Elisha Goldstein: A Nourishing Breath Meditation

Our guest this week is Elisha Goldstein. He brings us a guided meditation that uses the breath to create a place of safety and acceptance. This practice is designed to help you:

Acknowledge stress or anxiety rather than falling into old patterns of running away from it

Practice deep belly breathing as a way to regulate and moderate breathing patterns

Offer compassion to yourself, no matter what you're going through right now

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and conducts a private practice in West Los Angeles. He is founder of the Mindful Living Collective—a donation-based leading global network for mindful living and learning, and creator of the Uncover the Power Within coaching program and the free master class on the Uncover the Power Within Blueprint. He is also the author of Tiny Shifts; Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion (Atria Books, 2015); The Now Effect (Atria Books, 2012); Mindfulness Meditations for the Anxious Traveler (Atria Books, 2013); and co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger, 2010).

The transcription of this guided meditation will be online and in our app at Mindful.org next week.

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Show Notes

Find more from Elisha Goldstein here.

Go Deeper

Breathing practices are a gentle, simple way to enter into mindfulness practice. To learn more about the benefits of breathwork, check out these resources from Mindful.org:

Mountain-Climbing Mindfulness: The Power of 10 Deep Breaths