12 Minute Meditation
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12 Minute Meditation
Mindful.org
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The latest scientific research reveals that 12 minutes of meditation a day yields benefits like increased attention, focus, creativity, calm, resilience and compassion. Start your 12-minute sit with guided meditations from today’s leading mindfulness experts, brought to you by Mindful. With a new mindfulness meditation each week, 12 Minute Meditation invites you to bring the benefits of mindfulness to daily life.

Episodes

  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Cultivate Calm and Clarity with Nadene Cherry
    This week, Nadene Cherry will guide us through practices uniquely tailored for moments when the world demands more than we might be ready to give. Imagine standing at the edge of a calm lake early in the morning, the world around you just waking up,...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation of Learning How to Sit with Uncomfortable Feelings with Diana Hill
    This week, Diana Hill invites us into a soothing space where we learn to embrace our uncomfortable feelings, much like finding shelter in a serene greenhouse while a storm rages outside. In this practice, guided by principles from Acceptance and...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation for Coping with Grief with Elaine Smookler
    This week, Elaine Smookler invites us to explore how grief, a complex and often overwhelming emotion, shows up in our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations. Through grounding exercises, Elaine helps us find a sense of stability and gently...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation for Working with Difficult Emotions with Carley Hauck
    This week, Carley Hauck introduces us to a simple yet profound meditation practice aimed at helping us navigate through the ups and downs of everyday life. In a world that feels increasingly complex and uncertain, Carley's guidance is like a gentle...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation for Rediscovering Your Essence with Cara Bradley
    This week, Cara Bradley invites you on a meditation journey that starts in the familiar setting of your daily life:smack in the middle of the commotion, distractions, and obligations that often fill your hours. . Imagine stepping off the noisy...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation for Cultivating Daily Gratitude with Kim Armstrong
    This week, join Kim Armstrong as she leads a gratitude visualization practice. This gentle meditation invites you to shift your gaze inward and discover the often-overlooked moments of joy and contentment that punctuate your day. Kim guides us to...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation for Cultivating Connection to Yourself and Beyond with Nadene Cherry
    This week, join Nadene Cherry for a 12-minute meditation journey aimed at Cultivating Connection to Yourself and Beyond. Amid the rapid pace of everyday life, it's common to feel isolated, with our attention tightly focused on our personal...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Understand Your Expansive Mind with Nate Klemp
    This week, we join Nate Klemp, who will introduce us to a unique three-stage meditation practice aimed at broadening and deepening our understanding of our own minds. Picture your mind as a flashlight, narrowly focused on a single point. This...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation for Challenging Emotions with Kim Armstrong
    This week, join Kim Armstrong as she leads a practice called "Meditation for Challenging Emotions," similar to a lighthouse guiding ships through the stormy seas of the mind. This guided meditation offers a sanctuary for those seeking to confront and...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Honor Our Connection to Ourselves and Others
    This week, Tovi Scruggs-Hussein invites us to explore our inner selves as the foundation for connecting authentically with others. Through mindful awareness, deep breathing, and envisioning a world bound by love and respect for our unique differences,...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Widen Your Perspective with Nate Klemp
    This week, join Nate Klemp as he leads us in a meditation practice to widen our perspective. In our world, brimming with constant information and rapid change, it's common to feel overwhelmed and resort to narrowing our focus, often manifesting...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation for Turning Awareness into Action with Michelle Maldonado
    This week, Michelle Maldonado leads a meditation designed to cultivate awareness and inspire action. It is easy to feel overwhelmed and confused about how to engage with the world from a place of strength, groundedness, and calm. As we navigate...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to R.E.S.T with Rashid Hughes
    This week’s meditation is led by Rashid Hughes and is based on the acronym REST. This practice specifically takes into account that every one of us show up to mindfulness practice with our life experience. In the REST meditation, R stands for...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Act on What’s Important with Shalini Bahl
    This week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to make some space and time to reconnect with ourselves and ask the question, “What’s most important to me?” Research shows that we are most energized when we find purpose and meaning in what...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Replenish Cognitive Energy with Shalini Bahl
    This week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to help us take in and process information efficiently. When we use our senses—touch, sight, hearing, taste, and smell—our thinking mind rests. So here, we focus on our senses and relax the...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Explore Emotional Energy with Shalini Bahl
    This week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to explore the relationship between our emotions and our energy. High-intensity emotions drain our energy—not just the unpleasant ones like anxiety and fear, but also pleasant ones like...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Energize the Body with Shalini Bahl
    This week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to intentionally give your body the rest it needs and replenish your physical energy by checking in, softening, and letting go of tension. This practice is part of a four part series rooted...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Defuse Holiday Stress
    This week, Mark Bertin guides us in a practice to find harmony amidst the holiday hustle. Release the grip of the "comparing mind," and embrace imperfect moments. Through intentional reflection, gratitude, connection, and self-compassion,this...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Come Home to Your Heart
    Jenée Johnson extends a warm invitation to reconnect with our inner selves, embracing love and care. This practice guides us in being present with ourselves in an aware, kind, and loving way, which can help us foster an interior refuge from life’s...
  • A 12-Minute Meditation to Focus the Mind By Tuning Into The Present Moment
    Today, Barry Boyce guides you through the latest episode of our Focused Attention Series,.building on last week's session, where we explored meta-awareness and focused the mind using the breath as an anchor.. Mindfulness, as Barry emphasizes, is about...