Meditation Library
Nature Inspired Guided Meditations
Use this great body hack to boost your energy — a short simple guided meditation to increase energy. Techniques to boost energy are valuable. Listen to this to learn how to use meditation to increase your energy, how to access mental and emotional energy to increase your physical energy. Use this 5 minute meditation to improve your mind body connection and to learn how to use your mind to increase your energy when you're feeling tired. I use this meditation when I want to feel energetic. The mind can limit us. We have tremendous untapped physical reserves. Learning how to focus your untapped energy when you need it is a powerful personal tool for optimizing your health and happiness. For a free e-guide -- The Power of the Pause -- that uses mindfulness and visualization to help you set healthy goals, click here: bit.ly/2vAvtMS As a mindful living coach and blogger, I post new videos each week featuring mindful and natural ways to help you look and feel more energetic, healthier, happier—naturally. Please leave comments or requests for tips to help you with your biggest challenges to reach your wellness and happiness goals. Email me at shirley@shirleyarcher.com Follow me here too: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirleyarcher/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shirleyarcher Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shirley_arc... Tumblr: http://shirleyarcher.tumblr.com/ Facebook: http://www.shirleyarcher.com/facebook Shirley Archer is an integrative health educator, yoga and meditation teacher, a best-selling author of health and fitness books, and an award-winning trainer who helps you avoid overwhelm, to feel great about yourself and to feel more energetic, healthier and happier, using natural methods. I believe that everything you need is inside. I'm here to help you release your calm, focused, powerful inner self.
In this video, Shirley explains how to do a tree meditation, the health benefits of connecting with nature and of using nature to center and ground yourself, and the benefits of green exercise. The Tree Meditation for centering and grounding is a way to enhance your connection with nature and experience the scientific benefits of green exercise. Through meditation and visualization, you can enjoy a virtual nature experience and enjoy natural stress reduction, peace and inner calm. In this quick 5 minute tree meditation, you will visualize your connection with nature, the qualities that you share with trees and all of nature and you will feel refreshed, more centered and grounded. Meditation and visualization are among the tools that Shirley teaches you how to use to reduce stress, feel happier, boost energy and improve overall feelings of well-being. New research is showing the power of connecting with nature to improve physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual well-being. Studies show that people who can see trees and grass recover faster in hospitals, perform better in school and show less violent behavior in blight stricken neighborhoods http://on.natgeo.com/2wujtgx . The power of exposure to nature is receiving increasing scientific attention and is worth using for your own benefits.
Use this 5 min meditation to access your inner calm and power — a short simple guided meditation to increase flow. In this podcast, you experience how meditation can help you flow with life's difficult situations. This is a technique to help you feel more flow in your life. Learn how to use meditation to increase your sense of flow and ease as well as personal power to handle life's challenges. This meditation and visualization is only 5 minutes. I use this meditation when I feel stuck. You know that feeling when you run up against a wall and you can't seem to figure out how to resolve a situation? Often what is needed is simply acceptance, calm awareness to open to a situation and allow. By allowing the present moment to flow as it needs to without resisting, the best solutions for how to handle it can emerge. Here's to wishing you more power and more flow in all of your challenging situations. For a free e-guide -- The Power of the Pause -- that uses mindfulness and visualization to help you set healthy goals, click here: bit.ly/2vAvtMS As a mindful living coach and blogger, I post new videos each week featuring mindful and natural ways to help you look and feel more energetic, healthier, happier—naturally. Please leave comments or requests for tips to help you with your biggest challenges to reach your wellness and happiness goals. Email me at shirley@shirleyarcher.com Follow me here too: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirleyarcher/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shirleyarcher Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shirley_arc... Tumblr: http://shirleyarcher.tumblr.com/ Facebook: http://www.shirleyarcher.com/facebook Shirley Archer is a mindful living coach, a best-selling author of health and fitness books, and an award-winning trainer who helps you avoid overwhelm, to feel great about yourself and to feel more energetic, healthier and happier, using natural methods. I believe that everything you need is inside. I'm here to help you release your calm, focused, powerful inner self.
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15 Minute Loving Kindness Guided Meditation
Want a break right at your computer – a loving kindness guided meditation to increase kindness and self acceptance? This simple 15 minute loving kindness meditation is for YOU or for those who say, "I've never meditated before." This 15-minute guided meditation to avoid overwhelm can help you to feel calm, supported and surrounded by love and care.
