Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness meditation is a practice of noticing your experience without judgment.

It can be done sitting, standing, moving - as in mindful movement - or walking.

To practice, bring your observer to anything you're doing - eating, driving (just don't close your eyes), or shopping... just notice your experience without judgment.

Try this free guided Meditation and see what happens.

Remember - as with anything on this website - you can't do it wrong.

If you'd like more practice, I offer a mindfulness meditation on my CD/mp3 Time to Breathe and Relax. It includes 6 different guided meditation and relaxation exercises.

I "officially" learned about mindfulness when I was reading Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Wherever You Go, There You Are - by the way - I highly recommend this book...

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I had been practicing for years...

When I was in graduate school - in my early twenties - for dance... I was invited to become aware of the pressure on my feet as I walked...

The instruction "for correct walking" was to walk heel-toe.

So for years, I paid attention to how I walked... sometimes trying to "fix it..." But mostly just feeling my feet on the ground as I walked.

To practice a walking mindfulness meditation - notice your experience while you're walking...

...You could notice how your feet feel on the ground like I did - and still do - and you can feel the swing of your arms, the movement of your spine, and the feeling of your whole body moving while you walk.

Use mindfulness as a stress management technique.

Practice Presence

Be Here Now

Listen

See

Be Still Inside