In this round up of Living we are going to provide you with a means to escape from the stress ridden lifestyle we have acquainted ourselves with in modern society today and through the use of audio tracks and meditaion exercises learn how to become more relaxed, happy and satisfied with life.

Meditation gives us insights into the deepest recesses of our being and brings to the fore what is truly important and with that knowledge comes the fortitude to do what is right for ourselves and others.

These exercises don't take a lot of time, some are even as short as 3 minutes, people spend hours in the gym but neglect the most important asset we have - our minds. There are links here to some of the very best meditation and relaxation sites on the web, and all are free. Some however require a media player to play the tracks although many of the sites allow you to download the MP3 to listen to on your MP3 player.

There are also great meditations for children on www.learningmeditation.com.
Here are MP3's from various sources you can download by simply clicking on the link or right clicking on the link and pressing save link as/save target as and it will download direct to your desktop or my documents.>
learning meditation link
Other great links >
Self Help Magazine
Vipassana Fellowship
Relaxation links (Maryland college)

Mind Body Awareness Project

Progressive relaxation 8MB
Combination relaxation 12MB

Breathe easy
Relax those muscles (20 mins)
Body scan (12 mins)
Cultivate mindfulness (12mins)
Breathe awareness (1.42)
Peaceful focus (2.05)
Brief muscle relaxation (3.12)
Autogenic relaxation (4.44)
Muscle relaxation (8.36)
Sleep technique (2.48)


Reducing stress (2.58)
Empowerment (4.07)
Self image (5.12)

<An excellent well crafted site with meditation tracks of the highest quality. Soothing voices and ambient music a very special find. Make sure to bookmark this one!

<You need to install Realplayer to play these tracks download here for free.