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

A New Day

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

Opening To Your Day

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

Mindful Pause

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.

Belonging To Life

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.

Gratitude Is Seeing What's Here

Progressively let go into a deep, restful sleep.

Deep Sleep With Music

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

Deep Sleep

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

Making Peace with What Is

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 Into Wholeness Scan

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

Finding Your Centre

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

Kindfulness Pause

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!

Finding Ground

Yoga Nidra progressive relaxation for deep, nourishing 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...

Yoga Nidra 2

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

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.

Finding Peace In Uncertain Times

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

Breathing Through Pain For The World

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

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

Clearing A Space

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

Wisdom Of Change

Learn how a difficult person 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.

Empty Your Cup

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.

The Happy Monk

A story about recognizing the importance of trusting our struggles.

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.

Gardening The Heart & Mind

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

The Power Of Words

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

The Elves And The Shoemaker

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

The Selkie Bride

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

The Brave Princess

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

The Wise Fox

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.

Knowing When We Have Enough

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?

Difficulty As Teacher

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.

Stopping the War Within

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

The Nightingale And The Rose

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

The Wandering Bird

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

Light In The Dark

Rosalie Dores M.A

Meditation Teacher & Mentor

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