beneficial if practiced for longer.

Leaves

I learned how simple visualisation can ease the tension in my body and mind. Great practice and useful.

Meditate

I felt very anxious upon meditating. Once I began this listening session, I felt like I grasped control over my anxiety. Although, I still felt a little anxious afterward.

First meditation

I’ve never meditated before, and I’m astounded at how much this small three minute exercise immediately took away the pit in my stomach and the stress in my jaw, I was overcome a bit with a feeling of relief. I’ve never realized that my thoughts can be let go so easily, or that they can be escaped, even the arbitrary ones. The visualization helped tremendously for me.

Leaves floating by

I realized that in a state of anxiety, my thoughts linger and there is not a flow with thoughts coming and going. I can think of the stream and attach thoughts to the leaves and they float downstream

Within minutes I felt the calmness of the meditations. I have never experienced meditating before, but feel this is something that could help me a great deal.

I learned to lighten up on myself !! Let it go !!!! You are carrying this, making yourself sick…… Causing Anxiety 

Thoughts

They can come and go. It’s natural For them to appear and with practice, I can either attach to them and make a mental note for future action- or I can simply let them go.

Stress

I learned that the human body is truly amazing and it’s a lot easier to learn and get better with you happy! Stress is something that needs to be taken seriously for everyone! But where I’m coming from especially males we are all taught from a young age you need to be a “man” and be tough which I don’t disagree with that completely but I think it would be a lot easier for us to “cowboy up” and be tough if we have the correct way of doing so! 😊

Practice makes perfect

It has always been difficult for me to not think, or to let my thoughts go, but this visualization technique using leaves was useful and I will try it again

Let it go

I was remarkably very relaxed and at peace during this mediation. My heart and mind have been heavy and I was able to just be in this moment, without any of it weighing on me. As I opened my eyes the sky appeared brighter and the trees around me more vibrant.

Peace

That as I feel more at peace inside I can relax more easily, which makes me actually begin to feel the healing♥️💫

I feel a little better today I know it will take one day at a time😍😇

I need to focus on me a little more I would always worry and take care of everyone else.. My kids yes always come first but I need a little me time😇😇😊

At Ease

If I take deep breaths I am able to work myself out of a panick attack.

Journaling

Journaling my stressors can help reduce stress and allow me to not focus on them as much.

River

I learnt that it was possible to put the leaves down gently without a forced or stressed movement.

Leaves

I should let my thoughts float by like leaves on a stream. Especially bad thoughts.

I dwell on too many things to do and become immobilized and disheartened. I end accumulating to the same things and is burden piles on it seems virtually impossible to ever get back on top of it.

I spent too much time dwelling on the things to be done and arguing the priorities and end up in a worse condition and making things feel they’re virtually impossible to change.

Leaves Mindfulness

It’s okay to put the bad thoughts on the leaves and watch them them float away down the river.

Leaves on stream

This was a very helpful meditation for me - great picture that I can use daily when overwhelm strikes or I get carried away with worry. Thank you!

Day 3

God is good. All the time. Meditations like these come from Him. They’re powerful and He speaks through people all the time to help easy anxiety and pain. This particular meditation helped because being able to visualize thoughts floating by is comforting. Wish I could do that all the time

Leaves on a stream

I had a lot of thoughts. It seemed like they were never ending. Some of them I was glad to see go down the stream and some made me sad to let go of them.

I niticed myself

I felt relaxed and my thoughts calm down = that made me feel myself a mountaine for a while. It is amazingly soothing. Thank you.

Calm

I learned that I can let my thoughts simply pass by and not be overwhelmed by them

I felt serenity for a time

Watching the leaves made it ok that I wasn’t doing anything. It felt peaceful and uplifting.

Like this technique

I’ve heard of this technique before, and I like it. I liked this session, except the background noice was much too loud. It was hard to hear the vocals.

Leaves

I learned that when I want my mind to wander so I can let thoughts go, I seem to have no thoughts to let go. Then, the minute the meditation ends, my mind is filled with thoughts.

Mindfulness

I learned that I could process many thoughts at one time and send them upstream and watch them flood by letting them go 1 by 1

Leaves on a stream

I felt this was what I needed to do with the moving cost deposit, the BC committee and everything else that was interfering with my peace of mind

Negativity

Why are all my thoughts negative? There are many positive things happening in my life. It is like I have binoculars on and I focus on what is wrong with me, or how I act, or doubt my intentions and twist them to be negative.

Leaves on a stream

10.18.22-The thoughts will constantly pop into my head, but I can put them on the leaves and let them float by. Great imagery!

I love the metaphor of the stream and leaves and find the idea of putting thoughts on leaves helpful.

Putting thoughts on leaves helps you not to dwell on them are also liked the idea of putting good thoughts on leaves too.

Leafs and problems

Very nice to put problems on leaves and to let them float away

Typical

In typical fashion I wasn’t able to visualize placing a thought in a leaf. I wasn’t sure what that really looked liked, then I got distracted by my lack of ability and thoughts were all over the place. More focused on my neck pain. Feeling frustrated

1.17.2023

Imagined the Lord next to me at the stream. Yearned for a Father to take care of me, He held me close and allowed me to lay down. Thoughts of my parents came up, tried to place them on a leaf sent down the stream. Tried to rush the flow of those thoughts.

Let it flow

I noticed once I got the negative and worrisome thoughts dissolved I was able to focus and move on to those happier thoughts. It’s almost as though their just hiding behind everything else. Giving myself time to deal with it so I can focus on the good is something I need to do more often over just circling with them.

Meditation

Hi, Very soothing ambience, dulcet tones of instructor but felt like the only thoughts I was aware of were the words as spoken

Nature sounds = letting go

The imagery behind this (stream letting thoughts be taken away on a leaf) was helpful and rejuvenating

I felt really uncomfortable at first and was mentally squirming, but as I deepened my breathing and tried to mentally float the discomfort away on leaves, I felt peaceful.

I loved the imagery of putting thoughts on leaves to float away.

Hmm!

I had a hard time with this one this morning. Maybe I need more time with a visualization like this - I can definitely see it’s benefits!

Time

Time is in my mind I feel like mine is running out and I have so much to do. I don’t know what not to do.

Leaves of mindfulness

I noticed how simple this can be to let go of too many thoughts and visualizing the leaves floating on a stream.

Concentration vs Letting Go

It is hard to let one’s thoughts clear down the stream on a leaf…it really takes practice to “let go”.

Thoughts

To get a sense of separation from the thoughts as they come and go through your consciousness. They have less charge .

Stress management

I think that this meditation is good and for releasing thoughts as they come. I feel it is a great technique to use when feeling stressed or overwhelmed. I feel grateful.