Practice Mindful Awareness

(coming soon!)



The reason that I recommend audio guidance when you’re getting started is that it works a little bit like training wheels. When you are learning to ride a bike, it’s natural to swerve all over the place, fall down, get confused about how to brake or shift gears, and so on. The same is true for learning mindful awareness. The audio guidance helps to gently keep you on course.

You will begin to recognize that each time you practice mindful awareness in your daily life, whether sitting quietly, doing yoga, or changing a diaper, you are committing to a way of being that increases your capacity to remain present and connected with your baby, curious and compassionate, solid and grounded in the face of whatever comes up.

Each of the practices offered here can be used during pregnancy and in early motherhood, and each is helpful in its own way. I encourage you to try all three. If you like, you can alternate between sitting quietly and mindful movement from day to day, or on busy days, do a little practice whenever you can fit it in. The point is to visit the territory of mindful awareness often. Flex that mindful-awareness muscle a little bit every day!

These guided meditations each last about 20 minutes, and you can listen to them in their entirety, or just for a few minutes if you are short on time.

You might listen to one while nursing, during a lunch break, in your car while the baby is napping in the carseat, imemdiately when you wake up, or just before going to sleep.

 

 

- COMING SOON! -

 

The first audio journey guides you through mindful awareness of breathing, an ancient and foundational practice for cultivating equanimity. The second one focuses on mindful awareness of the sensations in your body. Finally, there is more to who you are, to your experience of being human, than thoughts, feelings, and sensations. There is also an aspect of your being that is aware of each of these elements. The third guided meditation directs your attention to the part of you that is aware of everything that is happening in your experience - thoughts, feelings, sensations, so that you can practice locating your center of gravity in that awareness that is always present, always in your body, always connected, already perfectly mindful - without even having to try!

 

“I think mothers everywhere would greatly benefit from this book. It is honest, openhearted, straightforward and compassionate. Mindful Motherhood is an invaluable resource for moms at any stage in their parenting.”
    — Sharon Salzberg, meditation teacher and author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness.