Everyday Practices
Living With My Mind
For a Kinder Relationship With Your Thoughts
Welcome. These practices are here to help you live with your mind a little more kindly. Start wherever feels right, and use the shorter versions when time is tight. Tap play to listen, or download any track to keep.
Not My Friend, Nor My Enemy
For when your mind feels like the enemy. We go to The Wisdom of The Waves for a short teaching on the negativity bias. The mind evolved to keep you safe, and today the threats are rejection and uncertainty rather than tigers. The inner critic only has one approach, ‘just like a five year old’. Then some Validating Self-Talk: letting the mind chatter, and choosing what gets your energy. It ends with the affirmation ‘These thoughts are echoes, not my voice.’
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Hello Mind
An affirmations practice for your relationship with your mind. It begins by settling in and noticing what your mind is up to, and whether your thoughts come as pictures, words or something like a sound recording. After a count up from 1 to 10, the affirmations thank the mind for what it’s helped create, and move towards seeing yourself as the witness behind the thoughts. The shorter version skips the settling in and starts at the count. The micro version goes straight to the affirmations and ends sooner.
18 min · fullDownload
Points of Connection
A meditation for coming back to this moment. You close your eyes and notice what you can see behind them, then add the movement of your breath, two points of connection at once. If your mind is busy, you can hear or see the words ‘in breath, out breath’ in time with your breathing. Distraction is expected. Every time you notice it and come back, that’s ‘a win, not a moment of failure’.
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Thoughts Like Rain
For when one small thought takes over. You’re warm inside, looking out at the rain. A big raindrop forms on the glass and your mind won’t leave it alone, until it’s all you can see. You look through it again, and notice Nelly, the cat from number 11, crossing for more milk. Then a letter to your mind, and the affirmation ‘The rain is no problem, it’s there to observe.’ The shorter versions are the letter and affirmation, or an earlier telling of the story on its own.
10 min · fullDownload
The Echo Chamber
For when one unkind thought keeps repeating. You stand in a vast, cool cave and call out, and the words echo back: ‘I’m not good enough. I can’t do this.’ Then you stand still and listen without reacting, until the echoes soften and you can hear your breath and the water dripping. A few questions follow, then a letter to your mind and the affirmation ‘I am the silence that softens them all.’ The shorter version leaves out the letter.
11 min · fullDownload
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