{"podcast":{"title":"The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard","slug":"the-daily-meditation-with-brother-richard-7622550","podcast_index_feed_id":7622550,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/693ebc1df3a6f9e20ac00b64","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-daily-meditation-with-brother-richard","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/693ebc1df3a6f9e20ac00b64/1768228963935-3ffa2910-3b9e-4cb3-aae1-624d46da23e4.jpeg","author":"Cutdown Studios and Brother Richard","episode_count":207,"summary":"The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard is a short daily podcast offering stillness, clarity and spiritual grounding - a moment of calm in a busy, noisy world. Hosted by Brother Richard, a Capuchin Franciscan friar and meditation teacher, each episode draws on the Christian monastic contemplative tradition, one of the oldest continuous meditative practice in the world. With warmth, simplicity and deep humanity, Brother Richard offers reflections and guided meditations shaped for modern life. These meditations are open to people of all faiths, and to those with none. No belief is required - only a few quiet minutes and a willingness to pause, breathe and be present, whether taking a pause during the day or winding down before sleep. Brother Richard belongs to the Capuchin community in Dublin, Ireland, where a life of prayer and meditation has been practiced every day for over 400 years. This podcast carries that living tradition forward, translating ancient wisdom into a form that speaks to contemporary experience. To find out more about the Capuchins’ work visit: https://capuchindaycentre.ie/ Hosted on Acast. 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Having a simple, familiar method that we can enter at any time — in any place — helps strengthen the muscles of attention and allows us to deepen our meditation more naturally and more fully. This practice of “recovering the form” is both a beginning again and a way of deepening what we already know. Together, we move through the essential elements of the practice: grounding the body, relaxing tension, checking in honestly with how we are, and returning to the breath as the anchor of the present moment. This meditation gently guides us back to the deep stillness beneath thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations — the place of pure awareness where we remember that we are held in divine love. Reset meditations are designed as reliable return points — practical, steadying and deeply restorative — especially during busy or distracted seasons of life. This meditation offers support for grounding, emotional regulation, stress relief, returning to stillness and strengthening a daily contemplative practice. It can be used as part of a daily meditation practice, as a reset during stressful moments, or as a calming meditation for sleep, winding down and evening stillness. Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction: Recovering the basic form 00:48 – Opening bell 01:08 – Marking the meditation with ritual 01:44 – Settling into posture 02:38 – Scanning the body for tension 03:27 – Asking: How am I? 04:30 – Relaxing the body into stillness 05:10 – “I have a body, but I am more” 05:36 – Observing thoughts and feelings 06:34 – “I have thoughts and feelings, but I am more” 07:00 – Following the breath to the still point 07:53 – Resting in the centre of awar…","meta_description":"In this meditation, we return once again to the foundational form of relaxation and stillness that lies at the heart of contemplative practice. 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