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The Practice
of Meditation
...and Other Journeys ...What follows are written guided meditations that you can print for your own use. They include a number of approaches I've found useful over the years. I hope they will support your journey in enlightening and practical ways...Nancy
(For more information
on ways to recenter and ground yourself, see my books Getting Through
the Day and Sacred Practices for Conscious Living.)
Walking
Meditation 
Even though meditation practices offer us a way to recenter and
settle into a focused, quiet state of mind and body, for some
people the process of doing a sitting meditation creates anxiety.
The following meditation offers you a way to go inside and feel
grounded at the same time. Rather than sitting and experiencing
the quiet, this is a walking meditation. It is a variation on
a popular and often-used meditation practice found in a number
of traditions.
Breathing
Meditation
This breathing exercise is good as part of an overall stress reduction
program. If you live a hectic life and find that you need to de-stress,
spending a few minutes doing this exercise will offer your body
and mind a brief "time out" that can be surprisingly rejuvenating
and refreshing.
Your
Optimal Future Selfl
Variations
of this meditation are found in each of my books, and it's one
of my favorite approaches to accessing possibility. All it requires
is a willingness to suspend disbelief, reach beyond what you know
today, and accept change in your life. For most of us, change
can be scary, even when it moves in a positive direction, so a
willingness to dare to engage the unknown is key to working with
future self parts of you.
Living
with Intention Exercise/Meditation
Intention creates
the frame around which we engage in any particular activity, state
of mind, outcome, or way of being. It is like a rudder, in that
it provides an inner sense of direction. It is a communication
to our deepest wisdom about what we seek to be and achieve.
Living
in the Flow
In this meditation, we'll explore
how that rudder also aligns us with a particular flow that moves
us in directions we seek to go.
Lovingkindness
Meditation
Excerpts from "Sacred Practices
for Conscious Living" about Lovingkindness followed by a
Meditation from one of Nancy Napier's Workshops.
Using Mindfulness for Recentering Meditation
Excerpts
from "Getting Through the Day" followed by a Meditation:
Using Mindfulness for
Recentering.
A
Derivation of Tonglen Meditation
I originally sent the following
derivation of a tonglen meditation to friends in response to the
Middle East situation. Here, I’d like to post it as an option
for you to consider whenever you become aware of any kind of pain
or difficulty – in your life or in the lives of those around
you.
An
Expanded Derivation of Tonglen Meditation for World and Self Healing
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