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
Focus Your Attention with Rich Fernandez
This guided meditation cultivates the ability to calm and focus the mind with mindfulness. There’s no need to panic if your thoughts are racing, that’s natural. Instead, Rich Fernandez asks you to fo…
A Daily Mindful Walking Practice
Take a break and boost your mood with this 10-minute walking meditation.
Open Your Heart With Sharon Salzberg
This guided meditation helps open your heart to both giving and receiving love. You’ll begin by imagining yourself surrounded by a circle loving beings. Offer love and goodwill to them and they’ll do…
A Breath-Counting Practice for Teens and Tweens with Mark Bertin
This practice uses counting breaths to cultivate mindful awareness. This practice can be done before bedtime, activity changes such as homework time or whenever it’s needed
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Turn Annoying Sounds into a Meditation Practice with Bob Stahl
You can be mindful even when life gets noisy. Bring mindfulness to the soundscape around you including the most annoying ones you encounter daily. This guided meditation helps your awareness switch f…
Breathe In Compassion with Kristin Neff
Take some time out of your day to send kindness to yourself and others. This nurturing guided meditation helps you breathe compassion in and out. You’ll end the practice by soaking up all the compass…
Notice the Body with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Once you’re familiar with basic breath awareness practices, another powerful sitting meditation practice involves expanding the field of awareness to include sensations within the body. Notice sensat…
Body Check-In for Money Decisions with Bari Tessler
You can use guided meditation before having conversations about money. The body check-in helps you find balance and support before broaching the subject with another. This practice helps you realize …
Breath Awareness with Susan Kaiser Greenland
Susan Kaiser Greenland takes you through one of the oldest meditation practices: Sit, and know you’re sitting. This simple meditation helps you to understand what mindful awareness is and relax your …
Cultivate Nonjudgmental Awareness with Mark Bertin
Let go of the what ifs and let yourself sit with what is. This guided meditation opens you up to the space that’s available when you sit with your thoughts and observe them without judgment.
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A Breathscape Practice with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Cultivate mindfulness with this guided meditation. You’ll tap into your capacity to be in touch with your experience, and be awake and aware with no agenda other than to be awake and aware.
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Intro to Breath, from MNDFL
“This basic mindfulness of the breath is a way to cultivate peace, clarity, and generally a good way to get to know ourselves better.” Lodro Rinzler, co-founder of MNDFL
Body Scan Meditation
Audio track by Mark Bertin, author of "Mindful Parenting for ADHD."
Breathing Meditation
Audio track by Mark Bertin, author of "Mindful Parenting for ADHD."
Loving-kindness Meditation
Audio track by Mark Bertin, author of "Mindful Parenting for ADHD."
Mindful Self-Inquiry for Anxiety with Bob Stahl
Often with stress and anxiety, there are underlying fears that go noticed in day to day life that are contributing to or causing the anxiety. Self-exploration and reflection are a key part of working…
How to Show Up When You Have Cancer
In this podcast, Patricia Rockman, director of education and clinical services for the Center for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto, and Mindful columnist Elaine Smookler, both cancer survivors, talk ab…
Tame bad habits with this 10-minute mindfulness practice
Your mind is built to crave. We can respond to cravings in two ways: sate them, or notice our triggers and work with them. This guided meditation helps us build awareness around how cravings surface …