When we smile to ourselves, it can help to improve our mood - mind and body are so linked and influence each other in both directions. Give it a go - gently smiling to yourself as you meditate.

Smiling to oneself during meditation can uplift mood as mind and body are interconnected.

Smiling as You Breathe In

One of the most direct ways to quiet the mind and relax the body is to sense yourself floating. This meditation uses awareness-based guidance to shift yourself into a quiet and relaxed state.

A new meditation technique involves sensing yourself floating to achieve a quiet and relaxed state using awareness-based guidance.

Sense Yourself Floating

Placing a hand on your heart can be soothing and caring. Try doing that during this practice and see how you get on.

Placing hand on heart is soothing and caring, try it during practice.

Hand on Heart Meditation

This guided meditation uses the breath to harness the energy of the earth and the sky, to create a sense of strength and balance.

Meditation uses breath to balance energy from earth and sky, inducing strength and balance.

Earth and Sky

Cultivating JOY is an essential skill that we all posses, but tend to forget about. Use this practice to get in touch with the felt sense of joy in your body through the sensations of well-being.

Get in touch with the feeling of joy in your body through well-being sensations; cultivate this essential skill we all possess.

By practicing kindness for ourselves and others, we can cultivate this beautiful emotion. In this practice we use the breath as a vehicle to carry the kindness deep within us, and to reach out to another on the outbreath.

Cultivate kindness by using breath as a vehicle to reach out to others.

Breathing in for Me and Out for You

Give your eyes the rest it deserves! Let it cool down and let it be at ease

Take a break and give your eyes a rest to cool down and relax.

Cool and Comfortable Eyes

This meditation helps prime the listener for gratitude throughout the day. Priming helps the mind notice and appreciate gratitude throughout the day.

Meditation primes the mind for gratitude and helps appreciate it throughout the day.

Morning Priming For Gratitude

This guided meditation uses the mantra "all is well" to help cultivate a feeling of wellbeing and ease.

Meditate with "All is well" to feel relaxed and positive.

All Is Well

This is a classic story about shifting our thinking and doing what we are passionate about.

Shift your thinking and pursue your passions.

The Starfish Story

You may not be able to make a difference in the world but you can make a difference in someone's world.

Make a difference in someone's world, even if you can't change the world.

Making a Difference in the World

This brief mindfulness exercise uses the sense to come back to the present moment. This is great to do anytime, anywhere, eyes opened, and can help calm anxiety and stress.

A mindfulness exercise using the senses to alleviate anxiety and stress, that can be done anytime, anywhere with eyes open.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1

'Calmness may be best felt as your out breath.' Witness the calm as you focus on the natural rhythm of your breath, softening, soothing - in your body. Use this meditation any time you need to feel calm in mind and body. Namaste!! Music Credit: slam duck kepler 452b (original mix)

Focus on the natural rhythm of your breath to feel calm in mind and body with a simple meditation technique.

Into Calm

It is so easy to get caught up in stressful thoughts and circumstances. This meditation uses guided visualization to help you rest in your happy place, to reset, and recharge.

Guided meditation helps to reset and recharge by visualizing your happy place.

Rest in Your Happy Place

Here is a practice of imagining yourself radiating kindness all around you. This can really help to boost your mood, and if you look at a beacon, notice where the light is strongest. You're right - at the source, yourself!

Imagine yourself radiating kindness to boost your mood; notice the strongest light is at the source, you.

Being a Beacon of Kindness

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

This session is about becoming a little calmer by using breath and affirmation's like: I allow my body to relax. My breath is calm and steady. There is plenty of time for me to rest - I can rest right now. This session is like a lingering breath of fresh air as you bring in all the calm that you need right at this moment, day or night.

A calming session using breath and affirmations to provide relaxation at any time of day, leaving you feeling refreshed.

Calm and Rest

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

This is a traditional story from China. It is the story of an old Chinese farmer who lived many years ago.

"Story of an old Chinese farmer from ancient times."

Good Luck Bad Luck

Inspired by Jack Kornfield, this visualization will bring you through your bathroom mirror to recognize your playful spirit and unlimited potential and talents within. Shift into compassion to find love for yourself, trust for yourself and truly know yourself.

Visualize yourself in the bathroom mirror to tap into your potential and talents, and shift into self-compassion to love, trust, and know yourself.

Stepping Through the Mirror

How amazing is it when you have your Birthday? All the presents to open, all your favorite people there and all very exciting things to happen. Imagination is a powerful thing and this meditation will help you feel good as you imagine your most favorite day!

Meditation helps imagine a favorite birthday, with presents, favorite people, and exciting activities for feeling good.

Imagine It's Your Birthday

What's outside? What can you hear? See? Explore with your senses and let nature be your teacher!

Explore the outdoors with your senses and let nature teach you.

Sit Spot | for Children

A seated breath meditation that includes gentle hand and arm movements to help the young listener become present. This meditation aims to help children visualize themselves surrounded by a light feeling of their own choice, for example, love, happiness, or playfulness. This meditation can be done at any time of the day, but it can be a particularly lovely way to start the day. Background music: Waves of Hope by Music Of Wisdom

A guided seated breath meditation with gentle hand and arm movements to visualize oneself surrounded by a light feeling of choice, for children.

Bubble Fingers Breath Exercise

It's that time of year when anxiety is high for students going back to school. Here are some helpful strategies for parents or caregivers to support their children in getting off to a healthy, productive start.

Tips for parents to support their children in starting school healthily and productively.

Back To School Anxiety

Mindful movements involve focusing on the sensations in your body as it moves. Just as with meditation when the mind wanders away from feeling the body moving, we simply bring it back to being with the sensations of moving in the present moment. This helps with focusing, calming the mind, releasing tensions in the body, unifying body and mind. This can be done when we get up or during a break from the computer, or any other work. It can also be helpful before a seated meditation. This series is a mix of stretches and Qigong movements, in a standing posture.

"Mindful movements involve focusing on bodily sensations while moving, helping to focus and calm the mind, and release tension in the body."

Mindful Movements - Standing

Tap into your inner child and destress from your day with this special Winnie the Pooh-themed meditation. Written in the style of Pooh and narrated in the voice of Pooh, this unique meditation will be sure to brighten your day and bring back some fond childhood memories in the process.

Destress with a Winnie the Pooh themed meditation, written and narrated in Pooh's voice, to bring back fond childhood memories and brighten your day.

A Meditation With Winnie The Pooh

This guided meditation encourages children to connect with their emotions and with their bodies to understand their own unique needs. Through this powerful practice, children can develop valuable skills that will help them manage their emotions and achieve inner peace and a sense of calm. Whether used as a tool for morning mindfulness or bedtime relaxation, this meditation is a wonderful resource for parents, educators, and caregivers seeking to help children cultivate emotional intelligence, resilience, and self-awareness. You may like to listen to your child, fostering a nurturing environment to support their well-being.

Guided meditation helps children connect with their emotions and bodies, develop emotional intelligence and manage emotions for inner peace and calm.

Exploring Emotions Children's Meditation

We all get consumed with the cares and busyness of life that we sometimes forget about the little things that help our parent-child relationships flourish. Join me in learning some of the top ways that you can pause, connect and show love to your child. You both will be so much better for it!

Discover top ways to strengthen parent-child relationships by pausing, connecting and showing love to your child amidst the busyness of life.

Love Me! Hold Me! Hug Me!

We can help heavy feelings feel lighter when we connect with love, joy, and gratitude to lighten the heart. All emotions are valid and it is OK to feel them, but sometimes we need some help when heavy feelings hang around for too long. This meditation can be enjoyed by itself or accompanied by the "Feelings like Feathers story". Background music: The Inner Calling composed by Music Of Wisdom

Connecting with love, joy, and gratitude can help alleviate heavy feelings and this meditation with accompanying story and music can be helpful.

Feelings Like Feathers Meditation

This is a short meditation designed to help you settle in the NOW so you can be fully available for your baby and enjoy this precious time of your life. This is a mindful exercise to do if you're often worrying about the future or regularly reliving the past. Get comfortable and ready to ground yourself in the most important moment: the present moment. You and your baby deserve it!

Short meditation for moms to be present in the NOW and fully enjoy time with their baby; helps ground oneself in the present moment and let go of worry.

Guided Meditation: Present For Your Baby

Sounds are amazing and wonderful and everywhere. We have the power to attune our bodies & brains like a musical instrument. Did you know that?! Well, in this Majik Kids meditation you're going to have fun playing with the sounds and vibrations inside your body -- by using your very own voice. It's going to be fun (and kind of silly). This meditation is best done as a group or family unit. So give it a try to grown-ups! For all our magical kid's stories & meditations, visit us at https://MajikKids.com/stories Thanks for listening!

Majik Kids offers a group meditation where kids can play with the sounds and vibrations inside their bodies using their own voice for fun and silliness.

Playing With Sounds

A lovely warming exercise to help a child's body wake up - especially on cold mornings. We will be rubbing our hands together to create warmth and energy, before placing our warm hands over the eyes, ears, head, and heart. As we do this, we will ask each of these body parts to wake up and be well today! Background music: Unlax body by Ajit Pramod Deshpande. Licensed by Sounds Of Nidra.

A morning exercise for children involving rubbing hands together for warmth and energy before placing them on body parts to wake them up.

Wake Up, Body!

Bees Breath (Bhramari) is a great technique to teach your children! It can help them to feel calmer and reduce anxiety and it is very simple to do. Children love this technique because it is fun to do and can help them to feel better. This meditation teaches kids how to do bees breath - practice together with your kids.

Teach your children the calming bees breath technique to reduce anxiety - a fun and simple meditation practice.

Bees Breath For Kids - Help Anxiety

This is a relaxing, sweet story to help children of all ages to boost their self confidence :) Confidence cupcakes make by Ben and Sally's Nan do just that!

"Confidence cupcakes made by Ben and Sally's Nan help boost children's self-confidence in this sweet story."

Confidence Cupcake - Children's Meditation Story

Heidi Cherry Vaya Tucker & Leo are having a slumber party at the cats house. Cherry has planned a very nice night for them all to get together and be themselves with each other as they are all such good friends. This is a funny, entertaining bedtime story that gets more relaxing at the end :)

Friends have a slumber party planned by Cherry, creating a fun and entertaining bedtime story that ends on a relaxing note.