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February 11, 2023Taking Refuge in Awareness with Phillip Moffitt
Phillip Moffitt leads a meditation to appreciate the body and connecting with the earth element: it’s textures, weight, & firmness.
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May 1, 2022How to Mindfully Notice Our Body and Emotions
What do you notice in your body when you pay curious, non-judgmental attention to it? What emotions do you become aware of resting beneath the surface of your physical experience? Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness meditation that leads us to mindfully notice our present moment experience of the physical body and our emotional body. […]
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May 1, 2022How to Accept Life As It Unfolds
When we practice mindfulness, we open to life as it is, strengthening our capacity to accept life as it unfolds. Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation inviting us to listen to the body, open to our emotions, and accept life as it constantly changes. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022How to Befriend Your Body, Your Emotions And Your Spirit
Take a pause in your day to befriend your body, your emotions and your spirit. Sean Fargo leads this guided self-compassion meditation to help us sense into our transient experience and our essence with care. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022Embodied Awareness of Breathing
Each breath in and out connects us intimately to the world. Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness of breathing practice to enhance embodied awareness of breathing. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022Body Scan Mediation Audio
Scanning the body gently from head to toes, Sean Fargo invites us to listen deeply to the body with caring curiosity. Without judging your experience as good or bad, right or wrong, can you open to what is here in your body with care and tenderness? Can you open to this moment as it is? […]
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May 1, 2022Caring Awareness for the Head
How often do we gift our head with gentle, caring awareness? What happens when we tune into this part of the body with care and warmth? Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness meditation honing in on sensations we can notice within the head space. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022Cultivating Courage to Be With What Is
Sometimes it takes courage to be fully present with what is here for us. Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation inviting us to cultivate courage as we lovingly tend to our experience of this moment. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022Sensing Into the Head and Neck
Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness meditation inviting us to sense into sensations above the shoulders. What can you notice, for instance, in and around your skull, your forehead, your cheeks, and your throat? The intention is to simply bring caring curiosity to these parts of the body. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022How to Come Home to the Body
Our body is always here with us, and yet we are not always aware of it. Sean Fargo leads this gentle guided meditation inviting us to sense into the body as a way of coming home to it. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022I Am Capable of Meeting This Moment
Through mindfulness practice, we increase our capability of meeting our experience with curiosity, care, and non-judgment. Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness meditation to help us sense into this growing capability. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022Tuning Into Breath and Body
What do you notice in your body as you breathe? Can you tune into your body and into this breath with care and curiosity? Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness meditation that invites us to bring kind awareness to what this breathing body feels like in this moment. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022Settling Into This Present Moment
Can you note what is present for you with caring curiosity? Can you nurture your experience with gentle awareness? Sean Fargo leads a short mindfulness meditation to help us settle into this present moment with care towards whatever we are experiencing. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script]
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May 1, 2022Accepting This Present Moment As It Is
Can we accept everything that is present in our experience, be it fear or shame or stillness? Can we open to everything as it is – even if we’re scared? Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation to help us open to our present moment experience with care, curiosity, and acceptance. [tcb-script src=”https://apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js” defer=””][/tcb-script][tcb-script type=”application/ld+json”]{ “@context”: […]
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May 1, 2022How to Simply Be In The Body
What do you notice when you give your body the fullness of your presence? What is it like to simply be in the body? Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness meditation inviting us to tune into the physical body with curious, gentle awareness. It is a practice of being with what is present in our […]
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May 1, 2022How to Allow Your Experience to Be What It Is
Sean Fargo leads a gentle guided mindfulness meditation that invites us to allow our experience to be what it is. Whether we are feeling frustration, sadness, or something else, we can practice opening to the experience with allowance and caring curiosity – to whatever degree feels supportive for us and if the invitation itself feels […]
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January 1, 2022Elemental Body Awareness
The elements of life are not just around us – they are also within us. Sean Fargo leads a body awareness practices that focuses on sensing into the elements. What can you observe by sensing into the earth, air, water, and fire within the body?
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January 1, 2022This Moment Is Like This
Can we open to our experience as it is? Can we allow life to unfold as it is? Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness meditation to help us open to our present moment experience as it is.
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January 1, 2022Breathing With Curiosity
Each breath is brand new and each breath is an opportunity to get curious. Sean Fargo leads this mindful breathing meditation with an emphasis on bringing curiosity to the way that the breath moves through the body in each moment.
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January 1, 2022Giving Thanks
What do you value in your life? Sean Fargo leads a guided gratitude meditation, inviting us to note and give thanks for various things in our life that we value – from people to experiences to resources.
