Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore letting go of defensiveness and needing to protect ourselves, and look at how we can approach the world around us with curiosity and wonder, which gives a greater understanding of our true agency. When we're on the defensive, we can only react to the negative stimuli around us with more negativity; when we're ready to appreciate and create, we pave the way for enjoyment and resilience.

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For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca.

Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore setting intentions for the new year. Our topic is authenticity: having an inner and outer experience, mind/body/heart congruence, so that we don't feel like we're checked out of any part of our lives. Authenticity is key to self-compassion and enjoying the little things that make up life.

To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at https://youtu.be/O4UlrsYXUXg.

If you enjoy this podcast, we invite you to leave a good review and share with your friends!

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards,

Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Greetings meditators, continuing our preparations for the Christmas, Hannukah and holiday season with meditations upon generosity.

Last week we covered ways to be generous with ourselves, and today we explore a generosity practice for others.

Generosity doesn't equal giving STUFF to others, but our loving, full presence without an agenda for control and change.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more! To watch this meditation on Youtube, please click the following link: https://youtu.be/W9RIRhb_1MU

For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Good day! In today's practice, we begin preparations for the Christmas holiday season, and our first theme is generosity. Not with stuff, but with our attention, focus, and presence, for ourselves and others.

To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/0mWuwZOOyDQ

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Greetings! Today is part 3 of our work with mindfulness & depression. We have a guided practice that explores focus on sensations in the body and visualizations.

To watch today's practice, please visit https://youtu.be/T0dL8n-Q4fw

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards,

Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Welcome! Our second sit regarding depression.

In today's practice, we continue our exploration of thoughts of fear, shame, anxiety, and work through a couple breathing practices to help bring these thoughts to light and to release their hold on our stream of consciousness.

To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/F2grqobkAa8

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Good morning and welcome to our weekly Sunday meditation.

We began this season with mindfulness approaches to managing stress and anxiety in difficult times, and now after a couple weeks of honoring the Day of the Dead and Remembrance Day with loving kindness meditations, we are moving on to a new theme: the mindful exploration of depression.

Meditation isn't "enough to fix" depression, especially if people are really struggling with long term or major depression, but it can provide an opportunity to understand what we're feeling and thinking.

Often when we're feeling down, it's accompanied by a chronic substream of very negative thinking of which we are unaware. Mindfulness of both the body and of our thoughts, can help us reconnect with awareness to our experience, so that we can develop knowledge about our bodies and our thoughts. What are the negative thoughts that hold us prisoner? How can we interrupt the repetition? How do these negative thoughts make me feel--do I feel them as tension in my shoulders, abdomen, heart area? How would I feel if I could let this go?

In today's 15 min practice, we explore mindfulness of our thoughts: what are we thinking that is rooted in fear?

In the next several meditations we will explore these other ideas.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more!

For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

To watch today's practice, please visit youtube at https://youtu.be/i7_ENCXSGSM

Good morning & welcome to our annual remembrance day meditation.

Today we practice loving kindness for those that have passed on during the violence humans inflict upon one another in war.

We also meditate upon our own peaceful thoughts, from the premise that peace comes from within, and that the world we perceive and create can only reflect the violence, discord, and un-ease within if we do not work to understand our own lack of peacefulness first.

To watch this meditation, please visit https://youtu.be/Wby0SsS4pIw.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more!

For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness