Right now in a world torn by differing beliefs; beliefs that have been taught to us by those who also did not have all of the right information; those who may have been living in fear, unknowing of what it truly means to live with your heart open and to be of kindness first and foremost unto yourself. Because when we learn how to treat ourselves kindly, that instill within us the examples of love and compassion; of teaching ourselves and our children how to live as our inherent goodness and to always do the right thing. Then we become a home, a community, a nation, and a planet in which amongst our differences we share the commodity of loving grace; of treating each other with dignity, respect, kindness.

Learning to be kind to ourselves teaches us to live with love and compassion, creating a world where we treat each other with dignity and respect.

Kindness As Love+Tribute to George Floyd

Offer yourself compassion, Offer yourself kindness.

I Am Kind And Compassionate

This gorgeous guided practice draws us into the intimate space of the heart as we create a ritual together for self-compassion, self-kindness, self-forgiveness, and self-soothing. A beautiful way to settle, soothe, and nourish an anguished or churned-up heart in times of difficulty or struggle.

Guided practice for self-compassion, kindness, forgiveness, and soothing the heart in times of difficulty or struggle.

Nourishing Self Compassion

This meditation is very helpful when you feel fearful or overwhelmed, and can ease anxiety, stress, pain, or illness. Loving-kindness is a benevolent, compassionate, and unconditional type of love that is healing and essential for yourself.

A healing meditation practice for fear, overwhelm, anxiety, stress, pain, and illness, promoting loving-kindness and self-care.

Loving Kindness Meditation

"Forgiveness for Your Freedom Meditation" lifts the weight of old hurts so you can breathe easier right now. In this gentle session, Steven Webb guides you to notice lingering pain, soften it with steady breaths, and repeat compassion-based phrases that invite release. As tension unwinds, you feel anger and sadness melt into calm understanding, allowing space for kindness toward yourself and others. Close the practice, grounded and clear, ready to step back into life with a lighter heart and a fresh sense of inner freedom.

"Release old hurts and find inner peace with Steven Webb's forgiveness meditation, breathing in compassion and exhaling tension for a lighter heart."

Forgiveness For Your Freedom Meditation

This audio will help you connect more with people as it encourages forgiveness and self-acceptance. Listen to this audio at least once a week to clear your mind of resentments towards others and yourself.

Audio promotes forgiveness and self-acceptance for better connections, listen weekly to clear resentments.

Loving & Kindness Mindfulness Audio

Nighttime practice to release past hurt and open your heart to a new partnership. Promotes emotional release, self-compassion, clearer relationship intentions, and restful sleep. Uses gentle breathwork, heart-centered visualization, loving-kindness phrases, and a soft body scan to calm the nervous system and invite readiness for love.

Heal heartache with gentle nighttime practice for emotional release and readiness for new love.

Forgive To Attract The Love Of Your Life

Each week I tailor a new mindfulness session by incorporating ten affirmations to different parts of our lives. What we tell ourselves creates the life we live. This week's concept focuses on healing the body and promoting great health. Practice kindness and self-care by repeating positive statements that will allow healing and great health to come into our lives.

Weekly mindfulness session using 10 affirmations to promote healing and great health through self-care and positive statements.

Affirmations: Healing and Great Health

We all need some peace in our lives. This meditation focuses on how to practice loving-kindness to boost peace and tranquility.

Meditation on loving-kindness for peace and tranquility.

Soften the edges of stress and reconnect to your most natural state — love. This practice takes you on a gentle journey: first sending warm wishes to someone dear to you, then offering compassion to a difficult person, turning that kindness inward toward yourself, and finally radiating it outward to all beings. Practiced daily, "Loving-Kindness" can: • Reduce stress and anxious thoughts • Soothe the nervous system for deeper sleep • Increase patience and emotional resilience • Cultivate self-compassion and forgiveness • Strengthen empathy and connection in relationships. Using simple phrases and spacious pauses, you’ll nurture empathy, release lingering tension, and finish feeling lighter, steadier, and more open.

Cultivate love and reduce stress with daily Loving-Kindness practice, fostering compassion, empathy, and self-care for improved well-being.

Heal Your Heart With Loving-Kindness

This is a relaxing piano music composition, full of emotion, kindness, and storytelling. I do hope that this music can ease you down, make you feel relaxed, and allow you to rest. Have a little faith in yourself and those around you. A daily dose of optimism.

Relaxing, emotional piano music to help you feel relaxed and optimistic.

