Centring Down with Compassion
76 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCarolyn is a Quaker and a mindfulness meditation teacher interested in ways to grow inner qualities like peace, joy and compassion.
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Advices And Queries 29 Mp3
April 23, 2024 16:41 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBApproach old age with courage and hope. As far as possible, make arrangements for your care in good time, so that an undue burden does not fall on others. Although old age may bring increasing disability and loneliness, it can also bring serenity, detachment and wisdom. Pray that in your final years you may be enabled to find new ways of receiving and reflecting God’s love.
Advices And Queries 28
March 27, 2024 10:53 - 23 minutes - 32.2 MBAdvices and Queries 28: 1. Every stage of our lives offers fresh opportunities. Responding to divine guidance, try to discern the right time to undertake or relinquish responsibilities without undue pride or guilt. Attend to what love requires of you, which may not be great busyness. Come and explore how to "attend to what love requires of you" with this gentle meditation.
Advices And Queries 27
February 26, 2024 20:26 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MB1. Live adventurously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and the community? Let your life speak. When decisions have to be made, are you ready to join with others in seeking clearness, asking for God’s guidance and offering counsel to one another?
Mindfulness Of The Body
February 26, 2024 20:14 - 10 minutes - 17.4 MBDrop into the wisdom of the body with this short practice.
Advices And Queries 26
January 23, 2024 18:38 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBDo you recognise the needs and gifts of each member of your family and household, not forgetting your own? Try to make your home a place of loving friendship and enjoyment, where all who live or visit may find the peace and refreshment of God’s presence. This beautiful advice invites to recall to mind our needs and to "try softer" to create loving friendship.
Advices And Queries 25
December 19, 2023 10:44 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBThis advice and query looks so honestly at how relationships can give great joy but also be full of tensions. How do we let in the joy and allow that to nourish our lives AND explore the difficulties with discernment. Do get in touch if you would like to be a part of these podcasts on Farnham.quakermeeting.org
Advices And Queries -24
December 01, 2023 14:57 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MBCentring Down is a term Quakers sometimes use to describe the process of "becoming still and cool in heart and mind". In this Advice and Query we explore what are the blockages to "love and stability" in our own minds; so that we can open more fully to the flow of love for children and their carers. If you would like to join one of these meetings please contact us on Farnham.quakermeeting.org.
Advices And Queries 23
October 23, 2023 19:28 - 33 minutes - 16 MBIf you would like to join these sessions live please email [email protected], you would be very welcome. This evening explores the blockages to understanding each other in close relationships and the meaning of a religious commitment in a quaker marriage.
Advices and Queries 22
September 25, 2023 20:10 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBA Quaker’s approach to meditation; this exploration of Advices and Queries 22 explores cultivating an appreciation of diversity as well as forgiveness of ourselves and others.
Advices And Queries 21
September 22, 2023 11:53 - 24 minutes - 39.5 MBAdvices And Queries 21 by Carolyn Baynes
Advices And Queries 19
June 26, 2023 19:49 - 28 minutes - 13.6 MBAdvice and Queries 19, Rejoice in the presence of children and young people in your meeting and recognise the gifts they bring. Remember that the meeting as a whole shares a responsibility for every child in its care. Seek for them as for yourself a full development of God’s gifts and the abundant life Jesus tells us can be ours. How do you share your deepest beliefs with them, whi...
Take Heed
May 27, 2023 06:50 - 16 minutes - 7.64 MBIn advices and queries (42 short quaker passages) we are invited to "take heed". What does that feel like? What would it be like to live our lives from a more heedful place. This recording done last summer has some back ground traffic noise... I invite you to take heed of the noise and let it come and go! Warm wishes Friends!
Take Ten Grounded, Greeted, Gathered
May 27, 2023 06:43 - 7 minutes - 3.78 MBTake Ten Grounded, Greeted, Gathered by Carolyn Baynes
Advices And Queries 18
May 22, 2023 19:59 - 31 minutes - 51.1 MBThis podcast is for people interested in Quaker spirituality and centring down. We explore an Advice and Query every month. This month we open to nurture and acceptance and the power of forgiveness. To join our monthly group email [email protected]
Working With The Judging Mind
April 27, 2023 16:50 - 7 minutes - 3.45 MBIf you are interested in developing mindfulness to support your teaching practise contact Carolyn at Mindfulfarnham.com
Advices And Queries 17
April 27, 2023 16:49 - 38 minutes - 61.9 MBQuakers use the Advices and Queries to encourage reflection. In number 17 we explore the importance of wise speech and to consider "that we might be mistaken"
Advices And Queries 16
March 28, 2023 18:35 - 25 minutes - 12 MBThis wonderful Advice invites us to move past the armouring of our defences and judgements and open to the diversity that creates a healthy meeting.
