One of our main goals at Mindful is to connect you, our readers, with the experts and researchers in the mindfulness field and serve practices to you from them. We know that practicing mindfulness has the power to make a real difference in your life. Our goal isn’t simply to deliver meditations but to ensure we provide resources that are as authentic and accessible as possible. So that everyone, whether you’re an experienced meditator or someone new to the practice, can find a voice to connect with at Mindful.
We curate this website in order to deliver the heart of what mindfulness is. Because it’s heart work. It’s hard work. It takes practice, and it’s worth it. Whether you’re in need of a better night’s sleep, a chance to practice gratitude, or simply a reminder to take a deep breath, here are our most popular guided meditations from 2018.
The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2018:
1. A Basic Breathing Meditation. This practice from Susan Kaiser Greenland helps us build the foundation for an enduring mindfulness practice because it brings us back to the fundamentals: settling the mind as you get in touch with your breathing for a few minutes.
12-Minute Breathing Practice for Awareness: Sit and Know You’re Sitting
Susan Kaiser-Greenland guides us through one of the oldest meditation practices called “Sit and Know You’re Sitting.” Read More
2. Building Compassion Through Awareness. Kristin Neff, a leading expert on mindful self-compassion, guides us through a practice for weaving kind phrases and intentions into a meditation.
Breathing Compassion In and Out
Kristin Neff guides us through a twenty-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others. Read More
3. Cultivate Mindfulness in Every Moment. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the pioneer of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, offers a 20-minute meditation for to cultivate the ability to let your experience unfold without it having to be a particular way—tapping into the ability to “be awake and aware with no particular agenda,” says Kabat-Zinn.
The Breathscape Practice for Cultivating Mindfulness
A 20-minute meditation from Jon Kabat-Zinn to allow you to tap into your capacity to be in touch with your experience, and be awake and aware with no agenda other than to be awake and aware. Read More
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