Self-criticism and putting too much pressure on yourself undermine your physical and mental health. This meditation helps you to build a kinder, more compassionate attitude towards yourself and develop self-acceptance. It combines mindfulness, grounding, breath awareness, loving kindness, and affirmations. This soothing practice may be particularly helpful for depression, stress, or difficulty with sleeping.

Meditation for self-acceptance and compassion combines mindfulness and affirmations to combat self-criticism, depression, stress, and sleep difficulties.

Being Kind To Yourself

If we feel stressed or anxious, we carry tension in the body and this can build up as we add layers of bracing around it. By deliberately softening these layers of resistance and tension, we can help the body feel more comfortable and release mental tension too.

"Softening body tension can ease mental stress"

Softening Resistance and Tension

The practice of gratitude is a powerful way to bring more happiness, well-being and resilience into our lives. It’s done by using thinking to generate a positive mind state, then dwelling in the effects of that positive mind state. Give it a try!

Practicing gratitude can improve happiness, well-being, and resilience by generating a positive mindset and dwelling in its effects.

Gratitude

This morning meditation will guide you to breathe into the loneliness and discover the beauty in being alone. Settle in and find your calm center. Place your hand gently on your midsection, and release any tension and stress. Now, breathe deeply, Slowly. Deeply. Feel your hand rise and fall as it rests on your midsection. Living alone. Being alone. These can sometimes be tough. And, there are times in life When we compare ourselves to others. We see their partner, their marriage, and the children they have. And we feel lonely.

This meditation helps embrace loneliness, find peace in solitude, and release stress, comparing oneself with others can cause feelings of loneliness.

Alone Is Not Lonely (Alone)

During our exercise, we relax the body and take deep, full belly breaths. We visualize a joyous experience and learn how to notice how what we think changes how we feel. Today's meditation was adapted with permission from Mindfulness Exercises as I had purchased their product.

Meditation involves relaxation, deep breathing, visualization, and noticing the link between thoughts and feelings; adapted from Mindfulness Exercises.

Overcoming Stressful Thinking

Do you have a hard time accepting yourself just as you are? Acceptance refers to the ability to stay present. We can take a step back from resisting things as they are. In the twinkling of an eye, we may observe the compassion in one another. The tone of life is altered when we approach concerns with unconditional love and acceptance. When sitting in quietude and contemplation there is an unfolding, an opening that occurs towards greater acceptance.

Acceptance is about staying present and approaching concerns with unconditional love, leading to a shift in tone when sitting in quiet contemplation.

Acceptance

We often become very hard on ourselves when we face major life events. Feelings of negativity and depression can fill our mind and heart. This meditation invites you to be more kind to yourself by validating how you are feelings rather than judging yourself. Training in mindfulness shows that the wires in the brain begin to shift to more healthy and resilient areas when we no longer hold on to the events of the past or treat ourselves with more kindness and compassion.

Validate your feelings instead of judging yourself to train your brain towards healthier and resilient areas, as mindfulness wires in the brain shift.

Breathing and Grounding

In this guided meditation, embark on a journey to reset your adrenal health and restore your inner balance. Begin by finding a comfortable position, allowing your body to relax and your mind to quiet. As you breathe deeply, visualize healing light rejuvenating your adrenals, releasing tension and stress. Embrace a sense of calm and renewal with each inhale and exhale. Let go of fatigue and overwhelm, replacing it with vitality and peace. This meditation will help you cultivate resilience, empowering you to navigate life's challenges with renewed energy and clarity. Perfect for anyone seeking restoration and harmony.

Reset your adrenal health and restore inner balance with guided meditation, visualizing healing light to release tension and stress, cultivating resilience and harmony.

Resetting Adrenal Fatigue

Fear we all deal with it in our lives. How to deal with it? First of all the 3 minute version is a small piece of the longer meditation to get all benefits use the longer version. Calm your mind and body feel one again. Feel the relaxation inside and learn how to controle your body and mind with this beautiful calm and save feeling inside. And you can realize the power of your thoughts the power of feelings and words...you notice you can controle them. By focussing inside instead of outside. The more you practice on your inside the better you feel! Give it time and practice and believe most of all in your own strength! Enjoy!

