Your heart and your solar plexus are key to your well-being. As your centers of love and life-force, they need to be nourished with your breath and mindful attention to stay vital. In this meditation, you'll imagine filling your heart and solar plexus with light as you breathe into them. Bring a little more aliveness into your day with this soothing and healthful practice. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Nourish your heart and solar plexus with breath and attention to boost vitality and well-being in this meditation from Christina McMahon.

Filling Yourself Up

Reiki is a gentle healing art that promotes deep relaxation and may reduce stress, ease pain, and support your immune system. In this recording, I was transmitting Reiki energy as I led the meditation. As Reiki is believed to transcend time and space, you'll receive the benefits whenever you listen. After a guided visualization, the energy will flow as you listen to soothing music. Reiki is a complement to conventional medicine, not a substitute for it. Please enjoy the wellness benefits that flow to you as you listen to this healing track. Background music by Music of Wisdom. www.Christina-Mcmahon.com

Reiki meditation with guided visualization and soothing music promotes relaxation, reduces stress, eases pain, and supports the immune system.

Reiki For Wellness & Immune Support

Do you have a cherished goal you're working toward? Visualization is a powerful tool to get you focused and clear about achieving your goals. In order to "be it," you have to be able to "see it." Step into your best life with this powerful visualization technique. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Use visualization to focus and achieve your goals with a powerful technique from www.christina-mcmahon.com.

Visualize Your Goals

All of us experience trauma and trying times. Trauma is any experience that is overwhelming to us because we lack the outer and inner resources to deal with it at the time it happens. One such inner resource is the ability to self-soothe. In this talk, you will learn how to recognize when a present-moment experience is triggering an earlier trauma in your life. You will also learn an advanced mindfulness practice called the "empathetic witness," which means cultivating a gentle and compassionate inner voice whenever you are experiencing something difficult. Take your self-care practice to the next level with this healing talk and gentle practice. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Learn to recognize and heal past trauma through self-soothing and mindfulness practices in this talk on self-care and healing by Christina McMahon.

Self-Soothing For Trauma & Trying Times

If you've set an intention for a great love in your life, a devastating heartache can feel like a huge setback. Yet it can actually be the catalyst for healing any pain that has been with you on the inside for a long time, just asking for your attention. This talk will help you support yourself through a breakup access your inner wisdom to process the breakup and set yourself up for success for future love connections. In the final ten minutes of this session, we'll do a guided meditation that will allow you to get into relationship with the emotional energy lingering in your body after a heartache, allowing you to undergo a profound process of releasing your ex.

Healing from heartbreak can lead to inner growth and prepare you for future love connections through guided meditation and self-support.

Healing From Heartache

When we meditate, it helps to have a peaceful anchor for our attention. In this meditation, you are invited to imagine your breath flowing in and out of your body with the rhythm of ocean waves. Wishing you a restorative practice. www.christina-mcmahon.com

This meditation encourages imagining the breath like ocean waves for a peaceful anchor during practice.

Breath Like Ocean Waves

Most of us begin our days in an uninspired state. We are running through our to-do list in our minds, or we may be resisting what we have to do that day. What if you could start your day in the most inspired state of mind you could imagine? How would today be different from other days? Dive into this meditation, and watch your inspired morning unfold! www.christina-mcmahon.com

Transform your mornings with an inspired mindset through a guided meditation at christina-mcmahon.com.

Inspired

Are you firmly in "doing" mode today? Find some stress relief by giving yourself three minutes to sink into "being." After you rejuvenate yourself, the action that you take today will be much more effective. Enjoy! www.christina-mcmahon.com

Take a break from "doing" and indulge in 3 minutes of "being" for effective action; visit www.christina-mcmahon.com.

Shifting from Doing to Being

Do you sometimes feel like your mind is spinning out of control? Are you constantly rehashing a negative experience from your past? Or rehearsing what you want to say to someone who has upset you? In moments like these, our thought patterns are actually contributing to our suffering – not alleviating it. And the best way to shift those patterns is to move into deep, wholehearted compassion for yourself. A mind entangled with difficult thoughts is so worthy of your own compassion and love. Photo by Eeberhard Grossgasteiger on Unsplash www.christina-mcmahon.com

Shift negative thought patterns by practicing deep compassion for yourself; difficult thoughts are worthy of your love.

Self-Compassion

When our minds are racing, it's so easy to forget that we actually have the power to choose where we put our focus. In this meditation, you'll practice choosing the breath as your central focus over and over again. Consider it a "dress rehearsal" for sharpening your concentration in your everyday life. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Choose your focus in this meditation by repeatedly focusing on your breath, sharpening your concentration for everyday life.

Choosing the Breath

Want to increase your happiness quota today? It may be as simple as tapping into the joy that others are experiencing. When you can do this with an open heart, it is an important corrective to feelings of envy. Envy suggests that there is not enough to go around. But when you can feel genuine happiness for another person's win, you are communicating a new belief in abundance Ð that there's more than enough happiness to go around, and that your wins are just around the corner! Photo by Andre Furtado from Pexels www.christina-mcmahon.com

Increase happiness by tapping into others' joy and feeling genuine happiness for their win, communicating a new belief in abundance of happiness.

