Guided Meditations for waking up in the mornings

Post here if you are just starting out with your mindfulness practice. Mindfulness is a really difficult concept to get your head around at first, and it might be that you would benefit from some help from others.
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Metaphysical Me
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Wed Jan 15, 2014 7:27 pm  

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Hi all - do you know of any good (guided) meditations for waking up in the morning / starting the day?

There's so many for helping you fall asleep at night, but so few for waking up to a positive start to the day.

I found this one on youtube - it's a bit strange in places, but by far the best one I've found so far, specifically for "waking up and starting the day":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5sJQHCe-1s

I'd be hugely grateful for any tips - especially for ones from our more "trusted mindfulness teachers" like Jack Kornfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Tara Brach, Mark Williams, etc, etc...
I've been practising formal meditation for 15 years.
*~*~*~* I love keeping beginner's mind. *~*~*~*
Not a fan of mindfulness being taken tooo seriously.

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Cheesus
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Wed Jan 15, 2014 7:42 pm  

There's one done by meditation oasis here called Morning Energy Guided Meditation:

http://www.meditationoasis.com/podcast/ ... o-podcast/

I've never tried this one, but I've also never come across a meditation by Meditation Oasis that I didn't like. I find most of the ones I have done are all essentially mindfulness, but they encourage you to explore different things in different ways.
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: or, Life in the Woods

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Metaphysical Me
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Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:13 pm  

Hey Cheesus,
Thanks for the link! :-)
It *is* a good morning meditation - but I'm not sure it's *quite* what I'm looking for. I will make sure to bookmark the site for future reference tho.

I really like the one I found on youtube - I dunno who this Caroline Myss lady is - she sounds a bit whacky from the titles of the other youtube videos of her (hope I'm not offending any Caroline Myss fans - or infact Caroline Myss herself - sorry!!) - but apart from the odd esoteric aura she has ;) I really like the way she goes into the concepts of starting a new day, what people are you likely to meet, what activities will you be doing, how to approach them - and tho I'm not a huge fan of chakras, I do like the ideas that she connects to the different chakras - they are cool things to ponder at the beginning of a new day...
I've been practising formal meditation for 15 years.
*~*~*~* I love keeping beginner's mind. *~*~*~*
Not a fan of mindfulness being taken tooo seriously.

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