Learn to deal with fear by calming your mind and body through meditation; use longer version for maximum benefits and focus on controlling thoughts and feelings.

Fear How to Dissolve It

Feeling peaceful and capable can be elusive, especially with those negative thoughts we have and stressful situations we encounter. Life gets tedious and edgy. We feel overwhelmed. This session shows you how to be peaceful inside so you can handle anything that comes up. Yes - anything. You’ve got this!

Learn how to find inner peace and handle any situation with confidence in this session.

Guided Visualization For Complete Peace

You didn’t sleep well, but you’re still here, and that matters. This gentle morning meditation helps calm the nervous system and release the pressure to “perform” when you’re running on empty. With steady breath and compassionate awareness, you’ll create space for presence, even in fatigue. Start your day with softness, not struggle.

This morning meditation calms the nervous system, releases pressure to perform, and creates space for presence, especially when fatigued.

Didn’t Sleep Well And Now It's Morning

Awaken each morning with peace, purpose, and positivity. Empower yourself, boost your confidence, and cultivate a resilient mindset to gracefully navigate your daily challenges. Follow me on AURA for the latest updates and new inspiring meditations. Thank you so much for your support!

Start each day positively with AURA for meditations and motivation to conquer daily challenges and boost confidence.

Morning: Embracing A Radiant New Day

Start your day by shifting into a place of acceptance, gratitude, curiosity, and compassion with these morning affirmations.

Morning affirmations help shift your mindset to acceptance, gratitude, curiosity, and compassion, setting a positive tone for the day.

Morning Affirmations

***** Step into the Day with Renewed Strength and Clarity ***** Every sunrise brings a new opportunity, a fresh beginning. "My New Mindset" is a transformative morning meditation designed to help you release old doubts, embrace confidence, and cultivate a powerful, resilient mindset. Feel the weight of yesterday dissolve as you awaken to a new way of thinking—one rooted in strength, purpose, and limitless possibility. You are not just waking up; you are stepping into a new version of yourself. Start the new day with clarity, courage, and the belief that you are ready for everything life has to offer.

Start each day with "My New Mindset" morning meditation to release doubts, embrace confidence, and cultivate a powerful, resilient mindset.

Your New Mindset Has Arrived | Morning

This meditation can be a powerful tool to help you release negativity, stay grounded, and shield yourself from any draining energies. Regular practice can enhance your well-being and resilience in the face of life's challenges.

Regular meditation practice enhances well-being & resilience by helping release negativity, stay grounded, & shield from draining energies.

Clear & Protect Your Energy

Need a warm, peaceful start to your day? Begin slowly with these reminders and affirmations of the foundational peace within you. Sending you all the love today!

Start your day with reminders and affirmations of the peace within you for a warm and peaceful beginning.

I Hold Clear Skies - Morning Affirms

Mindful meditation helps you to be in the present moment. We spend so much of our lives focused on the next thing we think we need to accomplish or judging something from our past. This meditation will help you focus on being fully present without judgment or criticism. But with acceptance.

Mindful meditation helps you be present by focusing without judgment or criticism, promoting acceptance.

This meditation will help you walk through letting go of resistance and negativity and replace it with positivity, love, and acceptance. You will feel lighter and open to all that the universe has to offer you.

Meditation for letting go of resistance and negativity, replacing it with positivity, love, and acceptance, leading to feeling lighter and open to the universe.

Flushing Out The Negativity

This short meditation pairs a relaxed breathing pattern with a powerful affirmation to remind you that you are already whole. Just as you are.

Meditation with breathing pattern and affirmation to remind you of wholeness.

I Am Already Whole

Sometimes, when you find yourself in a heightened state, it can be difficult for your mind to settle. This short meditation helps you to meet yourself with compassion and patience. It encourages you to remember “this will pass.”

A short meditation to meet yourself with compassion and patience during a heightened state, reminding you that "this will pass."

This Will Pass

Use this meditation daily to start your day with gratitude, self-love, and acceptance. To learn more about Tina and deep-level self-care, head over to https://www.tinastinson.com

Start your day with gratitude, self-love, and acceptance using daily meditation. Learn more about deep-level self-care from Tina at https://www.tinastinson.com.

