Surf the Urge Mindfulness

This is a mindfulness session to help develop your willpower to overcome cravings and bad habits.

It can be useful if you are trying to make positive or healthy changes in your life.

It is being present with those craving induced feelings and thoughts, but not acting on them.

It is surfing the wave of the uncomfortable experience, and being present with it, without judgement, and without action.

The more you practise using this approach, the more able you become to not act on those cravings or bad habits, and with time and persistence, those cravings or bad habits become less and less, until eventually they don’t bother you any more.

Use this session as often as you want to.

There are two versions; the normal version and the sleep version.

The normal version can be used at the time when you have a craving. This is useful, particularly at the start, so you can be guided through this mindful way of dealing with cravings, and bad habits. With time and practise you will develop the skill of using this approach, without needing to listen to the session.

Both the normal version and the sleep version can be used as a conditioning session when you don’t have a craving or you are not in the grip of a bad habit. It is a way of practising the techniques and themes in this approach. This will help reinforce the intention, and develop the skill of being mindful, and surfing the urge, whenever you need to.

The sleep version is the normal version plus added suggestions for relaxation and drifting into sleep.

You can use the normal version, or the sleep version, at night, before you go to sleep. It can be a convenient time to use it. Plus, those last words or thoughts or ideas or intentions you have in your mind at night, before you go to sleep, can have a positive influence on how you feel, and what you do the next day.

You can use whichever type of background music you prefer to listen to, or with the voice only option you can use your own type of background music, or just listen to the words on their own.

I hope you enjoy using this “Surf the Urge” mindfulness meditation, and that it helps you to overcome, in a mindful way, any cravings or bad habits, or whatever challenge you wish to use it for.

With good wishes,

Paul