12 Minute Meditation
The latest scientific research reveals that 12 minutes of meditation a day yields benefits like increased attention, focus, creativity, calm, resilience and compassion. Start your 12-minute sit with guided meditations from today’s leading mindfulness experts, brought to you by Mindful. With a new mindfulness meditation each week, 12 Minute Meditation invites you to bring the benefits of mindfulness to daily life.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 353
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Label Difficult Emotions with Christopher Germer
This guided meditation is about labelling your emotions. Research suggests that the practice helps the amygdala, the structure in the brain that registers danger, become less active.
Show notes: Ada…
Can Mindfulness Helps Us Dismantle Inequality?
An excerpt of a longer conversation with Rhonda Magee on mindfulness and dismantling the subtle habits and patterns that separate us. In this excerpt, Magee explores how mindfulness can be both a too…
A Basic Mindfulness Meditation for Labelling Thoughts and Emotions
A 20-minute breathing meditation that explores thoughts, sensations, and mental states with kind awareness.
Cultivate Moment-to-Moment Gratitude with Scott Rogers
This body scan and breath awareness practice integrates relaxation, mindfulness, and gratitude. With it, we can strengthen our ability to notice what arises in our field of awareness—pleasant or unpl…
Take a Self-Compassion Break with Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer
This guided meditation can be helpful when you’re feeling isolated or experiencing difficulty. Connecting with self-compassion reminds us that even though the struggle is a part of life, we can still…
A Meditation for Exploring Your Senses
Follow this guided meditation from Cara Bradley to notice your sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, and thoughts.
A Meditation for Offering Yourself Kindness
Steve Hickman leads this guided meditation to practice wishing yourself happiness.
A Loving-Kindness Meditation with Sharon Salzberg
Practice sending loving-kindness to people you feel neutral toward as well as those you have difficult feelings toward. It's only after we've practiced many times that we begin to notice a habit deve…
A 10-Minute Practice to Be With the Breath
This guided meditation allows you to let go of your thoughts and settle into the natural rhythm of the breath.
Tame Holiday Stress with Mark Bertin
'Tis the season to give up the guilt. Let go of aiming for perfection around the holidays with this guided meditation. The practice offers a way to let go of expectations and open up to the opportuni…
A Meditation for Settling Your Busy Mind
Psychiatrist and mindfulness expert Holly Rogers explains why you should not even try to stop your thoughts. Plus, a guided practice on noticing your inner chatter with curiosity rather than judgment…
Tame Bad Habits with Judson Brewer
This guided meditation focuses on a craving you may have. Maybe it’s for food, or an empty email inbox. Whatever it is, Judson Brewer invites you to welcome and engage with the craving though kind an…
Quiet Your Inner Critic With Mark Bertin
The fight for perfection is a fight that can’t be won. Use this guided meditation to notice the voice of judgment in your head and then begin to release it and wish yourself well. Through the breath,…
A 17-Minute Kindness Practice
This practice from Ed Halliwell opens our hearts to others, offering them kindness and compassion.
3-Minute Body Scan Meditation
A brief mindfulness meditation practice to relax your body and focus your mind.