Good Morning Meditation

How you think about yourself, the people around you, and the world depends on the "flavor of the day " in your mind. Learn how to easily change the negative narratives your mind keeps telling you to take control over how you feel and how you show up in the world.

Control negative thoughts and perceptions by changing your mind's "flavor of the day" to improve how you feel about yourself and interact with others.

How To Overcome Your Inner Critic

We`re going to dive into doing some shadow work in this session today. For some of you, this may be a little daunting, but I can assure you that this is a necessary process when trying to live your best life! Enjoy~

Learn the process of shadow work to live your best life in this session, although it may seem daunting.

Don`t Fool Yourself!!

Use this visualization practice to let go of resistance and struggling in life. Instead of protecting, allow yourself to trust the natural flow of the Universe. Allow yourself to trust your Self.

Visualize to release resistance & struggle in life, trust natural flow of Universe & self instead of protecting.

Flow with the Universe - Not Against It

Immerse yourself in a transformative practice that combines mindfulness techniques and focused intention to cultivate clarity, resilience, and inner strength. Set the tone for a day filled with inspired action, mindful choices, and a deep sense of presence that will propel you toward your goals and dreams.

Cultivate clarity, resilience, and inner strength through a transformative mindfulness practice to propel you towards your goals and dreams.

Morning Mindfulness

Start your day with a simple meditation to calm your mind and body. Use this meditation to deal with the morning anxiety rush and slow things down. Find a moment for gratitude and use deep soothing breaths to prepare you for the day ahead.

Begin each day with a calming meditation to ease morning anxiety, incorporating gratitude and deep breaths for a peaceful start to your day.

Simple Morning Meditation

Each day we begin with an idea of how we think our day will go and have a choice of setting the intention for it do be a good day or difficult. In this meditation you put yourself in the driver's seat to set the intention for a great day, not matter what's ahead of you. You get to decide.

Meditation empowers you to set the intention for a great day ahead, regardless of the obstacles, by putting you in the driver's seat.

Setting The Intention For a Great Day

It's easy to get off track and only focus on the parts you don't like about yourself. It's time to get back on track and reacquainted with the parts you do love. This is the power of owning YOUR worthiness.

Focus on the parts you love about yourself, own your worthiness, and get back on track.

Own Your Worthiness

We often get distracted by life challenges and sometimes we allow those distractions to take us away from our intentions. This session is about overcoming the crows in your life experience so that you can rise and reach new heights! Cheers!

Overcome life challenges and distractions to rise and reach new heights in this session.

Fly Like An Eagle Into the Future!!

7 minutes that will help you get back into your body, release stress, let go and help prevent burnout to help you find more balance and calm in your day. No matter what is happening around you in your home, at work, or even in the world, notice you will become more stable and peaceful every day. As you listen to this every day you find yourself dropping into deeper peace and serenity.

Listen for 7 minutes daily to release stress, prevent burnout, and find balance and calm in your day, becoming more stable and peaceful every day.

Your 7 Minutes of Peace

Today’s morning meditation will help you let go of what you can’t control.

Morning meditation helps release control.

Let Go Of What You Can't Control

Join Lou in this talk as he explores the seemingly conflicting concepts that can lead to a more fulfilling and balanced life. This talk will explain how the proper amount of stress can help us grow and that comfort after stress creates fulfillment. Lou will also give you some tips and suggestions on how to apply these paradoxes in everyday life.

Lou discusses how the right amount of stress leads to growth and comfort after stress brings fulfillment. Tips on applying these ideas in daily life are shared.

6 Paradoxes To Live By

Let's quieten your mind. This is a simple practice and incredibly effective for dealing with anxiety, stress or overthinking.

Quieting your mind through simple practice is highly effective for dealing with stress, overthinking, and anxiety.

Relief from a Busy Mind

Do you ever feel stressed before you’ve even set your feet on the floor in the morning? Are your thoughts racing the minute you wake up? Do you feel behind before you begin and still need to clean up yesterday's mess? Operating this way is the perfect recipe for overwhelm. It is living a life fueled by the limited, unsustainable energy of stress. Not to mention the energy you spend stressing about the mess. So what do we do about it? This track will help you intercept those negative thoughts with ones that better serve you to set you up for a successful day.

