12 Minute Meditation

This week, Michelle Maldonado leads a meditation designed to cultivate awareness and inspire action. It is easy to feel overwhelmed and confused about how to engage with the world from a place of strength, groundedness, and calm. As we navigate through the layers of self, family, community, and organizational dynamics, this meditation serves as a bridge, connecting inner reflection with outer action.

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This week's meditation is led by Rashid Hughes and is based on the acronym REST. This practice specifically takes into account that every one of us show up to mindfulness practice with our life experience.

In the REST meditation, R stands for Relax your attention. Release. E is for Exhale all striving. Empty. S is for Sense the silence. Surrender. T is for Tune in to awareness. Trust.

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This week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to make some space and time to reconnect with ourselves and ask the question, "What's most important to me?" Research shows that we are most energized when we find purpose and meaning in what we're doing. We feel depleted when we don't take time to do activities that we find inspiring or important to us.

This practice is part of a four-part series rooted in the lessons and wisdom from Shalini's new book Return to Mindfulness: Disrupting Default Habits for Personal Fulfillment, Effective Leadership, and Global Impact, which launched on January 18th.

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This week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to help us take in and process information efficiently. When we use our senses—touch, sight, hearing, taste, and smell—our thinking mind rests. So here, we focus on our senses and relax the mind.

This practice is part of a four-part series rooted in the lessons and wisdom from Shalini's new book Return to Mindfulness: Disrupting Default Habits for Personal Fulfillment, Effective Leadership, and Global Impact, which launched on January 18th.

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This week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to explore the relationship between our emotions and our energy. High-intensity emotions drain our energy—not just the unpleasant ones like anxiety and fear, but also pleasant ones like excitement and elation. This meditation helps us channel these emotions to help us meet our goals without burning out.

This practice is part of a four part series rooted in the lessons and wisdom from Shalini's new book Return to Mindfulness: Disrupting Default Habits for Personal Fulfillment, Effective Leadership, and Global Impact, launching January 18th.

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This week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to intentionally give your body the rest it needs and replenish your physical energy by checking in, softening, and letting go of tension.

This practice is part of a four part series rooted in the lessons and wisdom from Shalini's new book Return to Mindfulness: Disrupting Default Habits for Personal Fulfillment, Effective Leadership, and Global Impact, launching January 18th.

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This week, Mark Bertin guides us in a practice to find harmony amidst the holiday hustle. Release the grip of the "comparing mind," and embrace imperfect moments. Through intentional reflection, gratitude, connection, and self-compassion,this meditation offers a serene path to a joyous holiday experience.

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Jenée Johnson extends a warm invitation to reconnect with our inner selves, embracing love and care. This practice guides us in being present with ourselves in an aware, kind, and loving way, which can help us foster an interior refuge from life's storms while also building strength and resilience. We synchronize our heart, mind, emotions, and body to nurture awareness and love in the present moment.

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Today, Barry Boyce guides you through the latest episode of our Focused Attention Series,.building on last week's session, where we explored meta-awareness and focused the mind using the breath as an anchor.. Mindfulness, as Barry emphasizes, is about noticing thoughts without judgment and fostering a natural awareness beyond mental chatter. In this episode, Barry introduces the practice of tuning into the present moment—a powerful experience of simply being.

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Today, Barry Boyce guides you to focus the mind using the breath as an anchor. Mindfulness involves noticing thoughts without judgment, fostering a natural awareness beyond the constant stream of mental chatter. In this particular practice, Barry introduces you to the power of "meta-awareness"—the moment you notice a thought—and how you can gently return your focus to the breath. Remember, in meditation, failure is part of the journey; each session is a learning experience. Take a moment to ground yourself, tune into your natural awareness, and explore the depths of mindfulness with Barry's guidance.

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