Latest Howtomeditate Podcast Episodes
12 Minute Meditation: Let Curiosity Lead the Way with Frank Ostaseski
12 Minute Meditation - May 19, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsLife doesn't always serve us exactly what we want. Sometimes it offers pain, confusion, and sorrow. There's no way to stop those circumstances, nor to stop the difficult emotions that might arise alongside them. This week, Frank Ostaseski offers a meditation to investigate all of the circumstanc...
12 Minute Meditation: A Guided Meditation for Nurses with Cynda Rushton
12 Minute Meditation - May 12, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsNurses help those who are sick or injured, they hold the hands of others as their life ends or offer solace to those pained by loss. To mark National Nurses Week, Cynda Hylton Rushton calls on nurses to pause for a moment to honor their hands—and to acknowledge the joys, sorrows, disappointments...
12 Minute Meditation: A Nature Meditation for Being in the Moment with Mark Coleman
12 Minute Meditation - May 05, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsAs Mark Coleman says, listening is a beautiful doorway to the present moment, a tuning in to what’s here. With listening practice, we develop the qualities of receptivity, relaxation, and a sense of naturalness. We don’t need to make much effort to hear anything. A sound arises and is known quit...
12 Minute Meditation: How to Navigate Difficult Emotions with Sharon Salzberg
12 Minute Meditation - April 28, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsIn this practice, Sharon Salzberg invites us to allow ourselves to feel our emotions, notice the sensations that arise in our body, and forgive ourselves for what we feel. And while your mind might wander during the meditation, Salzburg reminds us that it is always possible to let go and begin a...
12 Minute Meditation: A Meditation on Abundance in Nature With Mark Coleman
12 Minute Meditation - April 21, 2022 04:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsAs this week’s meditation teacher Mark Coleman says, "We know being in nature is good for us, but how do we put this into practice in a way that will really serve and nurture us?" This is a question we address in the June issue of Mindful, and in our new course, Nature Meditations. And with Eart...
12 Minute Meditation: You Are Enough with Jenée Johnson
12 Minute Meditation - April 14, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week on 12 Minute Meditation, Jenée Johnson leads a practice to remind us that we are enough. In this practice, Jenée offers five affirmations that are designed to help us be more compassionate toward ourselves, and in turn build a solid base to be more compassionate toward others. Show...
12 Minute Meditation: A Mindful Writing Practice with Stephanie Domet
12 Minute Meditation - April 07, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsMindful managing editor and your regular 12 Minute Meditation host Stephanie Domet leads a mindful writing practice for settling into your body, noticing your surroundings in a real or imagined setting, and using your experience as a writing prompt. This practice is drawn from Stephanie's new co...
12 Minute Meditation: Return to Your Senses with Shalini Bahl-Milne
12 Minute Meditation - March 31, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Shalini Bahl-Milne shares a practice to replenish our energy. If we draw from a pool of resources without replenishing them, we can begin to feel depleted—our brain gets sluggish, and we don’t make good decisions. By resting our attention on our senses, we are taking a moment to recon...
An Earth, Air, Fire, Water Meditation for Kids
12 Minute Meditation - March 28, 2022 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis engaging meditation uses the energy and imagery of the four elements to foster inner connection and emotional regulation. Follow the guided practice and join your child on a mindful adventure.
12 Minute Meditation: Approaching the World with a "Don't Know Mind" with Sará King
12 Minute Meditation - March 24, 2022 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Dr. Sará King offers a practice to explore, "don't know mind"— an idea that is sometimes used in meditation to evoke a sense of curiosity. So in this practice, we'll explore what it's like to approach the world with a don't know mind. How does that land in the body? What is it like to...
12 Minute Meditation: A “Just Like Me” Compassion Practice with Steve Hickman
12 Minute Meditation - March 17, 2022 04:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsWhen we're aware that events of war and injustice are unfolding wherever we are in the world, we often feel a powerful sense of connection with those who are at the center of the conflict. This week, the invitation with this practice is to put aside ideas and concepts about differences, shame,...
12 Minute Meditation: Uncover the Potential for Healing with John Taylor
12 Minute Meditation - March 10, 2022 11:56 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, John Taylor shares a five-step practice for finding some peace and freedom after trauma. John’s work as a mindfulness teacher is focused on racial equity and reconciliation initiatives. He is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher and serves as adjunct faculty for UCSD’s Center ...
12 Minute Meditation: Cultivate Curiosity with Kimberly Brown
12 Minute Meditation - March 03, 2022 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Kimberly Brown leads a practice to cultivate curiosity. We might not always think about curiosity as a part of mindfulness, but this powerful quality is what allows our everyday experiences, even the ones we really don't want to be having to get some breathing room and maybe even to s...
12 Minute Meditation: A Practice to Explore What's True with Barry Boyce
12 Minute Meditation - February 24, 2022 05:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsIn this practice from Mindful founding editor Barry Boyce, we investigate the relationship between our heart and mind. What our heart feels is influenced by what our mind perceives, which is sometimes one of the reasons developing kindness, a loving heart, and compassion can be so challenging. T...
A Body Scan Meditation For Nurturing Your Heart
12 Minute Meditation - February 14, 2022 05:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsCardiologist Jonathan Fisher leads a body scan to notice sensations in the body and bring awareness to the present moment.
