What Meditation Do I Choose?

I recommend playing with a few of the techniques, this can be done practicing in meditation: one following the other in the same meditation, or as various techniques incorporated in your daily routine and is dependent on how you feel when you practice. Personally, I find the morning a great time to practice because it also acts as a time you check in and take note of what you are currently experiencing, whether its the important tasks of the day, a stressor on your mind or an ongoing challenge.

Mindfulness of Breath

• If you are prone to skip meals, or forget to eat, or lose your keys - this is for you.

• Being aware of your breath will help you to get comfortable with the subtle changes happening within you, at all times. 

• Your breath is a stress reduction tool that can be used outside of meditation and ground in daily life.

Loving Kindness - Compassion Meditation

• You may direct loving kindness to really anything that you intend to show kindness to. 

• Anyone from loved ones, animals, neighborhoods to other lands - the options really can be unlimited. 

• Tends to improve mood and emotional response. 

​​Mindfulness of Thoughts

• If you have a busy mind - stop and listen to what the thoughts are telling you. Really hear them - and then release them. Here is where we notice what calls to us most - when we let our mind run free. (without judging what arises)

• The trick with mindfulness meditation is not to get attached, or react or change in any way in response to what arises. 

Mindfulness of Emotions

• Maybe you experience a lot of emotions but regularly can't express them. 

• You may have emotions that you avoid feeling, push down or let out when you're alone. 

• I would recommend going into a practice of noting - with mindfulness of emotions. Note an emotion that arises adding -ing to the end each time one arises. ​