Benefits of Meditation
The mind, heart, and body can improve with regular meditation. Most people aren’t raised to sit and say “Om.” But meditation has gained millions of converts, helping them ease chronic pain, anxiety, stress, improve heart health and boost mood and immunity. Here are some other benefits
- Reduces stress
- It improves concentration
- It encourages a healthy lifestyle
- The practice increases self-awareness
- It increases happiness
- Meditation increases acceptance
Some Favorites
- Tony Robbins Heart Connection: Connect to the power within yourself, within your heart with this powerful 5 minute meditation
- Night Time Meditation: It goes over everything you need to focus on in order to let go, feel grateful, forgive, and manifest. It has 6 phases and is 21 minutes long. If there’s one meditation I would recommend, it would be this one.
- Manifesting Meditation : Some nights when I feel like focusing in on something I’m wanting to manifest in my life, I will listen to this meditation. It will help you to visualize and feel what you want as if it’s already happened, and to have faith that it is now in the process of coming to you.
- Financial Well being: Sometimes, we may find ourselves in a situation where we’re really worried or scared about money, or we’d like to feel better about money in general and release resistant beliefs and feelings around it.
- Physical Well Being: This meditation helps to remember that physical well-being is our natural state of being, and that our cells are constantly regenerating. Our minds are deeply powerful and can heal our bodies once we’re able to let go of limiting beliefs.
- Relationship Mediation: This meditation will help you to shift your focus and perspective around others in your life, which in turn will manifest improved relationships even when we think it isn’t possible.
- End of Day Meditation: This meditation is for those nights when I’m very tired, or when I’m overwhelmed and just want to go to sleep. It helps me feel grateful, at ease, like I have nothing to do, and that my vibration will be resetting while I sleep.
- Hard day parenting meditation: A healing meditation for a hard parenting day.
Mindfulness Breath Practice
The following meditation downloads focus on bringing the awareness to the breath. The breath is a very powerfIul resource for mindfulness. It is something we are all familiar with, we do subconsciously all the time and it only happens in the present moment.
- 3 Minute Breathing Exercise with bells – Peter Morgan (3:35)
- Five minute breathing – Life Happens (4:39)
- Five minute breathing – Mindful Awareness Research Centre, UCLA (5:31)
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Six minute breathing – Melbourne Mindfulness Centre & Still Mind (6:32)
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Ten minute mindfulness of breathing – Padraig O’Morain (10:01)
Short Practice
- Brief Mindfulness Practice – Padraig O’Morain (4:05)
- Three Minute breathing space – Peter Morgan (3:34)
- Three minute mindfulness of sounds – Peter Morgan (3:02)
Body Scans
Doing a body scan provides the space for you to move your focus of attention around the body, being curious about your experience and observing any sensations that you become aware of.
- Four minute body scan – Melbourne Mindfulness Centre & Still Mind (4:01)
- Body scan – Vidyamala Burch, Breathworks (14:36)
- Twenty minute body scan – UCSD Center for mindfulness (23:12)
- Body Scan – Kieran Fleck, Senior CBT Therapist (39:50)
- Forty five minute body scan – UCSD Center for mindfulness (47:34)
Sitting Meditations
Sitting meditations often use the breath as the central focus of the practice. At times they incorporate awareness of sounds, bodily sensations, thoughts or feelings.
- Ten minute wisdom mediation – UCSD Center for mindfulness (10:26)
- Breath, sound and body – Mindful Awareness Research Centre, UCLA (12:00)
- Breath, sounds, body, thoughts, emotions – Mindful Awareness Research Centre, UCLA (19:00)
- Sitting meditation – Kieran Fleck, Senior CBT Therapist (20:18)
- Seated meditation – UCSD Center for mindfulness (21:03)
Movement
Mindful movement practices involve some form of intentional movement such as walking, yoga, tai chi or simple stretching. The intention in the practice is often to focus on the breath and body, noticing sensations in moments of movement and moments of stillness.
- Gentle mindful yoga followed by mindfulness of breath – Corey Roos, White Cloud Wellness (32:27)
Guided Imagery
- Mountain meditation – Padraig 0’Morain (Adaptd from Jon Kabat-Zinn) (7:17)
- Mountain meditation – Peter Morgan (Adaptd from Jon Kabat-Zinn) (8:12)
Self Guided Audio
The following provide a bell to indicate the end
- Five minutes just bells – Peter Morgan (5:32)
- Ten minutes just bells – Peter Morgan (10:32)
- Twenty minutes just bells – Peter Morgan (20:30)
The following provide a bell at the beginning, at intervals throughout and at the end
- Twenty minute bells with 5 min intervals – Peter Morgan (20:29)
- Twenty five minute bells with 5 min intervals – Peter Morgan (25:31)
- Thirty minute bells with 5 min intervals – Peter Morgan (30:28)
- Forty five minute bells with 15 min intervals – Peter Morgan (45:33)
- Forty five minute bells with 5 min intervals – Peter Morgan (45:35)
These links are all free downloads, however I ask that you please credit the original sources. Feel free to direct people here for more resources. If there is something you would like added please email me info@lifeofwellness.ca
Free guided meditations from UCLA
Each week has a different theme, and usually includes some introductory comments, a guided meditation, some silent practice time, and closing comments. Presented by the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center.
UCSD Center for Mindfulness
Guided audio files for practicing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) from the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness.
Basic meditation with Tara Brach
Free meditations that you can stream or download.
Contemplative Mind in Society
Guided practices from Mirabai Bush, the center’s director, Diana Winston from UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, and Arthur Zajonc, president of the Mind & Life Institute.
Insight Meditation Society
Selected talks, podcasts, and audio streams, including various lengths of guided meditation.