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.

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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.