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Three Anchors for Meditation
Catherine Duffy – 20 minute audioIn strengthening the ability to be present and grounded, “anchoring” attention with felt present-moment experience is deeply helpful. While many practices do this using breath as the object of attention, the anchoring meditation helps you explore other options. These might include the feeling of contact between the body and the chair or floor, sensations in […]
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R.A.I.N. Meditation
Beth Glosten – 23 minute audioThe R.A.I.N. practice is a 4-step process for meeting the challenges of life in a spacious, curious, reflective way. The four steps of rain are: (1) recognize, (2) accept and allow, (3) investigate, and (4) non-identification with the challenge. We’ve been amazed by how often people report a shift in their feeling and new insights […]
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Gratitude Practice
Tim Burnett – 5 minute videoThe practice of gratitude has been strongly linked to happiness in emotion research. In gratitude practice we focus on what we’re grateful for in our lives which can gradually shift our baseline orientation in life towards a spirit of gratefulness. For more on being grateful we recommend Brother David Steindl-Rast’s gratefulness.org project where we are […]
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Awareness of Breathing
Tim Burnett – 5 minute videoIn this core meditation practice, we direct attention to the sensations associated with breathing as our bodies inhale and exhale. This practice is a powerful tool for grounding in our experience of the present moment. Other breath practices like Breath Counting and Affectionate Breathing build upon this foundation. As with all meditation practices, the moment […]
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R.A.I.N. in Depth
Tim Burnett – 14 minute videoThe R.A.I.N. practice is a 4-step process for meeting the challenges of life in a spacious, curious, reflective way. The four steps of rain are: (1) recognize, (2) accept and allow, (3) investigate, and (4) non-identification with the challenge. We’ve been amazed by how often people report a shift in their feeling and new insights […]
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RA.I.N. Meditation
Tim Burnett – 3 minute videoThe R.A.I.N. practice is a 4-step process for meeting the challenges of life in a spacious, curious, reflective way. The four steps of rain are: (1) recognize, (2) accept and allow, (3) investigate, and (4) non-identification with the challenge. We’ve been amazed by how often people report a shift in their feeling and new insights […]
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Two Feet and a Breath
Tim Burnett – 1 minute videoThis is a brief mindfulness practice you can do in the middle of your days. There are many ways to support (and remember!) your natural human ability to deeply pause. A purposeful pause helps to create space in which you return to yourself, find more freedom in your responses to challenges, and help the nervous […]
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Anchoring Meditation
Carolyn McCarthy – 8 minute videoIn strengthening the ability to be present and grounded, “anchoring” attention with felt present-moment experience is deeply helpful. While many practices do this using breath as the object of attention, the anchoring meditation helps you explore other options. These might include the feeling of contact between the body and the chair or floor, sensations in […]
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Mindful Eating
Tim Burnett – 7 minute videoPracticing mindful awareness of everyday activities is a deep and powerful way to shift out of autopilot and into the extraordinary richness of our everyday lives. We eat several times a day. What if we were to eat with mindfulness and appreciation for the rich experience of smelling, tasting, chewing, and swallowing? Mindfulness Northwest Resources […]
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Self-Compassion Break
Tim Burnett – 12 minute videoThe Self-Compassion Break is a core part of our Mindful Self-Compassion program. It helps you to understand the benefits of Mindful Self-Compassion as you apply the three aspects of MSC to a problem you’re facing. In the Self-Compassion Break you explore (1) mindful awareness of what’s happening for you, (2) the experience of common humanity […]
