Kari Fillian Psychotherapy, LLC

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Mindfulness/Meditation Resources

Kari Fillian

Many clients work with me with the goal of exploring a new mindfulness practice, expanding an existing practice, or picking back up an old practice. Mindfulness, as defined by Tara Brach in True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart, “is the intentional process of paying attention, without judgment, to the unfolding of moment-by-moment experience.” Mindfulness can be practiced in a formal way, such as in meditation, or in informal ways, such as while driving, eating, showering, or virtually any activity that you engage in throughout the day. Mindfulness can be an extremely helpful adjunctive resource to therapy, as it supports you in bringing a sense of awareness, presence, and kindness to your experiences. 

While I do practice informal and formal mindfulness and meditation practices in sessions with clients, I find that many clients want to implement these skills outside of their sessions. It can be helpful to establish a regular mindfulness/meditation practice in order to increase your ability to access the skill of dropping into presence at any given moment throughout the day. Below are some of my favorite resources for incorporating mindfulness and/or formal meditation into your daily life. These are all practices I have experienced myself and highly recommend. Perhaps some of these practices will resonate with you, or perhaps this will serve as a jumping off point for you to explore other practices and ways of engaging with your own version of mindfulness. There is no right or wrong way to practice! 

Drop a comment below if you use any of these practices, or if you have others that you recommend.

With love and peace,

Kari


Books:

Guided Meditations by Topic (Hundreds of thousands of meditations of a wide variety of topics and styles can be accessed for free on the Insight Timer app)

Recommended Teachers (on Insight Timer):

Mindfulness (Vipassana):

Lovingkindness/Self-Compassion:

Body Scans/Body-Based Meditations:

RAIN/Managing Difficult Emotions:

(RAIN is an acronym that stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture)

Breathwork/Pranayama:


Miscellaneous: