12 Minute Meditation

This week, Barry Boyce leads a practice for mindfulness of the body and our embodied experience because whatever is happening isn't happening in an abstract way—it's happening here in our bodies, so we have to return home to ourselves, to our body. This practice is drawn from a live, guided meditation session from Barry's new course called Come As You Are. Whether you're an experienced meditator or just beginning, it can be fun and refreshing to explore mindfulness with an experienced guide who knows that meditation doesn't have to fit any particular mold. Instead, it's a way of being that can bring a sense of presence and joy to your everyday moments.

Show Notes:

Find more from Barry Boyce here:

Barry Boyce, Author at Mindful

Find Barry's course, Come As You Are, here:

Come As You Are - Mindfulness Course

And more from Mindful here:

Welcome Everything: The February 2022 issue of Mindful magazine.

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This week, Judy Lief leads a meditation for grief and loss. Most of us have come up against the experience of grief and loss over the last several years. These feelings can be hard to hold, even as we see how widespread they are. Judy, who wrote the book Making Friends With Death, says that "There's nothing really to be said about grieving that doesn't sound trite. There's no simple way through it. It is extremely difficult to put the gravity or the force of grief into words. And there's no one way to grieve. Neither is there a cure for our fragility and vulnerability. We have only one option, which is somehow to figure out a way to love and embrace it."

Show notes:

Find more from Judy Lief here:

judylief.com

Making Friends with Death

And more from Mindful here:

Welcome Everything: The February 2022 issue of Mindful magazine.

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When we're under pressure, our ability to care and to lead can feel compromised. Mindfulness can provide a path to cultivate the focus and determination of grit and the care and calm of grace, to learn from growth and change. In this practice to arrive, breathe, and connect, Dr. Lili Powell, a professor at UVA Darden School of Business, offers space to fully arrive in the present moment and make a commitment to focusing on being right here, right now.

This week, Frank Ostaseski leads a practice to welcome everything. And we hear you—there's a lot going on that you may not feel like welcoming right now. To welcome something doesn't mean we have to like it, and it doesn't mean we have to agree with it; it just means we have to be willing to meet it. In this practice which you can also find in the February 2022 issue of Mindful magazine, Frank Ostaseski offers six steps to open up to the present moment—whatever it may bring.

Show Notes:

Lean Into Love: An Interview with Frank Ostaseski

How to Bookend Your Day with Compassion

The Metta Institute

Check out the February 2022 issue of Mindful magazine

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Dr. Cynda Hylton Rushton, the Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics and Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics and Schools of Nursing & Medicine, invites us to welcome whatever feelings are present right now and to trust what we discover in body and mind without judgment.

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This week, Cheryl Jones leads us in a practice to foster self-acceptance—another of our top guided meditations of 2021. Mindfulness meditation involves a willingness to be with ourselves as we are. It offers a way of learning to work with ourselves, and not on ourselves, especially if you are healing from perfectionism. We can start to notice whatever is happening within us and around us with curiosity and kindness. Cheryl Jones is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor and author who provides mindfulness training to businesses, organizations, retreat centers, and more. You can find the full list of top 10 guided meditations from 2021 at mindful.org.

Show notes:

The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2021

More from Cheryl Jones on mindful.org

thrivingwithcheryljones.com

This week, Jenée Johnson leads us in a guided meditation to encourage deep relaxation at any point during the day. With a reminder to listen to our bodies and acknowledge when it's time for us to rest, she shares an effective technique known as quiet sitting to inspire us to simply be. Jenée Johnson is the program innovation leader at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Mindfulness, Trauma and Racial Healing. Her goal is to improve her organization's ability to manage change, stay resilient, inspire growth and become a mindful culture that leads and serves with compassion.

Show notes:

Top 10 meditations of 2021: The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2021

Find more from Jenée Johnson here: Jenée Johnson, Author at Mindful

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This week, we bring you one of our top 10 guided meditations of 2021, a practice for allowing the storm of our emotions to pass. Scott Rogers guides us to take the role of observer to difficult emotions, so that we can more easily create the space we need to let them go. Rogers is founder and director of the University of Miami School of Law's Mindfulness in Law Program where he integrates mindfulness into the law school curriculum, and he is cofounder of the UMindfulness, the University's Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative.

Show notes:

scottrogers.com

UMindfulness

University of Miami School of Law's Mindfulness in Law Program

The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2021

More from Scott Rogers on mindful.org

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Taking a moment to pause can enable us to move in the direction of suffering, to work, and to alleviate it, with wisdom and compassion. This gentle practice from law professor and author Rhonda Magee can provide support to you in remaining grounded as you open up to information that might cause you pain.

Show notes

Find our top 10 guided meditations of 2021 here: The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2021

Find more from Rhonda Magee here:

Rhonda Magee, Author at Mindful

Home - Rhonda V. Magee

Grab a copy of Rhonda Magee's book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice, Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through mindfulness here: Book - Rhonda V. Magee

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When things don't go according to plan it becomes easier to focus on what's wrong and minimize what's right. This mindful gratitude practice is designed to change that; its aim is to amplify the experience of optimism and studies show that this simple shift leads to enhanced mood and better relationships. This exercise is adapted from Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing by Eric Langshur and Nate Klemp, and is led by mindfulness coach Priti Patel.

Show Notes:

Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing by Eric Langshur and Nate Klemp

Top 10 Meditations of 2021 (to come on Friday, December 3)

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