12 Minute Meditation
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The latest scientific research reveals that 12 minutes of meditation a day yields benefits like increased attention, focus, creativity, calm, resilience and compassion. Start your 12-minute sit with guided meditations from today’s leading mindfulness experts, brought to you by Mindful. With a new mindfulness meditation each week, 12 Minute Meditation invites you to bring the benefits of mindfulness to daily life.
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Nov 14, 2018 • 15min
15-Minute Awareness of Breath Meditation
Nov 14, 2018 • 3min
3-Minute Body Scan Meditation
A brief mindfulness meditation practice to relax your body and focus your mind.
Nov 8, 2018 • 48min
Practice Loving-Kindness with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Block off some time for yourself to engage in connection, compassion, and kindness. This immersive heartscape meditation offers deep healing of ourselves and others. Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as well as the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Nov 7, 2018 • 7min
A Seven Minute Mindful Phone Practice
Follow this guided meditation to become more aware of the emotions and body sensations when you use your phone.
Nov 6, 2018 • 26min
Explore Your Self-Critical Voice with Diana Winston
This guided meditation will help you to get familiar with self-judgments and how you relate to your flaws, so that you can cultivate compassion and recognize your own worthiness. Show notes: Meditation by Diana Winston. Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and author of several books including The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness.
Nov 2, 2018 • 21min
A Meditation on Anxious Emotions with Bob Stahl
This guided practice involves deep investigation into the causes of anxious feelings so you can discover the story lines that trigger and drive your emotions. Show notes: Adapted from A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety by Bob Stahl PhD, Florence Meleo-Meyer MS, MA, and Lynn Koerbel MPH. 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.
Oct 31, 2018 • 22min
A Meditation for Working With Anxiety
23-minute meditation for working with anxiety from Hugh Byrne, meditation teacher and author of the Here-And-Now Habit.
Oct 29, 2018 • 4min
Body Scan Meditation
From The Mindful Podcast series.
Oct 29, 2018 • 11min
10-Minute Mindful Breathing Practice
Oct 29, 2018 • 5min
A 5-Minute Mindful Breathing Practice
Returning to the breath, again and again, when the mind has wandered—that's how we train our attention. A 5-minute breathing practice from Mark Bertin.
