When the Mind Won't Slow Down
Life can feel heavy at times. We get caught in our thoughts, pulled into the past, or worried about what’s ahead.
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In those moments, it’s easy to feel like something needs fixing. But what often helps most is coming back to awareness.
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Living from awareness means noticing what’s happening within you, seeing your reactions, and meeting them with understanding instead of judgement.
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Awareness isn't something the mind can figure out. But it is something you can experience.
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Grounded in Awareness is a short audio series that supports you in returning to this, and learning to live from it in everyday life.
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What You'll Receive
Short teachings and companion meditations you can listen to anywhere. Each one helps you step out of overthinking and come back to what’s here, now.
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This isn’t another technique to learn or practise. It’s a way of seeing things with fresh eyes so that you can relax into the truth of who you are.
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Inside, you are guided to:
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• Find relief from overthinking without trying to control your thoughts
• Meet life with more ease, without forcing positivity
• Return to presence in a natural, simple way.
The Journey
1. Introduction: Welcome to the Journey (1:55)
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2. Insight One: You Are Not Your Mind (2:17)
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3. Meditation One: Recognising Thought (5:46)
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4. Insight Two: Resistance Is the Real Suffering (2:43)
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5. Meditation Two: Meeting Resistance With Awareness (6:11)
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6. Insight Three: Freedom Is Always Now (2:37)
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7. Meditation Three: Living in Presence (4:43)
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8. Closing: Returning to Yourself (1:13)
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Total time: 27.27
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What People Are Saying
Aliki’s mini-course is beautifully simple and clear! As with all of her teaching, there’s a depth of wisdom alongside a gentle approach that makes everything easy to understand and put into practice.
Dan Holton
These pocket-sized recordings are just beautiful. Aliki’s voice is so soothing, hypnotic almost, it feels like she is in the room with me. I listen over and over to her wise teachings and each time hear something new. The short meditations are perfect to bring focus, or as a 6-minute ‘retreat’ to help tensions melt away. I cannot praise this mini-course highly enough.
Sandra Lawrence
I feel these 3 simple insights you share cut right to the chase of what's really important and necessary for living a full, contented, joyful life. This little mini course has been so comforting to me when I am feeling off or low for some reason. I can start listening to it and feel my perspective shift within a minute or two. Your voice is so soothing as you explain the insight in a very relatable way, and the meditation that follows each one helps me to relax even more, allowing it to sink in even deeper. They bring me back to my center and remind me that I am fine, and this moment is fine, and that I can handle whatever is going on.
It's so nice to be able to listen to the entire course in less than 30 minutes, or if I just have a few minutes, I can listen to one of the 5 minute meditations, leaving me feeling more calm, relaxed and centered.In fact, I've listened so many times that I can recall the 3 insights easily on my own, and if I start to feel off and am having negative thoughts, I can remind myself of these 3 gems and get back to this moment of enjoying and appreciating the life that is here for me!