Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. 

After graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967 he joined the Peace Corps and worked on tropical medicine teams in the Mekong River valley. 

Over the years, Jack has taught in centers and universities worldwide, led International Buddhist Teacher meetings, and worked with many of the great teachers of our time. 

Jack Kornfield

As anyone who has tried it knows, meditation looks simple, but at times it can be difficult. The most potential you can have on your contemplative path is a trusted teacher like Jack Kornfield, who stands out as one of the most helpful and encouraging Western instructors for newcomers to the art of meditation.

With Guided Meditation, this renowned Buddhist teacher brings you six practices that will open the door to the serenity and joy of meditation, and serve as your foundation for years to come.

Offering you precise guidance through every step of these transformational practices, Kornfield introduces you to:

• Basic sitting practice — the essential starting point for nurturing nonjudgmental spaciousness

• The heart-opening techniques of lovingkindness and forgiveness meditation to help you discover liberation from suffering

• A visualization exercise for overcoming difficulties by making direct contact with the voice of your highest wisdom

• The gratitude and joy meditation, which nourishes an innocent rejoicing in life itself

• Mind Like Sky—a practice to enter "original mind," the pure space of awareness that is consciousness itself

Since the time of the Buddha, meditation taught under the guidance of an expert has proven to be the easiest and most effective way to begin. 

Whether you are just starting out with meditation or have decided to reconnect with the ground of your practice, Jack Kornfield's Guided Meditation provides concise and gentle training of the heart and mind to enjoy the fruits of this centuries-old art.

Introduction

Introduction to Sitting Practice

Sitting Practice

Introduction to Lovingkindness Meditation

Lovingkindness Meditation

Introduction to Forgiveness Meditation

Forgiveness Meditation

Introduction to Buddha Transforms Difficulties

Buddha Transforms Difficulties

Introduction to Gratitude Meditation

Gratitude Meditation

Introduction to Mind Like Sky Meditation

Mind Like Sky Meditation

Guided Meditation

Practices that will open the door to the serenity and joy of meditation.

Finding Guidance and Courage: A Light in Hard Times

We all face tough times. But how can we meet these difficult situations with a compassionate heart and a clear mind? “Inside each of us is an inner light that I call 'The One Who Knows,'” teaches Jack Kornfield. “Awakening to this wisdom can help us find our way through pain and suffering from grace, tenderness, and curiosity.”

Guided Meditations for Difficult Times gives us eight new practices for reconnecting to our inner guide to skillfully navigate life's storms. With his warm teaching style and gift for storytelling, Jack Kornfield invites us to discover:

• Equanimity and Peace-how to hold the sorrows and struggles of our world and our selves with balance, while seeing the great peace behind it all

• Shared Compassion-a revolutionary practice for learning to experience painful situations with understanding and care

• Forgiveness-for releasing the past and breaking down barriers to all that is closed in the heart

• Setting Your Highest Intention-a powerful guide for navigating difficulty and awakening to the shining beauty and potential of the human spirit

Our inner wisdom can light the way ahead so that we can take life in stride, teaches Kornfield. 

Guided Meditations for Difficult Times offers fresh insights and practices for being present, loving, and open in the midst of any life challenge.

Our Deepest Knowing

The Wisdom of Hardship

Centering and Stabilizing Our Lives

The Earth Is My Witness

The Quality of Compassion

Shared Compassion

Session 1

Illuminating Your Lamp of Wisdom

The Buddha in Difficulties

Releasing Our Burdens Through Forgiveness

The Practice of Forgiveness

The Power of Healing

The Temple of Healing

Session 2

Consciously Moving Through Your Pain

The Zen of an Aching Heart

Resting in Equanimity

Equanimity and Peace

Setting the Compass of Your Heart

Your Highest Intention

Session 3

Reconnect to your inner guide to skillfully navigate life's storms.

Guided Meditations for Difficult Times

Step-by-Step Instruction for Newcomers to Meditation

Have you ever thought about trying meditation, but didn't know how to get started? On Meditation for Beginners, renowned teacher Jack Kornfield uses clear language and step-by-step guidance to show us how to start—and stick with—a daily meditation practice. 

From the basics of how to get started to dealing with distractions, this complete course introduces us to the Insight tradition of meditation that has helped practitioners throughout the ages cultivate profound inner calm and a lasting capacity for happiness.

Meditation for Beginners offers us a variety of entry points into this life-changing practice.