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January 1, 2022Recalling Happiness
For many, happiness is a difficult emotion to fully embrace. Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation on recalling happiness and soaking in that experience of it, paying mindful attention to the thoughts and physical sensations that are present alongside it.
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January 1, 2022Observing Frustration
Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation that invites us to explore the feeling of frustration. After calling to mind a situation that sparked mild frustration within us, we are guided in exploring that emotion – the thoughts and the physical sensations of it – with care and curiosity.
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January 1, 2022Finding Refuge in the Body
Can you open your awareness to a sense of ease within your physical body? Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation that invites us to find refuge in the body.
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January 1, 2022Tending to the Body
Is there a part of your body that is asking for your awareness? Can you tend to that part of the body with care and curiosity? Sean Fargo leads a gentle guided meditation to help increase our capacity to tend safely and compassionately to our physical body.
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January 1, 2022Welcoming This Moment
Can you welcome this moment with openness and caring curiosity? Sean Fargo leads this guided meditation to help us welcome what is here for us right now.
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January 1, 2022The Expanding Dimension of Time
Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation to enhance our awareness of the expanding dimension of time. Can we explore each moment as something brand new? Can we take in each moment with a sense of awe and wonder?
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January 1, 2022Contentment for Simply Being
Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness meditation that cultivates caring curiosity and helps us to tune into contentment for simply being.
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January 1, 2022Opening to Gladness
By opening to gladness, we ease the nervous system and help ourselves to settle into meditation. This guided practice led by Sean Fargo begins with the cultivation of gladness, followed by space and silence to simply be.
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January 1, 2022Mindfulness of Death
Each and every breath sustains us, and any breath that we take could be our last. Sean Fargo gently leads us into a mindfulness of death practice centered around this awareness.
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January 1, 2022Mindfulness of Shame
We all experience shame and self-judgment. Rather than avoiding it, can we turn towards it gently and with curiosity and compassion? Sean Fargo leads this guided meditation on shame, helping us to establish a new relationship with this difficult emotion.
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January 1, 2022Exploring Feelings Tones
Sean Fargo leads a guided mindfulness meditation to enhance curiosity of the present moment, observing sensations as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. Can we be with whatever the feeling tones of our experience might be?
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January 1, 2022Mindfulness of Breathing by Sean Fargo
Sean Fargo leads this guided mindfulness meditation to enhance present moment awareness. This is a standard mindfulness of breathing practice.
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January 1, 2022Three Centers: Belly, Heart, and Head
Sean Fargo leads a mindfulness meditation to enhance body awareness of three centers in the body: the belly, the heart, and the head. Which one calls for your attention the most?
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January 1, 2022Sensing Into Safety
Is there a place inside of you – some area of your body – that feels safe to settle into? Sense into this place of refuge with care and curiosity before noticing if this sense of safety expands within the body.
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January 1, 2022Seven Directions Meditation
There are seven directions we can feel into to increase our felt sense of what is within and around us. Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation that explores all of the seven directions.
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March 27, 2020Questioning: Is That So?
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Is That So? He tells a story about a priest who did not get wrapped up about what people think about him.
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March 26, 2020What’s Not Wrong
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: What’s Not Wrong. Some people are oriented to noticing what’s wrong, searching for the problem to fix it.
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March 26, 2020Resolution to Present Details
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Resolution to Present Details. In Mindfulness, to be resolved, to be present attentively for details.
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March 26, 2020Choosing the Long Path of Practice
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Choosing the Long Path of Practice. The idea of a fast way to enlightenment is saddening. Is it motivated by greed?
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March 25, 2020Experiencing Windless Days
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Windless Days. Walking in a windy day it’s almost second nature to be leaning towards the wind.
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March 25, 2020On Knowing Noting and Calm
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Knowing Noting and Calm. Thich Nat Hanh said if challenging sea conditions if one person remains calm…
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March 25, 2020The Space Between
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation The Space Between. In meditation practice sometimes we discover space can be inspiring, physically or in thoughts.
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March 25, 2020Dharmette: Space
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Space. The idea of making space for things to appear, some people are afraid when they are approached.
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March 25, 2020Quick Mindfulness Talk: Relating to It
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Relating to It. There’re only two things over going on, there’s what’s happening & the relationship to it.
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March 25, 2020Mindfulness of Clear Seeing
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Clear Seeing. Sometimes the word “Vipassana” is translated as Clear Seeing. The “passana” part is to see.
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March 25, 2020Nothing at Stake
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Nothing at Stake. When you discover what’s not needed, maybe you can let go of that and become much simpler.
