12 Minute Meditation

Society often pushes benchmarks at us: We are enough if we have a certain amount of money, if we look a certain way, if we live in a certain house. In this guided meditation for acceptance and awareness we come into the present moment and remember that right now, we are enough.  Show notes: Meditation by Spencer Sherman. Spencer Sherman is a mindfulness teacher and author. He promotes the belief that we can all feel a sense of ease and purpose when it comes to money, regardless of how much we have.

We let go of the feeling that we need to work toward something in this practice for self-care. Jay Vidyarthi guides us to let go of racing thoughts and settle into radical self-acceptance with awareness and presence.  Show notes: Meditation by Jay Vidyarthi. Jay Vidyarthi is a digital researcher and product designer. He is also a mindfulness teacher with over ten years of personal meditation practice.

Since the beginning of shelter in place regulations, many of us have experienced increased stress and have been spending more time with those we live with than usual. This guided meditation helps us open to self-compassion and forgiveness.  Show notes: Meditation by Carley Hauck. Carley Hauck is an author and expert in leadership. She is the founder of Leading from Wholeness, a consultancy company that helps workplaces operate from a people-first approach.

If you’re feeling fear, anger, or any unpleasant emotion, begin this guided meditation to embrace what you’re feeling. Move from a place of becoming your emotion to simply experiencing the emotion. You will end with a feeling of open-hearted awareness.  Show notes: Meditation by Loch Kelly.  Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW, is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the non-profit Open-Hearted Awareness Institute.

Settle into this meditation to strengthen your concentration and utilize the full power of your energy. Sharon Salzberg guides us from fragmented thoughts to a place of integration and empowerment.  Show notes: Meditation by Sharon Salzberg. Excerpted from Real Change, © 2020 by Sharon Salzberg, with permission from Flatiron Books. Available for pre-order now. Sharon Salzberg is a meditation teacher and New York Times best-selling author. She is also the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society.

Linda Graham guides us through three breath and awareness practices to help ground ourselves throughout the day. Soothe your body with affectionate breathing, feel warmth with the hand over heart practice, and find comfort with a visualization of a call to a compassionate friend.  Show notes: Meditation by Linda Graham.  Linda Graham, MFT, is a psychotherapist and mindful self-compassion teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The deepest healing occurs when you come to terms with the way things are. This simple awareness of breath practice is an act of self-love and compassion for the moment we find ourselves in.   Show Notes: Meditation by Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein. This practice is excerpted from A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, by Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein. New Harbinger Publications. Elisha Goldstein, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and conducts a private practice in West Los Angeles. He is founder of the Mindful Living Collective. Bob Stahl, PhD, has founded eight Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs in medical centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently offering programs at Dominican Hospital and El Camino Hospitals in Los Gatos and Mt. View.

Equanimity helps us understand that when we allow difficult thoughts and feelings—when we don’t over-identify with them or cling to them—they will change and pass. This guided meditation will help you cultivate equanimity, find steadier ground and meet the challenges of the day.  Show notes: Meditation by Willem Kuyken.  Willem Kuyken, Ph.D., DClinPsy, is Director of the University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre and Ritblat Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological Science at the University of Oxford.

Navigate reactivity and distressing moments with the STOP practice. The four steps create space for you to interrupt thought patterns and call on the resources within. This practice can be used whenever and wherever you need it. Show notes: Meditation by Rhonda Magee. Rhonda V. Magee is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco. Also trained in sociology and MBSR. She is a facilitator of trauma-sensitive, restorative MBSR interventions for lawyers and law students.