Breath Works/Wildmind Audio

The Body Scan teaches a meditation practice that helps us to develop habits of greater ease and awareness of the body. Adopting a comfortable posture we ‘scan’ through the whole body with our awareness, using the breath to let go of areas of pain and tension.

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.