Latest Howtomeditate Podcast Episodes
A 12-Minute Meditation for Moving On
12 Minute Meditation - October 26, 2023 20:50 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Holly Rogers leads us in a guided meditation for moving on. Life often presents us with challenges and discomfort. This practice is a gentle guide to navigating those moments with grace and clarity. Acceptance, as Holly reminds us, is not about liking or agreeing...
A 12-Minute Guided Meditation to Cultivate Kinder Self-Talk
12 Minute Meditation - October 19, 2023 16:08 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Adam Ortman leads us through a guided meditation that explores our inner dialogue. Our inner voice often constructs a limited narrative that obscures the full picture of our experiences. By paying close attention to this inner voice, especially when it tends to focu...
A 12-Minute Guided Sound Meditation for Present-Moment Awareness
12 Minute Meditation - October 13, 2023 16:10 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Charisse Minerva guides us in a unique sound meditation for greater awareness and self-discovery. Explore the symphony of sounds that surround us and learn to navigate stress through mindful breathing. Join us to embark on a sensory adventure with sound. This epi...
A 12-Minute Guided Visualization Meditation to Fill Your Cup
12 Minute Meditation - September 27, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Carrington Kernodle Epperson leads us in a guided visualization meditation for self-care and self-compassion. This meditation helps us invite in abundance and inner peace, and reminds us that we have everything we need within us. This episode of 12-Minute Meditat...
A 12-Minute Loving-Kindness Meditation to Anchor In Compassion
12 Minute Meditation - September 21, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Enrique Collazo leads a guided loving-kindness meditation to practice compassion toward ourselves and all others. In our society, we’re often hard on ourselves and strive to reach the high expectations we set. Inevitably, we fall short and this can lead to a habit ...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Notice the Beauty Around Us—Even in the City
12 Minute Meditation - September 15, 2023 17:38 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Kazumi Igus leads a guided walking meditation that invites you to slow down and rediscover the beauty of the natural world, even within the bustling urban environment. If you pay attention, you can hear the call of a bird, notice your favorite color in shop windows, and look up at the...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Check in With Your Whole Self
12 Minute Meditation - September 08, 2023 17:46 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Wholeschool Mindfulness Director, Ashley Williams shares a practice to help us check in with our minds, our bodies, our hearts, our energy, and our emotions. Earlier this year, Mindful partnered with WholeSchool Mindfulness to create a series of guided meditations to support young peo...
12 Minute Meditation: Exploring Challenging Emotions with Dr. Jud Brewer
12 Minute Meditation - September 01, 2023 17:32 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsIn this week's episode, we explore a unique approach to dealing with difficult emotions. Instead of pushing them away, we delve into the power of recognizing and embracing these emotions with kindness and curiosity. Join us this week as Jud Brewer introduces a straightforward exercise that can h...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Holding Your Problems with Compassion
12 Minute Meditation - August 25, 2023 17:40 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsEmbark on a journey of self-discovery and mental growth with the insightful guidance of clinical psychologist Diana Hill in this week's edition of 12 Minute Meditation. Dr. Diana Hill leads you through a meditation designed to sharpen your perspective-taking skills—an essential component rooted ...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Finding Meaning with ACT in Action with Shamash Alidina
12 Minute Meditation - August 04, 2023 18:17 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, join mindfulness expert Shamash Alidina in this transformative 12-minute guided meditation, "Finding Meaning with ACT in Action," exclusively on mindful.org. Drawing from his acclaimed course "ACT for Beginners," Shamash will lead you through the 6 flexibility skills of the ACT proces...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Making Space With Your Breathe
12 Minute Meditation - July 27, 2023 16:17 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsJoin clinical psychologist Diana Hill this week as she takes you on a transformative journey of mindfulness and self-discovery. Embrace the soothing power of Thich Nhat Hanh's mantras from the revered Plum Village tradition as you begin with a gentle focus on your breath. From there, expand your...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Strengthening Response Flexibility
12 Minute Meditation - July 21, 2023 04:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsJoin Dr. Reena Kotecha, creator of Mindful in Healthcare, in this week's practice, called the 'SOS Response' meditation. This practice uses guided visualization and mindfulness to enable response flexibility when you're experiencing a challenging situation or when you're in the midst of difficul...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Reconnect With Your Senses
12 Minute Meditation - June 28, 2023 17:28 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsJoin Shalini Bahl-Milne in this week's practice as she guides us through a practice to replenish our mental energy. By focusing on our senses, we can rest our thinking mind and fully experience the present moment. Feel the sensations in your feet, listen to the sounds around you, and embrace the...
A 12-Minute Loving-Kindness Meditation to Tap Into Gratitude with Jessica Morey
12 Minute Meditation - June 17, 2023 00:02 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsJoin us for a transformative meditation led by Jessica Morey, as we explore the power of connecting with our own goodness. By anchoring ourselves in feelings of love and gratitude, we can cultivate a sense of loving-kindness and compassion that extends beyond ourselves and into the world. In ...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Finding Meaning in Pain with Diana Hill
12 Minute Meditation - June 09, 2023 03:37 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsJoin clinical psychologist Diana Hill as she takes us on a journey to uncover the profound meaning that can arise from our greatest pains. Drawing from her extensive experience straddling the realms of pain and meaning, Diana guides us through a thought-provoking experiment. Through a series o...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Healing Through Hope With Rose Felix Cratsley
12 Minute Meditation - June 01, 2023 22:47 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsJoin us this week as Rose Felix Cratsley shares powerful affirmations that nurture self-compassion, encourage personal growth, and bring about healing through hope. With a firm belief in the importance of mindfulness as a fundamental human right, Rose reminds us that we enter this world with ope...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Synchronized Spinal Movement with Cara Bradley
12 Minute Meditation - May 18, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsJoin expert Cara Bradley for a transformative mindful movement practice, synchronizing mind and body through breath and spinal movement. This practice integrates mindfulness into movement, unlocking the power of the mind-body connection. Experience increased calmness, clarity, relaxation, and al...
