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Your breath and your mind have an intimate relationship, if your breathing is fast and shallow it can stir up your thoughts and increase your stress, but if you learn to notice your breath and slow it down, you can reign your thoughts in and calm your mind.

How many times have you reacted to stress by blurting out a harsh response and escalating the situation? This posts looks at the tactics people who handle stress well and suggests ways we can adopt them too.

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Trataka - Candle Gazing Meditation

Guided Meditation MP3 - download now

This relaxing guided meditation introduces the ancient practice of trataka or concentrated gazing. The simplest introduction to tratak is gazing at the flame of a candle, and this meditation takes you step by step through a guided session that will help you relax and focus your gaze while enjoying the benefits of stilling and calming your mind.

Trataka is a very effective way of withdrawing from external stress and distractions and allowing the brain to enter a relaxed and highly beneficial alpha state. Some experts liken the experience of trataka to a first class session of self-hypnosis, one where you can become deeply relaxed yet focused - it's a very pleasant place to be!

This meditation package contains 2 MP3s:

MP3 1 - Guided Candle Gazing Meditation

MP3 2 - Trataka Music for Meditation or Relaxation

Download now and enjoy the benefits of a calm and focused mind...

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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

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