12 Minute Meditation

This week, Rose Felix Cratsley leads us in a meditation to pause and honor equity—a practice that invites us to celebrate the power of slowing down together. Pausing offers us a chance to reflect on what it means to belong, to trust in the strength of renewal, and to hold space for healing. It’s a moment to connect with ourselves and each other, recognizing the profound impact of small, intentional breaths as steps toward creating a more inclusive and equitable world.

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This guided meditation from Dr. Mark Bertin reminds us that we don’t have to pretend everything is fine or be calm all the time. Instead, being mindful in difficult times can look like carving out a moment to settle before we decide what comes next. This is a walking meditation that supports us in cultivating a balanced perspective. While we accept what we can’t change right now, we can also choose our next steps from a place of compassion and wisdom.

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How Children Thrive by Mark Bertin

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This week, Angela Stubbs gently guides us inward, helping us explore these patterns with compassion and kindness. Through six stages, she invites us to bring awareness to these feelings, accepting ourselves without judgment and affirming our worth. With each stage, we cultivate a sense of warmth and resilience, creating space to move beyond self-doubt and reconnect with our inner strength. This practice offers us a chance to release the hold of self-criticism, embracing a more gentle, patient approach toward ourselves.

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This week, Frank Ostaseski guides us through a meditation that invites us to let curiosity lead. Life doesn’t always bring what we desire—instead, it can deliver pain, uncertainty, and even sorrow. While we can’t always change these circumstances or the emotions that arise with them, we can choose to meet them with an open curiosity. When we do, we create space to welcome, or at least acknowledge, whatever comes our way. This openness helps us release the added suffering that often follows tough moments, reminding us that while life’s challenges are inevitable, the suffering we add to them is optional.

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Zen Hospice Project 

Metta Institute

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This week, Anu Gupta guides us in simple phrases of compassion and loving-kindness that allow us to remember: Just like me, this person is also human. Just like me, they have their own joys, desires, and struggles. Offering kind wishes to someone difficult is a powerful way to expand our circle of compassion. We don’t have to like them, but we can cultivate compassion for them, softening our resistance and acknowledging their humanity.

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Be More with Anu

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This week, Anu Gupta leads us through a detailed body scan, guiding us to shift our energy back to the present moment, coming back from any distracting thoughts and worries that come up. Here and now, we can return to our breath. Take this time to feel wonder and gratitude for every part of your physical body, from head to toe, just the way you are today. With this practice, you’ll cultivate a sense of grounding and openness as you let this energy of relaxation soothe your whole body.

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This week, Diana Hill leads a meditation focused on gently letting go of attachment to your thoughts. In this practice, you’ll explore how to allow your thoughts to come and go without feeling the need to hold onto them or push them away. This technique, part of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, uses the visualization of clouds to guide you through this process in a soothing and mindful way.

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This week, Will Schneider instructs us in paying attention to the gentle, natural flow of our breath. By becoming more aware of our inhales and exhales, we gradually bring calm to our mind and our nervous system. We’re giving ourselves permission to slow down for a few minutes. As we breathe, we can also witness the active chatter of our mind without being swept away—in thoughts about the past, or worries about the future. Mindfulness practice reveals how our thoughts and emotions are constantly changing, and this simple, relaxing meditation gives us a chance to release expectations and judgments. A state of mindful awareness is strengthened each time we notice the mind wandering, and choose to come back to the sensations of the breath moving in and out of our body. 

Is your mind more like a circus than a sanctuary? If you’re hoping to let go of stress and anxiety, and feel more present and focused throughout your day, check out the upcoming online Meditation Course with Men Talking Mindfulness. This 9-week, fully online course offers weekly sessions in a group atmosphere where two experienced mindfulness experts will lead practices together, answer your questions, and help you build a consistent mindfulness practice. Beginning October 6th, this course welcomes adults of all genders. Visit mentalkingmindfulness.com to learn more and sign up. 

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This week, Carley Hauck guides us to embrace all parts of ourselves—those qualities we see as our “shadow,” or what isn’t serving us, as well as the light, or what we see as our positive attributes.  Especially as leaders (including any person who shows leadership in their life), working with both our “dark” and “light” parts allows us to shine our full potential out into the world. 

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This week, Vidyamala Burch guides us through a calming body scan meditation that focuses on bringing light and ease into the body. This practice invites you to imagine each part of your body filling with a soft, soothing light, helping to ease any tension and cultivate a sense of relaxation. As you move through this meditation, you’ll have the opportunity to release stress and connect deeply with a feeling of inner peace, bringing lightness into both your body and mind

To explore more of Vidyamala’s teachings, check out her 7-day audio course, Finding Inner Peace a ​​https://shop.mindful.org/collections/online-courses/products/finding-inner-peace-course. This self-paced course offers a blend of meditations and body practices designed to help you reduce stress, release negativity, and cultivate a sense of flow and ease. With practical tools to create a more peaceful and balanced inner life, this online course provides a nurturing way to access tranquility whenever you need it.

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