Mental Wellness & Resiliency: Meditation
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What is Meditation?
The Meaning of Mind and Meditation
Before asking yourself what is meditation? You might want to understand what meditation isn’t. It isn’t about zoning out, or having earth-shattering experiences, or even controlling the mind. Meditation, as a spiritual practice, is more about working with the mind and training in awareness. Simply working with the mind leads to an improved sense of presence, calm, attentiveness, and an increase in valued human qualities such as empathy and patience.
A lot of things in life are beyond our control, but it’s quite possible to have greater control over our actions and how we respond to the situations we find ourselves in. To do this, we need to cultivate awareness of how the mind works and the ability to maintain focus. And nothing cultivates awareness better than meditation does.
Read more from MindWorks
Meditation Toolbox
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How to Meditate from MindfulCovers the What, Why, and How of meditation as well as introducing some styles including Breathing, Body Scan, Walking Meditation, and Loving Kindness Meditation.
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7 Amazing Guided Meditations for BeginnersGuided meditations are amazing tools especially when you are just starting out. They are easy to follow, have background music to help you concentrate (that monkey mind is going to wander a lot in the beginning) and have Morgan-Freeman-ish soothing voices.
Meditation Apps (caution, not all are free resources):
- Headspace: Meditation & Sleep-Stress less and relaxing sounds.
- Calm-Meditation and sleep stories.
- The Mindfulness App-Meditation for everyone.
- Buddhify: Meditation on the Go-Meditation for calm and sleep.
- Sattva Meditation & Mantras-Shankara multimedia services
- Insight Timer: Meditation App-Meditation for sleep and anxiety
- Ten Percent Happier Meditation-Find calm, insight and sleep
- Breethe: Meditation & Sleep-Breath, calm and mindfulness
- Simple Habit Sleep, Meditation-Calm anxiety in 5 minutes
- Meditation and Relaxation Pro-Guided meditation and relaxation
- Aura: Meditation & Sleep-Mindfulness, relaxation and calm
- Glo: Yoga and Meditation-Yoga, Pilates and mindfulness
- Enso: Meditation Timer & Bell-Fascinative app
- Smiling Mind-Meditation for all ages
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