The Peace Project | Meditations for inner peace and a healthier world

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In this 30 minute meditation, we begin by examining our breath as always. We focus on sharpening our awareness, then in returning to our breath, we are brought to the edge of the universe with an awe-inspiring sense of gratitude.

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What makes a day a "bad day"? Often we are consumed with stress or worries when days do not go our way. In this meditation, we focus on letting of our expectations and negative emotions, and welcoming the everchanging and impartial nature of existence. 

Thank you to a long time friend and fan of the podcast, Michelle G, for suggesting this topic. If you have a suggestion, please send it to thepeaceprojectmeditations@gmail.com (subject "PPM - Meditation Suggestion") or by sending a comment or question through the Anchor.fm platform. 

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We often are confronted with overwhelming negative emotions throughout life. In the space of meditation, we can explore these emotions and learn to allow them to pass by or sit with us. Are these emotions there for any reason, or do they simply arise? 

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The Tao Te Ching is a collection of writings from Lao Tzu. It describes a nameless way of existence that leads to peace. In this meditation, I read some of my favorite verses from the Tao to give an introduction to my interpretation of it. 

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Often we are caught up in our own state in life or consumed by dreams and desires. In the space of meditation it is possible to let go of these and feel true serenity and acceptance of the most basic level of your existence. 

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When you are meditating, do you ever wonder where your awareness comes from? In this meditation, we explore how to become aware of your awareness. Reflecting on who is aware and where that awareness comes from can help you discover the depths of sensation and conscious expansion that is possible in each moment. Join me in discovering our awareness.

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How big is the space of your awareness? In this meditation, we focus on the breath and how we can experience it's sensations as immensely as our universe. Join me as we open our awareness together. 

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My favorite part of meditation is the immensity of awareness that can be found through contemplating the elegance of the breath. Join me in finding enormous gratitude and other awe-inspiring emotions in this meditation. 

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It is human nature to become distracted and our awareness can seem out of our control. This meditation helps you to be aware of distractions and to learn to be patient and sit with your distractions. Is it possible for distractions to make you more focused? This meditation explores this possibility. 

We all feel stress, anxiety, and overwhelming sensations at times. This quick 10 minute meditation will help you to manage and sit with your stress and learn to be at peace with it. 

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During our normal day-to-day experience it's easy to get caught up in the world around us. This meditation asks you to explore where your awareness is. 

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It is often hard to grasp the entirety of the space of awareness. This can lead to our thoughts and emotions taking up space without us even realizing. This meditation helps you visualize the whole of your awareness through imagining a place of calm and harmonizing it with your breath. 

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We can often feel like the world is on our shoulders or that we are responsible for everything that has happened to us. This meditation focuses on your breath to explore our own egos and determine what we are in control of. 

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We have the oppurtunity in each moment to greet our hopes, fears, desires, and sensations. This meditation helps you see these as friends and welcome them into your life. 

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As we grow, we learn about the material facts of sensations. This can often block our mind from truly engaging with the sensation itself and feeling it as we experience it. This meditation will help you examine your feelings and sensations to experience them more fully. 

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Often we are impatient or anxious and time gets distorted. The seconds pass like minutes or the hours fly away like seconds. Sitting with your breath and experiencing time as the passing of your breath can give you a more real grasp on the passage of time and allow to better move into the moment of now. 

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Every moment of our lives we are breathing. Join me in breathing and living breath to breath in today's meditation. 

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Often when we are anxious, overwhelmed, stressed, or fraught with racing thoughts; we may find ourselves stuck. If we feel we are unable to leave, these negative feelings can overstay their welcome. This practice helps you greet these feelings without self-judgment, sit with them without harm, and allow them to leave you in peace and freedom. This 9 minute exercise should be practiced and repeated to help train your mind to deal with anxious and overwhelming thoughts as they appear throughout your life. This is not a quick fix, and should not be used as such. Doing this once or twice will at best have minor results. With continued practice, this exercise has brought me peace, freedom, and control over the time I spend with my anxiety.  

Negative emotions will arise in our minds and bodies and can cause us suffering. Often we continue to focus and give attention to this emotion, or we add self-judgement on top of it. This only feeds the fire of suffering that is burning in our awareness. In this meditation, allow yourself to sit near the fire without it consuming you. Allow yourself to snuff it out and feel the cool space of peace and freedom from suffering. 

Every living organism breathes from the same air. Allow yourself to fully experience the unity held in this simple truth. This meditation explores how breath units the planet and that we are all breathing together as one being. 

It is easy to say you want peace, or that you love another. But what does this feeling actually entail? The meditation guides you to examine how you feel about your own peace, along with that of your friends and enemies. It asks you to explore the peace, joy, and freedom you feel and to extend it out to the rest of the world. 

Everything we experience passes through our mind. The world we see and interact with exists in two places: outside and inside. This meditation guides your attention to find the place where thoughts and sensations take place. 

While guided meditation is a great way to learn new practices and introduce yourself to new meditation concepts; your meditation practice should be your own. This guided meditation helps you learn what to look for and how to grow in the silence of your own time spent experiencing the gifts of consciousness. Repeat this and other practices with and without the guides, and soon you will be able to meditate and gain spiritual and emotional insights of your own.  

This quick meditation will help expand your awareness to the universe and out of your day to day perspective. Often we can let fears and pressure of failure to hold us back from living true to ourselves. Focusing on the epic size and lifespan of the universe can allow you to break through these barriers to realize that your life is truly yours to live as you want. 

Inspired by Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Cosmic Perspective. 

Often our stress, anxiety, and depression can come from a misunderstanding of our place in the world. We can feel grave responsibility, impending doom, or insignificance when we are overwhelmed by the pressing concerns of our world or it's vast size and complexity. This meditation will help you find exhilaration and freedom in these awe inspiring feelings. 

If you have trouble with guided meditations or want to explore your personal meditation journey, this is a meditation for you. After a brief intro, this meditations gives you 20 minutes of music to meditate by yourself with a guide. 

Racing thoughts can distract us from being in the moment and even hold us in negative patterns or unable to make choices. This meditation practice can help you clear racing thoughts or overwhelming feelings by focusing on one thought or aspect of the feeling and noticing where the others go as you focus. 

Do it once for a quick refresh or repeat it multiple time to relax when you're feeling really overwhelmed. 

If you're having harmful thoughts or  feeling in danger for yourself or someone else, please contact The National Suicide Help Line 1-800-273-8255 or the National Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Helpline 1-800-662-HELP (4357) for referral to a specialist near you. Or search online for "mental health help now"  to get sources for immediate help specific to your location.

If you're feeling down and need a pick up, this quick meditation will help you focus your mind on the love and care you deserve instead of the negativity you may be experiencing. Once your mind is focused on love, you will be in a better headspace to deal with whatever is upsetting you or stressing you out. 

Have you ever asked yourself "what is peace?" 

In this meditation, Dave guides you to find and discover inner peace and practices fostering it in your daily life. This meditation will help you learn what peace feels like and how you can discover and grow in peace every day. 

Throughout life it is inevitable that we will lose focus on our goals. By taking time to focus and acknowledge this truth, we can prepare for and better accept distraction when it finds us. This quick meditation will give you insight and peace when you are upset over being distracted.