If you feel the need to learn meditation but you find that the idea of finding 30 or 40 minutes to meditate is itself stressful, this CD is for you. Short "power meditations" such as these - between three and nine minutes in length - can be highly beneficial for busy people.

This exercise is a meditation on acceptance, where we practice the art of welcoming, rather than resisting, uncomfortable experiences in order to change our relationship to them and become freer of our usual habitual reactions of avoidance, fear, stress, and depression.

When we start to realize that every experience is unique and will never happen again, we begin to value our experience – and the present moment – more than ever before.

This exercise is a meditation on acceptance, where we practice the art of welcoming, rather than resisting, uncomfortable experiences in order to change our relationship to them and become freer of our usual habitual reactions of avoidance, fear, stress, and depression.

Learning how to use the breath as a tool to alter our mental and physiological states.

A guided meditation encouraging awareness of the breath as a focal point of experience in order to calm the mind

The Mindfulness of Breathing practice will help you to develop more calmness and peace of mind; the Metta Bhavana will help you to develop a more positive attitude to yourself and others; and walking meditation is a powerful method of bringing awareness into your daily life.

A body scan meditation that encourages the development of mindfulness.

Appealing to a "higher power" is common in all meditative and prayer traditions, even in nontheistic traditions such as Buddhism.

A reflection on interconnectedness, in which we reflect on how the breath connects us with other living things.

This exercise is a meditation on acceptance, where we practice the art of welcoming, rather than resisting, uncomfortable experiences in order to change our relationship to them and become freer of our usual habitual reactions of avoidance, fear, stress, and depression.

Mindfulness has been shown in medical and therapeutic contexts to lessen anxiety and stress by reducing "rumination".

A guided meditation encouraging awareness of the breath as a focal point of experience in order to calm the mind

This is a simple yet effective practice that illustrates how the way we pay attention to our visual field changes the nature of our experience.

Visualizing a protective aura helps to protect the mind from stress.

An opportunity to pause momentarily amidst the day's busyness, so that you can regain a sense of balance.

A guided meditation where we use the experience of walking as an object of mindfulness.