Contentment Archive

Movement Meditation Script for Presence

A movement based meditation practice for when we just cannot sit still, or for when we find it challenging to sit with sensation or emotion in the body.

Enhance Presence With This Contentment Meditation

Enhance presence and mindfulness of the breath with contentment meditation. When content, there’s nowhere else we need to be and nothing we need to do

A Guided Meditation on Acceptance

Develop inner peace and contentment with this guided meditation on acceptance. May this practice help you find greater ease in this present moment.

Recognizing What You Need

Recognizing What You Need. Part of mindfulness is recognizing what you need. See if you can respond in a way that promotes your well-being and freedom

An Equanimity Meditation On The Eight Worldly Thoughts

In this equanimity meditation script, we contemplate the eight worldly concerns. What do we tend to react to, and can we choose to stay centered and calm?

Financial Abundance

Financial Abundance. Cultivate the feeling of abundance and see yourself as having already achieved abundance. See yourself celebrating your success.

Impermanence Meditation

Impermanence Meditation. We cannot know the future. Anything can happen at any moment and our lives are so fragile and precious.

Meditation Script on Life and Death

Meditation on Life – and Death. Faced with the reality of death, what seems important? Consider how can you use this knowledge in your life.

Mindfulness Body Scan for Body Awareness

Mindfulness body scan for body awareness. The intent is to notice the sensation & the mind’s reaction to sensation via awareness of the body.

Feeling Tones – Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral

A feeling tone describes what you’re experiencing as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. A feeling tone can be attached to anything you perceive.

Pleasant vs Unpleasant – Guided Script

Pleasant vs Unpleasant. Can you separate into parts, the sensation, awareness of the sensation, and the label you’ve given neutral, unpleasant, or pleasant?

Focusing on Healthy Food Choices

Focusing on Healthy Food Choices. You may think that you have trouble choosing healthy foods, but actually you can just leave it up to your hands to decide.

Focusing on Being a Healthy Person

Focusing on Being a Healthy Person. Eating healthy is the first step in being healthy and is a lifetime commitment. You choose to eat whole foods…

“The Hole in the Road”

Look out for the hole in the road! This story demonstrates that awareness is the first step toward positive change, in our minds, and in our lives.

CHOIR sings OM SO HUM Mantra

This beautiful choir interpretation of the Om So Hum mantra will help you realize that we all come from one Infinite Source and are deeply connected.

OM Chanting @ 432 Hz

Learn how to do proper OM chanting with 432 Hz music in the background. Acknowledge and feel your connection with others in this Universe.

Alan Watts: Awakening The Mind

A 14-minute guided meditation video of Alan Watts discussing his method of establishing a meditative state and reaching self-awareness.

On Meditation

A free ebook to help you understand the basic principles of meditation so you can easily incorporate it into your daily life.

Peace is a Simple Step (Ajahn Sumedho)

Vol 1 of Ajahn Sumedho’s Peace Is A Simple Step focuses on achieving peace & serenity through visual imagery that will help improve one’s meditation.

Body Cleansing & Balancing

Simple awareness meditation music to relax the mind and the body, clear your mind, cleanse and balance your chakras with a 20 min daily meditation.

Mindfulness Meditation Guide and Journal

Mindfulness meditation guide and journal are useful tools to bring awareness and peace of mind in your day-to-day work and personal life.

Walking Meditation Worksheet

Integrate the power of meditation into your daily life with walking meditation, a common practice in Vipassana and Zen Buddhism.

Posture Meditation

Posture meditation is a very effective way to get grounded & centered. It encourages an embodied, calm, open awareness, and discourages disassociation.

Mountain Meditation

The Mountain Meditation is designed to cultivate stillness and calm and to connect with our inner strength and stability in the face of challenges.

Mantra Meditation

Mantra Meditation. Do you feel like you think too much, or that your thoughts are driving you crazy? Mantra meditation may be one way to help.

Scriptural Meditation

Scriptural meditation generates a distinct feeling of being connected with God, being blessed, and feeling loved. Ideal for relaxation and groundedness.

Grounding Meditation

This Free Script for Grounding Meditation will help you to be in touch with your sensory experience at the present moment.

Equanimity Meditation

The equanimity meditation helps us to examine feelings towards people, and correct them when there’s a mistake. This leads to a more balanced viewpoint.