Cultivating Joy

Underneath the busyness of our lives and our minds, there is a calm pool of stillness that we can always dip into. In this meditation, you will connect with that stillness, and go back to your day recharged and rejuvenated afterward. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Discover inner peace through meditation with Christina McMahon and recharge your mind for a refreshing day ahead.

Sink Into Stillness

Just before you sleep, your subconscious is very open to suggestions. That’s because when you’re drowsy, it's harder for your thinking mind to block or resist new ideas. In this meditation, you’ll first get nice and relaxed. Then you’ll bring to mind something you want to manifest: abundance, love, health, peace of mind, or any goal. You’ll visualize this briefly before you drift off to sleep. If you do this practice regularly, you’ll begin to notice more golden opportunities to act on in your waking life, which will help you turn your intentions into a lived reality. Get ready to manifest! www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditate before sleep to manifest your goals by visualizing them briefly and letting your subconscious mind be open to suggestions.

Manifest While You Sleep

If you're feeling great today, why keep it to yourself? Get ready to visualize an ocean of love and light expanding outward from your heart space and reaching everyone around you. Get your dose of love today! www.christina-mcmahon.com

Spread love and positivity to others by visualizing an ocean of love and light expanding from your heart space. Get your daily dose of love at www.christina-mcmahon.com.

Ocean Of Love

When you're feeling stressed or anxious, everything seems to be moving quickly: thoughts race through your mind, and your heart may feel like it is going to explode in your chest. In this meditation, you'll intentionally slow down the breath, and then check in with your thoughts and your heart rate to see if they have also slowed. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Slow down your racing thoughts and heart rate with intentional breathing in this meditation.

Slowing Down

This guided meditation will help you welcome into your life more gladness - a profound sense of being content with where you are right here, right now. www.christina-mcmahon.com

"Meditate for more gladness and contentment in life with Christina McMahon's guided meditation"

Gladness

Perhaps there is someone in your life you love very much, and maybe you even want to strengthen your love for this person – to feel it even deeper. In this meditation, you will begin by amplifying the love you feel for yourself. Then you'll allow that wellspring of love to flow over to your loved one, strengthening the connection between the two of you. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Strengthen your love for someone by amplifying self-love in this meditation. Allow the flow of love to strengthen the connection with your loved one.

Strengthening Love

In our world today, we are subtly taught to focus on the flaws in others. But when we start retraining our brains to notice their goodness instead, we are actually investing in our own happiness. When we are able to notice others' virtues, we are better able to appreciate it in ourselves as well. That appreciation for goodness is what we will be practicing in this meditation. Photo by Andre Furtado from Pexels www.christina-mcmahon.com

Focusing on others' virtues instead of flaws can increase happiness and self-appreciation, as explored in a meditation practice.

Appreciative Joy

Sometimes when you're feeling lost or stressed, and you don't know what to do, the answer is to do nothing. When you allow yourself to surrender completely to the moment, to give up actively looking for solutions, you take the pressure off of yourself and your busy mind. That allows your intuition to kick in, and to deliver the answer you need at the perfect time. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Doing nothing when feeling lost or stressed can take the pressure off, allowing intuition to kick in and deliver the answer needed at the perfect time.

Surrender

As humans, our default mental mode often looks like worry or stress, or at the very least, running through our to-do list. In meditation, we can shift that default mode by asking our minds to dwell on happier memories and experiences. The more you do this practice, the more you will change the neural pathways in your brain, and the more happiness you will welcome into your day. Photo by Ivana Cajina on Unsplash www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditation can shift the default mental mode from stress to happiness by dwelling on positive experiences, changing neural pathways in the brain.

Savoring Happiness

When difficult emotions arise, we often experience something even more agonizing: a rejection of ourselves for feeling what we are feeling. Instead, what if our first instinct was to love ourselves even more fiercely whenever we feel stress, anxiety, or sadness? This meditation is a tribute to Matt Kahn's book "Whatever Arises, Love That," which directly inspired the words I am speaking. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Love yourself fiercely during difficult emotions, inspired by Matt Kahn's book "Whatever Arises, Love That" - a meditation by Christina McMahon.

More Love, Not Less

Loving-kindness is a heart-opening practice. It is a strong wish for your own happiness, as well as the happiness of all living beings. Relax into this practice now, and feel your heart opening like a lotus flower. Photo by Andre Furtado from Pexels www.christina-mcmahon.com

Practice loving-kindness to open your heart and wish for happiness for all living beings.

Basic Loving Kindness

Compassion is a strong concern for yourself and others when suffering. We all experience suffering, even if it is merely our everyday experiences of sadness, stress, or worry. By shining more compassion on yourself on the inside, you become a beacon of compassionate light on the outside as well. Photo by Gabriel Siqueira from Pexels www.christina-mcmahon.com

Developing compassion for yourself and others during times of suffering can transform you into a beacon of compassionate light.

