Sometimes offering ourselves kindness can be hard. This practice has so many benefits for our well being: as we cultivate a loving heart to ourselves this impacts on everyone around us too.

"Do you work gladly" is the first query of this passage. In this meditation we explore how our thoughts and beliefs about our work; whether paid or unpaid, can colour our feelings and influence our approach to our work

Our thoughts can have a powerful impact on our mood and our bodies. Being mindful of our thinking can give us the freedom to choose whether we should believe our thoughts quite so much, as Thich Naht Han said: "Our thoughts don't always have our best interests at heart."

Soothing The Body With The Breath by Carolyn Baynes

As we practice mindfulness of emotions we can learn to observe the changing weather of our emotions with out needing to be caught by them.

Arising And Passing 2 by Carolyn Baynes

Arising And Passing by Carolyn Baynes

Kind Mindfulness Of Breath And Body by Carolyn Baynes

This podcast explores the depths of the teachings in the Quakers' book of Advices and Queries and follows this with a guided meditation.

This is a talk followed by a meditation using Advices and Queries 4 as a way into centring down.