Category: Audio Books

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Meditations for Happiness: Rewire Your Brain for Lasting Contentment and Peace

Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes. Science is proving that happiness is a skill that we can all develop. On Meditations for Happiness, Dr. Rick Hanson presents a series of guided meditations that allow you to literally rewire the neural pathways in your brain to experience deeper and more lasting contentment and peace. Dr. Hanson discusses the nature of happiness, its role in our evolution, how our brains both make us happy and create suffering, and how we can use and shape our brains over time to experience more joy and be more at ease in everyday life. He then leads us step-by-step through 14 transformative meditations and exercises.

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Meditation To Help You With Chemotherapy (Health Journeys)

This imagery was designed to help listeners see their chemotherapy in a positive light; to help reduce aversive side effects, such as fatigue and nausea; to help the body’s immune cells fight cancer; to encourage relaxation and a sense of hope, safety, support and peace. With affirmations. (Running time: 41 minutes)

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Mindfulness Meditation: Nine Guided Practices to Awaken Presence and Open Your Heart

Mindfulness Meditations for Healing, Presence, and Clarity

A profound transformation can occur just by training your attention in awareness-a practice sweeping schools, workplaces, and institutions across the country with its capacity to decrease stress, cultivate inner calm, and expand wisdom and creativity. Clinical psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach has been at the forefront of mindfulness-based therapy since its inception, successfully bringing principles of mindfulness to alleviate depression, chronic pain, and more. Now, with Mindfulness Meditation, she offers nine of her most effective guided sessions, perfect for beginning or deepening your mindfulness practice:

A Pause for Presence-a short, basic practice that can be used daily to feel at home with mindfulness Developing Self-Compassion-a meditation that cultivates a forgiving and caring heart towards yourself and others Presence with Everyday Fears-a practice to help you address fear and other emotions in order to find greater freedom and choice Mindfulness of Pain-a meditation to release you from physical suffering Contacting Our Inner Wisdom-a practice to help you avoid constant reactivity in difficult situations

“It’s only in the actual experience of here and now that we can experience our full aliveness,” teaches Dr. Brach. “The practice of mindfulness helps to open a heart that is ready for anything.” With Mindfulness Meditation, find the tools to walk the path of mindful awareness-and connect with your innate capacity for love, clarity, and inner peace.

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Meditations to Support A Healthy Pregnancy & Successful Childbirth (Health Journeys)

One of the author’s favorite titles, the pregnancy guided imagery inspires confidence and gratitude for the body; feelings of safety, relaxation, protection and support; sets the stage for labor and connection with the baby. The childbirth guided imagery eases discomfort, focuses breathing, increases trust in the body s wisdom and the miraculous birth process. (Running Time: 120 minutes)

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Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3

Ten Guided Mindfulness Practices to Cultivate Intimacy with the Present Moment and Your Life

In a world where our attention gets distracted and diverted at every turn, mindfulness brings it back and stabilizes it where it matters most—in the here and now. With Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, Jon Kabat-Zinn leads you with friendliness and care through 10 “mindfulness landscapes,” including:

The Soundscape and Mindscape—Bringing your awareness to the outer world and the inner terrain of your thoughts and emotions The Heartscape—Cultivating lovingkindness, compassion, and healing for yourself and others The Nowscape—Moving beyond specific objects of meditation to rest in the spaciousness of “choiceless awareness” The Lifescape—Letting life itself become the meditation practice and the meditation teacher

This program also includes “breathscape” and “bodyscape” meditations, a guided walking meditation, a restorative yoga-like lying down practice, and a study guide with suggestions for how to best use these practices. If you are seeking to explore new domains of awareness and healing, or to enrich and deepen a long-standing meditation practice, Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3 offers rich and varied terrain for you to inhabit and explore.

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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 C.E. to his death in 180 C.E. He was destined to be a leader, having been born into a prominent family – one related by blood and marriage to rulers and bankers. During his era, Romans who inherited power and vast fortunes were expected to set an example. Marcus shouldered his responsibilities with a clear sense of honor. He was history’s first ombudsman, and if his role as a legislator or conqueror was not great, he did set high standards for emulation. Written in the form of confessions, his meditations provide a window into his insights on duty, virtue, and humility. He was the last of the “Five Good Emperor,” and is also considered one of the most important stoic philosophers. The Meditations, written on campaign between 170 and 180 C.E., is still revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty, and it has been praised for its “exquisite accent and its infinite tenderness.” In fact, John Stuart Mill, in his Utility of Religion, compared The Meditations to the “Sermon on the Mount.”

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Meditation: Practicing Presence in Every Moment of Your Life

Is it possible for meditation to be utterly effortless? To experience the depths of being in any given moment of our lives-not just while we practice? Not only is it possible, explains Eckhart Tolle, but it is the very way we come to touch the essence of meditation. With Meditation, we join this treasured teacher as he discusses the many methods of meditation and their shared purpose: accessing the richness and power of pure presence.

This illuminating program explores:
– The role of meditation in everyday life
– How to discover “inner space” as a portal to presence
– The traditional art of meditating on an object, including the breath
– “Just sitting” and living in alignment with what is
– The true meaning of acceptance-meditation’s central goal

In its deepest sense, meditation is never a means to an end. It is about fully being and honoring the entire range of our experience-what Eckhart calls “saying yes.” Whether you’re just starting a practice or looking to go deeper than ever before, Meditation offers vital insights for anyone eager to taste the fruits of this revered discipline.