Each new day is a gift. A meditation to support you in developing balance and openness with regard to what the day will bring.

This meditation helps to develop balance and openness to embrace each new day as a gift.

Opening To Your Day

Take a moment to center, recharge, and re-orientate. A center that is available at any moment. www.optimalliving.co.uk

Visit optimalliving.co.uk to access a center that can help you re-energize and refocus whenever you need it.

Finding Your Centre

Each new day is a gift. A short meditation to support you in entering your day with intentionality and gratitude for life. www.optimalliving.co.uk

Enter your day with intentionality and gratitude for life with a short meditation. Get it at www.optimalliving.co.uk.

A New Day

A soothing meditation to support you when things are difficult. A meeting with your own best friend. A friend so close, we don't always remember that they are here. www.optimalliving.co.uk

Optimalliving.co.uk offers a soothing meditation to support during difficult times, like meeting your own best friend.

Kindfulness Pause

Slow down to a pause. Find strength and resources by taking time to check in with yourself.

Take the time to check in with yourself to find strength and resources by slowing down to a pause.

Mindful Pause

Progressively let go into a deep, restful sleep.

Deep Sleep With Music

A poetry meditation to support you in clearing some space. To hold your life in your 'hands'. To reconnect with yourself and tap into your inner resources. To experience affirmation and inspiration in a poem. www.optimalliving.co.uk

This poetry meditation helps clear space, reconnect with yourself, and find inner resources through affirmation and inspiration.

Clearing A Space

Progressively surrender yourself into a deep, restorative, restful sleep.

Ease into a rejuvenating sleep with gradual surrender.

Deep Sleep

You are not alone in this world but are deeply embedded within it. A single point in the web of life. We breathe in oxygen from the atmosphere, we give carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere. We give and receive. In this meditation, we experience this.

Meditation on interconnectedness; we give and receive in the web of life, breathing in oxygen and giving back carbon dioxide.

Belonging To Life

A short meditation to support you in feeling grounded. At any moment of your day, grounding is always available to you. You just need to know how to find it!

This text offers a quick meditation to help with feeling grounded anytime during the day.

Finding Ground

So often we are at war within ourselves. A meditation practice to cultivate peace within.

Meditation practice to find inner peace amidst inner turmoil.

Making Peace with What Is

Gratitude is not dependent on getting what we want, but on recognizing what we have. A meditation to support you in connecting with this reality within yourself.

Practice gratitude by recognizing what you have, not what you want - a meditation to connect with this inner reality.

Gratitude Is Seeing What's Here

Yoga Nidra progressive relaxation for deep, nourishing sleep

Yoga Nidra: a progressive relaxation technique for restful and rejuvenating sleep.

Deep Sleep - Yoga Nidra 1

Allow yourself to be carried into a deep, restorative sleep in this Yoga Nidra. Lie down, make yourself cozy and warm... and let go...

Deep sleep is achieved with Yoga Nidra, a relaxation practice that involves lying down and letting go.

Yoga Nidra 2

A restorative body scan to support deep rest and healing. You may fall asleep!

Body scan promotes deep rest and healing, possibly inducing sleep.

Restorative Body Scan Meditation

Give yourself time to rest, rejuvenate and heal by kindly, appreciatively, bringing each part of the body into awareness. In this way, you can experience the true meaning of healing as a return to wholeness.

Healing and wholeness can be achieved by bringing each body part into awareness and allowing for rest and rejuvenation.

Healing Into Wholeness Scan

This meditation is for those times when we feel troubled by world events; climate change, political and social fears, and concerns. It is designed to connect you with the fact that you are a part of the wider web of life and to draw resources from this. We breathe through sadness, anger, fear, and anxiety. While it can be deeply healing and support resilience, if you are experiencing significant difficulty, it is not a replacement for appropriate psychological support. www.optimalliving.co.uk

Meditation to ease worries about world events and connect with wider web of life, but not a substitute for psychological support.

Breathing Through Pain For The World

This practice will support you in accessing a deeper sense of confidence and faith in yourself and life.

Access deeper confidence and faith in yourself and life with this practice.

