Christina & Darrin

Love Coach & Therapist

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

There is so much happening all around us, yet we rarely take it all in. In this meditation, you'll focus on the sights, sounds, and physical sensations in your present moment, and learn how to notice them without judgment or resistance. This neutral gaze is a wonderful antidote to the stress and anxiety of everyday life. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditation helps focus on present moment by noticing surroundings without judgment or resistance, providing an antidote to stress and anxiety.

Meditative Gaze

If you're feeling neutral, or pretty good, you can get intentional about bringing even more brightness into your day. In this practice, you'll start with basic mindfulness, and then open up to lovingkindness and gratitude. Get ready to meet your happiness quota today! www.christina-mcmahon.com

Learn to increase happiness with mindfulness, lovingkindness, and gratitude techniques in this practice by Christina McMahon.

Bringing in Brightness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What could be cozier than curling up on your warm bed or couch while gentle rain patters outside your window? Give yourself that dreamy experience with this short meditation. Perfect for a midday power nap, or to prepare your mind and body for a restful night's sleep. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Experience a cozy rainy day from bed or couch with a short meditation perfect for a midday power nap or restful night's sleep.

Cozy Sleep

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

When we meditate, we choose an "anchor" to hold our attention and coax our mind to stay still. In this meditation, you'll experiment with two different anchors: the sounds in your environment, and the sensations in your body. By zeroing in on those two aspects of your present moment, you'll train your mind to be fully aware of what is alive for you in the here and now. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditate with two anchors - environment sounds and body sensations - to fully train your mind to be aware of the present moment.

Sounds and Sensations

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

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

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

The key to getting a good night's sleep is shutting down a busy mind. A relaxing body scan is one of the best ways to do this. In this meditation, you'll imagine your whole body to be a shopping mall whose lights are turning off for the night, section by section. Watch the final swirls of dust settle down as you drift off into restorative sleep.

Meditate using a body scan technique to calm your mind and help you sleep better by imagining your body as a shopping mall closing for the night.

Closing Down For Sleep

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 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

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

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.

Ophelia's Moon Song

In this meditation, you will be holding a strong intention for healing for our planet. This can be a calming counterbalance when our world is going through challenging circumstances, and you might be feeling helpless. We will close the meditation by imagining others all around the world holding the same powerful intention for global healing. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditation for global healing: Hold a strong intention for healing our planet and imagine others around the world doing the same. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Healing for the Planet

Do you have trouble navigating the ups and downs of dating? In this guided imagery meditation, you’ll imagine yourself floating on peaceful ocean waters. Whenever you are tempted to be swept up high above the water (like the “high” of meeting someone new and exciting), you’ll be guided to float back down to the peaceful ocean surface. Same thing when you feel you are being pulled down into the depths of the ocean (like the “low” after a disappointment with someone you like). In each scenario, you can bring yourself back into balance by remembering that you are held and supported by something much larger than you. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Guided meditation helps navigate dating ups and downs by imagining floating on peaceful ocean waters, bringing you back into balance.

Find Peace With Dating

This guided practice will help you sink into the aliveness of this present moment by opening up your senses fully to what's around you, all while you are sending well wishes to yourself, someone else, and the planet.

Practice mindfulness with a guided exercise that opens your senses and sends positive thoughts to yourself, others, and the planet.

Bring Yourself Into Joyful Presence

Once you’ve cleared out the “old” with the first track in this series, you’re ready to bring in your new and highest vision for partnership. This guided meditation will get you crystal-clear about the loving relationship your heart desires, and then anchor that feeling in your body. By listening to this meditation regularly, you'll make yourself a powerful magnet for love! (If you have not already worked with “Attract in Sacred Love, Part 1: Clearing Out,” please listen to that one several times before moving on to this second part).

Part 2 of the "Attract in Sacred Love" series is a guided meditation to help you clarify your desires and become a magnet for a loving relationship.

Attract In Love, Part 2: Getting Clear

This guided meditation will help you release any hidden feelings of unworthiness you may have - a crucial first step on your journey to a loving relationship. By shifting your inner beliefs about what you are truly worthy of with love, you’ll start vibrating higher online and off, which amplifies your point of attraction for deep, lasting love. After you have worked with this meditation many times and feel complete with this process, please move on to the next meditation in this series, “Attract in Sacred Love, Part 2: Getting Clear.”

