Welcome! Our second sit regarding depression.

In today's practice, we continue our exploration of thoughts of fear, shame, anxiety, and work through a couple breathing practices to help bring these thoughts to light and to release their hold on our stream of consciousness.

To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/F2grqobkAa8

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Good morning and welcome to our weekly Sunday meditation.

We began this season with mindfulness approaches to managing stress and anxiety in difficult times, and now after a couple weeks of honoring the Day of the Dead and Remembrance Day with loving kindness meditations, we are moving on to a new theme: the mindful exploration of depression.

Meditation isn't "enough to fix" depression, especially if people are really struggling with long term or major depression, but it can provide an opportunity to understand what we're feeling and thinking.

Often when we're feeling down, it's accompanied by a chronic substream of very negative thinking of which we are unaware. Mindfulness of both the body and of our thoughts, can help us reconnect with awareness to our experience, so that we can develop knowledge about our bodies and our thoughts. What are the negative thoughts that hold us prisoner? How can we interrupt the repetition? How do these negative thoughts make me feel--do I feel them as tension in my shoulders, abdomen, heart area? How would I feel if I could let this go?

In today's 15 min practice, we explore mindfulness of our thoughts: what are we thinking that is rooted in fear?

In the next several meditations we will explore these other ideas.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more!

For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

To watch today's practice, please visit youtube at https://youtu.be/i7_ENCXSGSM

Good morning & welcome to our annual remembrance day meditation.

Today we practice loving kindness for those that have passed on during the violence humans inflict upon one another in war.

We also meditate upon our own peaceful thoughts, from the premise that peace comes from within, and that the world we perceive and create can only reflect the violence, discord, and un-ease within if we do not work to understand our own lack of peacefulness first.

To watch this meditation, please visit https://youtu.be/Wby0SsS4pIw.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more!

For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Today, it's about mindfulness of toxic mistrust! Greetings and welcome to our FIFTH session of the autumn 2025 season, Today, we use mindfulness of thoughts as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence.

We are tasked with noticing thoughts of toxic mistrust that arise during our practice and then returning to the breath. Toxic mistrust can manifest against ourselves (we feel unworthy of the love, attention, care of others) against our inner circle (my family/colleagues/friends don't love, respect, etc me enough and want to take my stuff) and the world generally (the world/government/ strangers) are out to get me, take my stuff, are unsafe).

We are what we think; how many of our thoughts take on this flavour? To watch this meditation on video, please visit https://youtu.be/UQaZhCNVYkM

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D’Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Welcome to our Sunday morning meditation. Today we're taking a break from our current series on how to keep your cool in stressful times. Today we stop to celebrate our ancestors and loved ones who have passed on, in loving kindness meditation.

To watch this podcast on video, please visit: https://youtu.be/OAJoAhRvrms

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more!

Greetings! In today's podcast, we continue our theme of nurture our inner strength when the external world seems very stressful. This topic is the gift that keeps on giving, since we have approached it from many different angles in the seven episodes of this season!

Today, we explore mindfulness of emotional intensity - how many of our thoughts and emotions are at the red hot end of the spectrum--rage, anger, frustration? How much time do we spend steeping in this toxic tea? If an honest looks finds us there more often than not, then: not only is this unhealthy, but it is inaccurate. If we are not living in an active war zone, then we've been hoodwinked by ideology, media etc to respond as though we are. While this makes big media companies lots of money by capturing our attention, it rewires our minds to respond without emotional regulation, and to produce dopamine etc to when we do; we become addicted in fact to negative news. We get addicted to the rush of anger, the clarity of rage.

Alas not only is this unhealthy but it is inaccurate. Many people don't mind hurting themselves with unhealthy behaviour if it seems to help others, for example, by bringing truth to light, but in this case our obsession with the negative is not accurate; it is not bringing truth to light.

How can we explore this in meditation? Noticing our thoughts/emotions; asking, "what is the root of this"? Usually a fear of not belonging, a fear of scarcity. Then, visualize: "how would I feel if I could let this go?"

To watch this meditation, please visit: https://youtu.be/NW9_a9tqEdU.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more!

For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D’Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Welcome to our Sunday 15 minute mindfulness meditation, where we explore how to investigate and nuture our thoughts of toxic mistrust. We go further than last week, where we explored how to recognize and acknowledge it.

Today we learn techniques for investigating and nurturing these self-sabotaging thoughts. What is toxic mistrust? Toxic mistrust can manifest against ourselves (we feel unworthy of the love, attention, care of others) against our inner circle (my family/colleagues/friends don't love, respect, etc me enough and want to take my stuff) and the world generally (the world/government/ strangers) are out to get me, take my stuff, are unsafe). We are what we think; how many of our thoughts take on this flavour?

To watch this podcast please visit https://youtu.be/-M5ZcM3lzBg.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D’Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Today, it's about mindfulness of toxic mistrust! Greetings and welcome to our FIFTH session of the autumn 2025 season, Today, we use mindfulness of thoughts as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence.

We are tasked with noticing thoughts of toxic mistrust that arise during our practice and then returning to the breath. Toxic mistrust can manifest against ourselves (we feel unworthy of the love, attention, care of others) against our inner circle (my family/colleagues/friends don't love, respect, etc me enough and want to take my stuff) and the world generally (the world/government/ strangers) are out to get me, take my stuff, are unsafe).

We are what we think; how many of our thoughts take on this flavour?

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D’Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Greetings and welcome to our FOURTH session of the autumn 2025 season, where we are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos.

Alas it is now too cold to meet outside early in the morning! I will schedule alternate indoor times at least once monthly for our group to meet!

Today, we use EMOTIONS as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence; paying attention to any emotions that arise during our breathwork, and then returning to the present moment and the breath.

To watch this podcast, please visit https://youtu.be/XkIZwaeIo2A.

The embodied presence: why this focus? Well, the present moment is the only one over which we have control, where we can align with our goals and values thoughtfully, so that we don’t feel hostage to the whims of circumstances out of our control. In our practice today, we explore how the act of paying attention to the sensations we observe during the emotion scan can be relaxing and bring ease to our thoughts and bodies.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D’Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Greetings and welcome to our third session of the autumn 2025 season, where our next few practices are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos. To watch this video, please visit https://youtu.be/WmKt2nZqrWE .

(We are meeting in person while the weather remains warm in Calgary, thus allowing us to enjoy awesome Calgary parks, so if you're local and would like to sit in person, please email Calgary Mindfulness @ Gmail.com.)

Today, we use the body scan as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence, meaning we become conscious of our thoughts, feelings, sub-talk, sensations, so that we are paying attention to here and now instead of being spaced out ruminating over the past, or in a trace afraid of the future.

The present moment is the only one over which we have control, where we can align with our goals and values thoughtfully, so that we don't feel hostage to the whims of circumstances out of our control. In our practice today, we explore how the act of paying attention to the sensations we observe during the body scan slows can be relaxing and bring ease to our thoughts and bodies.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write [email protected], where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness