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 151 of the Mindful Kind podcast and the third episode in the meditation mini

series. Thank you so much to everyone who reached out on Instagram and via email to let me know

how much they enjoyed the body scan on episode 150 of the Mindful Kind. I'm really glad that such a

short meditation was helpful for you and it makes me

even more excited to release my meditation album very soon, which will have some beautiful full-length

guided meditations to help you cultivate self-compassion. So far in this meditation mini-series,

I've shared what meditation is and the research behind it,

potential benefits of meditation and a few of the different types of meditation, including

breathing exercises, mindfulness techniques and loving kindness.

In this episode, I really want to talk about my own journey with meditation because it definitely

hasn't been all sunshine and roses.

And I hope it reassures you that your meditation practice doesn't need to be perfect.

As you may already know, mindfulness was the first type of meditation I began to really explore.

I loved that I could practice it whenever I needed and it really helped

me manage stress and learn new ways to improve my life and well-being by becoming more present and less

judgmental. It shifted a lot of my negative self-talk and helped me understand that my harsh

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