Meditation Oasis

Time = 17:45 (last 5 min music only) You can experience peace even during challenging times. Listen to this meditation to discover peace within, especially when you are experiencing tension or conflict in life.

Time = 26:36 (last 10 min music only) Connect with and embrace your "inner child". Use this meditation to explore your inner life -- what you need, what needs healing and what wants to be felt and expressed.

Time = 13:34 Use this meditation when you are having difficulty living with change. It's designed to help you move through it more easily -- to let go of resistance, relax into your reactions to change, and discover that which never changes.

Time = 17:07 Mary comments on a listener's email -- how to listen to listen to these meditations. Listen for insights on how to meditate and enhance your experience.

This meditation is designed to help develop trust in life as it is unfolding moment to moment. It is not about trust in somebody or something -- it's about a basic trust in life and in oneself.

Mary talks about meditation and the Meditation Oasis podcast. Meditation Oasis is about you and your experience; meditations in daily activity; an expanded definition of meditation and more... Visit us at www.meditationoasis.com or meditationoasis.wordpress.com and let us know what meditation is to you!

When we drop our resistance to life and stop trying to manipulate our experience, what is discovered is love. It's the love that vibrates at the very core of our existence. If you are new to meditation, you might want to try Episode 1, 3 or 5 first (Deep Relaxation, the Breath Awareness Meditation, or Simply Being) first. You can visit us at www.meditationoasis.com or at our blog at meditationoasis.wordpress.com. We welcome questions and comments!

Gratitude is the highest, most fulfilling emotion we can have. This meditation sets the stage for the experience of gratitude. You can visit at www.meditationoasis.com or at our blog at meditationoasis.wordpress.com. We welcome questions and comments!

Strengthening our connection with the earth and nature nourishes body, mind and spirit. This meditation brings much of the benefit of time spent in nature to us wherever we are. Visit meditationoasis.com for suggestions on how to meditate in nature.

This meditation is designed to enhance your experience of "aliveness" and help you enjoy the fulfillment of simply being alive. If you are new to our meditations, you might want to try some of our others before using this one. You can email us your questions and comments at www.meditationoasis.com or at our blog at meditationoasis.wordpress.com.

Our attention is like a beam of energy. When we direct our awareness to any area of the body, it is enlivened by that energy. This very simple chakra meditation uses this principle to enhance and balance the flow of energy in the body. To learn about the chakras (energy centers of the body), visit: http://heartofhealing.net/energy-healing/human-energy-field/chakras/  More about this meditation at: http://www.meditationoasis.com/blog/2007/11/12/guided-chakra-meditation

This meditation helps relieve the suffering which comes with pain. It brings about a state in which pain is transcended to reveal peace within.

True meditation is effortless, and yet we can't become effortless through trying. This guided meditation is designed to help effortlessness happen. Note: We are experimenting with meditation on YouTube. If you search for "mandala meditation" on YouTube, you'll find a meditation with a selection of music from Richard's Pure Light CD with the beautiful mandala paintings of Barry Stevens.

This meditation is designed to help you flow more easily with life. It involves letting go of resistance to what is naturally happening, as well as letting go of the attempt to manipulate what is happening. Letting go creates more ease in living.

This body-centered meditation is especially helpful when you feel scattered or discombobulated. It is calming, brings your awareness into your body and anchors your energy into the earth.

A variation on the basic Breath Awareness Meditation, the Breath in the Heart Meditation helps open the heart. The focus on the heart can bring about some emotional release and have a healing effect. This meditation may be useful for those who are grieving.

This meditation is to help you to take advantage of the natural process of healing that is going on all the time. You can read more about this meditation at our blog (www.meditationoasis.wordpress.com).

It's natural for the mind to go inward when we give it the opportunity. As soon as we close our eyes, awareness starts to settle down. This meditation will help you to discover that natural movement of the mind and allow it to take you deep within. Please feel free to visit us at www.meditationoasis.com, or visit Mary's Meditation Oasis blog at meditationoasis.wordpress.com. You can ask questions and leave comments there.

This meditation will help the emotions flow more freely. You can listen to it to it when you feel rough or upset or simply to experience greater ease in life. By allowing the emotions to be fully felt, without resistance and without mental involvement, they are able to resolve and move through, rather than becoming "stuck". (We did this episode in response to an email requesting help with grief.) Please feel free to visit us at www.meditationoasis.com, or visit Mary's Meditation Oasis blog at meditationoasis.wordpress.com. You can ask questions and leave comments there.

In response to requests, this episode is a track of music alone, without a guided meditation. This is the last track on our Pure Relaxation CD. You can use this music while you do your own meditation or simply as a background as you work or relax. You can also use the music as a meditation by listening to it with your full attention. Sit or lie down, close your eyes, and bring your attention to the music. Whenever you find your attention has wandered, bring it easily back to the music. As always, don't strain or try to force your mind to follow the music, just be easy about it and "take it as it comes".We love hearing from people listening to our podcasts -- visit www.meditationoasis.com and email us your questions and comments!