5 Minute Guided Meditations
Enjoy a 5 minute meditation to relieve stress, clear your mind and reduce racing thoughts. Even 5 minutes can lower stress levels fast that impact your mental and physical well-being. Boost benefits more by listening when you're outside and enjoying some fresh air I lead you through a 5 minute meditation for busy people. You will experience awareness of breath, physical sensations, sounds and thoughts. Enjoy this guided 5 minute pause for presence as you rest in present moment awareness. This is a quick meditation for anxiety. It is an open monitoring meditation guided. Mindful meditation is an open monitoring meditation with heaps of research to supports its benefits. "Open monitoring" means that instead of concentrating on one thing specifically like a mantra, instead you observe what is happening as "objects of attention". You observe the breath, physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, etc with open awareness. I have years of experience teaching people how to start a meditation practice. In this video, I lead you through a mindfulness meditation for anxiety and stress. I'm a PTSD and panic attack survivor. I healed my PTSD through many practices, including mindfulness meditation. I'm trained in mindfulness meditation, mindfulness based stress reduction, yogic meditation, mantra meditation, I'm a graduate of Stanford University, Harvard University and Georgetown University, and a mindful health educator who worked at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Prevention Research Center for 15 years and is a best-selling author of 15 books on health and fitness. I'm a master trainer of fitness and wellness professionals and have presented at conferences worldwide. Like my channel? Subscribe to my Youtube Channel http://bit.ly/2t7Mj5m and my Soundcloud at www.soundcloud.com/shirleyarcher I post new videos each week featuring mindful and natural ways to help you look and feel more energetic, healthier, happier—naturally. Please leave comments or requests for tips to help you with your biggest challenges to reach your wellness and happiness goals. Email me at shirley@shirleyarcher.com Follow me here too: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirleyarcher/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shirleyarcher Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shirley_arc... Tumblr: http://shirleyarcher.tumblr.com/ Facebook: http://www.shirleyarcher.com/facebook Shirley Archer is a mindful living coach, a mindful meditation instructor, a best-selling author of health and fitness books, and an award-winning trainer who helps people who want to avoid overwhelm, to feel great about themselves and to feel more energetic, healthier and happier, using natural methods.
Enjoy this 5-minute guided meditation before you begin your nature walk to heighten your senses, promote present awareness and increase mindfulness to help you fully enjoy nature's beauty and be present throughout your walk.
In this video, Shirley, a professional health educator, teaches you how to do paced breathing for relaxation. This scientifically proven technique naturally reduces stress, lowers borderline high blood pressure and creates feelings of calm and a positive mood. It has also been proven in studies to help women ease menopausal symptoms. What's great about this method is that it is drug-free and there are no adverse side effects, but it provides benefits that some use medications to achieve. This is a method that I've taught my own mother, who has heart disease and high blood pressure and it has helped her to reduce her medications. It's also great for healthy people simply as an exercise to feel more calm or to wind down at the end of a hectic day. I've been a health educator at the Stanford University School of Medicine for 15 years. Many people don't realize that there are many self-care options available to help reduce symptoms of hypertension or menopause. To skip intro, go straight to exercise at 1:00. The guided paced breathing exercise is 5 minutes.
Breath Meditations
In this podcast, Shirley, a leading mindfulness health educator, explains why developing awareness of breathing is an essential tool for enhancing the mind body connection and for creating inner peace and calm. She gives an introduction to conscious breathing by leading a breathing exercise for beginners to provide you with a direct experience of how simply focusing on the breath lowers your breathing rate and creates calm. Drawing attention to your individual breathing pattern is not only relaxing, but also improves your ability to be present and more mindful in general. Many people wonder why measuring your breathing rate or doing conscious breathing creates calm. Here, you learn that the breath is a physical activity is the gateway to the autonomic nervous system (part of nervous system that functions without our conscious control). Cultivating breath awareness is your first step toward consciously tapping into otherwise unconscious physical activities and leads to developing patience, concentration and the ability to quiet your mind. It's also the first step toward beginning a meditation practice. Meditation and visualization are among the tools that Shirley teaches you how to use to reduce stress, feel happier, boost energy and improve overall feelings of well-being. Shirley is a health educator who worked at Stanford University School of Medicine for 15 years. For your free e-guide with more tips on why taking quick 5 minute breaks is good for your health and happiness, click here: bit.ly/2vAvtMS Shirley posts new podcast each week featuring a mindful moment - how to master stress and create calm focus for abundant health. Please leave comments or requests for tips to help you with your biggest challenges to reach your wellness and happiness goals. Email me at shirley@shirleyarcher.com Follow me here too: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirleyarcher/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shirleyarcher Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shirley_arc... Tumblr: http://shirleyarcher.tumblr.com/ Shirley Archer is a mindfulness and lifestyle coach, a best-selling author of health and fitness books, and an award-winning trainer who helps busy, hard-working people who want to balance career, relationships and self-care, but who can't seem to find the time or the right guidance.
This is a 2-minute guided Breath Awareness Meditation. It is designed for beginners--to provide an easy, short introduction to the peaceful calm that can be achieved with mindful focus, if only for 2 minutes.
