This is a guided meditation to help calm the body. It incorporates both mindfulness and heart practices. This practice is from my new book Practicing Mindfulness – 75 Essential Meditations...

Today’s meditation comes from the Tibetan tradition and is a tonglen practice. Tonglen means “to give and receive,” and this practice uses the breath to help cultivate loving-kindness and compassion....

Today we have a compassion practice, the second of the brahma-viharas. For more on compassion, I recommend checking out Dr. Kristin Neff’s book Self-Compassion. We are starting live meditation groups...

Today’s meditation is a vipassana, or insight, practice.

This guided meditation explores both concentration and mindfulness. Starting with a few minutes of concentration practice using the breath, we will open up to whatever arises in our experience. As something arises, we will tend to it with a concentrated mind, seeing it clearly.

This guided meditation is a mindfulness practice I use personally, and thought I’d share. Coming from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw, this can be a useful way to keep the mind concentrated while opening up in an open awareness practice.

This meditation is a guided relaxation practice. We will work through the body, bringing in the intention of calming the body and inviting in ease.

This guided meditation is a mindfulness practice in which we will investigate the body. Rather than a traditional body scan, we will work from the outside of the body moving in. Visit https://oneminddharma.com/podcasts/buddhist-guided-meditations/ to subscribe to our podcast, and http://OMDharma.com/join to learn more about our Daily Meditation Emails.

This is a guided mindfulness meditation mixing the breath and a body scan. We will work with the breath to investigate different parts of the body and the experience of breathing.

This is a guided meditation investigating metta, or loving-kindness. We start with a brief body scan with an emphasis on kindness toward the body. We then move into extending this quality toward a good friend in our lives. As we move into working with a difficult person, we will bring in the good friend to help us connect with the caring heart.

Today’s episode comes from our friend Tara, a mindfulness and meditation teacher from the US, living in Melbourne, Australia. Her simple practices will help you destress and be more present. Get more out of life with modern day mindfulness made easy. Follow Tara on Instagram at @TaraBuhagiar and visit her at http://tarabuhagiar.com. The body scan is a meditation of concentrated attention to cultivate awareness of sensations in the body and helps to focus the mind. The practice involves the...

Today’s episode comes from our friend Tara, a mindfulness and meditation teacher from the US, living in Melbourne, Australia. Her simple practices will help you destress and be more present....

Today’s guided meditation is a vedana practice. This is a meditation investigating our present-time experience, and the feeling tone of each experience arising.

This is a meditation on self love in a sense. We’ll work on extending the heart practices toward ourselves, cultivating metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha. These are four qualities known as the brahma-viharas, or heavenly abodes in Buddhism. We will go through each of the four heart practices, extending them toward ourselves.