Mindful Monday

Labeling Your Thoughts Purpose:  Become more aware of negative thoughts without judgment, reducing their power and emotional impact. This...

Instructions:  Find a comfortable position where you can relax without needing to do anything else. You can sit or lie down. Allow your...

Introduction: Your physical body is your mobile residence, the only one you have in this lifetime. You literally travel through life in...

Instructions: When you notice a difficult emotion arising, take a moment to pause and apply the RAIN technique. R: Recognize Acknowledge...

Instructions: When you feel anxious, stressed, or overwhelmed, take a few moments to go through these steps. Focus on each step, and try...

Benefits of Sitting How wonderful for you. You are practicing seated meditation. Ideally, allow fifteen or more minutes. However, even a...

Meditating as a Daily Practice It is a new day and you are sitting for meditation. You have sampled breath awareness, mantra recitation...

Deepening Meditation Settle into your meditation spot, allowing five to ten minutes. Sit comfortably upright and focus on breathing. You...

Being the Observer Sit in a comfortable, stable posture. Allow ten or more minutes for sitting. Notice stillness in the room around you....

Sitting Again to Meditate Settle in to sit quietly for five or more minutes. Recognize that you are in your body and sit nobly with a...

Sitting to Meditate Select a quiet location and sit upright comfortably. Plan to sit for about five minutes. Start with a few minutes so...

Sitting Today Here you are, sitting, perhaps for a few minutes longer. Notice that you are alive and in your body. Life is a gift, even...

Meditating on a Candle Place a lit candle in front of you. Establish your comfortable seated pose. Breathe in, aware of being in your...

Meditating on a Mantra Sit in a stable, comfortable posture. Allow ten or fifteen minutes. Breathe in and lengthen your spine. Breathe...

Stillness Within Sit in a quiet room:  Let your posture be stable and your spine comfortably tall. Focus on breathing in and out: ...