Topics covered in each program include:

• How to use breathing, posture, and attention to enter the meditative state

• Simple and effective strategies for dealing with "busy brain," and other common challenges in meditation

• How meditation can help you deepen compassion, find healing through forgiveness, and dissolve your fear of death

• Four cornerstone meditations for your practice—from resting in the moment to experiencing lovingkindness, and more

With his gentle delivery and ability to translate ancient practices for modern audiences, Jack Kornfield has become one of the most accessible and sought-after teachers for helping first-time meditators get their start. 

Now you can begin to develop the foundational skills to start your practice immediately—and discover the life-changing power of meditation for yourself—with Meditation for Beginners.

The Art of Inner Listening

How to Begin Meditating

Breathing Meditation

What Happens When We Meditate

Body Meditation

Working with Distractions

Thoughts and Feelings Meditation

Seeing the Waterfall

Making a Peaceful Heart

A Path with Heart

The First Noble Truth

Meditation on Sorrow

The Second Noble Truth

Meditation on Forgiveness

The Third Noble Truth

Meditation on Death

The Fourth Noble Truth

Meditation on Compassion

A step-by-step guidance on how to develop a daily meditation practice. 

Meditation for Beginners

The Buddha Meets Neurobiology in the Science of Heightened Awareness

Mindful awareness creates scientifically recognized enhancements in our mental functions and interpersonal relationships. But how can we integrate this information into our personal or professional lives?

In the Mindfulness and the Brain audio learning course, Jack Kornfield, PhD, and Daniel Siegel, MD, offer theoretical and experiential teachings on the power of inner transformation and the cultivation of a wise and loving heart.

Whether you’re a therapist, healer, educator, parent, meditation practitioner—or anyone interested in developing a healthy mind—this training offers a practical exploration of what it means for our world and us to be able to nurture and sustain heightened awareness

An Integration of Head and Heart

In this training, you’ll discover how mindful practice helps reduce suffering and promote resilience; the “resonance circuit” that enables an individual to attune to oneself and others; and how intrapersonal attunement can catalyze mental, interpersonal, and psychological well-being. 

From scientific findings and down-to-earth Buddhist perspectives to memorable anecdotes and real-life stories that illustrate key concepts, Mindfulness and the Brain invites you to discover a more integrated and connected way of knowing and developing a wise and loving heart.

Course Highlights:

• Clinical findings on the transformative power of interpersonal neurobiology

• The structure of the mind and how understanding consciousness can lead to freedom

• Neural integration and how it helps create more balanced lives

• How to incorporate compassion and forgiveness into our personal and professional life

• More than six hours of essential teachings and tools for cultivating healthy change in ourselves and others

Wedding the Personal and Universal

Carrying the Sorrows of the World

The Mind Changes the Brain

Original Goodness

The Shift of Identity

A Triangle of Well-Being

Defining the Mind

Session 1 – The Buddha Meets Neurobiology

A Crash Course in Neurobiology

The Neocortex

Nine Functions of the Middle Prefrontal Area

Neural Integration Creates Well-Being

The Foundations of Mindfulness

Systematic Ways of Training

Counting Thoughts

Session 2 – The Anatomy of Being Human

The Contemplative Dimension of Psychology

Being With the Breath

The Buddhist Map of Mental Health

The Diagnostic Manual of Human Potential

Guided Interpersonal Meditation

Looking in the Mirror

Session 3 – Extraordinary Mental Health

Awareness vs. Mental Activity

Strengthening Mindsight

The Buddha Wasn’t a Buddhist

The Space of Awareness

No Happily Ever After

Transforming Emotions and Difficulties

Session 4 – The Mystery of Identity

A Meaning-Making Organ

Neural Plasticity

Integration

The Circuitry of Compassion

Your Inner Wisdom

Session 5 – The Neurobiology of Mindfulness

Seeing with Night Vision

The Neurobiology of Compassion

Two Kinds of Compassion

Comfortable with Paradox

Motivation and Intention

Rituals of Healing

Forgiveness and Lovingkindness Meditation

Session 6 – The Game is Love

Reduce suffering, promote resilience and cultivate a wise and loving heart.

Mindfulness and the Brain

Meditations to Activate Your Capacity for Healing

Meditation brings you into deep communion with your own body and heart, but what happens when you are sick or in pain? 

With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, Jack Kornfield guides you through meditations created specifically to ease physical and emotional suffering and activate a powerful capacity for restoring yourself to wholeness.

Join this leading meditation teacher and psychologist for three essential practices that tap the healing power of attention:

• Healing Presence—how to use the earth itself as your foundation to support you in self-diagnosis and restoration

• The Healing Temple—guided visualization to your inner sanctuary, encountering the great healer, and receiving the necessary gifts for true recovery and blessing

• The Healing Power of Love—directing the luminous spirit of lovingkindness to all the places in your body and spirit that are in need

We are conditioned to approach healing as an act of control, in which we judge what is wrong with us and impose a change. The way of awareness teaches us how to turn toward that which is injured in us with a caring and fearless attention, so we may open the door to true healing at every level of our being.

With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, Jack Kornfield brings you three potent practices to bring compassionate energy where it is needed in your body, psyche, and spirit, and to awaken the “master healer” within you.

The Healing Journey

Deepening Your Ability to Trust

Healing Presence

The Healing Temple

The Healing Power of Love

Activate a powerful capacity for restoring yourself to wholeness.

Guided Meditations for Self-Healing

Breathing Meditation is a foundational meditation with Jack Kornfield to help us establish unity of mind, body, and heart through focused attention on the natural rhythm of the breath.

The Healing Temple is a guided visualization to a place of rejuvenation and renewal that we can visit whenever we need respite.

In The Healing Power of Love Jack leads a traditional lovingkindness meditation adapted for the modern practitioner to help us express the heart's deepest wish for love and healing.

Discover the healing power of your attention and your breath in this foundational guided meditation with Jack Kornfield.

In this basic sitting practice, Jack Kornfield gives instructions on how to sit and observe your breath. The essential starting point for nurturing nonjudgmental spaciousness.

Jack Kornfield guides you in this heart-opening technique of lovingkindness and forgiveness meditation to help you discover liberation from suffering.

In this guided session, you'll learn to germinate forgiveness and move out of pain, fear, and confusion, even if you've been struggling with your situation for years.

Buddha Transforms Difficulties is a visualization exercise for overcoming difficulties by making direct contact with the voice of your highest wisdom.

Jack Kornfield guides you in this gratitude and joy meditation, which nourishes an innocent rejoicing in life itself.

In Mind Like Sky Jack Kornfield guides you in a practice to enter "original mind", the pure space of awareness that is consciousness itself.

In Body Meditation Jack Kornfield helps you explore the sensations in your body with awareness, allowing you to feel and give space to what is.

In this meditation we use the breath as an anchor to explore the thoughts and feelings that arises. Allowing it all to rise and fall like waves of the ocean as you become more and more still.

Thoughts and Feelings Meditation 

In Meditation on Sorrow Jack Kornfield invites us to open up to the wounded parts of ourselves. With gentle awareness we open up to the sorrow, losses and unfinished business we hold in our heart and feelings.

In Meditation on Forgiveness Jack Kornfield guides us in a practice to ask forgiveness from others and ourselves and to give forgiveness to those that have hurt us in any way.

In this short meditation Jack Kornfield invites us to get a sense of our mortality and skillfully prepare ourselves for death.

In this meditation, you are invited to explore how a wise teacher would handle a situation of great difficulty and give you a few words of advice on how to face such situations on your own.

In Your Highest Intention Jack Kornfield presents a powerful guide for navigating difficulty and awakening to the shining beauty and potential of the human spirit.

In Equanimity and Peace Jack Kornfield invites us to hold the sorrows and struggles of our world and our selves with balance, while seeing the great peace behind it all.

In The Zen of an Aching Heart Jack Kornfield invites you to take your seat with dignity despite an aching and broken heart. 

In The Temple of Healing Jack Kornfield in a visualization where you are taken to a place where you can rest and heal your deepest wounds.

In The Practice of Forgiveness Jack Kornfield guides us in the three steps of forgiveness, the forgiveness from others, forgiveness for ourselves and forgiveness for those that have hurt us. 

By practicing this we can release the past and break down barriers to all that is closed in the heart.

In The Buddha in Difficulties Jack Kornfield guides you in a visualization that gives you access to the wisdom you need in the greatest difficulty.

In Shared Compassion Jack Kornfield guides you in how to develop the capacity to experience painful situations with understanding and care.

In The Earth is My Witness Jack Kornfield guides you through your body to identify areas of difficulties, burdens and problems and letting you release all this back into the earth. As the body clears, the mind quiets and the heart opens to wisdom and compassion.

The Earth is My Witness

Kristin Neff Ph.D. is widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on self-compassion, being the first one to operationally define and measure the construct over a decade ago.

