12 Minute Meditation

This guided meditation is focused on deepening your awareness, freeing yourself, and settling in the present moment. This practice will lead you to experience a greater capacity to clear your mind, and increase your ability to focus. Show notes: Meditation by Rhonda Magee. Rhonda V. Magee is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco. She is a highly practiced facilitator of restorative MBSR interventions for lawyers and law students.

Experiencing an intentional, mindful walk can provide an opportunity to connect with your senses and nourish your relationship to the present moment. Turn your attention to what your body is feeling, bring awareness to your body, and appreciate the here and now. Show notes: Meditation by Elaine Smookler. Elaine Smookler has been a mindful practitioner for over 20 years and is on the faculty at The Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto. She is a Registered Psychotherapist, a columnist for Mindful magazine, and teaches mindfulness to corporate clients through eMindful.

Using the repetition of certain phrases, Sharon Salzberg takes us through a loving-kindness  meditation to shift our attention away from our mistakes and toward self-compassion and understanding. Show notes: Meditation by Sharon Salzberg. Sharon Salzberg is a meditation teacher and New York Times best-selling author. She is also the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society.

In this guided meditation, we become aware of the mind as a process. When we think of our mind in this way, we can let our thoughts float by like bubbles without getting caught up in the contents of each thought. Show Notes: Meditation by Enrique Collazo. Enrique Collazo is a meditation teacher at Inward Bound Mindfulness Education. He works internationally, mostly with teens. 

Embodied awareness means grounding ourselves in our sensory experiences in order to connect with what we’re experiencing in the present moment. Sebene Selassie leads us in this guided meditation to connect with our body and our breath.  Show notes: Meditation by Sebene Selassie. Sebene Selassie is a mindfulness teacher on the Ten Percent Happier app and author of the book You Belong. 

In this guided meditation, Vinny Ferraro invites us to see our thoughts as they arise, notice them, and gently return our attention to the breath and body. This practice can help us find compassion and focus as we let go of judgement, anxiety, and irritation. Show notes: Meditation by Vinny Ferraro. Vinny Ferraro is a board member of the Mind Body Awareness Project. He is widely recognized for his contributions in mindfulness-based programming and interventions for at-risk and incarcerated youth. 

We often use the breath and sensations of the body as anchors in meditation, but listening to the sounds around us can also help ground us. In this guided meditation for focus we listen, notice, and let go of tension. Show notes: Meditation by Susan Kaiser Greenland. Susan Kaiser Greenland is a mindfulness teacher and author who specializes in teaching mindfulness to children and families. She's an author and founding faculty member of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center's facilitator training.

Founding Editor Barry Boyce speaks with mindfulness trainer and former police officer Richard Goerling on the role of mindfulness in policing. 

This is a foundational awareness practice designed to help bring about three key insights: clarity of intention; understanding of our power, presence, and impact; and opportunities for wise action-taking. Show notes: Meditation by Michelle Maldonado. Michelle Maldonado is the author of A Bridge To Better: An Open Letter To Humanity and Resource Guide. She is also the founder and CEO of Lucenscia, a human potential and mindful business transformation firm.