Creating Calm
This booklet offers you …
• a practical guide to meditation
• a description of meditation approaches & techniques
• ways to master your own mind & be more mindful
• a guide to creating calm
Table of Contents
Preface
Who are you? Where are you going?
Finding your Way..
Presence – Being Present
Awareness.
Meditation
What is meditation?.
Categories of Meditation Techniques
Movement
Sound
Sight
Movement
Breath
Compassion
Approaches to Meditation
Benefits of Meditation
Meditation Techniques
Examples of Meditation
Sight 1 – Gazing a flame
Sight 2 – guided visualization
Sound 1 – listening
Sound 2 – you as instrument. Singing and chanting
Movement 1 – walking
Movement 2 – dancing
Compassion
My Favorite Meditations
Breath Awareness
Breathing Techniques
Coherent Breathing
Twenty Connected Breaths
Alternate Nostril Breathing
Flowing Breath
Breathwork
Mindpower – Gaining Insight
The Mind
Feeding the Mind – Keeping good company
Knowing your own Mind – Self Mastery
How To Know Yourself
Using the Mind to Change the Mind
Exercise 1 – Who are you?
Exercise 2 – Affirmations & Clearing process
Exercise 3 – Truth Tracking
Exercise 4 – Completion Letter
The writing process
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About the author© 2018 Ann Harrison
For more than 30 years Ann Harrison has been working with breath awareness. She guides clients, nationally and internationally, in a variety of breathing techniques design to relieve stress, create greater self awareness and develop a foundation for healthy happy living. Ann is a teacher of meditation, psychotherapist and trainer of Breathwork practitioners.