Mindful Moments

Relax and unwind with this 15 minute calming meditation before bed. This calming meditation will guide you through a relaxing body scan while deepening the breath, softening your muscles and easing you into sleep with calming ambient nature sounds in the background.

Let's take it back to basics with this simple 10 minute meditation. This quick and calming practice is a great place to begin if you are new to meditation as it gives you a realistic look at a daily meditation practice. You will be guided through 10 minutes of turning inwards, observing and returning to the breath. Meditation is a practice of mindfulness, which is also a skill to be built. Cultivating mindfulness takes time and patience.

Too many meditation practices make false claims about clearing the mind and eliminating anxiety. While these are often pleasant side effects of meditation and mindfulness, they are not the intended goal. The only goal of a meditation practice is to be present; to observe the self in the current moment with acceptance and compassion. Daily mindfulness meditations, along with intentional calming strategies and routines work together to decrease anxiety while improving emotion regulation and overall mood. Learn more about anxiety relief strategies that are actually effective AND long-lasting with my Free Guide - ⁠https://9812-katie.systeme.io/calmguide

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This 15 minute anxiety relief meditation is a guided breathwork practice designed to decrease anxiety. You will be guided through a few rounds of structured breathing, known as breathwork, designed to calm your mind, body and nervous system. While this is a meditation meant for anxiety relief, please know that relief from anxiety does take time. Follow along with the breathwork as feels best for you, and certainly listen to your body here. I have listed alternative meditation practices below for you to try if this breathwork is not feeling the best today:

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Here is a 7 minute grounding meditation for worry. This meditation is designed to be experienced by stepping outside and awakening your senses. The practice of focusing on your environment through your senses has a way of interrupting your worried thoughts while bringing safety and grounding to your nervous system.

Come back to the breath with this 10 minute intermediate meditation designed to help you find stillness and peace.

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This 20 minute acceptance and commitment therapy inspired meditation gives you a healthy way to process emotions. So often, we tend towards avoiding and hoping to eliminate challenging emotions. In this meditation practice, we instead will turn towards our emotions, allow them to be present, begin to understand them and ride out the wave of any actions (urges) they are leading us towards. Taking a mindful approach to processing emotions, as experienced in this meditation, allows us to reflect on what is most important to us and to act in alignment with the values we hold so we can live our most authentic life.

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Observing and allowing your thoughts to be present is a strong mindfulness skill to use, especially when dealing with anxious thoughts. To be able to observe and allow your thoughts to exist without making meaning of them all of the time ushers in peace and acceptance. This meditation guides you through practicing and cultivating this life changing skill while easing anxiety, worry and overthinking.

10 Minute Morning Meditation For A Calm Mind

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This calming Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Meditation is designed to relax the body while easing an overthinking mind. A 10 minute meditation will not get rid of your thoughts, as the brain was designed to think, create, plan and make meaning. However, this meditation will assist you with releasing your grip on the thoughts that cross your mind so they no longer have as a great a hold on you. This acceptance and commitment therapy style practice will ease overthinking anxiety while implementing invaluable mindfulness and psychological flexibility skills.

This 15 minute guided breathwork for relaxation practice will teach and guide you through the 4-7-8 breathing strategy. This breathwork practice is designed to bring relaxation and grounding to your day, while activating your parasympathetic nervous system. It is only when the parasympathetic nervous system is activated and when the mind feels safe that anxiety relief can occur. This 15 minute guided breathwork practice will help you to send safety signals to your mind, relax your body and melt into the present moment.

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