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.