Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 115 of the Mindful Kind podcast. I hope you're really well and having a lovely

2018 so far. I can't believe it's February already. It seems like the last month went super

quickly. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to sharing this new episode of the Mindful Kind with

you. It's all about unique meditation experiences.

So when I first began practicing mindfulness, I didn't particularly resonate with formal

meditation. I loved bringing more mindfulness into my daily activities and doing short techniques,

but every time I attempted to sit down and actually meditate for longer

than five minutes, I found it incredibly difficult. My body would start aching, my mind would find

it harder and harder to focus on the present moment and the meditation, and in all honesty,

it just felt like I wasn't really experiencing the calmness other people

seem to experience. Anyway, over the last few years, I've eased myself into new ways of meditating

and explored that world with a more open mind and an attitude to just see what I could learn

and discover. I've had some amazing meditation experiences which

are quite unique and so I thought I would share them here with you. I've also been studying my

advanced certificate of meditation for the last six months or so which has really enabled me

to go in depth with this practice and I've definitely been learning a lot. I'll be sharing more about that when

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