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More of My Exclusive Free Guided Meditations Can Be Found On Insight Timer here:  https://insig.ht/BlbWtxuVfWb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share You can find my extensive library of videos on spiritual awakening, finding inner peace and physical & mental wellbeing here:https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant My meditation for driving to work on this platform has been one of my most popular so I thought I'd upload another . The drive to work is potentially a stressful time as one predicts and worries about the day ahead, but what if instead we utilize the time driving to stay fully present and find a sense of inner peace and groundedness. In the present moment the drive to work can be perfectly enjoyable and pleasant, the act of driving itself is quite meditative as it requires enough concentration and focus to keep the mind occupied, if you can devote your attention entirely to this you will find the remarkable peace achievable through a complete and total focus on the present even when engaged in activity. This then carries over into the day as even ordinarily stressful situations become another opportunity to focus on meditative presence.

More of My Exclusive Free Guided Meditations Can Be Found On Insight Timer here:  https://insig.ht/BlbWtxuVfWb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share You can find my extensive library of videos on spiritual awakening, finding inner peace and physical & mental wellbeing here: https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant This guided meditation introduces a method for alleviating chronic pain based on a mindfulness visualization. By changing the way pain is experienced we can cease the secondary suffering created by pain, interrupting the 'feedback loop' caused by the stress associated with the physical discomfort. Reducing the stress caused by pain subsequently reduces the physical pain, in this way the practice of mindfulness can be a powerful remedy for chronic conditions and has significant impacts on the wellbeing of those afflicted. If you don't suffer from a chronic condition yourself please remember to share this with anyone you know who suffers painful conditions including arthritis and fibromyalgia. If you understand the technique and mechanism of action you may also find this practice useful for chronic emotional pain.

More of My Exclusive Free Guided Meditations Can Be Found On Insight Timer here:  https://insig.ht/BlbWtxuVfWb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share You can find my extensive library of videos on spiritual awakening, finding inner peace and physical & mental wellbeing here:https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant This highly focused guided meditation is develops the Buddhist practice and principle of non-judgmental awareness, finding the remarkably powerful ability to simply observe the now without any analysis or interpretation and simply Being as Awareness itself.

More of My Exclusive Free Guided Meditations Can Be Found On Insight Timer here:  https://insig.ht/BlbWtxuVfWb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share You can find my extensive library of videos on spiritual awakening, finding inner peace and physical & mental wellbeing here:https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant This video is a guided meditation intended for pre-sleep based on Advaita Vedanta. By removing all the usual troubles of the mind and returning to a natural state of being you can find your body and mind becoming profoundly relaxed, this true and total relaxation results in deep and uninterrupted sleep as the restless and agitated mind has become fully disengaged.

You can find the complete library of my Guided Meditations for Free on Insight Timer.: ⁠https://insig.ht/M1q2pxtBDVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share⁠ For more advice on meditation and wellness you can find me on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant⁠ These guided meditations are intended to bring the individual to total inner peace and fully relieve the symptoms of anxiety and stress, I endeavor to create meditations suitable for everyone regardless of faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or philosophies. My meditations are mostly based on secular mindfulness with elements of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality)  This practice is based on a complete and total acceptance of the Now, whatever the current moment contains just a pure and direct "Yes" to this moment. This releases the usual resistance or avoidance of Now and brings the individual to an immediate sense of calm and true inner peace.

You can find the complete library of my Guided Meditations for Free on Insight Timer.: ⁠https://insig.ht/M1q2pxtBDVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share⁠ For more advice on meditation and wellness you can find me on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant⁠ These guided meditations are intended to bring the individual to total inner peace and fully relieve the symptoms of anxiety and stress, I endeavor to create meditations suitable for all regardless of faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or philosophies. My meditations are mostly based on secular mindfulness with elements of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality)  This particular meditation evokes sense memories from happy periods of time and then focuses the listener into the happier feelings that arise. This re-awakens the brains natural feel-good chemistry and once this experience is felt the brain will naturally begin to re-adjust it's natural balance. This requires a pushing through of 'Nostalgia' feelings and perhaps a pang of sorrow, grief or loss as we feel as though we long to return to the past, however on the other side of that nostalgia we discover that these happy and joyful feelings never went away, they have been there all along they have simply been obscured by the weight of the many years of conditioning that enshrouded them.

