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Daily Mindfulness Practice: Free Audio Download

by Monica A. Frank, Ph.D.

The following is part of a series of audios to teach how to practice mindfulness. Developing your ability to focus on the present moment can reduce distress and improve well-being.

Feeling Excitement
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Index for Mindfulness Audios

Additional reading:

Some tips for using these audios:

  • Start with the Understanding Mindfulness audios to learn about mindfulness.
  • These short practice exercises are to help train your brain to be more mindful when engaged in daily activities.
  • The audio format is just for convenience to help learn the material. You can also read the transcript. When you practice, however, you should engage in the behavior mindfully without listening to the audio.
  • The best way to train your brain to be more mindful is to practice in short sessions throughout the day while engaged in your normal activities.
  • The descriptions are an artificial way to help you get started. Eventually, the practice of mindfulness is being aware of what is described without using an inner verbal description.
  • This exercise is to help you develop tolerance of emotions. The audio provides guidance for being mindfully present with excitement.
  • However, the actual practice of mindfulness is to allow yourself to be fully aware of your experience when feeling excited. Although trying to create the emotion of excitement would not be mindful, it may be possible to create the conditions that might cause you to feel excited.

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Transcript of Audio: Feeling Excitement

Allow yourself to fully experience feeling excited. However, instead of reliving the experience of the event that caused the excitement, refocus your mind back to the feeling of excitement itself. Notice how you experience it. What exactly do you feel and where do you feel it? What types of sensations do you experience when feeling excitement? Do you feel a heightened sense of energy through your body? Do you feel the sensation of “butterflies in your stomach”? Do you feel tension in your muscles? Do you feel a pressure in your head? Whatever it is you are feeling, just let yourself fully experience those sensations. When thoughts about the event come into your head focus yourself back to the actual feeling of excitement and let yourself just “be” with those sensations. Let those sensations flow over you, notice them but don't try to evaluate them.

Mindfulness and Relaxation Methods
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