Light Of Compassion

We often notice our bodies when something is wrong with them. But how often do we pause to feel what is going *right* within our bodies? Bring some aliveness into your day today with this inspiring gratitude practice for your body. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Practice gratitude for your body to bring aliveness into your day and feel what's going right within it.

Gratitude for the Body

The art of mindfulness is the ability to observe your thoughts without getting attached to them. In this meditation, you will visualize your mind as the sky on a clear, blue day. As thoughts come up, you'll watch them float by like clouds in your sky mind - without resisting them, without attaching to them, and without even thinking them. With each passing cloud, you will return your focus to that calm blue sky, allowing yourself to feel peaceful and calm before you step back into your day. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Practicing mindfulness is observing thoughts without attachment. Visualize mind as a clear blue sky and let thoughts pass like clouds to feel calm and peaceful.

Sky Mind

It's true! Your life is bursting with blessings. Feel them wash over you in this joyful guided meditation. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Experience the joy of blessings through a guided meditation at www.christina-mcmahon.com.

Awash with Blessings

Studies have shown that consciously practicing gratitude at bedtime leads to longer and sounder sleep. Gratitude promotes relaxation by shifting a busy or worried mind into a more positive state. In this meditation, you'll imagine you are floating on peaceful waters while warm waves of gratitude wash over you, lulling you into a deep sleep. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Consciously practicing gratitude at bedtime leads to longer, sounder sleep by promoting relaxation and shifting the mind to a positive state, as guided in this meditation.

Go To Sleep With Gratitude

This meditation gives you a powerful visualization for practicing the art of mindfulness, which is observing your thoughts and feelings from a neutral perspective, without attachment or resistance. They are like the currents of the river rushing past you, while you, the observer, are like a rock in the riverbed. This allows you to stay anchored in a calm state of awareness, which you can then bring back into your day. Photo by JAMES WESTMAN from Pexels www.christina-mcmahon.com

Practice mindfulness by visualizing your thoughts and feelings as river currents rushing past you, while you observe them from a neutral perspective.

The River

Mindfulness means being aware of your thoughts, not stopping them. If your mind wanders, you're not getting it "wrong." In fact, every time your mind wanders and you notice it, it is actually a moment of mindfulness. Photo by Alejandro Piñero Amerio on Unsplash www.christina-mcmahon.com

Mindfulness involves being aware of thoughts without stopping them, as wandering thoughts are actually moments of mindfulness.

A Moment of Mindfulness

In this bedtime tale, you'll hear about Arachne, who weaves spell-binding patterns on her loom. While the world is stunned by her artistry, the goddess Athena wonders if the young weaver is missing a step. This Greek myth may be familiar to you, but you've never heard it told this way - as a sleep story as sweet as it is soothing. Dreamland, here you come! (Based on "The Wonderful Weaver" by James Baldwin. Adapted by Christina McMahon) www.christina-mcmahon.com

A soothing bedtime story about Arachne, a skilled weaver who catches the attention of the goddess Athena in this retelling of a Greek myth.

Arachne the Weaver

In this bedtime story, a sleepy swallow comes to rest on the golden statue of a happy prince. The little bird's only wish is to sleep before his long journey to Egypt. But the prince has other plans - ones that will forever change the lives of the poor people in the city. This wandering tale moves at a lazy pace that will lull you right to sleep, all while you enjoy a sweet story about the true meaning of giving. (Based on "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde. Adapted by Christina McMahon) www.christina-mcmahon.com

A sleepy swallow rests on a golden statue of a happy prince, who changes the lives of poor people in the city in a sweet story about giving by Oscar Wilde.

The Happy Prince & the Sleepy Swallow

In this bedtime tale, you’ll hear about the day the Greek gods Neptune and Athena appear in a brand-new hilltop town and challenge each other to a contest. The winner gets to bestow their godly name on the town and become its devoted protector. Each offers a glorious gift if they are chosen, but the choice lies with the people on the hilltop. Be inspired by this sweet tale of new beginnings, even while the story's calming tone sends you right off to dreamland. (Based on "The Horse and the Olive" by James Baldwin. Adapted by Christina McMahon) www.christina-mcmahon.com

Greek gods Neptune and Athena compete to be the protector of a new hilltop town in this bedtime tale, with the choice ultimately lying with the townspeople.

Neptune & Athena Hold A Naming Contest

This bedtime story gives the ‘birth order blues’ a girl-power twist. Young Ophelia feels invisible to her parents. Not the baby and never in charge, she seeks solace and a solution from the mysterious Woman in the Moon. Amidst a solo journey to an enchanted meadow, Ophelia unlocks the power of her individuality to light up her whole world. The moon magic and nighttime ambiance are sure to make your dreams extra sweet, after the story lulls you right to sleep. (An original children's story by Christina McMahon) www.christina-mcmahon.com

Ophelia feels invisible to her parents, but a mysterious Woman in the Moon helps her unlock the power of her individuality in this bedtime story.