• Mark Coleman

Essence of Letting Go [Audio]

Mark Coleman talks about the essence of letting go of what is gone, of what may come. This audio helps you to let go of what is happening now.

Do Nothing Meditation

What is Do Nothing Meditation All About? The Do Nothing meditation is a way of experiencing “contentless awareness.” It has analogies in many traditions. Do it with our free worksheet below. And don’t forget to check these 6 Mindful Breathing Exercises. Since the breath provides the oxygen required for every cell in our body to […]

Witnessing Your Thoughts

Understanding our relationship to our thoughts is important. This free mindfulness exercise on awareness of thoughts will help you examine your thoughts.

Learning From Nature

Have you ever found yourself immersed in the wonder and splendor of Nature? There are trees, for example, that are known to be several thousand years old.

Guided Meditation with Sam Harris [Video]

Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, & proponent of mindfulness & spirituality. In this guided meditation, he’ll help improve mindfulness practice.

Dressing for the Weather

In this mindfulness exercise, you will put on a weather gear to help you deal with those unpredictable, stormy conditions you may face in your life.

Higher Consciousness

We should make the most of our states of higher consciousness when they arise and harvest their insights for the time when we require them most.

Nature Gazing from Roots to Sky

Sky Gazing is a method of connecting your gaze with Nature. It begins by extending the gaze toward the sky or horizon, and then slowly focusing down.

Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Research on Mindfulness

This article addresses unique conceptual and methodological issues posed by research on Mindfulness & Meditation; among which is first-person experience.

Presence Through Our Palms

Palm the Present Moment. Use this portable grounding meditation script whenever you find yourself getting anxious, worried, feeling overwhelmed, or lost.

Guided Standing Meditation [Audio]

Guided Standing Meditation by Ayya Anandabodhi. In preparation for 15-minute walking meditation, standing meditation is where mindfulness starts.

The Source Of All Trust

In his talk on how to regain trust, Eckhart Tolle emphasizes the importance of awakening to our depths and coming home to the now, being connected & home.

Rumi – My Soul is from Elsewhere

In this poem, Rumi reflects on the deep self of the soul. He writes that his soul is from elsewhere, and that he intends to end up there.

Mindful Meditation Techniques, & Individual Experience

There’re a million different potentials pertaining to developing mindful meditation techniques, so finding a routine solely relies on individual preference.

Evidence Map of Mindfulness

Evidence Map of Mindfulness is an essential aspect of the spiritual path. It is prepared by: Evidence-based Synthesis Program (ESP) Center. This evidence map of mindfulness provides an overview of “mindfulness” intervention research and describes its volume and focus. It also summarizes patient outcomes as reported in systematic reviews of randomized controlled trial evidence. Most […]

Guided Meditation with Adyashanti [Video]

Published on Nov 6, 2013 A guided meditation prayer with spiritual teacher Adyashanti.”Not my will, but the heart’s will be done.””All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that […]

Guided Meditation [Audio] by Christina Feldman

Guided Meditation Audio by Christina Feldman – Guided Meditation is an essential aspect of the spiritual path. Listen to this meditation now. [ai_playlist id=”196304″] Guided Meditation Audio by Christina Feldman: In the beginning of this sitting, just checking in with your body, it’s finding the posture that’s relaxed and balanced. Cultivating a quality of steadiness […]

Being In Nature With Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle describes the reciprocal transformation that can unfold when we truly commune with nature. This video features the music of Nawang Khechog as found on the album “Music As Medicine”(2004)

Several Styles of Sitting Meditation

Brain on Mindfulness: No More Questions, Your Honor

Remember when the Japanese were in the news, because their businessmen were so stressed out that they were having heart attacks left and right? Lately, Americans seem to be in the same boat: taking no time for themselves, focusing on their work to the exclusion of all else, and allowing stress to affect their health. […]

Multiply Your Meditation Benefits

Multiply your meditation benefits – it grows when you have a sangha community to support you. It’s difficult to practice mindfulness all by yourself, and there’s no reason you have to go it alone. Sangha is one of the three jewels of Buddhism, along with Buddha and Dharma. One simple definition of Sangha is to […]

Mindful Self-Analysis

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Utilizing Precious Resources

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Willingness to Question

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What Story are You Believing

Mindfulness of Time, Meaning, and Belonging

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