Copleston Mindfulness I
Leslie Temple Thurston: Deep Breathing and Stress Leslie Temple Thurston: Deep Breathing and Stress
Leslie's gentle voice soothingly guides us through deep breathing, stress release, some muscle relaxation, in the process energising the chakras and subtle body
ABC Encounter - Beginner's Guide to Meditation ABC Encounter - Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Breath-awareness meditation from Australian Broadcastong Co. Radio
Eckhart Tolle 4: Pain Bodies Eckhart Tolle 4: Pain Bodies
The pain body is a product of the ego, and the way to separate your true self from the ego is to observe it. So to disconnect from your pain-body, you must observe it when it awakens; don't engage with the negative energy the pain-body creates.
Eckhart Tolle 3: The Play of Form Eckhart Tolle 3: The Play of Form
Eckhart Tolle on the play of form - the outer purpose of the universe is to create form and experience the interaction of forms, the play, the dream, the drama, or whatever you choose to call it. Its inner purpose is to awaken to its formless essence
Eckhart Tolle 2: The Spaciousness Around Things Eckhart Tolle 2: The Spaciousness Around Things
Tolle advises that when you are no longer totally identified with forms, or consciousness about who you are, you are freed from its imprisonment in form. This freedom is from the arising of inner space & finds form in the spaciousness around things.
Eckhart Tolle 1: The Power of Surrender Eckhart Tolle 1: The Power of Surrender
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author of The Power of Now. Tolle teaches the importance of becoming present in the current moment. To truly be present in the moment, he advises an attitude of acceptance and surrender to the flow of life.
Headspace 8: Limitless Potential Headspace 8: Limitless Potential
Andy looks at how meditation encourages creativity and limitless potential as it helps us form new neural pathways. When you sit with your spacious mind youre practising Resting Awareness, a skill you can take forward in your life.
Headspace 7: Skillful Compassion Headspace 7: Skillful Compassion
Andy looks at how to let go of anger, especially anger towards others. He employs a technique he calls Skillful Compassion
Headspace 6: How to Deal with Pain Headspace 6: How to Deal with Pain
If you feel pain, you might find yourself taking painkillers more than you should. But there's a way to feel better: meditation. A great tool that can help ease pain and reduce your overall stress, by focusing your attention on one thing at a time.
Headspace 5: How to Be Kind Headspace 5: How to Be Kind
It's important to foster kindness. In the process of releasing resentment towards others, you release it for yourself. And this can help you live with more compassion. Join Andy for a loving kindness guided meditation.
Headspace 4: Dealing with Stress Headspace 4: Dealing with Stress
Overwhelmed? It often begins within. Andy takes us through a 'noting' technique to help us change our relationship to stress so we cope better with anxiety
Headspace 3: Gratitude Headspace 3: Gratitude
Reflecting on areas of our lives which we can be grateful for, we often forget to do so. Andy promotes reflective meditation in this episode. Becoming still, we can then fix on something we appreciate, and formulate a feeling to mediate with.
Headspace 2: Letting Go Headspace 2: Letting Go
Drop that baggage - and let go of anger, frustration and longing. Andy's Headspace Guided Meditation (part 2) takes a relaxed approach to visualisation
Headspace 1: Mindfulness Intro Headspace 1: Mindfulness Intro
Andy Puddiscombe of Headspace takes us on his mindfulness intro.
Copleston (Edward Collier): Loving-Kindness Medita Copleston (Edward Collier): Loving-Kindness Medita
Other mindfulness-based meditations may cultivate a softer, more spacious, kinder mind, but this meditation focuses on best wishes and goodwill first to ourselves and then, in a ripple effect, to others. Important during #covid times.
Copleston (Edward Collier): Intro to Loving Kindne Copleston (Edward Collier): Intro to Loving Kindne
Love and kindness are the essence of a meditation rooted in compassion (aka metta meditation). Rev. Collier of Copleston explains in this intro how this kind of meditation focuses on one thing: to direct well-wishes and goodwill to others
Calming ocean surf and spray Calming ocean surf and spray
Waves make noise. And why does the noise relax us rather than disturb us? The structure of wave sound is "surge" which relaxes us. Its information relaxes us. It mimics breath and isn't uniform as white noise is. This makes for mellow association.
Alpha 8-12Hz Singing Bowls Alpha 8-12Hz Singing Bowls
Alpha waves fall in the middle of the brain wave spectrum and occur at the beginning of a meditation, when you clear your mind. Alpha slows down the heart rate, and so is regenerative and helps with learning speed and memorisation.
Delta 0.1-4Hz Singing Bowls & Water Delta 0.1-4Hz Singing Bowls & Water
People with high amounts of delta brainwave have been found to have increased empathy or understanding of others emotions and access to the unconscious mind. Also associated with release of anti-ageing hormones, bliss, boosted immunity, intuition
Gamma 40Hz Tibetan bowls and Ocean Waves Gamma 40Hz Tibetan bowls and Ocean Waves
A gamma wave is a pattern of neural oscillation in humans with a frequency between 25 and 140 Hz, the 40-Hz point being of particular interest. Gamma rhythms are correlated with large scale brain network activity, memory, and attention