12 Minute Meditation

This week, meditation teacher and author Kimberly Brown offers a loving-kindness practice variation to help us cultivate more ease and openness within the moment-to-moment unfolding of our lives. "Everything is impermanent. It's always changing, coming together and falling apart," she says. When we can accept that not everything is up to us, and let go of trying to control what we can't change, we can find more ease. This practice is a web extra in the October issue of Mindful magazine. In the feature, veteran journalist Caren Osten Gerszberg looks into the science and practice of meditating—not to push away your painful emotions, but to see and recognize those emotions with kindness and curiosity.

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Kimberly on Mindful.org

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Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang leads us in a 4-7-8 breath practice to release stagnant air and find calm. Ni-Cheng is a pulmonary physician, podcast host, and mindfulness teacher. In the early days of the pandemic, she recruited eight medical colleagues from across the United States to create the Mindful Healthcare Collective, which offers free online mindfulness sessions to healthcare workers, with topics including basic breath awareness, mindful eating, and even anti-racism work.

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Ni-Cheng Liang, Author at Mindful

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Meditate with Ni-Cheng in the Mindful30: a 30-Day Meditation Challenge

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This week, Georgina Miranda shares a guided practice to help us feel more grounded and at ease, especially during stressful or fearful moments. Georgina is a global leader in change, transformation, mindfulness, conscious leadership development and the advancement of women. She is also a highly sought after international transformation coach, public speaker, and management consultant.

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This Woman Used Mindfulness to Climb Mt. Everest

GEORGINA MIRANDA

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In order to be giving, we need to be nourished. This week, Andres Gonzalez shares a practice about learning to check in with yourself and to do so with love. Andres is cofounder of the Holistic Life Foundation. For twenty years, Andres has taught yoga to diverse populations, including Baltimore City Public School, drug treatment centers, mental crisis facilities, homeless shelters, wellness centers, colleges, private schools, and other venues throughout the nation. He is also one of this year's teachers in our Mindful30 meditation challenge. Andres will be guiding practices based on easing stress with intentional breathing. If you want to know more about Mindful30, we'll link to it in the show notes for this episode.

Show Notes:

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Holistic Life Foundation

Meditate with Andres in the Mindful30: a 30-Day Meditation Challenge

Andres on mindful.org

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The August 2022 issue of Mindful magazine: The Happiness Issue

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Founding editor of Mindful and mindful.org Barry Boyce offers a simple practice for cultivating your attention. He says, "The simple act of paying attention is really the kindest thing you can do for yourself. When our mind is scattered it creates pain and disconnection, and that pain and disconnection gets picked up by others." But paying attention isn't as easy as deciding to do it—it does take practice! So that's what this week's meditation is all about.

Show Notes:

Find more from Barry Boyce here:

Barry on mindful.org

Read his latest column in Mindful magazine, "What Happens If We Drop Our Illusions?"

Mindful30: 30-Day Meditation Challenge

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This week, we're offering something a little different. Dr. Michelle Chatman shares a practice that she's been singing since 2020, when we saw the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor; when the COVID-19 pandemic began and we saw its devastating effects upon Black and brown communities; and we also saw protests and uprisings in response to racial injustice around the globe.

As an assistant professor in the Crime, Justice, and Security Studies program at The University of the District of Columbia and contemplative educator, Michelle weaves meditation, music, and introspective practices into her teaching to help facilitate student learning and growth and build community. This song helps Michelle restore.

You can close your eyes or lower your gaze while you listen to Michelle sing and then can continue to meditate, reflecting on Michelle's offering, until you hear the sound of the final bell.

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Healing the Harm in Schools - TEDxUStreetWomen

Black Mindfulness Summit

10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2022

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During times of stress and uncertainty, touching into your groundedness while remaining open can help you find calm—and inspire others to do the same. Meena Srinivasan offers a practice for staying both rooted, and open. "You can always draw upon the strength of those who've come before us," she says. "Know that you can act from a place and space of groundedness and compassion. And this is what the world needs now."

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Transformative Educational Leadership

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"Resilience can be thought of as our capacity to know when we are not in a state of equilibrium and to be in the practice of gently inviting ourselves to open up and reveal whatever it is we need to be nourished and to be held." Dr. Sará King says. And this can help us to reestablish a feeling of safety, connectedness, and grounding. This week, Dr. King invites us to connect with the love and healing we'd like to send to future generations to cultivate intergenerational resilience.

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Where Science, Mindfulness, and Social Justice Intersect

10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2022

Sará King on mindful.org

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This week, Rose Felix Cratsley offers affirmations for self-compassion, embracing growth, and healing through hope. She says, "I think mindfulness is an essential and fundamental human right. We come into the world open and curious, but oftentimes self-judgment, criticism, fear, and anxiety come about." Rose is founder and president of Ivy Child International, a non-profit that develops global mental health initiatives for children, families, and communities.

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Ivy Child International

10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2022

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This engaging meditation uses the energy and imagery of stones to foster inner connection and emotional regulation. Follow the guided practice and join your child on a mindful adventure.