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March 25, 2020Dharmette: Self Conscious
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: A short instruction being mindful, Abide Conscious not Self Conscious. Be Conscious, not Self Conscious.
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March 25, 2020Dharmette: Responses vs Reactions
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Responses vs Reactions. It’s useful to consider, the only thing we ever really possess is our responses.
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March 25, 2020Dharmette: Noticing
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Noticing. He starts with a story about an extraordinarily ordinary person and how practical noticing is.
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March 24, 2020Beautyful
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Beautyful. Someone skilled in meditation is someone who is skilled with the beauty of meditation. Goodness, virtue.
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March 24, 2020How to Know which is Skillful in the Moment
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Resolve/Allow Learning How to Know which is Skillful In The Moment. Resolve is a beautiful quality.
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March 24, 2020Don’t Pick It Up and Don’t Reject It
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Don’t Pick it Up and Don’t Reject it. How to apply Buddhist practice for particular suffering?
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March 20, 2020Drink Your Joy
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Drink Your Joy. In meditation, there are positive states that can come along, sense of peace, well-being, joy.
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March 20, 2020Be Still and Gaze Upon Everything Kindly
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Be Still & Gaze Upon Everything Kindly. Buddha represents being still, tranquil in body & mind, eyes gazing kindly.
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March 20, 2020Dharmette: Practicing with Imagination
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Practicing with Imagination. Yes can be called an attitude to being present and being open, being there.
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March 20, 2020Journey of 3 Breaths
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Journey of 3 Breaths. Sometimes it’s useful to be very modest with your meditation. Small steps can be easier.
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March 20, 2020Dharmette: Tenderness
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette Tenderness. It’s a feeling of the preciousness of our lives. The specialness of being present. A tender heart.
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March 20, 2020Dharmette: Doing Nothing
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette Doing Nothing. A big part of learning mindfulness meditation is learning to do nothing. For some it’s hard.
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March 20, 2020Attention Focused Narrow
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Attention Focused Narrow. There’s a saying, in doing mindfulness practice, we look at reality but don’t stare at it.
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March 19, 2020Pausing
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Pausing. To practice generosity to the people you’re with and if you’re alone to be generous with yourself.
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March 19, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Impermanence Fading Away and Letting Go
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Impermanence Fading Away and Letting Go. Check-in with your body how are you feeling right now. Check-in with your mind.
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March 19, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Relaxing Mental Formations through Presence
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Relaxing Mental Formations by Being Present and Letting Go. In a very open way just notice how you are.
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March 19, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Reassurance of the Breath
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Reassurance of the Breath. There’s a saying- to breath at ease is closely related to the feeling of reassurance.
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March 19, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Knowing the Breath
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Knowing the Breath. Your breathing has been your companion for your whole life. In all circumstances, it’s there with you.
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March 19, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Noticing Absence and Little Cessations
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Noticing Absence & Little Cessations. It’s always useful to refamiliarize yourself with yourself as if everything is new.
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March 19, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Peripheral Awareness and Fading Away
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Peripheral Awareness and Fading Away. Tuning in to your breathing refamiliarize yourself what it’s like to be breathing.
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March 18, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Cultivating Well Being
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Cultivating Well Being. Take a moment to really know & feel. Your body is always in the present moment, the mind is not.
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March 18, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Noticing Ease and Effortlessness
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Noticing Ease and Effortlessness. Settle in your body, put it at ease. Put your mind at ease as you exhale.
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March 18, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Relating to the Breath
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Relating to the Breath. Take a couple of minutes to have a conversation with yourself, how you are today?
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March 18, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Exploring the Breath
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Exploring the Breath. What is your relationship with your breathing? Very broadly, is it a positive, negative or neutral?
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March 18, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Exploring Impermanence and Awareness
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Exploring Impermanence and Awareness. If you take a long exhale, something special happens at the end of it- stillness.
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March 18, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Relaxing the Mental Formation
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Relaxing the Mental Formation. Allowing the peripheral awareness, become aware of what’s happening in the mind.
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March 18, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Relaxing and Cultivating Joy and Ease
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Relaxing & Cultivating Joy & Ease. Taking 3 deep breaths to settle in to connect. Take a few minutes to appreciate yourself.
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March 18, 2020Guided Anapanasati: Breath and Peripheral Awareness
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Breath and Peripheral Awareness. Taking an upright alert posture. There’s a connection between posture & alertness.
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March 18, 2020Guided Anapanasati: 4 Forms of Mindfulness of Breathing
Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati 4 Forms of Mindfulness of Breathing. There are different kinds of awareness and here are 4 different approaches.