In addition to her pioneering research into self-compassion, she has developed an eight-week program to teach self-compassion skills in daily life, co-created with her colleague Dr. Chris Germer, called Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). 

Kristin Neff

Chris Johnson, PsyD is as an executive coach. She is passionate about embodied learning and leadership, and leveraging it to cultivate strong business and community leaders, healthy workplaces, and engaged, thriving communities.

She is the author of "The Leadership Pause - Sharpen Your Attention, Deepen Your Presence and Navigate the Future"

Chris is the Founder and CEO of Q4 Consulting.

Chris Johnson

Anna Wikfalk is a Mindfulness, yoga teacher, author and lecturer and Sexual health - Pleasure coach. She runs a yoga and mindfulness studio, Bara Yoga, in Stockholm and  digital coaching on sexual health and pleasure, www.annawikfalk.com

Anna Wikfalk

Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. 

He studies family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behaviour, autobiographical memory and narrative.

Daniel Siegel

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author who was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. 

At the age of 29, a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. 

Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counsellor and spiritual teacher. Eckhart shares his time between British Columbia, Canada and California

Eckhart Tolle

Catherine Polan Orzech, has worked in the field of mind body wellness for almost two decades and has taught Mindfulness since 2000. 

She received her initial training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and her professional training under the direction of Jon Kabat-Zinn in 2003. 

She has taught and lectured on the subject of mindfulness internationally and was founder and co-director of the Montreal Center for Mindfulness.

Catherine Polan Orzech

Mark Williams is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford, and was Founding Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (2008-2013). 

The main focus of his work has been to understand how best to prevent serious clinical depression and suicide. His books include Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A new approach to preventing relapse with Z. Segal and J.D. Teasdale

Mark Williams

Stephan Pende Wormland was born in Germany in 1965 and practiced in different spiritual traditions before he became a student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 1995. 

He studied psychology and worked in a psychiatric hospital. He has done solitary retreat and led many retreats and introductory courses in different centres in Europe.  

Stephan Pende Wormland

Richard Mendius, MD, is a neurologist and co-founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. He trained at UCLA as an epileptologist and neurobehaviorist. He has been on the teaching faculty of UCLA, Oregon Health Sciences University, and Stanford University. 

His meditation practice began in the 1980s with Shinzen Young and continues at Spirit Rock Meditation Center with Jack Kornfield and Ajahn Amaro. He teaches a weekly meditation class at San Quentin. 

His daughters, Courtney and Taryn, and his son, Ian, are three of his main teachers and companions on the path.

Richard Mendius

Michael Stone was a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, Buddhist teacher, and author committed to the integration of traditional teachings with contemporary psychological understanding. 

The components of his practice include Yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditation and the study of traditional texts. He passed away on July 16, 2017. 

Michael Stone

Veronika Ryd är beteendevetare, samtalsterapeut i KBT, författare och mindfulnessinstruktör. Hon driver terapimottagningen Kognitiva kliniken i Stockholm

Veronika Ryd

Adyashanti is an American spiritual teacher and author. He studied Zen Buddhism under the guidance of his teacher for about 14 years. At 31, Adyashanti had an experience of awakening that put to rest all his questions and doubt. 

He first started giving talks to small gatherings, in a room above his aunt's garage, which grew over years. Today he offers talks, online study courses, and retreats in the United States and abroad. 

Adyashanti

Sally Kempton has been studying and teaching the wisdom of yoga for 40 years. 

A highly regarded teacher of meditation and spiritual philosophy, she writes the popular Yoga Journal column “Wisdom.” Known for her gift of making yogic wisdom relevant to daily life and for transmitting deep states of meditation, she teaches retreats and teleclasses internationally. 

Sally Kempton

Jon Kabat-Zinn is an American professor of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. 

Kabat-Zinn was a student of Buddist teachers such as Thich Nhat Hanh and a founding member of Cambridge Zen Center. His practice of yoga and studies with Buddhist teachers led him to integrate their teachings with scientific findings. 

He teaches mindfulness, which he says can help people cope with stress, anxiety, pain, and illness. The stress reduction program created by Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), is offered by medical centers, hospitals, and health maintenance organizations.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Joseph Goldstein, is one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg. 

Contemporary author of numerous popular books on Buddhism, resident guiding teacher at IMS, and leader of retreats worldwide on insight (vipassana) and lovingkindness meditation.

Joseph Goldstein

Tara Brach's teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world. 

