Box Breathing For Anxiety Relief - Guided Meditation

Box Breathing For Anxiety Relief - Guided Meditation

This is a five-minute box (square) breathing guided meditation with Zachary Phillips.

Use this practice in response to stressful events, to calm down after exercise, as a lead into a meditation session, and as a sleep aid.

By slowing down and controlling the breath - breathing in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4.

The practice triggers the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting anxiety relief, relaxation, and performance enhancement.

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Every Moment Is An Opportunity For Freedom - Wisdom Talk

Every Moment Is An Opportunity For Freedom - Wisdom Talk

Every moment is an opportunity for freedom.

Mindfulness meditation gives us the tools to, at any moment, detach and take a different course of action. All we need to do is take one mindful breath.

This talk will discuss the possibility of freedom in every moment and give you some ideas on how to attain that freedom throughout the day.

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Happiness Is Closer Than You Think - Wisdom Talk

Happiness Is Closer Than You Think - Wisdom Talk

In this talk, we discuss how the difference between expectation and reality is often the source of significant discontent.

Life trains us to search for ideals: the perfect partner, job, life, outcome. Unfortunately this almost never arises and even if it did, it would be fleeting. Thus there is a real potential for ongoing and almost contentious self-inflicted suffering.

Thankfully, happiness is closer than you think. By embracing mindfulness we can begin to see and address the impact of our expectations.

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Good Habits For Students - Audio Course

Good Habits For Students - Audio Course

Not all approaches to study are equal, and not all work for everyone. It is possible to go through our entire schooling careers wasting our time with ineffective methods of study. Students find themselves struggling to retain information because they are using approaches that are not suited to their subjects, nor their personal preferences, capabilities, and learning styles.

In this 10-day course, you will learn how to maximize your study time and exam performance. You will learn the principles of learning and how to apply them, as well as how to establish a study routine that you can stick to. You will be given in-depth instructions and case studies that highlight a multitude of different approaches and encouraged to experiment to find what works for you.

This course will supercharge your ability to learn, giving you the tools, tips, and tricks necessary to not only make the content stick to your brain but also to make you understand it on a deep level. If you want to enhance your ability to study, if you want to do well on your end-of-year exams, or if you simply want to know how to learn more effectively, this is the course for you.

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Daily Meditation Course For Beginners

Daily Meditation Course For Beginners

This course is designed to assist you in developing a daily meditation routine.

Over the next 30 days, you will embark on a gradual journey into the world of mindfulness meditation. Each session will commence with a brief lesson, followed by a guided meditation practice that builds upon the previous day's teachings, finishing with a discussion of the content, connecting it to the principles of mindfulness and habit building in general.

By the end of the month, you will have not only ingrained a constructive habit but also acquired the foundational skills of mindfulness meditation—an invaluable tool capable of enhancing your life significantly.

Lets meditate!

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Meditating For Detachment & Wisdom - Guided Meditation

Meditating For Detachment & Wisdom - Guided Meditation

By practicing mindfulness we are growing our ability to detach.

We will be less likely to fall into the trap of thoughts, less likely to identify with them and be far less impacted by them.

In this session, I break down how we use our mindfulness practice to learn detachment. It ends with a three-minute silent practice.

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10 Slow & Relaxing Breaths - Guided Meditation

10 Slow & Relaxing Breaths - Guided Meditation

This short, guided session will give you immediate calm. The mind and body are interconnected.

Calm the body and the mind will follow.

Join me for 10 calm and relaxing breaths and give yourself the power to take on the rest of your day!

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A Simple Meditation For Lucid Dreaming & Mindfulness - Guided Meditation

A Simple Meditation For Lucid Dreaming & Mindfulness - Guided Meditation

There is a direct correlation between mindfulness and lucid dreaming.

The more you practice meditation, the higher your chances of becoming lucid.

Try this: hold your hands out in front of you, take a mindful breath and say the following, 'Tonight when I am dreaming, I will notice my hands and realise I am dreaming'.

This is a simple reality check that can be used both as a mindfulness aid, as well as to improve your chances of lucid dreaming.

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Enjoy A Mindful Morning Coffee Together! - Guided Meditation

Enjoy A Mindful Morning Coffee Together! - Guided Meditation

Enjoy a mindful morning coffee together - Grab yourself a morning coffee, get comfortable, and let’s get mindful!

Today’s session will be using our coffee as the focus of our mindfulness session – anything can be the focus, so why not coffee?

The basic praise will be to focus your attention on your cup; the smell, the feel, the taste, savouring every last drop.

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Discover Your Divine Purpose - Audio Course

Discover Your Divine Purpose - Audio Course

You are invited on transformative journey of self-awareness and personal growth to discover your divine purpose - the unique mission that aligns with your soul's calling.

This course presents 10 profound questions that provide an opportunity to explore new possibilities, unlock deep potential, and redefine the course of your life.

