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The 7 Qualities of Mindfulness Trained in the Body Scan

By Ed Halliwell — 2016

The body scan is a foundational mindfulness practice that introduces us to working more skillfully with experience. Try it for yourself.

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Exhale: 40 Breathwork Exercises to Help You Find Your Calm, Supercharge Your Health, and Perform at Your Best

More than forty simple breathing exercises to help you transform your physical and mental health and improve performance and emotional well-being. We take between seventeen to twenty-nine thousand breaths per day.

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Richie Bostock
2020
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Mindfulness in a Busy World: Lowering Barriers for Adults and Youth to Cultivate Focus, Emotional Peace, and Gratefulness

How can we increase the likelihood that people will be able to control their wandering mind, let go of upsetting thoughts and feelings, and apply the wisdom of mindfulness training to their day-to-day lives? Mindfulness in a Busy World offers a bridge between the ancient wisdom of Eastern...

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Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, Kelsey Maki
2025
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Meditation with Intention: Quick and Easy Ways to Create Lasting Peace

With just five minutes of meditation a day, you can dial down that constant inner chatter and turn up the volume of your true positive essence.

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Anusha Wijeyakumar
2025
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Ten Zen Seconds: Twelve Incantations for Purpose, Power and Calm

In the midst of life's ongoing pressures, a powerful, ten-second technique can change fear or worry into calm, strength, and centeredness. The basis of Ten Zen Seconds lies in using a single deep breath as a container for a specific thought.

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Eric Maisel
2018
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24 – Friday Fix: A Quick Exercise That Calms Your Brain and Your Body

In today’s episode, I share the exercise and explain the science behind why it’s so effective. It takes less than 60 seconds and it can send signals to your brain that it’s okay to calm down.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2020
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Developing Self Compassion (Guided Meditation) - Professor Paul Gilbert

This video features a short guided meditation from the Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy - Professor Paul Gilbert.

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Paul Gilbert
2019
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Breath Taking: 60 Breathing Techniques to Enhance Your Health and Joy of Living

Roche answers questions and debunks meditation myths, and gives three easy-to-follow techniques for getting started; "The Do Nothing Technique," "Salute Each of the Senses," and "Feeling at Home Exercise.

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Lorin Roche
2001
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Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life

In Bodyfulness, renowned somatic counselor Christine Caldwell offers a practical guide for living an embodied contemplative life, embracing whatever body we are in.

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Christine Caldwell
2025
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Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature

Reconnect with your wild essence as you awaken your innate bond with the natural world.

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Micah Mortali
2019
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Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World

Whether you are stuck in the distress of life, or appear like nothing’s wrong, you may have faced trauma or incredible stress or suffocating fear. Maybe you wonder whether those emotions, memories, and experiences are blocking you from being as fulfilled and happy as you could be.

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Deirdre Fay, Janina Fisher (foreword)
2025
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