Release hidden feelings of unworthiness with guided meditation to attract deep, lasting love by shifting inner beliefs about self-worth.

Attract In Love, Part 1: Clearing Out

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

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

Infidelity hurts, and it can be devastating to a partnership. But it doesn’t have to be the end of the line. This meditation offers a sacred pause after a betrayal, with guided inquiries to help both partners process their emotions skillfully and with great tenderness. Rather than jumping to a quick decision about whether to leave or stay, allow yourself to enter this healing sanctuary and get clarity on what this affair stirred up for you on the inside. Whether you listen to this meditation solo or with your partner, you will end up feeling more connected to yourself, and to your heart’s true desires for your next best steps. Music by Music of Wisdom. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Healing meditation after infidelity offers a sacred space to process emotions and find clarity, promoting connection and self-discovery.

Mindful Pause After Infidelity

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

This meditation will help you heal from a breakup with an ex-partner and get your heart ready for a more sacred love connection in your future. Whether you’re feeling anger, betrayal, or deep sadness, you’ll get in touch with that emotional energy in your body and give it some compassionate self-soothing. Towards the end of the meditation, you’ll have the opportunity to offer forgiveness, if you’re ready. At the close, you’ll do a short ritual to release your ex-partner from your energy field. This is the same meditation that concludes my life coaching track on Aura, “Healing from Heartache.” I'm offering it as a stand-alone meditation here so you can repeat this healing process as often as you need to. Be well. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Heal from breakup with ex, prepare for sacred love, release emotional energy, offer forgiveness, and do ritual to release ex from energy field.

Meditation For Healing Heartbreak

In this guided meditation, you are gently led into a deep connection with your heart, establishing it as your “home base” for love and healing. You're invited to recall a loving memory, immersing yourself fully in the sensations and emotions it brings up. With your heart as the focal point, you’ll feel the warmth, lightness, and expansion of love, allowing these feelings to surround and protect you. As you bask in this energy, you’ll breathe in all the love you already have in your life and for yourself, creating a safe sanctuary within your heart. When you make this practice a daily ritual to anchor your day, you’ll elevate your happiness and become a magnet for more love to come in. Music by Music of Wisdom. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Connect deeply with your heart in guided meditation, anchoring love and healing as your "home base" for happiness and attracting more love daily.

Heart As Home Base

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

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

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

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

When you meditate, it is always helpful to have something to anchor your attention to. Usually, that is the breath. However, in this meditation, you will use the sounds in your environment as your attention anchor. This trains you to be more in tune with your senses, which can create a deeper sense of awareness in your everyday life. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditate with sound as your anchor to increase sensory awareness in everyday life.

Sounds

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

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

In this mindfulness practice, we allow our attention to be easily caught by the feeling of the breath flowing, the sensations of the body, and the sounds in the room. We bring our awareness to these things without judgment, simply noticing them as part of the landscape of our present moment. www.christina-mcmahon.com

"Practice mindfulness by focusing on breath, body sensations, and sounds without judgment, as part of the present moment landscape."

Choiceless Awareness

Unlike our minds, our bodies are always in the present moment. This meditation will take you out of your headspace and into the physical sensations of your body, anchoring you in the present. Photo by Yujia Tang on Unsplash www.christina-mcmahon.com

This meditation helps you focus on your physical sensations to stay present, unlike our minds which can wander.

Body Awareness

There is a common misconception about meditation that it is all about "stopping thoughts." But that can be an exercise in frustration, since our minds are accustomed to thinking. Rather, mindfulness is about bringing our full awareness to whatever is present for us, including our thoughts. In this meditation, you will practice naming the kinds of thoughts coming up for you. You will learn how to be the observer of your own thinking, which ultimately will allow you to respond to events in your life with wisdom, rather than being in reaction to them. Photo by Reward Jr Juliano on Unsplash www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but bringing full awareness to them. Through naming thoughts, mindfulness allows responding to events with wisdom.

Naming Thoughts

In this meditation, you will practice the art of deep noticing. You will first bring your focus to your body breathing, and stay anchored in those sensations until you sense your mind wandering. When that happens, there is no judgment – only noticing. It's all okay. You're still in the circle of awareness. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditation practice of deep noticing by focusing on breathing and noticing mind wandering without judgment.