Listen to this audio if you want to learn what paced breathing is, why practicing paced breathing helps you to relax and feel calmer and how to do it. I am also on Youtube if you prefer videos. Please visit: www.youtube.com/write2shirley
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2 Minute Meditations
Sound Awareness meditation: Awakening our senses is essential to being present. This short 2-minute guided meditation opens your awareness to the sound symphony that surrounds you at all moments—an introduction to sound meditation
Learn how to observe thoughts WITHOUT reacting or getting caught up can help you, particularly if you tend to replay the same types of thoughts in your head over and over. What do I mean by that? Let's say you tend to replay a negative experience - making a bad experience last much longer. That habit doesn't help you. Learn how to observe through meditation to reveal these mental habits--like replaying bad experiences, worrying about future events, analyzing and self-judging past behavior. Meditation practices like this can help you gain insight into these habits so you can let go of what doesn't serve or help you. This simple 2 minute guided meditation on thoughts can help anyone who wants a 2 minute guided meditation to increase awareness of thoughts and habits of mind. It can also be for those who say, "I've never meditated before." I guide you through this short easy guided meditation with mindful meditation cues. You can also use this exercise to launch your own continued meditation after I finish guiding the introduction This short easy guided meditation offers a refreshing break as well as insight into your habits and yes, you can have mental habits as well as physical habits. Increasing awareness of your thoughts reveals those mental habits that may not serve you, that may heighten anxious feelings or that may perpetuate negative feelings. Use this exercise to bring more presence, loving awareness and acceptance into your life. Mindfulness reduces feelings of anxiety and stress, as you spend less time lost in worries about the future or upsetting past memories. Learn to let go of bothersome thoughts with this mindfulness guided meditation. Learn to stop worrying about things that have NOT happened. You have everything you need to survive whatever experience that you are going through--in fact, you probably already have survived through many challenging experience. Trust your STRENGTH, not your fears. I wish this for you in your life's journey. For your free e-guide, The Power of the Pause, click here: bit.ly/2vAvtMS As an integrative health leader, blogger and mindful meditation teacher, I post new videos each week featuring mindful and natural ways for you to reclaim your health and live a full vibrant, happy life. Live younger 365. You can do this! Please leave comments or requests for tips to help you with your biggest challenges to reach your wellness and happiness goals. Email me at shirley@shirleyarcher.com Follow me here too: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirleyarcher/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shirleyarcher Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shirley_arc... Tumblr: http://shirleyarcher.tumblr.com/ Facebook: http://www.shirleyarcher.com/facebook
Breath awareness is the cornerstone of connecting mind and body, being present and calming the nervous system for inner peace, balance and relaxation. This short 2-minute guided meditation introduces you to how to do a breathing meditation.
How to Avoid Overwhelm
15 minute guided meditation for self care, self love, self acceptance, forgiveness and positive good will. Practicing metta will improve your mood and help you to feel peaceful, grounded and centered. This meditation focuses on offering yourself compassion and care and then extending those feelings of good will to all beings that you want to share kindness with. May love and kindness travel with you today and always.
This is a 13 minute meditation to avoid emotional overwhelm and anxiety. When current events are upsetting, meditating can calm your mind, quiet racing thoughts, settle anxiety and help you to feel more grounded and centered. Emotions can start to overwhelm. A guided meditation that focuses on present-moment awareness can create more calm during unrest and offer anxiety relief. This 13-minute guided meditation focuses on mindful loving awareness to find peace in uncertain times and social unrest. Meditation practice can also boost immunity. Studies show that people who practice meditation are less likely to get sick and if they become sick, tend to be sicker for shorter times. Enjoy this loving awareness guided meditation for mindfulness. If you want to create more calm in your life, check out my free guide, The Power of the Pause. click here: bit.ly/2vAvtMS As an integrative health leader, blogger and mindful meditation teacher, I post new videos each week featuring mindful and natural ways to help you look and feel more energetic, healthier, happier—naturally to help you live younger, longer. Please leave comments or requests for tips to help you with your biggest challenges to reach your wellness and happiness goals. Email me at info@shirleyarcher.com Follow me here too: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirleyarcher/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shirleyarcher Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shirley_archer
This is a 15 minute meditation to avoid emotional overwhelm and anxiety and to allow you to find calm in the storm. When current events are upsetting, meditating can calm your mind, quiet racing thoughts, settle anxiety and help you to feel more grounded and centered. Emotions can start to overwhelm. A guided meditation that focuses on present-moment awareness and that supports being, rather than doing, can create calm during unrest and offer anxiety relief. This 15-minute guided meditation focuses on resting in spacious awareness to find peace in uncertain times and social unrest. Meditation practice can also boost immunity. Studies show that people who practice meditation are less likely to get sick and if they become sick, tend to be sicker for shorter times. Enjoy this loving awareness guided meditation for mindfulness. If you want to create more calm in your life, check out my free guide, The Power of the Pause. click here: bit.ly/2vAvtMS As an integrative health leader, blogger and mindful meditation teacher, I post new videos each week featuring mindful and natural ways to help you look and feel more energetic, healthier, happier—naturally to help you live younger, longer. Please leave comments or requests for tips to help you with your biggest challenges to reach your wellness and happiness goals. Email me at info@shirleyarcher.com Follow me here too: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirleyarcher/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shirleyarcher Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shirley_archer