Mindfulness: Slow Living, Connection, and the Ordinary Life

A chance to do the basic version of mindfulness meditation together to start your Wednesday. 

The differences between actual mindfulness vs. pop culture mindfulness. Mindfulness is more than just being present. It is HOW we are present. 

A teaching and meditation around the simple truth that until something is allowed to be broken, it can't be fixed. When we are the only one propping something up or filling in a gap, we often enable things that need to be fixed or need to end to continue on indefinitely into the future. There are times when the healthiest and most helpful option is to let it break. 

Instructions for creating your own mix-and-match self-guided meditation to use at night time to help fall asleep and remember your dreams.

Mindfulness and Sleep Month continues and we add in a bedtime meditation to aid in dream recall as well as falling asleep.

A meditation designed for use at bed time to help you fall asleep and maintain awareness into sleep. Begin listening to this meditation in bed and eight hours before your wake up time.

In this brief welcome to Mindfulness and Sleep Month, I talk about what to expect during the month. The first activity for the month is to determine the best bedtime for you as you do mindfulness work each night ahead of sleep. Participants are also encouraged to keep a dream journal this month to help with the lucid dreaming practice coming up. 

The official launch of Mindfulness and Sleep Month occurs later today. In this podcast, we go over just how mindfulness benefits things like insomnia, falling asleep, anxiety, racing thoughts, and an over-active mind at bedtime. A practice audio to use at bedtime will be posted separately.

Instruction and practice time to cover one of the oldest of the meditations: Samatha aka Mindfulness of the Breath.

One of the more popular meditations to do in nature, today we go back to the basics for listening meditation instruction and practice together.