In this first session we will contemplate the idea that your gratitude practice is not just for the present moment, but also needs to be applied to the future. Good things will happen, that is a certainty - if we can sit in faith and trust of that certainty, we will feel safer in the present.

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All That Matters Is This One Moment - Wisdom Talk

All That Matters Is This One Moment - Wisdom Talk

The simple truth is that it doesn’t matter how much you meditate.

The prestige of your lineage and the books you have read do not matter.

The amount of time you sit, or don’t sit, is irrelevant.

Your philosophy, beliefs, traditions, and practices may have benefits, but in terms of mindfulness - unless those things allow you unfiltered access to the present moment, they are not serving their function and are likely a distraction.

All that matters is the present moment. This talk will ask the questions, ‘Are you present? Are you observing reality as it is, for what it is, right now?’

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A Simple Trick To Still A Troubled Mind - Wisdom Talk

A Simple Trick To Still A Troubled Mind - Wisdom Talk

For the rest of the day, when you notice an intense emotion, thought, mood, memory, or other mental phenomena, take one mindful breath.

That is a long, slow, deep breath, in through the nose and out through the mouth.

Then recognise that you are, at any time, free to make a different decision should you choose to do so. Give it a try.

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Guided Stomach Breathing For Total Relaxation - Guided Meditation

Guided Stomach Breathing For Total Relaxation - Guided Meditation

The mind and body are deeply interconnected; impact one and the other will follow. The breath is a prime example of this connection.

When we slow down the breath and breathe deeply, we are activating the parasympathetic nervous system. This will subsequently result in physiological, then psychological, relaxation.

The practice in this meditation is as follows: slow deep breath to fill the belly, then quick exhale with mouth open like fogging a mirror.

This breathing technique is different to the traditional slow in and slow out breath techniques, and as such, it may produce a different result for you that you have experienced with those techniques.

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How To Lucid Dream - Wisdom Talk

How To Lucid Dream - Wisdom Talk

This talk covers the basics of how to enter, stabilise and enhance the lucid dreaming state.

Perfect for both beginners and advanced practitioners, this talk covers dream signs, reality checks, journaling, stabilising the dream, and asking the dream space for guidance. Happy lucid dreaming!

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How To Reframe Negative Self Talk

How To Reframe Negative Self Talk

Thoughts of worthlessness, poor self-image, lack of belief in your own abilities, failure, and social out-casting, can run rampant in the mind and detrimentally impact your ability to function.

I know from first-hand experience the negativity cycle that these thoughts can put you into. When I am suffering from anxiety or depression, these thoughts can become particularly powerful.

They play on a loop in my mind, getting ever louder. The more they play, the more that I am negatively impacted. My functionality drops as I am less and less able to do the things I usually do. These losses ‘prove’ that the voices in my head are right…

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5 Senses Mindfulness: How to Calm a Panic Attack

5 Senses Mindfulness: How to Calm a Panic Attack

The first time I had a panic attack, I thought I was going to die.

There was no exact triggering moment, just a quick, overwhelming onslaught of symptoms. Tight chest, sweating, heart palpations, racing thoughts, and a feeling of impending doom…

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Clarifying Common Myths & Misconceptions of Mindfulness Meditation

Clarifying Common Myths & Misconceptions of Mindfulness Meditation

Before we progress into the advanced practice component of this book, it is important to address some common myths and misconceptions about mindfulness. Below you will find some of the questions, beliefs and concerns people have prior to starting a mindfulness practice, as well as some of the things they wished they knew earlier on….

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Taking Meditation Into Your Day

Taking Meditation Into Your Day

‘‘‘To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.’ – Lao Tzu

One of the goals of our meditation practice is to bring the mindfulness state off the meditation mat and into our everyday lives. Just as we lift weights in the gym to be strong in daily life, we meditate formally so we can be mindful in daily life. But there need not be a distinction between the end of a formal session and the rest of our day. Indeed, with practice we will be increasingly able to become mindful at any time. First with small glimpses, and then over longer periods of time…

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How To Know If You Are Meditating Correctly

How To Know If You Are Meditating Correctly

‘‘We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.’ – Jack Kornfield

Knowing if you are meditating correctly is uniquely challenging. Unlike most other pursuits, it is completely internal, and the results are entirely subjective. You could watch two people sitting, one in deep meditation and the other lost in a daydream, and not be able to tell who was doing what. In fact, the day dreamer may emerge from their sit appearing more refreshed and relaxed than when they began, whereas the meditator may appear exhausted….

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Meditation - The Single Best Thing You Can Do For Your Mental State Every Day

Meditation - The Single Best Thing You Can Do For Your Mental State Every Day

Daily meditation will help you to reduce the severity and duration of distressing thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-frames by getting you out of your head and into the present moment.

It will give you some space between you and your mental phenomena, allowing you to observe what is happening without falling into it completely.

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