The final episode in series one of Where Is My Mind talks about perspective, zooming out, and how meditation helps us reflect on our lives as a bigger picture. Niall meets an astronaut and an artist who reflect on this perspective from the point of view of star gazing and being in outer space, looking […]
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The lake meditation accompanies episode 5 of Where is my Mind. It is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Lake Meditation, and guided by Niall Breslin. Like the mountain meditation, the lake meditation uses nature as a strong visualisation anchor that guides us to present moment awareness. The lakes surface can changes from day to day. It
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This episode explores the importance of mindful communication, looking at how we communicate and how this affects our relationships. Niall explores how building our emotional intelligence and mindfulness practice can help us become much more effective communicators in every aspect of our lives. He also explores what good communication looks like and the challenges of
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Where is My Mind? Meditation 4: Compassion Meditation, Guided by Sharon Salzberg A short meditation exploring our relationship with suffering, and bringing an attitude of kindness and compassion to ourselves and our meditation practice.
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This episode explores the inevitability of suffering in our lives, and how to skillfully deal with it so it’s not as overwhelming; and so we don’t always turn to distraction and avoidance to cope when things go wrong. Niall Breslin talks to Tomi Reichenthal, Holocaust survivor, about recognising and turning towards aversion rather than running
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Where is My Mind? Meditation 3 (long meditation): Mountain Meditation This meditation also accompanies episode 3 of Where Is My Mind. Niall Breslin guides you through the mountain meditation, adapted from Jon Kabat Zinn’s Full Catastrophe Living. A mountain stands rooted and grounded in its ever-changing conditions and seasons. We humans also endure a never
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Where is My Mind? Meditation 3: Three space breathing (short meditation) This meditation accompanies episode 3 of Where Is My Mind. Niall Breslin guides you through a short meditation which is only a couple of minutes long. When your day is hectic, doing this at some point during the day: on the bus on the
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This episode of Where Is My Mind uses Jenga as a metaphor for the slings and arrows of our culture that threaten to knock us off balance. It also introduces positive psychology and includes ways of strengthening our internal world to cope with the chaos of our modern world. Keep an eye out in the
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Where is My Mind? Meditation 2: Sitting MeditationThis meditation accompanies episode 2 of Where Is My Mind. Niall Breslin guides you through a sitting meditation, a short reflection which invites you to simply sit and observe your breath, your surroundings, and how you are feeling. We all sit every day, we all breathe; the difference
In this episode of Where Is My Mind, Niall Breslin explores our culture of distraction, and how the perpetual pings, dings and notifications we do battle with every day in the war for our attention can stop us from deepening our attention and make us feel overwhelmed. David O’Brien’s brain surgery playlist, The Auditory Cortex
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Where is My Mind? This meditation accompanies episode 1 of Where Is My Mind. You can do this meditation at any time of day, lying or sitting down. Niall Breslin guides you step by step of the way through this short guided meditation, designed for first time and experienced meditators alike, with the aim of
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Where is my Mind? …is a podcast about how we can navigate the manic, always-on, and head-melting world we live in. Our lives are changing so quickly, its hard to keep up. Although a lot of this change is for the better, our culture is more fast paced, more polarised, more narcissistic, and more disconnected
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