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Mindfulness

Your central place for breath practice, mantras, grounding, and guided meditation. Mindfulness and breathwork support attention, regulation, recollection, and deliberate action.

When Catholic Formation is active, these practices support recollection and regulation; they do not replace prayer or sacramental life.

Primary mindfulness practice

Mindfulness Mantras

Your main mindfulness mantra, presented in the same I / O form and line structure as you wrote it.

I = in-breath O = out-breath
I- Breathing in a long breath, you know,‘I am breathing in a long breath’
O- Breathing out a long breath, you know,‘I am breathing out a long breath’
I- Breathing in a short breath, you know,‘I am breathing in a short breath’
O- Breathing out a short breath, I know‘I am breathing out a short breath’
I- “Experiencing the whole breath-body,I shall breath in.” Thus you trainyourself.
O- “Experiencing the whole breath-body,I shall breath out.” Thus you trainyourself.
I- “Calming the activity of the breath-body,I shall breath in.” Thus you trainyourself.
O- “Calming the activity of the breath-body,I shall breath out.” Thus you trainyourself.

My Mantras

Save other short mindfulness phrases here so this page remains the one place you return to for repeated phrases and breath cues.

Refuge Recovery Guided Audio

All Refuge Recovery audio access now lives here. The links below open the official Refuge Recovery World Services recordings and collections.

My Meditation Favorites

Save the meditations you actually use. These are stored locally on this device. You can add Refuge Recovery meditations, YouTube links, Insight Timer sessions, podcasts, or any other web meditation you want to return to.

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Present-moment attention

Mindfulness of Breathing

Best general starting practice for settling attention and returning gently when the mind wanders.

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Self-compassion

Compassion Meditation

Useful when pain, shame, or harsh self-judgment is active.

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Letting go

Equanimity

Especially useful for distinguishing care from control and accepting that others are responsible for their own actions.

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Fourth Step / repair

Self-Forgiveness

A good companion after inventory work involving guilt, shame, or harms.

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness of the Mind: Process

Observe how the mind behaves—wandering, grasping, resisting, planning—without automatically following it.

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Mindfulness of the Mind: Content

Notice the actual content of thoughts and mental states without confusing them with commands or facts.

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Mindfulness of the Truth

Useful for examining experience clearly and linking mindfulness to Refuge Recovery’s recovery framework.

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Mindfulness of the Feeling Tone

Train awareness of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience before craving or aversion takes over.

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Heart Practices

Loving-Kindness

Cultivate goodwill toward yourself and others without demanding a particular outcome.

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Compassion

Meet suffering with care rather than avoidance, shame, or hostility.

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Equanimity

Care deeply while relinquishing control over another person’s choices and outcomes.

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More Heart Practices

Appreciative Joy and Tonglen are also available from the official collection.

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Forgiveness & Fourth Step Support

Forgiveness: Overview & Process

Works with resentments and the ongoing process of forgiving self and others.

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Asking for Forgiveness & Making Amends

Particularly relevant after identifying harms and preparing for later amends work.

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Self-Forgiveness

Useful after honest inventory so responsibility does not collapse into global self-condemnation.

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Forgiving Others

The official forgiveness collection also includes Forgiving Our Enemies.

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Full official collections

These links open Refuge Recovery World Services. Audio playback/download requires an internet connection; this app page itself remains available offline.

Official Refuge Recovery audio playback requires an internet connection. Your saved mantras, favorites, and this page remain available through the app's local/offline system.