7-Day Meditation Challenge

Free 7-Day Meditation Challenge

This free 7-Day Meditation Challenge is for those wanting to de-stress, reduce anxiety, over-thinking and emotional reactivity.

When you register for the challenge, you will receive an email each day with the following topics and a guided meditation for that day.

Day 1 – Meditation: Introduction, Purpose and Getting Started + 5-minute guided meditation

Day 2 – The Key to Meditation + 10-minute guided meditation

Day 3 – Meditation – The Mind’s Daily Shower + 15-minute guided meditation

Day 4 – Meditation and Resistance, Part 1 + 18-minute guided meditation

Day 5 – Meditation and Resistance, Part 2 + 22-minute guided meditation

Day 6 – Meditation and Being + 23-minute guided meditation

Day 7 – Meditation Review + 17-minute guided meditation

Register below to join the free 7-Day Meditation Challenge:

How Meditation Can Help

The perpetuation of stress, anxiety and emotional reactivity is due to the habit of allowing the mind or attention to continually focus and fixate on thoughts and emotions – whether they are wanted or unwanted, pleasant or unpleasant. 

This habit is especially troublesome when an emotional disturbance is present, and one is compelled to dwell on the associated thoughts and feelings until they pass.  This is an unfortunate consequence of the seemingly harmless habit of letting the mind wander and think aimlessly.

This 7-Day Meditation Challenge aims to counteract this habit by guiding the attention to what is natural (not created by the mind) and what is neutral (not emotionally charged) within the body.  This creates a sense of space or distance from thoughts and feelings, which allows them to be seen and observed.    

For example, if you put your hand right up against your face, you can’t see it. Only when you start to take your hand away is there enough distance and perspective for it to come into full view.

This space and objectivity allows room for authentic, appropriate response to situations.  Just as a good driver will be aware of traffic conditions at a distance, allowing greater response time to other drivers.

Another example is when someone (or yourself) is really angry. In these situations, the anger has temporarily taken over the attention and one has become the anger. The anger is not only pressed up against the face, as in the example I gave of the hand, but has actually taken over the psyche, facial expressions and actions of the body.

This is the same for all thoughts and feelings the attention has identified with. Identification means that there is not the space to distinguish the thought/feeling as separate from what I am – my attention has identified with it as me (to varying degrees). An example of this is someone who says “I am an anxious person” or even more commonly “I am stressed”. Anxiety and stress are no longer being seen or perceived as distinct energies within but have become amorphous with the sense of myself.

Meditation and Mindfulness Articles

7-Day Meditation ChallengeThis free 7-Day Meditation Challenge is for those wanting to de-stress, reduce anxiety, over-thinking and emotional reactivity.When you register for the challenge, you will receive an email each day with the following topics and a guided meditation for that day.Day 1 – Meditation: Introduction, Purpose and Getting Started

7-Day Meditation Challenge

7-Day Mindfulness ChallengeThis free 7-Day Mindfulness Challenge is perfect for those new to mindfulness and those who practice mindfulness, but would like the extra reminders and structure of a 7-day challenge.When you register for the challenge, you will receive an email each day:Day 1 – Mindfulness: Introduction, Purpose and Getting

7-Day Mindfulness Challenge

​Pausing: A Simple Practice for Greater CalmOne of the simplest ways to remain calm and relaxed is to pause regularly throughout the day.  Having frequent, brief periods of stillness prevents the accumulation of pressure and stress and breaks up the momentum of the mind. If allowed to build up, it can

Pausing – A Simple Practice for Greater Calm

Tips for Mindfully Releasing Tension & StressIf tension, stress and/or anxiety have become a regular feature of your daily life, the following suggestions may help. The accumulation of tension and stress create excessive restlessness and inability to focus and relax (as I'm sure you know).Breaking the habit and force of

Tips for Mindfully Releasing Tension and Stress

How Does Meditation Work?A practical perspective on how meditation works to quieten the mind, relax the body and reduce stress and emotional reactivity.  Also covered is the key to successful meditation and the overall purpose of meditation.To gain an understanding of how meditation works, we’ll approach it from a practical

How Does Meditation Work?

Tips for Dealing with Resistance to MeditationIt is very common for beginners to feel resistance to meditating and/or restless during meditation.  Even experienced meditators will experience this from time to time.  In this article we will look at why this is the case, the different forms of resistance to look

Tips for Dealing with Resistance to Meditation

Interested in joining a meditation class?

Meditation 1 (for beginners) starts in Feb, Apr, Jul & Oct each year, in line with NSW school terms.

Free Guided Meditations

Dropping into the Well of Yourself (12 Min)
Rejuvenation of Body, Mind and Psyche (22 Min)
Letting Go Into the Flow of Life (15 Min)
Moving Through Resistance, Restlessness and Emotion (16 Min)
Relax and Be (14 Min)
Calm Steadiness in 5 Minutes
Our Inner Radiant Light (22 Min)
A Simple Focusing of the Attention (18 Min)
Returning to Inner Peace (10 Min)
Ease, Letting Go and Vital Life (17 Min)
Better Focus and Attention (23 Min)
Orienting to Silence (18 Min)