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Meditation is one of the most powerful mindfulness-based practices available. Over time, it actually changes how our brains process and respond. It can be done by anyone, anywhere, any time, and there are dozens of approaches that can help you navigate life with greater ease, satisfaction, and joy.

The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it.

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Beneficial Practices for Everyone

How to Meditate: What You Need to Know

In this meditation, we'll practice seeing our life with a child-like curiosity, developing a sense of freshness and novelty in each moment.

Beginner's Mind

Discover the practical benefits of mindfulness and meditation by learning from some of the world’s most respected teachers, authors, and researchers.

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What are the Benefits of Meditating? 

Learn to meditate

A simple breathing meditation to help bring more balance, calm and concentration to the mind. 

The Basics of Mindfulness

In this meditation, we'll explore a different way to be in relationship to the meditation process, one that is more accepting, easy, and wise.

Awareness Is Meditating

In this meditation, we explore cultivating mindfulness through the various experiences that move through our awareness. 

Basic Sequence

Tune into the present moment, unwind stress and mental clutter, and emerge feeling more alive, grounded, and calm.

Breath, Body, Sounds, Feeling

In this meditation, we'll practice paying attention to a single focus point and bringing the mind back every time it wanders off.

Bicep Curl for the Brain

In this meditation, we'll practice a 15-minute sequence of breath awareness, open monitoring, and gratitude. 

Basic Guided Meditation

A beginner’s mind gives us a fresh way of seeing, releases judgements and unlocks our ability to be truly present for the moments of our lives. 

Beginner's Mind Fresh Mind

What is Walking Meditation? 

10 Walking Meditation Benefits

How to Meditate While Walking: Step-by-Step

So much of our stress comes from being caught in our thoughts and ideas. In this meditation, we'll drop from our head to our body, the one place that is always present.

Head-to-Body

A simple and universal practice for developing embodied awareness. You can do this walking meditation no matter where you are.

Walking 

Walking Meditation vs. Sitting Meditation

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The Foundations of Mindfulness

Walking meditation combines walking and meditating in a user-friendly mindfulness practice that promotes physical, emotional, and mental well-being. 

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What Meditation Isn’t

Meditation & Mindfulness: What’s the Difference?

How Meditation Works

Is meditation enough to find real peace? Vidyamala shares some some important lessons. 

Is Meditation Enough to Cultivate Inner Peace?

How Do You Meditate?

In this meditation, we'll train our brain to focus like a camera, zooming in when we want more detail, and zooming out when we want more space and perspective. 

Zoom In and Out

The Different Types of Meditation

Mindfulness Meditation

Mantra Meditation

Loving-Kindness Meditation

Spirituality-Based Meditation

Guided Meditation

Will Meditation Help Me?

What is Meditation in Psychology?

In this meditation, we will explore how to work with negative and difficult thoughts.

Helping With Negative Thoughts

Meditation & Religion

In this interview, Melli talks to Jack about how to integrate spiritual life with everyday life and what it means to be ‘on the path’ of mindfulness.

Integrating ‘Spiritual’ Life with Daily Life 

How to Meditate

What is meditation? Here we explore what meditation is (and isn’t), various styles, its many benefits, and how you can get started today. 

How Meditation Changes the Brain

Most of the benefits—mental, emotional, and physical—from meditation can be linked to how it affects your brain.

How Meditation Helps

A trick to transform fear and anxiety into something useful.

How to Transform Anxiety

In this meditation, we'll explore how to step out of the "story" of our mind and into the actuality of our moment-to-moment experience (which is often much less stressful).

Drop the Story, Drop the Stress

A deep progressive relaxation of mind and body to send you into a nourishing sleep.

Letting Go Into Sleep

This meditation will help you ground into this moment and begin to touch your inherent strength, dignity, and warmth. 

Grounding in the Elements of Self-Care

In this meditation, we'll use gratitude and appreciation as a way to pacify our mind and settle back into deep rest and sleep.

A Grateful Heart

Judson Brewer shares how the practice of mindfulness for addiction can also teach us how to untangle ourselves from what is said to be the biggest obstacle to mindful living—our attachment to craving.

Mindfulness for Addiction 

In this meditation, we'll explore how to be with pain in a new way that doesn't create more tension and suffering.

Primary vs. Secondary Pain

This powerful breath meditation will help you gather your awareness into the present moment when you feel overwhelmed or stressed.	

Unwinding Stress 

Enjoy this soothing meditation for stress and anxiety, and leave the session feeling refreshed and at ease.

Calming Anxiety

In this meditation, we'll make peace with some of our "baggage" and practice finding joy right here and now.

Good Enough Healing

Meditation for Specific Populations

In this meditation, we will practice strategies to help us feel less nervous and more calm.

Feeling Nervous

Find calm during the day, or drift more easily into sleep at night.

Relieve Anxiety / Improve Sleep

In this meditation, we'll practice developing a high degree of concentration while also maintaining a high degree of relaxation and ease.

High Focus, Low Strain

Rich helps us navigate technology overload and create moments of renewal to reset your mental state. 

How Can I Manage Technology and Content Overload?

Here’s a simple practice to rewire your brain to be less negative and shift into having more confidence and a more positive view of life.  

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Meditation is recognized for reducing stress and anxiety, but research shows that it can also improve our health and outlook in powerful and sometimes surprising ways.

10 Science-Backed Benefits of Meditation

Why Should You Start Meditating?

How to Meditate: Getting Started

Become fully alive to the present moment using the sensations of body and breathing as a method of cultivating mindful awareness.

Body Scan 

10 Types of Meditation to Try

In this meditation we cultivate a more compassionate, kind and awakened state of mind, and then learn to carry it into our lives.

Metta Loving Kindness Meditation

In this meditation, we simply practice calming down the mind and body by making space for our experience without resistance.

Settling Your Nerves

A deeply embodied practice where the breath massages the whole body creating deeper rest and ease. This practice will also promote deeper sleep if done just before bed.

Breath-Based Body Scan

Allow yourself to feel the joy of resting in the sensations of your body and the flow of your breath.

The Joy of Self-Compassion

In this meditation, we'll practice using a mantra to experience this moment with greater spaciousness, acceptance, and peace.

A Mantra for Inner Peace

In this meditation, we practice resting in awareness. Instead of focusing on anything in particular, we observe it all coming and going.

Choiceless Awareness

A guided meditation to help you feel more grounded and present. Observe the thoughts and emotions, whilst centering in the here and now, untouched by them.

Be the Mountain Meditation

This daily practice turns your attention to all that you feel grateful for in this moment, and brings forth the quality of gratitude.

Daily Gratitude

10 Meditation Tips for Beginners

Learn how the technique of mental noting unwinds anxiety, reduces our reactivity and anchors us in our calm center.

Mindfulness With Mental Noting

How to Make Meditation a Daily Habit

The benefits of meditation are compounded when you do it regularly.

Frequently asked questions

The biggest part of learning how to meditate is the intention to stick with it. And like most things, regular practice is how you notice the results. 

How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners

Sleep Deeply at Night and Feel Refreshed and Energised in the Morning

Why Do I Have Problems Falling or Staying Asleep?

In this meditation, we'll use breathing strategies and body relaxation to rest deeply and settle back into sleep.

Falling Back to Sleep

How Meditation for Sleep Can Help

The Benefits of Sleep Meditation

What to Do Before Bed

In this sleep meditation, we will use a sleeping buddy to help us feel safe and drift off to a deep night's rest.

Sleeping Buddy

How to Meditate to Sleep

Can't Sleep? Here's How to Fall Asleep Fast

Can Meditation Replace Sleep?

Meditation & Mindfulness Tips for Better Sleep Anytime

Isn't meditation the same thing as sleep? They're both about relaxation right? What's the difference? We'll address those questions here.

What's The Difference Between Sleep and Meditation?

Sleep Better Tonight

Help Your Loved Ones Sleep Better

Make Good Sleep a Lasting Habit

Getting healthy sleep is something far too many of us struggle with. Read on to learn how to improve your sleep quality and experience the vast benefits of a good night’s rest.

Learn More About Meditation

 app offers access to guided meditations, talks, courses, calming soundscapes, and micro-practices for in-the-moment support — plus encouraging daily dispatches from Melli and Cory. It’s the perfect companion for the journey.

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Meditation is one of the most powerful mindfulness practices available. Learn how to meditate with our expert-led guided meditations, courses, and more.

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