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March 18, 2020Awareness Guided Meditation by Gil Fronsdal
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation. To be attentive in what goes on inside of you. To be a witness to the breath, the feelings, emotions, thoughts.
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March 18, 2020Guided Meditation on the Breath
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation on the Breath. There are 2 general ways of being with the breath in mindfulness meditation. To choose a home base.
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March 18, 2020Guided Forgiveness
Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Forgiveness meditation. In preparation for a Loving-kindness practice is a practice of forgiveness. Forgiving is difficult.
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March 18, 2020Guided Metta
Guided Metta meditation led by Gil Fronsdal. Metta is Loving-Kindness, is one of the cornerstones of Buddhist Practice and a companion of Mindfulness.
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March 17, 2020Guided Body Scan
Gil Fronsdal instructs the alert posture before starting the guided body scan meditation. Taking long slow in-breaths to connect with the body and relaxing.
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February 8, 2020Guided Meditation on Breath
Gil Fronsdal leads a guided meditation on the breath as a fundamental practice for mindfulness and to familiarize the self to breathing, then to the body.
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February 7, 2019Gratitude – Meditation
In this meditation say “Thank you” to all the people, to all that is around you and part of you. Find and discover that in gratitude, you care about so much more.
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February 5, 2019Experience Gratitude
Has gratitude been unrecognized or forgotten? Your experience with gratitude can help to recognize where it has been present and unrecognized.
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October 14, 2018Hardwiring Happiness
As people internalize experiences of gratitude, they gradually become less greedy, less driven to prove themselves. Learn to hardwire your happiness.
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October 14, 2018Hardwiring Happiness: Meditation
As we struggle to find happiness, we discover the importance of peace, love, and contentment. Let us hardwire our happiness through this meditation.
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October 9, 2018How To Feel Safe, Content & Connected
We have 3 overarching needs. Needs that help us be safe by avoiding harms, help us be content by rewards and help us be connected by attaching to others.
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March 15, 2018Breathing Space
Available for download, audible media of 10-minute meditation with just bells. Good for worry-free time-crunched meditation.
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March 15, 2018Tension Release, by Vidyamala Burch
Stress and tension can cause aches and pains all over the body. This short meditation will release you from suffering and leave you feeling refreshed.
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March 15, 2018The 3 Minute Breathing Space Meditation
Why do we need to return to breathing when we need space? Being aware of breathing brings a lot into focus, like a sense of acceptance and awareness.
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March 14, 2018Three Minute Mindfulness of Sounds Meditation
This 3-minute meditation will guide you through a process of becoming mindful of sounds. Something that you can do anywhere and anytime.
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March 14, 2018Gentle Mindful Yoga
Gentle Mindful Yoga begins with the centering, followed by a series of postures and movements, and concludes with a relaxation and a meditation.
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March 14, 2018Five Minute Meditation – With Just Bells
Available for download, audible media of 5-minute meditation with just bells. Good for worry-free meditation for 5 minutes.
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March 14, 2018Ten Minute Meditation – With Just Bells
Available for download, audible media of 10-minute meditation with just bells. Good for a worry-free 10-minute meditation.
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March 14, 2018Twenty Minute Meditation – With Just Bells
Available for download, audible media of 20-minute meditation with just bells. Good for 20-minute meditations for invoking sleep.
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March 14, 2018Twenty Minute Meditation – Just Bells With Intervals
Available for download, audible media of 20-minute meditation with just bells. The 5-minute intervals are good for meditation parts.
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March 14, 2018Twenty Five Minute Meditation – Just Bells 5 Minute Intervals
Available for download, audible media of 25-minute meditation with just bells. The 5-minute intervals are good for meditation parts.
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March 14, 201830 Minute Silent Meditation With Bells
Are you ready to settle in for a thirty-minute silent meditation? This timed 30-minute silent meditation begins and ends with a gentle, relaxing bell.
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March 14, 2018Forty Five Minute Meditation – Just Bells 15 Minute Intervals
Available for download, audible media of 45-minute meditation with just bells. The 15-minute intervals are good for parts of relaxation meditation.
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March 14, 2018Forty Five Minute Meditation – Just Bells With 5 Minute Intervals
Available for download, audible media of 45-minute meditation with just bells. The 5-minute intervals are good for parts of stress release meditation.
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February 18, 2018Mind Like Fungi
A very fascinating talk “A Mind Like Fungi” by Ajahn Amaro takes you into Buddhist perspective. It talks about the mind and body, the within and without.
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