You can find the complete library of my Guided Meditations for Free on Insight Timer.: ⁠https://insig.ht/M1q2pxtBDVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share⁠ For more advice on meditation and wellness you can find me on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant⁠ These guided meditations are intended to bring the individual to total inner peace and fully relieve the symptoms of anxiety and stress, I endeavor to create meditations suitable for all regardless of faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or philosophies. My meditations are mostly based on secular mindfulness with elements of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality)

You can find the complete library of my Guided Meditations for Free on Insight Timer.: ⁠https://insig.ht/M1q2pxtBDVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share⁠ For more advice on meditation and wellness you can find me on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant⁠ These guided meditations are intended to bring the individual to total inner peace and fully relieve the symptoms of anxiety and stress, I endeavor to create meditations suitable for all regardless of faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or philosophies. My meditations are mostly based on secular mindfulness with elements of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality)  This guided meditation is an introduction to the powerful and often utilized technique of 'thought-watching' with a vivid and engaging visualization. Through imagining one's consciousness as the sky and the thoughts to be like clouds arising within it we can find a powerful inner peace through the disengagement and disidentification with thoughts.

You can find the complete library of my Guided Meditations for Free Now on Insight Timer.: ⁠https://insig.ht/M1q2pxtBDVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share⁠ For more advice on meditation and wellness you can find me on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant⁠ These guided meditations are intended to bring the individual to total inner peace and fully relieve the symptoms of anxiety and stress, I endeavor to create meditations suitable for all regardless of faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or philosophies. My meditations are mostly based on secular mindfulness with elements of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality)  This particular Guided Meditation is a powerful method of introducing ten minutes of pure inner peace to each morning in order to alleviate anxiety and stress. By spending ten minutes of time intentionally remaining fully present without immediately getting lost in the usual narratives of the mind you can begin the day from a space of calmness, groundedness and inner peace. In time this results in a more present way of being in life and ultimately removes stress.

You can find the complete library of my Guided Meditations for Free on Insight Timer.: ⁠https://insig.ht/M1q2pxtBDVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share⁠ For more advice on meditation and wellness you can find me on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant⁠ These guided meditations are intended to bring the individual to total inner peace and fully relieve the symptoms of anxiety and stress, I endeavor to create meditations suitable for all regardless of faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or philosophies. My meditations are mostly based on secular mindfulness with elements of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality)  This particular Guided Meditation is especially useful for those who have been practicing meditation for some time and are finding they are stuck, blocked or stagnating on the path. Through a full and total letting go of any expectation one can rediscover natural presence without any models or concepts that the mind will have been constructing during meditative practice.

You can find the complete library of my Guided Meditations for Free on Insight Timer.: ⁠https://insig.ht/M1q2pxtBDVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share⁠ For more advice on meditation and wellness you can find me on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant⁠ These guided meditations are intended to bring the individual to total inner peace and fully relieve the symptoms of anxiety and stress, I endeavor to create meditations suitable for all regardless of faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or philosophies. My meditations are mostly based on secular mindfulness with elements of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality)  This meditation is based on the principles of 'Shadow Work' as well as elements of Kashmir Shaivism and Tantra. Suitable for all but particularly those who are seeking to improve their emotional and mental wellbeing. Particularly if you are in the space of recovering from past hurts.

