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Busy Minds & Overthinking
For a head that will not be quiet. These do not try to empty your mind, because that is not going to happen. They give the noise somewhere to go.
IPM 114 · 20 September 2026 · 9:57Nothing to Get Right: A Peace Meditation With Little InstructionTired of being told how to breathe? This one barely says a word. Nothing to get right, nothing to get wrong.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 106 · 18 June 2026 · 7:30A Meditation to Quiet an Overthinking MindA quiet railway station and a bench with room for two. The trains are your thoughts, and we are not getting on.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 105 · 7 June 2026 · 13:52Create Space Around Your ThoughtsImagine a small shed with the door shut. Every thought in there feels loud and urgent, because there is nowhere for it to go.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 99 · 19 April 2026 · 6:23Peace Right Where You AreSix minutes, and it works in a waiting room. You have not failed because a thought turned up. You were never meant to stop them.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 91 · 15 February 2026 · 13:49Meditation to Dealing With Intrusive ThoughtsIntrusive thoughts are not stopped, they are starved. Your mind only watches for two things: did it make you feel something, and did you go with it.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 82 · 9 August 2025 · 3:48Out Of Your Head, into PeaceA short drop out of the head and into the heart, for the moment you are stuck in noise with nothing you can usefully solve.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 77 · 14 June 2025 · 5:33Afternoon Stillness for a Busy MindRecorded late in my own afternoon with too much still on the list. Five minutes to settle before the evening.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 76 · 8 June 2025 · 14:06A Dharma Meditation Beyond OverthinkingShikantaza, which is Zen for just sitting. You do not fight the thoughts, suppress them or work them out. You just stop boarding them.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 72 · 15 March 2025 · 8:13Disconnect from Overthinking and Find Peace in the Present MomentTurn the phone face down. Eight minutes of the actual world instead of the one on the screen.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 63 · 8 July 2024 · 14:44Uncomplicated Calm: Meditation for Everyday Peace (With Music)Ten years of teaching and this is still the one I would keep. Sit, be aware, do nothing with any of it.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 62 · 30 June 2024 · 14:34Peace for your Overactive MindYour mind is not broken for being loud. It is a sky, and the thoughts are weather crossing it.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 56 · 1 April 2024 · 12:15Returning to Your Breath for Calm and PeaceDeliberately simple, so you can take it anywhere. The car, the corridor outside a meeting, the kitchen with a child pulling at your hand.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 54 · Letting Go & Acceptance · 8 March 2024 · 13:31That Awesome Do Nothing Meditation – Reduce Stress and Deeper InsightNo goal here. Nothing to achieve. Not even relaxing, because that would be doing something. Easier said than done, and I know it.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 50 · 14 February 2024 · 13:47Calming Strong and Persistent ThoughtsFor the thought that will not shift. The stubborn one that keeps coming back no matter what you try.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 45 · 3 January 2024 · 15:29Simple Calmness: When Meditation Is DifficultI am a terrible meditator. Still am, after ten years. So I broke it into four steps and stopped trying to do the lot at once.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 44 · 5 December 2023 · 13:34Simple Calm Awareness Meditation for Inner PeaceFor people who find meditation hard. No silencing anything, no forty minutes on a cushion. We just use sound.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 43 · 21 November 2023 · 12:26Beyond Thoughts and Emotions: The Serene ObserverThere is a difference between I am depressed and I am feeling depressed. This whole meditation lives in that gap.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 39 · 19 October 2023 · 10:06A Meditation for When Relaxation Seems ImpossibleI recorded this because I did not want to meditate and had been putting it off. So we do it together and I keep it short.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 27 · 25 June 2023 · 12:41Embracing the Moment: A Duck Pond Meditation [Recorded Live]Recorded on a bench by the duck pond, birds and all. Proof that this does not need a cushion, a candle or a quiet room.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 25 · 5 June 2023 · 13:09The Observer at the River’s Edge: Inner Peace for Busy MindsI wrote this one for myself, because my mind never stops. It is still the one I use when I need the noise turned down.Listen to this meditation 
IPM 21 · 30 April 2023 · 14:17Journey to Profound Awareness: A Meditation for Deep InsightAwareness has one job. To be aware. Not to be aware and then do something about it. The simplest meditation I teach, and the one that changes most.Listen to this meditation Somewhere else
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