Have A Little Faith - Piano Music

Some Kind Of Feelin'

Sleep meditation, healing your soul music with tender kindness motivated by a feeling of affection.

Sleep meditation featuring soulful music that heals with tenderness, driven by affection.

Loving Kindness

Soft and flowing ambient music to help you restore your balance, and reach a deeply relaxed state. The music flows in waves to ease your mind and bring in subtle energies and positive thoughts. Our body needs kindness and appreciation.

Relax with soft, flowing ambient music that eases your mind and brings in positive thoughts to restore balance and promote self-appreciation.

Soothing Gifts Of The Balanced Body

Soft and soothing piano music played on a felt instrument with echoes and sonic reflections. The melody is full of storytelling and has a memorable melody to it. I hope this music fills your heart with warmth, brings a smile to your face, and elevates you above the sky. Namaste

Soothing piano music with echoes and memorable melody to fill your heart with warmth and elevate you above the sky.

A Lesson In Kindness - Calm Piano Music

You are here because something within you is ready to grow. To release the old stories and step into something deeper, more true. This sound bath is for letting go of the negative beliefs you've carried about yourself. As you listen, gently bring your attention to the parts of you that you do love. The kindness, the strength, the light that’s always been there. After this session, write down three things you appreciate about yourself. Place the list somewhere visible - your mirror, your desk, your altar. Add to it each week. watch it grow as you grow. You are worthy. you are loved. you are never alone. Take a deep breath. You are now walking the path of self-love and transformation. Be well, Vibe Tribe.

Embrace growth, release old stories, and cultivate self-love with a sound bath, focusing on your strengths and worthiness. Be kind to yourself.

I Love Myself Singing Bowl Music

You Are Loved - a reminder to all of us during hard times. This musical composition starts with several affirmations accompanied by soft piano chords and soothing rain sounds. After 1:15 starts a beautiful instrumental piece that reflects the feeling discussed in the first part. I do hope this music will fill your heart with warmth, kindness, and gratitude. You can also find an instrumental version of this audio on my profile. Simply search for: You Are Loved - Instrumental

"You Are Loved" is a comforting musical composition with affirmations, soft piano chords, and rain sounds, followed by a beautiful instrumental piece.

You Are Loved

This is an energetic healing music that focuses on your throat chakra. Let the energy flow within you to rebalance your 5th chakra and liberate heavy energies. This healing sound will help you release what you are holding up inside, what could have been said, "Yeses" that should have been "Nos", and all that is currently blocking your throat. Enjoy this with kindness to you, Cheers.

Healing music for throat chakra, releasing blockages and balancing energy flow, liberate heavy energies and find inner voice with kindness.

Crystal Harp For Your Throat Chakra

10 Steps for a Better Life - Step 1 - Live just for today. Your past is now your story, nothing more. It has gone forever. Regret is a total waste of your time, see what came to test you as an opportunity to grow, and when you do look back be kind to yourself and focus on cherished memories. But what of the future? Well, 99.9% of anything that you and I have ever worried about has never happened - In fact worry is like praying for things you don't want. This track is part of a 10 step series. Image by Jack Carter @Unsplash.

"Live for today, let go of regrets, and don't worry about the future in 10 steps for a better life."

10 Steps For A Better Life - Step 1

Many of us go through periods where we feel down. Often we try to push ourselves out of this feeling by giving ourselves a hrad time or judging ourselves for not being "happier". In this session you will learn to meet yourself with kindness and support yourself through the inevitable highs and lows of life, rather than beating yourself up.

Learn to be kind to yourself during times of low mood instead of self-criticism in this session.

Feeling Down? Nurture Yourself

Happiness and prosperity have so many facets beyond money...the love and support of a friend, health, comfort, kindness, meaningful work, plenty of food, and peace. What happiness blessings of your own would you add to this? I'd love to hear some of yours in the comments. Let the happiness blessings flow! ~Namaste

Happiness and prosperity are not solely determined by money, but also by love, health, comfort, kindness, meaningful work, food, and peace. Share your own happiness blessings.

A Happiness/Prosperity Blessing for You

With nothing to lose, Leon filled up his motorcycle’s gas tank and set off from his L.A. flat east to New York. The clothes on his back, one tank of gas, a smile on his face: everything else he’d need would have to come through kindness. His goal? Ride across the world. No big deal, right? What he learned on that trip changed the course of his life forever.

Leon set out on a motorcycle journey across the world with just one tank of gas and the kindness of strangers, changing his life forever.

