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Mindfulness in Eight Weeks Meditations

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    We help people at work unlock their capacity for mindfulness and compassion

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    Enabling higher levels of focus, empathy and resilience

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These are the meditations that go with Michael’s book “Mindfulness in Eight Weeks”. Each track corresponds to homepractice for a particular week – as detailed in the book. If you’re following that course, just use the assigned track each week. If you’re trying things out without the book, do experiment and see what is helpful to you.

1. The Raisin Exercise

We all spend too much of our time on autopilot. This exercise reveals some of that and helps us to see what life might be like if we were a bit more mindful.

2. The Body Scan (Longer Version)

This is a practice that helps you become more aware of your body as a whole. It's also a practice that develops your ability to choose where your attention goes.

3. The Body Scan (Shorter Version)

This practice helps you become more aware of your body as a whole. It also develops your ability to choose where your attention goes from moment to moment.

4. Mindfulness of Breathing (10-minutes)

This is probably the most common mindfulness meditation practice of all. It is really simple. All we do is rest our attention on the sensations that come with the breath. When our attention wanders, which it will, we note where it went and gently bring it back to the breath.

5. Mindfulness of Breathing (5-Minutes)

We simply allow our attention to rest with the sensations that come with each in-breath and each out-breath. When attention wanders, note where it went and bring it back tot he breath.

6. Mindfulness of Movement (Longer Version)

A series of Mindful Movements are a combination of yoga and Pilates-inspired stretches as well as some movements taken from Qi Kung.

7. Mindfulness of Movement (Shorter Version)

A series of Mindful Movements are a cobination of yoga and Pilates-inspired stretches.

8. Three-Step Breathing Space

This is a super-short, super-portable practice that you can do in any posture and anywhere.

9. Walking Meditation

Walking Meditation can be a highly effective meditation practice. All you do is pay very close attention to the sensations of walking.

10. Mindfulness of the Breath and Body

Here we broaden the lens of attention, taking in body-sensations while also paying attention the breath

11. Mindfulness of Sounds and Thoughts

Here, we begin by paying attention to sounds as they come and go. Then, we move our attention from sounds to thoughts. Watching these come and go as well.

12. Choiceless Awareness

Just sitting with an open mind, staying present with whatever arises.

13. Sitting with the Difficult

A practice that experiments with new ways of being with what is challenging - letting what's here be what is here.

14. 40-Minute Sitting Meditation

Four different meditation methods combined into a single meditation session.

15. 30-Minute Sitting Meditation

Three different meditation methods in a single session.

16. 20-Minute Sitting Meditation

Two different meditation methods in a single session.

17. 30-Minute Sitting with the Difficult Meditation

A practice for experimenting with new ways of being with what is challenging.

18. 20-Minute Sitting with the Difficult Meditation

A short practice for experimenting with new ways of being with what is challenging.

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