On Mondays We Meditate Gina Rose Drew

This visualisation meditation is designed to help you relax and escape from all the stress that our day to day activities may bring. This session will allow you to truly connect with your life’s purpose, whether you’re lost, confused or you just want a fresh reminder of what everything you do is about. 

This guided three-minute breathing space is a wonderful technique that you can use when you want to quickly feel more grounded, centred and present.

This guided mindfulness practice will help you to become aware of your body, mind and breath. This process will help you to truly tune in to what is present, enabling you to access a more peaceful, balanced and calm state.

Todays episode is a guided body scan meditation to help to release stress and bring about feelings of calm and peace. This process is one of the main techniques used in “mindfulness based cognitive therapy” and one of the most powerful too. The aim of the body scan is to provide a safe space to witness what is present in your body and then allow it to be exactly as it is. We learn how to turn towards sensations and feelings, rather than run away from them. Choose to move through this practice slowly, gracefully, and with an attitude of gentle curiosity.

This episode is a short yet powerful guided meditation that will help you to drop the weight of emotional baggage to provide you with relief and a feeling of calm.

4-7-8 breathing involves inhaling through the nose for a count of four, then holding the breath for a count of seven and on the exhale, you will make an ‘O’ shape with your mouth and exhale with control, making a ‘whooshing’ sound as you do for a count of eight. This style of breathing help to activate our parasympathetic nervous system which helps our bodies to rest and digest. It’s a soothing breathing technique that promotes a state of calm and peace, and at the end of this session you will feel more relaxed, balanced and grounded. It’s great to have in your wellbeing toolbox, and you can come back to it anytime you feel anxious, stressed, overwhelmed, angry, or unable to fall asleep.