Meditation Lounge
Our new Meditation Lounge app for iphone and android has a new download feature so you can listen to audio meditations offline, plus the app has armchiar wisdom videos and thought for the day. Download free from the App store or Google Play.
How to use this web app
Anywhere, Anytime
Raja Yoga is meditation you can do anywhere, anytime – in the middle of a meadow, on a train, in fact in any spare moment. Though listening to a meditation while driving is definitely not recommended!
You don’t need to sit in a special position or close your eyes, just listen to these meditations wherever you are – first thing in the morning to prepare for the day ahead, in your tea break to refresh your mind, or before a challenging meeting to make sure you have a mindset that is calm, creative and open.
Get calm and go positive
Each meditation in this app will help you to :
These three things will increase awareness of what’s happening in your mind so that you can switch from a negative mindset to a positive one whenever you like.
Rewire your brain
Choose a meditation that feels right for you at this moment.
Listening to the same meditation several times will help you to go deeper into the experience and reinforce that positive state of mind. With practice, meditation creates lasting changes in the brain, so that you literally have reserves of positivity to draw upon as you go about your life.
Day 12 – Change your thought patterns – towards happiness
11 Take a mental break from the roles you play
Day 10
Comfortable being yourself – beyond all labels
9 Connect on a soul level- to remove disharmony in relationships
Day 8 Connecting on a soul level – see the best in others
Set in rolling Oxfordshire countryside, the retreat centre has a calming and unpretentious atmosphere that makes learning meditation both easy and enjoyable. Run by the Brahma Kumaris who teach Raja Yoga meditation free of charge in communities throughout the UK, as a way to experience peace of mind and a positive approach to life.
Charity No: 269971 (England & Wales) and SC040512 (Scotland)
Being sensitive to others people’s opinion of us can damage our self-esteem.
Lets free ourselves from them.
6 min with music. Hope can create a lightness of being allowing us to see new possibilities. This short meditation will help ignite an inner feeling of hope, and if repeated over a few days will help hope and optimism grow stronger, so that its there when you need it most.
This meditation guides you through the first step of Raja Yoga – to withdraw your attention from the sights and sounds of the outside – and release the contents of your mind.
4 min with music. For beginners and experts alike, this meditations will guide you to an experience of a more loving approach to life by developing a more open and compassionate heart.
This meditation guides you through the second step of Raja Yoga – how to shift your attention to a place of tranquillity and light at the centre of your mind.
7 min. A meditation with simple steps to let go of worries, leaving you peaceful and relaxed.
No music
8mins with music
This meditation helps you to explore your inner world, with guidance on how to feel a sense of detachment as well as learning how to create thoughts that lead to a more peaceful state of mind.
8min
A very powerful meditation for beginers and experts alike – with a step by step guide to experiencing a deep feeling of peace.
Its has guidance on how to detach from everything that is happening around us and find a place of tranquility within. Each time you listen to this meditation the experience of serenity grows stronger.
9 min with music. Step into an inner room, a place of calm and stillness. By listening to this meditation several times over a few days you will be able to access a place of calm and security whenever you need it.
7min – no music but with moments of silence during the meditation to give you time to reflect.
This meditation can improve any relationship – friends, colleagues or family – especially where misunderstandings have developed and you would like to improve your interactions.
Use this meditation several times to naturally improve your feelings towards that person, and as your feelings change watch the quality of your exchanges improve.
11 mins. By Anthony Phelips.
This meditation will help you to create a fresh approach so that you can tune into issues more clearly and
be at your best in meetings.
4mins. Davina Lloyd.
You might be familiar with the energizing charge of a good idea, a new vision to make a difference. You will also have also experienced the many obstacles you encounter along the way, both your own inner doubts and resitance from others. This meditation will help overcome resitance and re-connect with your original drive and motivation.
This meditation is taken from the Secrets of a Peacemaker audio book.
It will guide you into the first step of a Peacemaker – the experience of a more open, free state of mind.
Duration 5 min
This is taken from the Peacemaker audio book – step two of entering the Peacemaker’s mindset.
How to open your heart so that you can ‘see’ and ‘hear’ someone with love.
Practice this before a difficult meeting so that you can approach the situation with a loving consciousness.
Then watch how things turn out….
A longer meditation by Margaret Barron, recorded live at a session in October 2014 at the Global Retreat Centre, Oxfordshire. Suitable for beginners and experienced meditators, taking the listener beyond the thinking mind to a space of peace within. Helps achieve self acceptance, self love as well as tapping into a state of being that is more calm, centred and compassionate.
5 mins. Georgina Valentine.
When deadlines loom and time runs too fast use this meditation to slow down your thoughts, so that you can work smart and work calmly.