Free Mindfulness Practices and Guided Excercises
Below are some guided mindfulness exercises and meditations I’ve developed for my clients and meditation students and I am offering them here freely as streaming audio, mp3 download.
You can listen to them here as streaming audio or right click on the title to download as an mp3.
Please use these exercises and meditations at your own discretion. If you feel overwhelmed or uncomfortable at any point, discontinue the exercise.
Therapists please also feel free to link to this page or distribute the audio link to your clients.
Breath Awareness Meditation
[audio:http://www.counselingfortransformation.com/audio/breathawareness.mp3]
This is a simple mindfulness meditation focusing on the breath to build awarness, concentration and mindfulness. Promotes relaxation and groundedness and is appropriate for those new to meditation, or just beginning to meditate.
Guided Deep Relaxation
[audio:guideddeeprelaxation.mp3]
This is a cross between a progressive relaxation and a mindfulness of body exercise. This will help you to become more familiar with your inner landscape, feel more connected to yourself and begin to build a reliable internal resource for relaxing more deeply.
Mindfulness and Forgiveness Part 1
[audio:forgiveness.mp3]
This guided mindfulness and forgiveness practice will help you begin to unwind the chronic tension in the mind and body around unfinished business with a person you feel has hurt you.
Mindfulness and Forgiveness Part 2
[audio:forgiveness2.mp3]
This guided practice will help you begin to unwind the chronic tension in the mind and body around unfinished business with a situation or memory in which you feel you have hurt someone else.
Roots Grounding Exercise
[audio:Roots Grounding exercise.mp3]
This guided practice will help you to become more present in your body and your present moment experience, using a visualization combined with breathing practice. Become as connected as a tree and drop your roots!