In the second part of this Awareness practice series, Simon Heale guides you through honing and holding focus during practice on a single place and sensation and how something insignificant can be so significant. How our grosser distractions can diminish into the background: thinking, feelings and the body. For more information on Simons teaching and practices and to join his Friday meditations
Awareness is the heart of insight practice, it is the bedrock of a settled mind, it is a cornerstone of a meaningful life. When we have awareness we have choice. In this practice Simon Heale guides you through the fundamentals of developing more awareness and how to just sit with it. This is the first part of his Awareness Series.
In this last episode for Mental Health Awareness Week, Simon Heale looks at the issue of being alone, our reactions to it and how we can cultivate a new relationship within our sitting practice to be with it in a more flexible and perhaps healthier way. How to hold an emotion with curiosity and expansiveness, to accept the sensation and not get caught up in the stories. Not easy but worth the try.
In part 4 of this series of short meditations for Mental Health Awareness Week, Simon Heale guides you through his 'trademark' settling practice, putting together the various processes already explored this week: body, breath, thinking and now taking charge in settling these all down.
In part 3 of this special week of short meditations for Mental Health Awareness Week, Simon Heale guides you through 18 minutes of watching how our thoughts come and go, and how to be with them in a better and more helpful way.
In this short practice, Simon Heale guides you through how to access the body and breath as the anchor for your attention, to get a break from the to-ings and fro-ings of the mind. Part 2 of the Mental Health Awareness week series
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week, meditation teacher Simon Heale guides you through 12 minutes of a settling body based practice, to ease you into the week. Each day this week he will publish a new short practice. so subscribe and share this with everyone you feel could do with a calm start to the day.
In this special and short meditation, Simon Heale guides you through ways to be with your loss with open, soft and compassionate hands. How to honour the value of your feelings as well as the inevitable memories of that which has been lost. To find a way to settle into loss. This episode is in memory of Revi, a 19 year old gift of life. Thank you boy for being such an amazing force of life.
In this wonderfully calming episode, mindfulness teacher Simon Heale, guides you through two practices to help settle the body and mind. One is a short practice for daily, more immediate use and the other is the longer practice which can be used daily but is more realistically a weekly one to use. These sessions are recorded from Simons weekly online meditation classes. Enjoy and subscribe to get the next episode: Homecoming Practice
In this meditation practice, Simon Heale guides you through a calming feast of festive treats for yourself to nourish and feed your body and mind and perhaps even your spirit. Part of the Snowglobe Project, Settle with Simon aims to settle your worls one meditation, one breath at a time.
In this episode meditation and mindfulness teacher Simon Heale guides you through a 30 minute practice exploring how we can re-learn that uncritical quality of the childs mind or the beginners mind. To witness our thinking, emotions or any of the senses as if for the first time, thereby putting our baggage of expectation and judgement down for at least a few moments. Just like a child exploring elements of the world for the first time. Don't believe me, just try it.
In this new episode of Settle with Simon, part of the Snowglobe Project podcast, Simon Heale presents a short practice for everyone who gives to others every day. You might be a teacher, nurse, doctor, caregiver or therapist, you might be caring for someone at home, or in a nursing home, or a clinical setting: no matter, this short audio is a gift for you to find a little calm and reconnection. You don't have to be a regular meditator, you just have to be curious. Enjoy and thank you for what yo...
Settle with Simon is the new season from Simon Heale and The Snowglobe Project: meditations and short practices to help settle your world, one breath at a time.
In this short podcast, Simon Heale guides you through 4 very short but effective exercises or practices to help settle your mind and body quickly. They are designed to be simple and therefore easily learned, to be able to do them wherever and whenever you need to. With every breath, help is at hand.
Over the last year we have all experienced loss in some form or another, and in the last week the passing of HRH The Prince Philip has allowed us to mourn not just him but also to sit, to stop and give ourselves time to reflect on loss and our relationship with it. This latest episode in the Snowglobe Project, presented by meditation and mindfulness teacher Simon Heale, gives you 28 minutes of space to reflect on someone or something that has been lost or has passed. There is nothing to achieve ...
Get Breathing Space is a 30 minute meditation practice which focusses on using the breath as anchor , cultivating awareness of body and breath together and awareness of the nature of thinking and feelings. In this episode of the Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale, offers another of his popular bi-weekly live lockdown practices. This practice is for anyone wanting to settle and get some needed breathing space in their life.
In our daily or possibly weekly meditations are we aware of our reactivity with our inner goings on? Our inner chatter, inner conversations, judgements, ruminating and more? If we can learn to step back each time and give ourselves that tiny space then we can slowly cultivate a little more responsiveness and a little less reactivity. We may then be able to take some of that, newly hard-wired, response into our daily lives. Maybe. In ep 30 of the Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale guides you through ...
In this episode of The Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale offers you two, yes TWO, practices. Conversations is a short meditation on the dialogue we can have with ourselves in practice, about the qualities we can bring though dialoguing. Choices is the longer meditation which explores the practice of wise-choice: deliberately choosing where to rest our attention, to regain a sense of choice, albeit briefly and in practice, where in our daily lives we may feel, certainly currently, that we have littl...
As we all enter a new year and with current events not relenting, it is a real challenge to be present, to remind ourselves of what is in our control, to then take actions that can be of service, be of value to not just ourselves and those around us, but perhaps to a wider community. This settling in practice aims to give us 30 minutes of grounding, of breathing, of allowing whatever troubling or repetitive thinking we have, to settle, with a little gift at the end too. I hope you enjoy it. Simo...
This episode is an interview with CBT Therapist Sacha Khan, focussing on why meditation and mindfulness can be so helpful to all of us, especially now, and then how can we cultivate a more sustainable meditation practice. WARNING: this interview may lead to you to meditating more!!
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 d...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
