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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

Monday Nov 18, 2024
1a. Short meditation and discussion
Monday Nov 18, 2024
Monday Nov 18, 2024
Valerie offers a short meditation with extracts from a discussion about what just happened inside your brain and body. The chatterbox mind is a story making mind with an inbuilt negative bias. Discover some of the physical and psychological benefits in learning how to unhook. Just breathe and be still … let your mind rest.

Friday Nov 15, 2024
6a. Taking in the good
Friday Nov 15, 2024
Friday Nov 15, 2024
This is a quick and easy practice that will help to counteract the brain’s fixation on negative information. Learn how to make more of your brain’s plasticity, to take in positive experiences more effectively.

Friday Nov 15, 2024
6b. Interdependence contemplation
Friday Nov 15, 2024
Friday Nov 15, 2024
Even though we live on a very populated planet, we can still feel separate, disconnected. Or we draw lines and place ‘us’ on one side and ‘them’ on the other. This contemplation helps you to see that you are not just connected, you are enmeshed.

Friday Nov 15, 2024
6c. Nature contemplation
Friday Nov 15, 2024
Friday Nov 15, 2024
Another contemplation designed to help you soften a little more. You are just as enmeshed in the natural world, you just need to give it a little thought, a little attention.

Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
5c. Soft words, soft voice meditation
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 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.

Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
5b. Self-compassion meditation
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 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.

Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
5a. Introduction to self-compassion meditation
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 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.

Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
4b. Riverbank meditation
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 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.

Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
4a. Introduction to river bank meditation
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 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.

Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
3b. Naming your thoughts meditation
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 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.