A mid-week bonus episode ! This is a five-minute meditation for people with ADHD or very busy minds, or anyone who has trouble meditating or concentrating. This meditation can be done daily at a time that feels good to you: maybe while drinking your morning coffee, or just after lunch, for example. Take five minutes to connect with yourself. Notice the effects this may have on the rest of your day. Enjoy!

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Make it simple, make it easy. Most of the difficulty in our lives is self-created. When we think about meditating as 'difficult', we are merely labelling it so, when in reality, it's sitting for 20 minutes and trying to do nothing. There is nothing more simple, nothing more easy-- the only reason it is difficult is because we believe it is. Difficulty is often only in our perception, not truly existing in the real world or in tasks or things around us. Some contexts are truly difficult, yes-- but is that really why you're finding it hard? Is it your context, or your perception of your context? Today we decide to make meditating easy. I invite you to remind yourselves of these three words constantly; throughout your practice and throughout your day.

A 20-minute meditation for noticing just how much we self-evaluate. This meditation will take you into your breath and body; into your relaxed space, and help you get to know yourself better. I use a handmade Indian bowl during this meditation to bring us back to our breath. I hope you enjoy.

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In this 20-minute guided meditation, we explore our deep, experiential motivations for practicing meditation. It is important to find our motivation from a bottom-up place, rather than always telling ourselves in a top-down way that we "should meditate because it would be good for us". Please enjoy 20 minutes of finding peace.

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Pain and discomfort are the body's way of telling us we need to adapt something; to do something differently. In this 20-minute meditation we listen to the body to gain information from body parts that have been giving us trouble or coming up as themes for us recently. By breathing into the body and listening to its unconscious associations, we can gain information on what needs to be done.

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A 20-minute meditation where I state that we're going to do a vipassana and then we don't really do a vipassana; instead we pay deep attention to the sensations of the breath in the body, and pay attention to each part of the body individually; exercising our sensory cortex and pre-frontal cortex by shifting our attention and concentration into various body parts. These exercises strengthen our neural pathways for concentration, attention, sensation, concentration, awareness... and can even lead to cortical growth in the brain ! I'm not kidding, look it up. I did my thesis on it. I'll send you a copy. 

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A 20-minute practice inspired by Eckhart Tollé and by the yoga philosophy limb 'Pratyahara' or 'the practice of not being disturbed'. In this practice we centre ourselves inward, focus on our breath and body and then practice 'going transparent', a state in which all disturbances move through us and therefore cannot harm or upset us. I hope you enjoy !

This is a 10-minute walking meditation for practicing remaining in the present moment. This is a very powerful practice; it can be very challenging which is why it is only 10 steps and 10 minutes. Feel free to repeat the meditation for a 20-minute practice. Find somewhere, outside or inside, where you can be left alone and where you have enough space to take ten steps. Plug in, and enjoy.

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This 20-minute meditation focuses on connecting the mind to the body and relaxing every single part of the face one by one. By doing this we are strengthening the brain's capacity for sensory awareness and concentration, as well as activating relaxation through the breath and inviting a calm and meditative state.

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In this meditation we finish up our deep connection to the chakra centres, plunging our concentration into our bodies and paying attention to what's going on there. Whether you're into chakras or not, this body-mind focus hits all the beneficial marks of meditation; taking us out of our minds and into our breath and our body.

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Thank you for listening ! 

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Leslie