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

Mindfulness Meditations for Healing, Presence, and ClarityA profound transformation can occur just by training your attention in awarenessa 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 Presencea short, basic practice that can be used daily to feel at home with mindfulness Developing Self-Compassiona meditation that cultivates a forgiving and caring heart towards yourself and others Presence with Everyday Fearsa practice to help you address fear and other emotions in order to find greater freedom and choice Mindfulness of Paina meditation to release you from physical suffering Contacting Our Inner Wisdoma practice to help you avoid constant reactivity in difficult situationsIts 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 awarenessand connect with your innate capacity for love, clarity, and inner peace.