The Kindness Project

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

What we tell ourselves creates the life we live. Allow this short affirmations practice to help us foster more love and self-compassion. Practice kindness and self-care by repeating positive statements before our negative self-talk kicks in. During this practice, 10 affirmations are spoken twice and then repeated.

Practice self-love and kindness by repeating positive affirmations before negative self-talk takes over; 10 affirmations are spoken twice and repeated.

10 Affirmations For Self-Growth

Let's take a moment to bring lovingkindness to ourselves in this short meditation. Compassion for the self will inspire you to be more compassionate with others.

Meditate on lovingkindness for self to inspire compassion towards others.

We never know when an opportunity to be really kind may come up - even at work, we can make a huge difference to someone.

Opportunities for kindness can arise unexpectedly, including at work, where small acts of kindness can have a big impact.

A Taxi Driver's Kindness

**One of the most powerful states to exist in is happiness.** In happiness, you can hold witness of yourself, others, and the world with loving kindness ~ your heart open and receptive, ideas and creativity in flow... In this meditation, discover your sacred path into your natural state of 'authentic' happiness. Experience an easeful shift from how you feel currently ~ into the emotions of happiness and any other emotion of your choice. This is a helpful practice if you have ever struggled with emotions that were unwanted. Sending you lots of happy vibes as you listen! Namaste!

Discover your sacred path to authentic happiness, shifting from unwanted emotions to a state of happiness and openness.

How To Feel Happy - A Guided Meditation

Intentionally breathing in kindness. You especially need kindness right now and you can breathe this in for yourself. Breathing out whatever you don't need right now - intentionally letting go of difficulty.

Breathe in kindness, breathe out difficulty - intentionally letting go.

Breathing Kindess In, Releasing Difficulty Out

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

We are often very hard on ourselves, so today I offer a kindness meditation, one I like to call the Inner Smile. Meditating with the spirit of a smile awakens our natural capacity for unconditional friendliness. It helps to activate the energy of loving kindness and gratitude for ourselves and others.

Practice the Inner Smile, a kindness meditation that awakens natural friendliness and activates loving kindness and gratitude towards ourselves and others.

Inner Smile - A Kindness Meditation

We can cultivate an attitude of kindness towards ourselves with a practice of affectionate breathing, enjoying the soft feeling of the air entering and leaving the body.

Practice affectionate breathing to cultivate self-kindness by enjoying the soft feeling of air entering and leaving the body.

Kind Breathing

When we step into a life of kindness, our world takes on a whole new outlook. We start with being kind to ourselves first. This gives us space to be kind to others and the world in general. The universe is then kind back to us in return.

Kindness starts with being kind to ourselves, which allows us to extend that kindness to others and the world, resulting in kindness being returned to us.

The Keys to 'Kindfulness'

We often don't know what effects our actions have in the world, but so often they do come back to us, often in surprising ways!

Unpredictable consequences of actions can come back to us in surprising ways.

The Chain of Kindness

This practice brings together the anchoring effect of following the breathing with the beautiful practice of wishing well for yourself and another.

Breathing and wishing well practice combines anchoring effect with kindness towards oneself and others.

Breathing in Kindness for Me and Out for You

Listen to this heart warming story of how kindness comes back to you - what comes around really is what goes around and you can make such a difference to someone with a small act of kindness.

Kindness comes back to you; small acts can make a huge difference. Listen to this heartwarming story of the ripple effect of kindness.

A Glass of Milk

Listen to this short story about the kindness of the scarecrow to animals and birds in the cold winter, and allow yourself to drift off to sleep, perhaps imagining yourself cuddling up warm as well!

A kind scarecrow helps animals and birds in the winter in a short bedtime story to drift off to sleep.

The Scarecrow and the Snowman

Kindness for the Body

This is a story about kindness; and understanding that how we treat ourselves is how we treat others.

"Story of realizing that treating ourselves well is the key to treating others with kindness."

The Wise Snail

By visualising and imagining our hearts like the sun, warm and bright, we can help our hearts to become warmer and brighter and full of joy and kindness.

Visualize your heart as the sun to make it warmer and brighter, spreading joy and kindness.

Heart Like the Sun

Everybody has capacity to be kind. Let’s get in touch with our kind nature and begin from there.

Tap into your innate kindness and start from there.