The result is a distinctive voice in Western Buddhism, one that offers a wise and caring approach to freeing ourselves and society from suffering.

Tara Brach

Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist who is known for her work in the field of "science help" as it relates to achieving personal goals despite inner conflict. 

She is a longtime advocate of self-compassion and mindfulness as stress-coping strategies as she was the chief editor of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy from 2005 to 2012 and advocated yoga and similar mindfulness practices as a way to re-charge and direct attention and mental resources so as to achieve desired outcomes.

Kelly McGonigal

Björn "Natthiko" Lindeblad erbjöds att bli den yngste ekonomichefen någonsin inom AGA-koncernen. Istället sade han upp sig, gav bort allt han ägde och levde som buddhistisk skogsmunk i 17 år. 

2008 återvände Björn till Sverige. Natthiko betyder den som växer i visdom och detta är fortfarande hans ledstjärna. 

Sommaren 2020 höll han sitt andra "Sommar i P1" som blev ett av årets mest lyssnade.

Han avslutade sitt liv 17 januari 2022 efter att han levt tre och ett halvt år med den obotliga sjukdomen ALS.

Björns önskan var att göra allt sitt material tillgängligt för alla, så hans fantastiska meditationerna och kurserna  kommer alltid att vara gratis i appen. 

Björn Natthiko Lindeblad

Ali Katz is a Coach, Author and Speaker. She is a certified meditation teacher, life-coach and parenting coach. 

Ali is the best-selling author of  “Hot Mess to Mindful Mom: 40 Ways to Find Balance and Joy in Your Every Day”.

Ali Katz

Pema Chodron became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to England at that time, and Pema received her ordination from him. 

Pema first met her root teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. 

At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full monastic ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.

Pema Chödrön

Rick Hanson is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. 

He's been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. 

Rick Hanson

Sharon Salzberg is a New York Time Bestselling author and teacher of Buddist meditation practices in the West. 

In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. 

Her emphasis is on vipassana and loving-kindness methods, and has been leading meditation retreats around the world for over three decades.

Sharon Salzberg

Bjarne Nybo is an expert and consultant in mindfulness and emotional intelligence. 

Bjarne holds a Master of Science degree in International Communication, certification for Meditation from The Chopra Center in California, where he was personally trained by Deepak Chopra, and he holds certification for Emotional Intelligence from Multi Health Systems in Canada.

Bjarne Nybo

Candra Karlholm är mindfulnessintruktör, coach och kursledare. Hon har utforskat och praktiserat metoder för självkännedom och medveten närvaro i mer än 20 år med framstående lärare. 

Tillsammans med Mikael Karlholm driver hon Spread the Word som ordnar evenemang med några av de största inom personlig och andlig utveckling.

Candra arbetar med systemiskt konstellationsarbete och är också seminariehandledare utbildad av Family-Lab.

Candra Karlholm

Ronald de Caluwé is mindfulness- en compassietrainer, Tai Chi- en Qigong leraar en lichaamsgericht traumatherapeut. 

Verschillende invalshoeken om lichaam en geest beter te leren kennen en verbinden. Vanuit verbinding kan verzachting plaatsvinden, bijvoorbeeld naar oude pijn of (chronische) klachten. 

Je zult dit terughoren in zijn meditaties.

Ronald de Caluwé

Directora del programa de Afiliación con el Center For Mindfulness (CFM) de la Universidad de Massachusetts (UMASS) y de la Formación de Profesores de MBSR. 

Licenciada en Informática (UPM), Experta en Inteligencia Emocional (UCJC). Profesora Certificada y Supervisora avalada por el CFM de la UMASS. Docente de Intervenciones basadas en Mindfulness.

Ana Arrabé

Gonzalo Brito es psicologo clinic y doctor en psicologia. Es co-autor del programa Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance (MBEB) y es director de la formacion de instructors en espanol del programa Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT). 

Gonzalo Brito

Director de Nirakara Institute, Físico Teórico (UAM). Máster en Neurociencia (UAB). TDI en el Center for Mindfulness de la Universidad de Massachusetts. 

Codirector del MBSR (Mindfulness based Stress Reduction) de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Codirector del Experto Universitario EUMCS (Mindfulness en Contextos de Salud). Investigador y docente de Intervenciones basadas en Mindfulness.

Gustavo G. Diex

Bente Nybo er uddannet sygeplejerske og certificeret i Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. 

Hun har undervist private og virksomheder i mindfulness og får gode tilbagemeldinger fra deltagere på hendes undervisning og metoder.

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