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Join me on Insight Timer, the #1 free app for sleep, anxiety and stress with more than 100k guided meditations led by the best teachers from and the world.
I have an ever growing collection of guided meditations for both adults and kids, as well as short talks on mindfulness, self-improvement, and recovery.
If I could recommend only one form of daily self care for everyone, it would be mindfulness meditation. So give yourself the gift of calm, clarity, and control into your life, and join me for free via my profile here.
I also have five 10-Day courses for you to explore. These are free for Insight Timer members, or can be taken individually. You can read more about these courses below, and listen to the introduction and day 1 when you click through.
10-Day Courses
Words are windows to the soul. When we put pen to paper, we are shining a light on our inner world, clarifying our thoughts, stabilizing our emotions, and exploring our subconscious.
For those of us with a history of trauma and neglect, creative writing can be particularly therapeutic. The page listens, it does not judge, and it is always available. It has a perfect memory when we want it to and can just as easily be discarded.
In this 10-day course, we will be exploring the healing power of creative writing in the form of poetry, freewriting, and journaling. This course will help you to acknowledge, accept, and heal from your past, face your inner demons, and turn all that energy into creativity and artistic self-expression.
Your Mindfulness Toolbox For Daily Living
By taking this course you will learn a collection of tools, techniques, concepts, and strategies that will help you to attain mindfulness, both on and off the meditation mat.
Starting with breath-focused mindfulness meditation, you will be gradually introduced to both traditional and novel approaches to mindfulness. This will include an expansion of the focus of our mindful attention to different physical and mental objects, and the use of labeling, counting, and broad awareness to maintain our mindful attention.
Through the use of mindful glimpses and focused study, you will also be introduced to many complementary techniques and analogies that will assist you in attaining mindfulness, including the practices of present state awareness, choiceless awareness, mindful walking, and true hearing. You will learn how to integrate your practice into your life with advice on troubleshooting common issues, finding the time to practice, setting the appropriate context, and getting your family on board with your meditative goals.
Finally, you will learn how to use the tools in your mindfulness toolbox to positively impact your life, reduce the impact of negative mental states like anxiety and anger, and to manage the symptoms of addiction. You will begin to see first-hand the workings of your mind in real time, and with that knowledge, begin to make positive long-term focused choices.
Develop Effective Study Habits
Not all approaches to study are equal, and not all work for everyone. It is possible to go through our entire schooling careers wasting our time with ineffective methods of study.
Students find themselves struggling to retain information because they are using approaches that are not suited to their subjects, nor their personal preferences, capabilities, and learning styles.
In this 10-day course, you will learn how to maximize your study time and exam performance. You will learn the principles of learning and how to apply them, as well as how to establish a study routine that you can stick to. You will be given in-depth instructions and case studies that highlight a multitude of different approaches and encouraged to experiment to find what works for you.
This course will supercharge your ability to learn, giving you the tools, tips, and tricks necessary to not only make the content stick to your brain but also to make you understand it on a deep level.
If you want to enhance your ability to study, if you want to do well on your end-of-year exams, or if you simply want to know how to learn more effectively, this is the course for you.
This 11-day course will guide you through a collection of meditation practices designed specifically to enhance your lucid dreaming practice.
Drawing upon techniques from mindfulness, Zen, visualization, mantra repetition, introspective contemplation, and bodily relaxation, this course will enhance your focus, stability, clarity, and control – all of which will significantly enhance your ability to enter, maintain, and explore your lucid dreaming practice.
If you want to start lucid dreaming or gain greater control within your lucid dreams, this course is for you.
Mindfulness Meditation & Calm Breathing For Kids
It is very easy for kids to get overwhelmed, angry, or hyper fixated. To ‘lose it’ somewhat. This can happen in the home, at kinder or school, or with friends and family. They may say, think, or do things that can be disruptive and upsetting to themselves and to others. Things they may later regret.
But with the power of mindfulness meditation and calm breathing, we can help them to develop the skills to take control, to take charge, and to make better choices.
The mind and body are interconnected. Calm the mind and the body will follow. Calm the body and the mind will follow. When used in conjunction, mindfulness meditation and calm breathing target both at once, enabling kids to regain control, refocus, detach from mental overwhelm, and to introspect. They will still feel the full range of emotionality, but they will learn how to effectively manage those strong feelings, by reducing its severity, duration, and impact.
This course is designed for kids aged 3-6 but is accessible to people of all ages. Ideally, you will join in with the sessions, learning, practicing, and establishing positive habits together with your child. The first session will provide you with an overview of the course, as well as give you some guidance on how to establish a positive and effective meditation practice for your kids.