Start your day with positive thoughts to avoid stress and overwhelm with this helpful track.

Overcoming Overwhelm, Worry & Stress

In positive psychology research, gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps you to feel positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve health, deal with adversity and build strong relationships. Let’s get in the the zone of gratitude :)

Gratitude leads to greater happiness, positive emotions, improved health, and better relationships. Let's practice gratitude.

Gratitude Meditation

Starting your day off with words of self-compassion & self-acceptance can have a profoundly positive impact on the whole rest of the day. Get the resilience you need - the resilience you deserve - to manifest a great day!! Let these words of positive affirmation carry you throughout your day!

Starting your day with self-compassion can have a positive impact on the rest of your day. Use positive affirmations to manifest a great day.

I Am Enough (Morning Affirmation)

In this story, we follow a young lady who has lost her hope. Her self-doubt is in control of her journey so she embarks on a quest to overcome the self-doubt that plagues her mind. Embark on a wonderful, inspiring adventure.

A young woman battles self-doubt and embarks on a quest to overcome it, leading to a wonderful and inspiring adventure.

Choosing Hope

We all go through stuff and deal with trauma. It’s painful. It’s not easy to just “get over it.” It sparks and ignites a period of frustration, depression, guilt, shame, and/or pain. But, in time, you will heal and overcome. Trust the process. Dear healing one, this one is for you.

Overcoming trauma is a painful process, but healing is possible with time and trust in the process.

Affirmations for the Healing Soul

Let go of rumination and reactivity, in this meditation with breath, thoughts, and emotions. We'll soften and soothe tension in the body and mind, finding breathing space and balance again. Helpful for when we're depressed, angry, anxious, or stuck in unhelpful patterns of thinking.

Meditation helps release rumination and reactivity by soothing tension, restoring balance, and creating space for breathing, thoughts, and emotions.

Reducing Rumination And Reactivity

Starting the day with self-compassion and acceptance can positively impact the rest of the day, providing the necessary resilience for a great day.

I Am Good (Morning Affirmation)

You deserve these gentle spiritual affirmations. They have been designed to give you a sense of acceptance and expansion. These are for you to listen to, and ideally, for you to relax into. Allow yourself to absorb them. We start with a simple introduction on how to gently unblock any affirmations if the mind tends to dispute them. All in the service of you gently coming back to yourself, with a sense of ease and well-being.

Embrace soothing spiritual affirmations for acceptance and expansion, guiding you to relax and reconnect with yourself effortlessly.

Uplifting Meditation: Acceptance Of Me

This brief meditation invites the listener to do an emotional check-in; to take a moment, pause, and check in on the emotional state. It is so easy to get caught up in our day and forget that we are a feeling and emotional being, that needs acceptance and compassion.

Meditation prompts emotional check-in, reminding us to take a moment to acknowledge feelings and practice self-compassion.

Emotions Check-In

How do you begin your day? Are you rolling out of bed and facing a day of challenges? Why not use this beautiful uplifting poetic meditation every day, to allow you to start a day with love, gratitude, and peace? Note, that this is an uplifting meditation, if powerful music is not for you, then neither is this offering. Enjoy the journey :)

Start your day with love, gratitude, and peace by using an uplifting poetic meditation.

My Day Begins

Whatever has happened before this moment has passed. Take this moment now to refresh. Using intention, focused breathing, and gentle guidance, return to a place of peace and presence. Great for the end of the day to begin to wind down or for any moments of being off-balance or triggered by others, anger, overwhelming sadness.

Refresh in the present moment using intention, guided breathing, and peaceful focus; ideal for winding down or overcoming negative emotions.

Refresh And Start A New Moment

We can use our own voice to reassure ourselves with phrases like 'I'm at home at this moment' - in fact, every moment is our home but it doesn't always feel like it! try this and see what a difference it makes.

Reassure yourself by saying "I'm at home at this moment" as it can make a difference in feeling comfortable and safe.

Resilience