Circle of Awareness

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 something challenging comes up for us emotionally, our first reaction may be to resist it – to distract ourselves, to stuff the emotion down, or simply to wish we weren't feeling it at all. What if instead of pushing a difficult emotion away, you leaned into it? When you can let that emotion get as big as it wants to get inside of you and direct all of your compassionate breath towards it, oftentimes that emotion will release on its own. This allows you to continue with your day with a renewed sense of inner calm and peace. Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash www.christina-mcmahon.com

Lean into difficult emotions to release them and find inner calm.

Lean In

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

When we’re experiencing a difficult emotion, we need inner resources to help us cope. One precious resource is the empathetic witness. This is a soothing inner voice that reminds you it is all right to feel exactly what you are feeling – and that you are okay, just as you are. In this meditation, you’ll begin to cultivate that inner voice, so that it is always available for you, whenever you are going through something challenging. Photo by Jill Wellington from Pexels www.christina-mcmahon.com

Cultivate your inner empathetic witness to cope with difficult emotions; a soothing voice that reminds you it's okay to feel what you are feeling.

Empathetic Witness

Sometimes when we are feeling stress, anxiety, or sadness, those difficult emotions become amplified by the way we are thinking about them. We are resisting the emotion within us, which can make it feel even more intolerable. In this meditation, you will learn how to tone down the intensity of strong emotion, giving you more resilience as you step back into your day. Photo by Edurne Tx on Unsplash

Learn to tone down the intensity of strong emotions to increase resilience in day-to-day life.

The Dimmer

Do you sometimes feel that you are the only one having a difficult day, or struggling with a challenging emotion? In this meditation, you will bring your awareness to the throngs of people around you who are just like you – doing their best to handle what is coming up for them emotionally as they navigate their day. As you breathe in connection with them and breathe out compassion, you will feel more solidarity with others around you – and more compassion for yourself as well. Photo by Shane Rounce on Unsplash

Meditation brings awareness of people experiencing difficult emotions around you, connecting you with them and increasing compassion towards yourself and others.

Breathe in Connection

Loving-kindness is the essence of a happy life. By generating boundless heart energy for ourselves and others, we open a gateway for more love to flow to us. In this mediation, you'll practice sending love to yourself, a loved one, a neutral person, and finally, the whole world. Photo by Jonathan Borba from Pexels www.christina-mcmahon.com

Practice loving-kindness meditation to generate boundless heart energy for ourselves & others, opening the gateway for more love to flow to us.

Light of Loving-Kindness

On our path to inner peace, we start with where we are. We can't go directly from experiencing agitation to feeling joy. We first need to build a bridge to feeling better, and self-compassion is the best foundation for that bridge. When we attend to difficult emotions with tenderness, we can restore our natural zest for life, which often gets lost when our minds are clouded with worry or anxiety. Photo by Aleksandr Barsukov on Unsplash www.christina-mcmahon.com

Self-compassion is the foundation for restoring our natural zest for life and building a bridge to inner peace, starting with attending to difficult emotions with tenderness.

Compassion As The Bridge

Empathetic Joy is a delight in others' good fortune. When we view the world through the eyes of abundance, there's not much we can fail to attract into our own lives. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Empathetic Joy: delight in others' success; viewing the world through abundance attracts good things into our lives.

Manifestation And Empathetic Joy

This meditation is an exercise in self-compassion. By gently breathing into any difficult emotion we are feeling, we allow that emotion to feel total acceptance. After that, it usually feels safe enough to release on its own. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditation exercise for self-compassion by accepting difficult emotions gently through breathing. Emotions usually release on their own.

A Somatic Practice For Emotional Release

Our default is to navigate life with our busy minds. How would today be different if instead, you chose to navigate with your heart? Turn your heart light on with this meditation and find out! www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditation helps to navigate life with the heart instead of the mind, according to Christina McMahon.

Heart Light

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

This gentle practice will invite you to bring more self-compassion into your day, particularly when you are experiencing a difficult emotion. Photo by Rowan Chestnut on Unsplash

Practice self-compassion during difficult emotions with gentle exercises.

Gentle Release

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.

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