12 Minute Meditation: 4 Ways to Savor the Dance of Cooking with Lynn Rossy
12 Minute Meditation - May 04, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsDelicious means enjoyable, delightful, and pleasant—and we can bring that perspective into the kitchen as we cook. This week, mindful eating expert Lynn Rossy offers four ways to savor the dance of cooking. Lynn says Delicious is the term used to describe the type of food she hopes to eat, but a...
12 Minute Meditation: A Laughter Yoga Practice to Get the Giggles Going with Elaine Smookler
12 Minute Meditation - April 27, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week we're offering something a little different. Elaine Smookler guides a laughter yoga practice. The amazing thing about laughter is you don’t even have to really have something funny to laugh at. We can actually induce laughter as an experience and the body will still release the same en...
12 Minute Meditation: Explore Your Habitual Reactions with Patricia Rockman
12 Minute Meditation - April 20, 2023 04:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Patricia Rockman offers a practice to explore your habitual reactions. This meditation is about working with habits. In particular, our habitual reactions to difficult situations that commonly arise. These could be anger at being stuck in traffic, sadness at not getting what we want, ...
12 Minute Meditation: Train Moment-to-Moment Awareness with Kimberly Brown
12 Minute Meditation - April 13, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsWisdom arises out of our mind’s capacity to be aware—which is not the same as thinking. Meditation teacher Kimberly Brown says, wisdom is a moment-to-moment awareness of what’s arising internally and externally. So, this week, Brown offers a practice to train our awareness. It begins with develo...
A Guided Walking Meditation for Daily Life with Mark Bertin
12 Minute Meditation - March 30, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsWalking meditation can be a formal practice, like watching the breath, or it can be informal, simply bringing awareness to this everyday activity whenever we need to travel from point A to point B. It’s an opportunity to gather our awareness which so often becomes distracted or even stuck when t...
A Guided Meditation to Find Your Flow with Nate Klemp
12 Minute Meditation - March 23, 2023 04:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThe opposite of feeling checked out or distracted—the unfortunate reality for many—is the experience of flow state, bringing your skills and focus together to meet whatever challenge you face. This week, Nate Klemp offers a practice to rest in the flow of effortlessness. Here’s how you can train...
12 Minute Meditation: A Soothing Yoga Flow to Help You Choose Yourself with Dianne Bondy
12 Minute Meditation - March 16, 2023 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsMovement is a valuable ally in bringing more calm, focus, and clarity to our state of mind. So, this week, Dianne Bondy offers a soothing yoga flow to help you choose yourself. Gentle movement helps us tune in to the daily routines that we might otherwise go through on autopilot. Savor this ge...
12 Minute Meditation: Practice the Power of the Long Exhale with Georgina Miranda
12 Minute Meditation - March 09, 2023 05:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsWhen we lengthen the exhale, we’re better able to find our power and invite a sense of relaxation to high intensity movement. Longer exhales cause the vagus nerve to send a signal to your brain, activating the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) and easing the sympathetic nervous sy...
12 Minute Meditation: Rest in the Movement of Nature with Jeanne Corrigal
12 Minute Meditation - March 02, 2023 05:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsEven when we’re sitting still, we can sense the movement of nature around us, full of moment-to-moment reminders of the continuous state of growth and life surrounding us. This week, Jeanne Corrigal offers a practice to rest in the movement of nature. You can do this meditation outdoors, or anyw...
12 Minute Meditation: Connect with Your Brave Heart with Boo Boafo
12 Minute Meditation - February 23, 2023 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThere are countless ways we can shift our world for the better—whether it’s volunteering weekly in our communities, engaging someone in a compassionate conversation, joining an activist group, or creating art that envisions what positive change might look like and energizes us to get there. But ...
12 Minute Meditation: Turn Awareness Into Action with Michelle Maldonado
12 Minute Meditation - February 02, 2023 05:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsIt is easy to feel overwhelmed and confused about how to engage with the world from a place of strength, groundedness, and calm. So, this week, we’re sharing an awareness practice to foster three key insights: clarity of intention; understanding of our power, presence, and impact; and opportunit...
12 Minute Meditation: Let Compassion Open Your Heart with Sharon Salzberg
12 Minute Meditation - January 26, 2023 20:06 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsWe tend to focus all our love on the people we care about—yet, to connect more deeply with others, we must turn toward the one person we keep on the shortest leash: ourselves. We often reject other people’s care or attention when we believe we don’t deserve it. This practice reminds us that ther...
12 Minute Meditation: Unwind From Stress with Nate Klemp and Eric Langshur
12 Minute Meditation - January 12, 2023 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThe simple act of questioning the thoughts that shape our reality (especially when they create stress, anger, or frustration) opens the door to living a life with more compassion, ease, and openness to new possibilities. This week, Nate Klemp and Eric Langshur offer a practice (recorded by Mindf...
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