It's a year now since we released Beautiful Calm, our first collection of MP3 downloads for relaxation and meditation, to celebrate it's success in helping hundreds of our guests relax and reduce stress and anxiety we made this little video. It features the full length relaxation experience with natural scenes fading in every few seconds to enhance the sense of slowing things down and taking a few moments for yourself. I hope you enjoy it.

5 Finger Qigong Anxiety Relief Video

This simple sitting qigong meditation is a mindfulness exercise that focuses on the breath along with basic hand postures, it's very effective for evoking calm and reducing anxiety.

5 Finger Qigong

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A Christmas Gift from me to you...

 

FREE GIFT Silent Night Christmas Hypnosis Relaxation MP3

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With my best wishes to you for a peaceful Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year.

Recent research shows that regular meditation improves awareness and attention. Discover how a group of newbie meditators found their attention had improved in this video from 60 Second Science.

In a test where a series of random letters and numbers were flashed on a screen, most people initially miss the second number, but after learning a breath awareness meditation technique they spotted it just fine. Me? Yep I spotted it too.

Here's the video:

 

 

If you feel inclined to hone your focus and attention skills you can download a guided meditation exercises here that will help you...

Anne Coates, hostess of Parenting without Tears, has written a review of our Beautiful Calm Meditation series and given it a big thumbs up.

Here's what she had to say:

"It’s easy to think we have taken five minutes out to relax when we haven’t really done so. This is where Beautiful Calm triumphs.

I have listened to numerous relaxation tapes/CDs and usually find them irritating! And there's only so much of listening to ocean waves a person can take. With Ananga Sivyer's Beautiful Calm I loved the music and her voice didn't grate on the ear - nor was she patronising.

What I particularly like about Beautiful Calm  is that the cover tells you exactly how long each guided breathing/meditation takes.

So if you only have three minutes to spare try the MIndfulness Meditiation. As long as nine minutes? Then work through the Buddhist Meditation..."

Anne also recommended loading the guided meditations onto an iPod or MP3 player for benefiting from the exercises anywhere, anytime.

Anne has fully grasped the intention behind these meditations, and that is to provide quick, easy and effective access to the benefits of meditation, for anyone no matter how busy they are.

Read the full review here

you can get instant access to the Beautiful Calm Guided Meditation MP3s here

 

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Tibetan Singing Bowls

Music for Relaxation, Meditation or Healing

When it comes to music for relaxation, there's nothing quite like the gentle tones of Tibetan Singing bowls. With this high quality relaxation download you can enter the peaceful space created by these ancient bowls as they sound together to produce natural rhythms and harmonies.

 

From deep rich bass to singing high notes, this recording brings you the healing sound of Tibetan Singing Bowls in a harmonic composition that will transport you to a place of peaceful awareness. Due to their metal nature and singing tone, Tibetan Bowls are associated with the the element ether and thus have a directly soothing effect on the mind and spirit.

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Tibetan Singing Bowls Music for Relaxation MP3

High Quality Relaxation Music MP3 Download
Length 15 minutes. File Size 17MB
Our Price: $2.95

 

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Meditation is a noble and gentle practice, it cultivates your quieter side, the place where you have time for contemplation and correction.

Regular meditation facilitates a glance towards your stars and your direction and allows you to set your course and keep your eye on it.

But as wonderful as that sounds, many of us are still tussling with our inner achiever who’s telling us we don’t have time…


When you’re going about your busy day, it’s all too easy to get caught up in the rushing stream of what you feel you “should” be doing. The pressure may be on, and it can be hard to find the time to slow down and take time out, what to speak of finding the time to learn how to relax and meditate within that hard to find time slot.

Meditation for Busy People

That’s where our Moments of Tranquility program can really help you out. I developed this quick start meditation set for busy people who want a break, but don’t want to have to learn how to get one.

Meditation is a simple art, but it’s becoming a lost one, I can remember years ago scanning bookshelves trying to find information on “how to meditate”. On the whole, my search was futile, what I really wanted was someone to take me by the hand and say “this is what you need to do”, eventually I got lucky.

20 years later I’m still meditating and happy to share with you the basics of a collection of simple exercises for inviting peace and calm into your life in minutes.

Peaceful Pauses

Moments of Tranquility Volume 1 is a collection of guided relaxation and meditation experiences. It’s a 2 part set carefully created to invite peace and quiet into the busiest of lives

Part 1 is a walkthrough of eight simple and relaxing sessions; such as the relaxing breath, mindfulness meditation, or the popular anxiety reducing 5 finger Qigong exercise, that you can download and play on your laptop, or iPod, or burn to CD.

