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Join mindfulness meditation practitioner, Valerie as she guides you through several different styles of meditation and helps you understand the neuroscience that makes meditation so good for us! Meditation with Valerie is a program of Women’s Health Tasmania. Women’s Health Tasmania is a health promotion service run by women, for women. To find out more about what we do, go to our website www.womenshealthtas.org.au
Episodes
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
5c. Soft words, soft voice meditation
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
We are hardwired, often socialised as well, to give ourselves a hard time. This is a function of the brain that is concerned with your survival, though not at all with your happiness. A harsh inner voice is counterproductive to your wellbeing. A good intention, a willingness to soften … this is a good place to start.
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
5b. Self-compassion meditation
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
You have probably heard of the ‘fight or flight’ system. This meditation activates the lesser known ‘tend and befriend’ system. Include yourself in this naturally warm and fuzzy vibe. Whoever you are, wherever you are, this is a powerful rebalancing exercise.
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
5a. Introduction to self-compassion meditation
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Many people find self-compassion difficult, whereas compassion for others comes easily. Both are good for your wellbeing. This meditation helps you to draw on your capacity for compassion, then invites you to offer it to yourself.
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
4b. Riverbank meditation
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Practice sitting on the riverbank, feel that restful place. Soon you will be able to access this calming place when you are out and about, living your busy life … because it is within you. Be willing to give yourself moments of rest.
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
4a. Introduction to river bank meditation
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
The chatterbox mind is like a river, ceaselessly flowing and churning. This meditation helps you to get familiar with a different aspect of mind. This is your witnessing mind; it does not judge nor get swept away. It has a spacious, very restful quality.
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
3b. Naming your thoughts meditation
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
This meditation offers a powerful circuit breaker for those counter-productive stories we keep telling ourselves. When we drop the story, we drop the judgements and the fixed ideas too. Therein lies the possibility for something new, to create a new pathway.
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
3a. Introduction to naming our thoughts meditation
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Not only is the chatterbox mind a story making mined with a negative bias, in the absence of information it makes stuff up. This combination often turns out badly and we keep telling ourselves the same unhelpful stories. Name them … see them more clearly.
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
2b. Short Meditation
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
If you are looking for a quick refresh, this could be just the thing. You will still be ticking all the boxes – checking in with your body, leaning into self-care, increasing your attention, and better managing stress as well.
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
2a. Body Scan
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
A body scan is restful and restorative. It also allows for a different mind body conversation. Your body does not have language, it has memory and emotion, in the form of sensation. Be willing, be curious to listen … this will help your body to release its own stress.
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
1c: Simple Meditation
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Meditation is a kind of strength training. Be patient – simple doesn’t mean easy. Be on the look-out for positive benefits throughout the day, and maybe more restful nights as well.