Advice And Queries 15
February 27, 2023 20:05 - 43 minutes - 70.3 MBIf you are interested in joining these sessions please contact [email protected].
Grounded, Greeted, Gathered
February 24, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 5.29 MBGrounded, Greeted, Gathered by Carolyn Baynes
Mindful Awareness (of Hand)
February 24, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes - 2.16 MBMindful Awareness (of Hand) by Carolyn Baynes
Pleasant, unpleasant, neutral
February 23, 2023 21:18 - 8 minutes - 3.91 MBA beautiful grounding meditation to help us connect to our bodies.
Rivers Of Light Take Ten
January 29, 2023 17:08 - 8 minutes - 4.02 MBRivers Of Light Take Ten by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten Safe Space Brave Space
January 24, 2023 19:09 - 7 minutes - 3.87 MBTake Ten Safe Space Brave Space by Carolyn Baynes
Advices And Queries 14
January 24, 2023 19:08 - 42 minutes - 68.2 MBHow do we become still and allow "Way to Open"?
Taking Refuge In Stillness
January 07, 2023 08:53 - 7 minutes - 3.44 MBThis mindfulness meditation invites us to rest deeply in awareness and remember that this is always a place available to us as a refuge or a home.
CDC 3 Meditation Holding In The Light
December 26, 2022 17:10 - 17 minutes - 8.26 MBCDC 3 Meditation Holding In The Light by Carolyn Baynes
Advices And Queries 13
November 28, 2022 20:22 - 41 minutes - 67.3 MBThis session explore Advices and Queries 13 which looks at ministry. George Fox said "What canst THOU say" How do access our inner gifts and express that in the world?
Advices And Queries 12
October 24, 2022 19:59 - 40 minutes - 64.9 MBAdvices And Queries 12 by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten Self Care 5
October 24, 2022 19:58 - 6 minutes - 3.41 MBSelf care 5: The fifth meditation in our series looking at self care
Take Ten Self Care 6
October 24, 2022 19:58 - 8 minutes - 4.04 MBSelf care 5: The fifth meditation in our series looking at self care
Take Ten Body Scan Mindfulness
October 06, 2022 14:43 - 5 minutes - 2.89 MBTake Ten Body Scan Mindfulness by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten Self Care 4 Thoughts
October 06, 2022 14:42 - 7 minutes - 3.41 MBTake Ten Self Care 4 Thoughts by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten Self Care 3
October 06, 2022 14:42 - 7 minutes - 3.5 MBTake Ten Self Care 3 by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten Self Care 1
September 26, 2022 19:27 - 5 minutes - 2.84 MBTake Ten Self Care 1 by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten Self Care 2
September 26, 2022 19:26 - 5 minutes - 2.86 MBTake Ten Self Care 2 by Carolyn Baynes
Advices And Queries 11
September 26, 2022 19:25 - 36 minutes - 60.2 MBCarolyn brings "MOWS" and the Tara Brach meditation "RAIN" and fuses them for this enquiry into difficulties.
Advices And Queries 10
August 22, 2022 19:53 - 50 minutes - 88.9 MBThis Advice and Query invites us to include suffering as well as gratitude and joy in our experience of worship.
Advice And Queries 9
August 22, 2022 19:52 - 32 minutes - 57.3 MBThis beautiful Advices and Queries invites us to "yield all outer concerns"
Take Ten: Welcoming all of ourselves
July 08, 2022 14:30 - 9 minutes - 14.8 MBTake Ten: Welcoming all of ourselves by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten: You Matter!
June 27, 2022 19:24 - 8 minutes - 4.19 MBTake Ten: You Matter! by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten: Healing Hands
June 27, 2022 19:22 - 9 minutes - 4.66 MBTake Ten: Healing Hands by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten: Grounded, Greeted, Gathered
June 27, 2022 19:21 - 7 minutes - 3.69 MBTake Ten: Grounded, Greeted, Gathered by Carolyn Baynes
Advices And Queries 8
June 27, 2022 19:20 - 52 minutes - 84.4 MBThis month explores Advices and Queries no. 8 and what is meant by "worship", what are the blockages and to worship and how worship in a group can take us deeper than private worship.
Advices And Queries 1 - 7 Review
May 24, 2022 17:41 - 18 minutes - 8.69 MBThe first seven advices are grouped together. Here we explore why they are linked and how to explore them in our bodies more. This is a guided movement meditation using some of the phrases in the first seven advices and queries.
Take Ten - Why Do Mindfulness?
May 24, 2022 17:36 - 8 minutes - 3.97 MBTake Ten - Why Do Mindfulness? by Carolyn Baynes
Take Ten Self- Compassion
May 24, 2022 17:36 - 5 minutes - 2.61 MBWe can so easily use harsh words to speak to ourselves. When we develop self compassion we start to cultivate a kinder inner voice.