Taste of Kindness

Bring acceptance and kindness to oneself with this meditation. Why is it so challenging to love and accept ourselves? This is a common issue that people present to me during healing sessions. Most of us are continually striving, trying to prove we are OK, causing us to not fully enjoy our lives. We can be our own worst critics, which causes great suffering. We rarely feel we are good enough just as we are. This does not mean we stop growing and healing, but it does mean accepting who we are in this moment with kindness.

Meditation helps bring self-acceptance and kindness, overcoming challenges of constantly striving to prove ourselves and being our own worst critics.

How to Love and Accept Yourself

A bedtime fable, reminding us of the importance of kindness and care, bestowed unto others as lasting permanence of what really matters. Narrated by Dorothy Ratusny. (Originally Named 'The Present' - a story in the public domain). Sleep softly, beautiful ones! Namaste! xo

A bedtime fable on kindness, care and what really matters, narrated by Dorothy Ratusny. Sleep softly, beautiful ones! Namaste! xo

The Best Gift Ever

Are you hard on yourself? Do you beat yourself up when things go as planned or expected? Self-compassion meditation can help reduce the pain and suffering we inflict on ourselves and become less judgmental and loving and caring instead. Kindness starts with oneself.

Self-compassion meditation reduces self-inflicted pain, judgment, and encourages a kinder, more caring approach towards oneself.

Being Nice to Yourself

By practising kindness or well-wishing in meditation, we cultivate these qualities in our hearts and minds. Like gardening, it doesn't come immediately but it's well worth the wait. Well wishing or kindness practices also help to calm us down, particularly if we're feeling grumpy and annoyed with other people.

Meditating with kindness and well-wishing cultivates these traits in our hearts and minds, helping to calm us down even when we're feeling grumpy.

Well-Wishing for Ourselves and Others

Feeling a bit lonely, worried or off-balance? This practice helps us evoke feelings of connection, kindness and self-appreciation.

Practice evokes feelings of connection and self-appreciation to combat loneliness and worry.

Kind Friend

Listen to this lovely story where the woodland folk repay the young princess for her kindness to them.

Woodland folk repay young princess for her kindness in a heartwarming story.

Magic Brushes

Often we find it easier to give kindness to others than to ourselves. This practice helps us appreciate this quality, our kindness.

Practicing kindness towards others helps us appreciate and extend kindness towards ourselves.

Being Kind

Whenever there is an occasion for worry or self-doubt we can feel immobilized, afraid of our steps forward - that they may be wrong or undeserving. Experience this meditation to help you align your heart with truth; to release and shed worry and self-doubt, and to be present and focused on the deliberate actions that wield confidence, kindness, and your highest potential for good. Thank you so much for listening everyone! Namaste Dorothy

Meditation to release worry and self-doubt and align with confidence, kindness, and your potential for good.

Release Doubt: A Spoken Word Meditation

Sending loving kindness to yourself and others can be a nurturing practice that brings ease into your day. Give it a try.

Practice sending loving kindness to yourself and others for a more nurturing and easy day.

A deeply relaxing, comforting practice to help you feel supported, nurtured, and at peace within yourself. If you are feeling anxious or can't sleep, this meditation will help to release stress and soothe your body and mind. It combines mindfulness, breath awareness, guided imagery, loving-kindness, and self-compassion.

Relaxing meditation practice combining mindfulness, breath awareness, guided imagery, loving-kindness, and self-compassion to release stress and soothe the mind and body.

Nurturing, Loving Kindness Meditation

Even as this episode of Life Coaching WISDOM is released months into this global pandemic of 2020, the messages that I share are omnipresent and incredibly important for when you listen; because now is the future. A-HA MOMENTS: For however you have been living your life up until this moment, you must realize that you have been choosing your future. PRACTICAL WISDOM: What I want to emphasize and inspire at this time and in this brave new world that we are all being “rebirthed” into; is the absolute need for greater conscious choice; to wield the freedom that you hold, to choose what you deeply desire; and to live fearless of this; because you now understand that you are able to have everything that you have always wanted. TRUTH SERUM: What you have been wanting and waiting for is before you now. Now is the time to take new action. This time is unprecedented in our lives; and with it is the possibility for change; and new beginnings of consciousness and loving-kindness for all living beings. Now is the time to set in motion what you have been wanting for so long. Now is your time. It is the time for all of us to mobilize into action what is most wanted, and to step forth into this brave new world that we are living. The Future is Here. It is Now. Namaste love dorothy

In this pandemic, choose your future wisely by making conscious choices, living fearlessly, and taking new action for a brave new world.