12 Minute Meditation: A "Touch and Go" Practice with Barry Boyce
12 Minute Meditation - February 10, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Mindful’s founding editor Barry Boyce leads a "touch and go" practice. In this practice, we're not trying to deal with the issues in our thoughts or with the difficult emotions that might be arising. There's nothing to solve. There's nothing to change. Instead, we're spending time wit...
The Heart Work of Finding Refuge with Michelle Cassandra Johnson
SoulFeed with Shannon Algeo - February 06, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsMichelle Cassandra Johnson is a social justice warrior, author, Dismantling Racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and intuitive healer. With more than twenty years of experience leading Dismantling Racism workshops and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker, s...
12 Minute Meditation: A Meditation to Come Home to Your Body with Barry Boyce
12 Minute Meditation - February 03, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Barry Boyce leads a practice for mindfulness of the body and our embodied experience because whatever is happening isn't happening in an abstract way—it's happening here in our bodies, so we have to return home to ourselves, to our body. This practice is drawn from a live, guided medi...
How to find your way when you feel lost with Chris Rackliffe
SoulFeed with Shannon Algeo - January 30, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsChris Rackliffe is a personal development writer and anxious attachment style coach, whose ability to paint with words has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Rackliffe shares stories that cut straight to the heart, detailing his own heartfelt and harrowing experiences to h...
12 Minute Meditation: A Meditation for Grief and Loss with Judy Lief
12 Minute Meditation - January 27, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Judy Lief leads a meditation for grief and loss. Most of us have come up against the experience of grief and loss over the last several years. These feelings can be hard to hold, even as we see how widespread they are. Judy, who wrote the book Making Friends With Death, says that "The...
The Power of Kindness Now with Amanda Gilbert
SoulFeed with Shannon Algeo - January 23, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsAMANDA GILBERT is a professor of mindfulness at the University of Southern California, a meditation teacher, speaker, author. She has been a meditator for over 17 years and now leads meditation for top companies like NBC, Paramount Pictures, The W Hotels, Merrill Lynch, Macy's and YouTube. Befor...
12 Minute Meditation: Arrive, Breathe, and Connect with Lili Powell
12 Minute Meditation - January 20, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsWhen we're under pressure, our ability to care and to lead can feel compromised. Mindfulness can provide a path to cultivate the focus and determination of grit and the care and calm of grace, to learn from growth and change. In this practice to arrive, breathe, and connect, Dr. Lili Powell, a p...
12 Minute Meditation: Welcome Everything with Frank Ostaseski
12 Minute Meditation - January 13, 2022 05:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Frank Ostaseski leads a practice to welcome everything. And we hear you—there’s a lot going on that you may not feel like welcoming right now. To welcome something doesn't mean we have to like it, and it doesn't mean we have to agree with it; it just means we have to be willing to mee...
12 Minute Meditation: A Practice to Reconnect with Yourself with Cynda Rushton
12 Minute Meditation - January 06, 2022 05:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsDr. Cynda Hylton Rushton, the Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics and Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics and Schools of Nursing & Medicine, invites us to welcome whatever feelings are present right now and to trus...
Welcome to the Soul Centered CEO Show featuring Lanette Pottle
Soul Sparkle Radio | Inspiring soulful tips + enlightening interviews - January 03, 2022 11:29 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWelcome to the Soul Centered CEO Show featuring special guest Lanette Pottle! Publisher. Podcaster. Program Creator. Best-Selling Author. Lanette Pottle unravels the mysteries of self-publishing to help women gain the confidence, knowledge, and skills needed to release their first non-fict...
12 Minute Meditation: Foster Self-Acceptance with Cheryl Jones
12 Minute Meditation - December 30, 2021 05:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Cheryl Jones leads us in a practice to foster self-acceptance—another of our top guided meditations of 2021. Mindfulness meditation involves a willingness to be with ourselves as we are. It offers a way of learning to work with ourselves, and not on ourselves, especially if you are he...
Soul Centered CEO Show featuring Carrie Kaufman
Soul Sparkle Radio | Inspiring soulful tips + enlightening interviews - December 27, 2021 15:11 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWelcome to the Soul Centered CEO Show featuring special guest Carrie Kaufman! Carrie lives in Saratoga Springs, NY (part time in Cozumel, MX). She mixes a corporate executive career with two side hustles that embody her passion – enlivenRetreats and enLivenVT at the Green River, a gorgeous hol...
12 Minute Meditation: Welcome Deep Relaxation with Jenée Johnson
12 Minute Meditation - December 23, 2021 05:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Jenée Johnson leads us in a guided meditation to encourage deep relaxation at any point during the day. With a reminder to listen to our bodies and acknowledge when it’s time for us to rest, she shares an effective technique known as quiet sitting to inspire us to simply be. Jenée Joh...
Soul Centered CEO Show featuring Marissa Levin
Soul Sparkle Radio | Inspiring soulful tips + enlightening interviews - December 20, 2021 09:25 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWelcome to the Soul Centered CEO Show featuring special guest Marissa Levin! Marissa is a 30-year entrepreneur, founder of 4 companies, best-selling author, speaker, transformation catalyst, and mother to two 2 sons. A lifelong learner, Marissa believes we all have the power, responsibility, ...
12 Minute Meditation: Allow the Storm of Emotions to Pass with Scott Rogers
12 Minute Meditation - December 16, 2021 05:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, we bring you one of our top 10 guided meditations of 2021, a practice for allowing the storm of our emotions to pass. Scott Rogers guides us to take the role of observer to difficult emotions, so that we can more easily create the space we need to let them go. Rogers is founder and di...
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