Faith Is Key

The world around us is increasingly uncertain, however, we can find peace within it. A quality of peace that isn't dependent on circumstances being the way we want them to be. Try this meditation to support you in experiencing this quality of peace for yourself.

Amidst uncertainty, find peace within through a meditation that does not rely on circumstances.

Finding Peace In Uncertain Times

Mindful eating enriches life and teaches us how to be mindful in all other areas of life. Try it! Please bring a small piece of food, a nut, or some fruit to engage with while listening to the recording.

Mindful eating promotes mindfulness in all areas of life; bring a small piece of food to engage with while listening to the recording.

Mindful Eating

A guided meditation to support you in releasing stress when things are difficult.

Guided meditation to release stress during tough times.

Stress Relief Meditation

Learn how a difficult person can be an opportunity for learning and growth.

Difficult people can be an opportunity for learning and growth.

Learning From Difficult People

A story about the importance of letting go of what we think we know so that we can be present and intimate with life.

Letting go of preconceptions allows for a closer connection with life, as explored in this poignant story.

Empty Your Cup

What we say matters. An instructive tale from the 14th Century, wise man Nasruddin on the power of words.

14th Century wise man Nasruddin teaches the power of words in an instructive tale.

The Power Of Words

A Zen story to help you get perspective when stressed or worried. It points to a fundamental existential truth of being alive. www.optimalliving.co.uk

"Zen story offers perspective on existence during stress/worry - Optimalliving.co.uk"

Wisdom Of Change

An old Scottish tale about a fisherman and his seal-woman bride. His love and her journey home.

Scottish fisherman falls in love with a seal-woman, but she must return home in this ancient tale.

The Selkie Bride

What made the monk so happy? This story points us to a freely available source of wealth and happiness, that doesn't depend on outer riches.

A monk finds wealth and happiness that doesn't rely on material possessions in this story - a lesson for all.

The Happy Monk

A story about recognizing the importance of trusting our struggles.

Importance of trusting struggles: A story.

Trusting Our Struggles

Our hearts and minds are like gardens that can be cultivated. Despite our best efforts, however, we can find ourselves growing things we don't want impatience, anger, fear, worry, etc. A wise story about how to deal with these.

Learn to cultivate your hearts and minds like a garden by dealing with negative emotions.

Gardening The Heart & Mind

A story about love and sacrifice, the generosity of a nightingale, and the vanity of a human girl. www.optimalliving.co.uk

Love and sacrifice of a nightingale for a vain human girl, a touching story.

The Nightingale And The Rose

A gentle story about a brave princess, who embarks on an adventure and discovers courage she didn't know she had.

A timid princess finds her courage on an adventurous journey in this gentle tale.

The Brave Princess

Part 1. An inspirational and instructive story about a blind man, whose inner guidance system supports him in navigating both his external world and his inner world of difficult emotions. There is light in the darkness, if only we 'look' in the right direction. www.optimalliving.co.uk

Inspiring story about a blind man's inner guidance system for navigating external and emotional worlds.

Light In The Dark

A story that invites us to see that we already have enough. We meet a contented fisherman and ambitious banker, learning that maybe we need less rather than more, to be content.

A contented fisherman and an ambitious banker teach us that having less can lead to contentment.

Knowing When We Have Enough

A much-loved story that reminds us of the fact that 'magic can happen!'

Beloved tale emphasizing the possibility of magic.

The Elves And The Shoemaker

A story about a wise fox and the blessings that follow when we can surrender the ego.

A wise fox teaches the power of surrendering the ego and the blessings it brings in this story.

The Wise Fox

Making yourself a cup of tea and exploring how simply drinking your tea can either be an act of war within yourself or an act of making peace.

Tea drinking can be a battle or a peace-making act with oneself.

Stopping the War Within

A royal hawk gets lost, gets found, undergoes a series of challenges, eventually arriving home with wisdom and understanding...

A lost royal hawk overcomes challenges and gains wisdom before returning home.

The Wandering Bird

We often make our difficulties our enemy, wishing them away, however, our struggles can be our greatest teachers. What might this way of viewing difficulty have to offer us?

Viewing difficulties as teachers can offer valuable lessons instead of being viewed as enemies to be wished away.