Mindful15: Stress Management | Mindfulness | Meditation

Episode 108 - This is the first episode in the Mindfulness at Work Series. Meditating at work can remind you to be mindful at work. It can also help you manage stress and deal with challenges.

Episode 107 - Meditation doesn’t require effort. In fact, it’s most effective when you don’t apply effort. This episode explains why that’s so and describes how to let go of being the “doer” of the meditation.

Episode 106 - Introspection may be a helpful activity, but it’s not what meditation is all about. Learn the difference between introspection and awareness.

Episode 104 - Getting up correctly at the end of meditation helps you bring mindfulness with you into the next activity in your day.

Episode 103 (Part 3 of the Ground Yourself Series) - Grounding practice is a simple way to relieve anxiety by putting your focus on your connection to the strong, supportive Earth.

Episode 102 (Part 2 in the Ground Yourself Series) - Learn how grounding meditation helps you establish a strong connection with the Earth that provides a sense of safety and support.

Episode 101 (Part 1 of the Ground Yourself Series) - Part 1 of the three-part Ground Yourself Series. Learn how to take a grounded meditation posture that supports a relaxed meditative state.

Episode 100 - We're celebrating Episode 100 with a lesson on open awareness meditation!

Episode 99 - When you judge a situation to be intolerable, you suffer from the negative emotions you generate. Learning to let go of judgement and relax into unbearable situations can reduce suffering and can put you in a calm place, where you’re better able to take needed action.

Episode 98 - Have trouble sitting still? No worries, you can still meditate successfully.

Episode 97 - Meditating with other people can be both helpful and frustrating.

Episode 96 - Learning to sit like a mountain in meditation can help you generate a sense of strength, solidity, and safety. Sitting as a mountain, you can weather all storms and allow life’s challenges to simply float by like the clouds.

Episode 94 (Part 4 in the Why Can't I Meditate series) - Resistance to meditation practice can manifest as being too busy, too restless, too sleepy, or too bored to meditate, among other things.

Episode 93 (Part 3 in the Why Can't I Meditate series) - All sorts of things can lead you to conclude you’re not good at meditation, but they’re misleading you. You can meditate. Everyone can.

Episode 92 (Part 2 in the Why Can't I Meditate series) - Expectations about meditation practice can stand in the way of effective meditation and even cause you to stop practicing.

Episode 91 (Part 1 in the Why Can't I Meditate series) - Many meditators misunderstand the goal of meditation. They believe they’re supposed to banish thoughts from their mind. Nothing could be further from the truth. In mediation, we learn to accept our thoughts without pushing them away and without following them.

Episode 90 - Sitting with and accepting strong emotions and reactions is one of the best ways of learning to manage them. RAIN meditation is a practice that teaches you to Recognize, Accept, and Investigate emotions and reactions, and Nurture self-compassion.

Episode 89 - Have you ever done a body scan meditation? If not, you have to try it. Well known as an effective way to relax, body scan meditation has other benefits, too.

Episode 88 - Slowly, my mindfulness practice is teaching me to remain calm, collected, and equanimous no matter the situation, but there are still plenty of moments where I need to remind myself to let go of my reactions and relax into the moment. In these situations, I find a catchphrase helpful.