You can find the complete library of my Guided Meditations for Free on Insight Timer.: ⁠https://insig.ht/M1q2pxtBDVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share⁠ For more advice on meditation and wellness you can find me on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant⁠ These guided meditations are intended to bring the individual to total inner peace and fully relieve the symptoms of anxiety and stress, I endeavor to create meditations suitable for all regardless of faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or philosophies. My meditations are mostly based on secular mindfulness with elements of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality)

You can find the complete library of my Guided Meditations for Free on Insight Timer.: https://insig.ht/M1q2pxtBDVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share For more advice on meditation and wellness you can find me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@corinbryant These guided meditations are intended to bring the individual to total inner peace and fully relieve the symptoms of anxiety and stress, I endeavor to create meditations suitable for all regardless of faiths, backgrounds, beliefs or philosophies. My meditations are mostly based on secular mindfulness with elements of Advaita Vedanta (Nonduality)

As mentioned in the show, here is the Link to my Insight Timer (Free Meditation App) - https://insig.ht/UvRkzv59uVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share In this episode I take you on a deep dive into the practice and principle of Shadow Work. Guiding through a fearless and transformative introspection necessary for true and permanent inner peace, health and happiness. This episode includes a practical exercise towards the end. The 'Shadow' as described by many spiritual teachers, therapists and psychologists (including Carl Jung) is the unconscious material of repressed, avoided and buried emotional residue, left over from a painful past in which the emotion was not given the correct attention at the time, most often this is due to encountering these emotions as a child when the adults around you had no emotional maturity, no emotional security, were neglectful and mistreated you and therefore did not teach you the correct way to handle intensely negative emotional states. Being a child you found your own way to handle these emotions as you learned the emotion was not 'safe' to express around adults, but sadly the mechanisms that worked as a child essentially 'Buried' the emotion and here is where the dysfunctional patterns we carry into adulthood are formed. It is the repression of emotion that causes the vast majority of dysfunction and disorder in the individual as so many of our negative behaviors are in place in order to avoid facing this pain, by choosing to face it squarely and head-on one removes the need for dysfunctional behavior, bad habits and unnecessarily painful emotional patterns. You essentially 're-parent' that poor child who was never taught the right way to experience emotions. For example if we have repressed shame we are unable to feel shame in daily life and therefore have lost access to an emotion necessary in ensuring we don't act in strange, embarrassing and unhealthy ways. If we have repressed anger we struggle with conflict and so resort to passive aggression and manipulation. If we have repressed fear we might find ourselves in patterns of avoidance and therefore unable to access healthy and productive jobs and fulfilling relationships. This can be so painful as we have buried emotion for a reason, they can be incredibly painful, and if you have been on the receiving end of very unjust behavior towards you naturally you will be unwilling to return to those periods of time and refeel those horrible emotions. But this reluctance ultimately only damages you further, it's time to pull the band-aid off and really do this so that you can move on into a happy and healthy life moving forwards. If you have found yourself stuck or stagnant on your healing journey or path to awakening it is very likely that there is an element of the shadow that needs to be addressed. The trade-off with this work is that the deeper you can go into this painful material, the more rapid and profound your transformation will be. By practicing shadow work one develops the necessary courage and maturity to finally feel these repressed emotions and feel comfortable in their presence, in time this results in a much more settled and peaceful emotional inner world. This is perhaps the hardest and most uncomfortable of all spiritual practices, but in my experience is the most beneficial and transformative. Once uncovered and integrated, the shadow is no longer operating from the darkness and instead is allowed up and into the light. The individual is now Whole with nothing left undiscovered. Herein lies true peace. Good luck.

My Meditations on Insight Timer can be found here: https://insig.ht/La2nkbT3fVb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share In this series I'm exploring and explaining the various rpactices and principles in spirituality and meditation that have been so helpful for me in recovering from anxiety, depression, addiction and obesity. I utilise the wisdom and knowledge that has been recorded throughout history and apply it to the present day. In this episode I speak on the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta, and take a somewhat light hearted approach to answering the questions of meaning and purpose. Advaita is often translated as 'Nonduality' but I take the slightly controversial approach of translating instead to mean 'Nonseparation' - Through a deep enquiry into the background belief we tend to have about being somehow 'apart' from the universe and rediscovering the sense of unity, oneness all existential questions and confusion ceases and peace is attained.