317 // Meditations For Busy Minds

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 317 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

As someone who struggled with meditation for a long time thanks to my busy mind, I'm particularly passionate about this topic! Meditation can be an incredible practice, but it can also be really challenging for anyone who finds it hard to focus.

So, in this episode, you'll discover some great meditations for people with busy minds, including:

- mindful walking

- short breathing techniques

- visualisations

Head over to www.rachaelkable.com/podcast/317 to grab a copy of my Relaxation Meditation Album, which features some of the meditations described in this episode.

Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindful Kind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at
0:12.0	Rachelcable.com. Each week, this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies
0:17.4	so you can manage stress and live more mindfully in the modern world.
0:23.9	Hello and welcome to episode 317 of the Mindful Kind podcast. This episode is all about
0:31.0	meditations for people with busy minds and there's a really big reason why I'm passionate
0:35.5	about this particular topic. See, back when I first
0:38.7	started learning about mindfulness, I also tried a few different types of meditations. And I really,
0:45.6	really didn't like what happened whenever I tried to practice formal meditation. As soon as I closed my eyes
0:52.2	to try and focus on a meditation, my mind would just go totally haywire.
0:57.0	Within seconds of starting a meditation, I'd be thinking about my relationships or work or cooking or cleaning or exercising or my clothes,
1:06.6	just about anything except the meditation itself.
1:10.3	And I kept getting so frustrated and so upset because I wanted to develop a consistent
1:15.7	meditation practice, but every time I tried to meditate, I felt like such a failure.
1:22.0	And so at the time, I leaned away from formal meditation and instead practiced mindfulness
1:27.3	in other ways like mindful
1:28.9	walking and creative mindfulness activities.
1:32.3	However, I kept coming back to the idea of meditation.
1:36.1	I tried different apps.
1:37.6	I tried doing self-guided meditation.
1:39.9	I went to a few classes like Yoga Nidra.
1:43.1	And even though I found a few helpful resources, I
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