The Snowglobe Project: settling your world one breath at a time

The Snowglobe Project: (or meditations for all) Episode 26 Impermanence Practice

During these incredibly uncertain and challenging days we are all facing, it can be almost impossible to stay grounded, calm and balanced emotionally. Our need as humans is to know whats up ahead, what is the threat or more often than not, what can i look forward to. We cannot do this at the moment to the extend we have all become used to. The practice that Simon Heale guides you through is to look at the area of impermanence and how we can in our meditation, be aware of our need to hold on to desires, needs and things, and to let it go as often as we can. Then perhaps in our lives we can bring this awareness to ourselves, to notice when we are falling into the trap of desire and need and suffering because it cannot be how we want it or thought it would be.

Meditation is not the answer to these tough times, but it could be an answer. Enjoy

The Snowglobe Project: (or meditations for all) Episode 25: Its showtime folks!!

In this meditation, Simon Heale guides you through the practice of watching our true selves unfold before our inner eyes or awareness, and much like an audience member watching a performance, we just sit and let the images, the words, the 'music' happen. By seeing if we can watch our own show in each practice we may be able to change our relationship with our 'selves'. Maybe.

The Snowglobe Project: (or meditations for all) Episode 24 Listen to your soundtrack

In this episode Simon Heale guides you through an insight practice examining the difference between our thoughts and our feelings: suggesting the possibility that one is the soundtrack that colours our world. So sit back, upright or lying down, and enjoy listening to your soundtrack.

The Snowglobe Project: (or meditations for all) Episode 23 Learning to Surf

You cant stop the waves, said Jon Kabat-Zin, but you can learn to surf.

In this episode of the Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale guides you through the practice of 'surfing' on and away from our thinking mind, from our stories, repetitive patterns of thinking, towards a more solid place, that of our body and our breath. Accepting that this is how our minds work and deliberately settling into a more flexible way of being.

The Snowglobe Project (or meditations for all) Episode 22: All things arise, change and cease

In this episode, SImon Heale guides you through a meditation practice focussing on a core Buddhist principle that all things arise, they all change and eventually all will cease. If we can grasp this, especially in todays climate, then we can perhaps get on with living. The risk is that we stay rooted to what we dont have anymore, to what was and what we long for, so by playing with the possibility of impermanence then we may cultivate freedom and choice again in our lives.

Enjoy.

The Snowglobe Project: (or meditations for all) Episode 21 Attachment to non-attachment

In episode 21 of the Snowglobe Project podcast, Simon Heale guides you through an exploration of how we all get attached to what we want, need or desire, how to cultivate awareness of attachment in practice, and then how to shift our relationship with it all. Within each practice we do is an opportunity to rebuild our relationships with our human tendency for attachment.

Enjoy

 

The Snowglobe Project: (or meditations for all) Episode 20: In or out of my control?

In episode 20 of this gentle meditation podcast, Simon Heale guides you through an insight practice focussing on how we can deal with our internal difficulties, in practice, applying a very simple question: is this in or out of my control? By stepping back with anything that arises, we may be able to be with our experiences with more flexibility, choice and ultimately a greater sense of freedom.

Enjoy.

The Snowglobe Project: (or meditations for all) Episode 19 Being with Openness

As the Sufi poet Rumi suggested: Being human is like a guest house, every meditation, every moment is an opportunity to welcome each new arrival:  a thought, a feeling, a sensation. In this episode of the Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale guides you through the warm-up check in and then through a long 20 minutes of welcoming, being open and kind to every experience that passes our awareness.

A lovely antedote to fear, to worry and to the unknown surrounding us currently.

The Snowglobe Project: (or meditations for all) Episode 18 The Power of Breath

In this episode Simon Heale guides you through an exploration of the true value of settling our body and minds and the effect it can have on the ability of the body to self regulate or to heal. A short visualisation then imagines empowering resilience and immunity throughout our systems.

Enjoy

The Snowglobe Project: (or meditations for all) Episode 17 The Full Body Scan

Relax, unwind, re-tune and re-charge with this 26 minute full body scan from Simon Heale. This practice is a fundamental insight and mindfulness meditation to awaken our awareness into the minutiae of our experiences: the senses rather than our thoughts.