 

All you need to do to get started with the benefits of meditation, is sit back, click play, and follow along with the exercises. Each one is a short 3 - 7 minute session, so that anyone can find the time to slow down and enjoy the benefits of meditation for a few precious moments.

Part 2 is a collection of meditation music compositions performed with Tibetan bowls, shakuhachi meditation flutes, and other traditional meditative instruments for you to do your own thing with, once you have the knack of some of the sessions on disc one.

Even if you were to listen to just one track once a day and just close your eyes, breathe deeply and listen to the music, you would find that your stress levels would drop significantly.

You don’t need to worry about posture and practice, this program works on the principle of good, better, best, read on and I'll explain...

Good... 

Trying an exercise here and there and taking a break to do some deep breathing is good. Even listening on the train is good, or in bed before you drift off to sleep, or for five minutes in your lunch break. It’s all good. It will give you a break and some genuine relaxation time.

 

Better... 

Even better is to listen daily and try and really enter into the spirit of each exercise. Have a place which is your meditation place. Maybe buy some incense, or a candle and set a time (perhaps by getting up 10 minutes earlier and practising before work, or perhaps at the end of the day, to unwind and clear your mind) where you absorb yourself in an exercise and derive great benefit from it. You will soon find this a pleasure and your mind will feel the benefits and let you know if you miss a day.

Best...

Best is committing to daily practice, and extending the time you spend in meditation to sessions of 20 minutes to an hour. That can come later, if you so desire. But if I told you that you had to do that now to get any benefits, would I loose your interest? I thought so.

If you make regular listening a health creating habit, you can improve:

- your digestion
- your immunity
- your productivity and creative problem solving abilities
- your relationships (by reducing tension and irritability born of stress)


You can also protect your health by reducing tension and anxiety.

It’s simple. Your nervous system benefits enormously from being consciously invited to stand down. When you are rushing around, your brain is in a reactive, and often defensive state; when you take a few minutes to relax, you give your brain a genuine break and it sends signals all over your body to stand at ease, and the benefits of this are priceless.

Add a meditation download to your iPod or MP3 playe and start enjoying the benefits of some moments of tranquility now…

 

 

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The Morning from The Journey Home - Music for Meditation & Relaxation.

From the publisher: The Journey Home meditation music compositions create a deep and profound experience of peace and calm; yet they are light and most inviting for your own mind and thoughts to take flight and give our stressed out systems a time of alignment, sanctuary and protection, where we might recover and re-charge in a most profound and noticeable way.

 
The Morning - FREE Relaxation Music MP3

The Morning is downloaded by over 250 people a month and is used by the HypnoClinic for their HypnoBirthing program.

If you have enjoyed this piece you will love the new Morning Meditation Music featured on the  Beautiful Calm Meditation & Relaxation MP3s set 

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This simple sitting qigong meditation is a mindfulness exercise that focuses on the breath along with basic hand postures.

My acupuncturist friend John Gavin shared this technique with me and tells me that he often uses it in addiction workshops for inducing calm and giving relief from the anxiety related to addictive cravings.

 

Music notes: This meditation has been recorded with a selection of real Tibetan (or singing) Bowls which produce a very soothing sound which supports meditation and relaxation. These bowls have been recorded live in order to preserve the subtle sounds of the harmonic overtones they produce.

 
5 Finger Qigong - FREE Meditation Music MP3

A superior quality recording of 5 Finger Qigong is included in the Beautiful Calm Beginners Meditation Collection of guided meditations and music for reducing stress and anxiety.

 

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Today’s Moment of Tranquility is about finding a place of calm in the eye of the storm. It combines a simple ancient grounding exercise with a trick I learned from a friend when we were travelling on a six week festival tour. We were spending hours every day on busses and sleeping in a different place every night.  She taught me to be able to choose my personal environment by listening to my own choice of music on my headphones and “checking out”. It saved me a lot of energy and allowed me at least to rest when it wasn’t possible to sleep.

This grounding exercise comes with music that supports the mood of slowing down and getting earthy! If you use headphones, you can tune out all external noise which might be the next best thing to silence. If you can find a completely quiet place to practice, that’s ideal, but sadly, these days few of us can, so the headphone trick is a handy one.


Get your free download now and get rooted....

 
The Grounding Technique - FREE relaxation exercise MP3

Click the link to listen or download. Note: For best results, please use quality stereo headphones.

Written instructions and a diagram for the Grounding Technique can be found here

 

Wave goodbye to stress and anxiety with the Beautiful Calm Guided Meditation & Relaxation MP3s...

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