Showing results by publisher "Macmillan Audio" in Meditation

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series A solitary tree may seem like a distinct object, but with closer reflection we see that it is supported by a network of connections that make its existence possible. In the same way, we are joined together with everyone and everything in the world through...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series Sharon Salzberg guides you in a breathing practice that unfolds the experience of “letting go.” Bringing your full attention to your natural breathing process, you learn to simply observe whatever arises in your experience without judgment, clinging, or...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series In this guided meditation, Sharon Salzberg helps you learn to reside in the natural flow of your breath, and to trust in the support you receive through your interconnection with the surrounding world...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series By slowing down and looking within we lay the foundation for knowing ourselves more completely. In this guided bodyscan practice, Sharon Salzberg helps you directly perceive our ever-changing experiences through the world of physical sensations...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series To help us with the inevitable challenges that arise while meditating, Sharon Salzberg leads a guided practice for working with pain, anger, sleepiness, and other classic “hindrances.” Learn to objectively observe whatever arises in your experience in...

iMeditate Guided Practice Audio Series In this introductory guided breathwork practice, Sharon Salzberg teaches you a time-tested way to calm the mind and improve concentration by counting the breath. Without stress or self-judgment, we simply rest in the natural rhythm of each breath, mentally...

Throughout history and across cultures worldwide, the practice of meditation has been considered a central element in spirituality and in life. But what about now? Does meditation really have a place in our modern lives? In Why Meditate? Reggie Ray explains why the practice of meditation has...

The teachings of Buddhism describe a blissful place known as the Avatamsaka Realm, a realm of infinite light, serenity, and wisdom that we can access through the power of mindful living. In this way, teaches Thich Nhat Hanh, we can simultaneously walk in two worlds—that of our ordinary...

When you turn to food for anything other than giving your body what it wants and needs, it is a symptom that there's more than physical hunger going on: an inner challenge, a need for new experiences and joys, or a longing of the heart. Here, Geneen Roth offers a guided session to tune in to the...

In this guided meditation, Geneen Roth helps you to reconnect with your body, and learn to understand what it's trying to tell you. It's the first and most important step in changing your relationship with food … and fully nourishing yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Sounds...

If you've been hurt by another person—or by your own inner judge and jury—you've probably figured out that it's impossible to forgive through sheer will or intention. True healing, teaches Jack Kornfield, comes naturally with the opening of insight, understanding, and release. In this guided...

"When you stop hallucinating and ask who is really behind the wheel, you embark on the journey toward incurable sanity," teaches Arjuna Ardagh. Here, the author of The Translucent Revolution offers a profound self-inquiry practice to help you reveal the deep, hidden convictions that obscure your...

Yoga nidra is the state of mind-body union, effortless joy, and deep attunement at the heart of all yoga practice. In this guided exploration, Richard Miller takes you step-by-step through the traditional techniques of yoga nidra to help you move toward "unqualified presence." Suitable for both...

Meditation instructor Jack Kornfield provides you with a clear and accessible introduction to mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation practice, two complementary essentials of Buddhist practice that amplify each other to enrich and expand every moment as well as your connection to your life...

It is often difficult if not impossible to assimilate certain new ideas, especially if they come from an entirely different culture and time. In Playing Hide and Seek, the incomparable Alan Watts invites us to consider the mind-blowing truth of the total interdependence of everything in the...

What is the practice of manifestation? According to Rick Jarow, it is finding within ourselves the heroic aspects we each carry and learning to embody them in the world for the good of all. On The Great Work of Manifestation, we join the professor and anti-career counselor for a spirited session...

We breathe 20,000 times a day, which means that we have 20,000 opportunities to feel better every day, teaches Gay Hendricks. In this session, he guides you through two powerful breathing practices: the Reset Button technique for relieving fatigue and clearing mental fog, and a daily breathwork...

Ken Cohen, one of the West's leading authorities on the Tao, leads you into the flow of zuowang, a meditation for releasing your thoughts into the universal flow of qi, entering its stream, and experiencing the unexpected fullness of "effortless emptiness." Sounds True Practices are short...

Learn how to retrain your relationship to pain with meditation. Drawing from over 20 years of results in the field, Shinzen Young offers the essential drug-free methods that have proven effective at pain-management centers around the country. With step-by-step guidance, you'll learn how to...

Is it possible to experience—and sustain—a state of being in which all of our desires and needs are realized? Can we all taste "perfect wisdom"? On Realizing Unconditioned Awareness, we join Peter Fenner to begin to discover, rest in, and enjoy what he calls our "ultimate nature," a space of...