This morning meditation can help you to notice how you are doing and bring kindness to what you find. You are invited to ask the question "What do I need" for the day ahead.

Morning meditation fosters self-awareness and compassion, prompting you to ask "What do I need?" for the day ahead.

Waking Up With Kindly Awareness

We are very good at showing others kindness. Here is a short practice that can help us get into the habit of showing kindness to ourselves and rewriting our sometimes self-critical script.

Practice showing kindness to yourself by rewriting your self-critical script and forming a habit of self-compassion.

A Kind Gesture for Yourself

The breath can be a source of great comfort and a way of self-soothing. Here in this brief meditation, we tap this potential and tune in to what can make the breath comforting.

Discover the power of the breath for self-soothing and comfort in this brief meditation session.

Connecting with a Soothing Breath

We can often get caught up in worrying thoughts, which increases anxiety. Displacing our attention by tapping into the innate calming quality of the breath can help us develop a self-soothing habit. Over time, this habit enables us to automatically turn attention toward these calming qualities, both in our everyday lives and when we most need it.

Calm anxiety by shifting focus to breath, developing soothing habit to naturally turn attention to calming qualities.

Calm Anxiety With This Breath Meditation

We can bring kindness and gratitude to the body while we rest.

Infuse body with kindness and gratitude during rest for ultimate rejuvenation and relaxation.

Kindness For The Body in Deep Rest

We can gently counter self-criticism by directing kindness to ourselves in meditation. We are not trying to feel anything in particular or forcing kindness, but gently countering some of the more critical voices we may have given attention to in our lives through no fault of our own. This is a process, and we may need to revisit this practice repeatedly.

Cultivate self-kindness in meditation to counter self-criticism gently and repeatedly, redirecting attention from critical voices.

Directing Kindness to Yourself

We can be pulled around by our urges and wants, and at the same time give ourselves a hard time for doing so. Perhaps there is a deeper need below some of these urges that we are not aware of, such as the desire for connection and love, peace, and calm. This gentle practice will help to explore this connection.

Exploring deeper needs while acknowledging the pull of urges and desires through a gentle practice.

Relating Compassionately to Desire

There may be times when stopping and taking the time to do a short practice right amid things can be helpful. It might even give us the chance to ask a really important question: What do I really need right now?

Pause for a moment to do a short practice amidst chaos to ask: What do I really need right now?

Breathing Space For When Times Are Hard

In this meditation, we explore revisiting happy experiences through the senses. Doing this is a simple and accessible way of realigning our mood and cultivating gratitude for small moments that have brought us joy.

Revisit happy memories through senses to boost mood and inspire gratitude for joyful moments in meditation.

Exploring Happiness Through The Senses

In this practice, we gently reflect on experiences from the past that have been challenging and what we have learned from them. This practice can help us come to terms with difficulties in the past and appreciate any strength that has come from these experiences.

Reflect on past challenges to find growth and strength, coming to terms with difficulties and learning from them.

Silver Lining Meditation Practice

We can use the power of our imagination to create a 'Safe Place'. Somewhere, we can use our imagination to furnish, and somewhere we can return to where we feel a sense of safety and belonging.

Utilize imagination to create a safe haven for feelings of security and belonging.

A Safe Place Meditation

In this gentle practice that is part of compassion training, we explore what it is like to imagine we embody the qualities of compassion both to ourselves and others.

Practice embodying compassion towards oneself and others in this gentle exercise as part of compassion training.

Embodying Compassion

Drift off to sleep with Mini the Elf as she sleeps by the river.

Fall asleep with Mini the Elf by the riverside.

Bedtime Story-Mini the Elf

This charming story by AA Milne is a gentle tale of Pooh's visit to Rabbit's house.

AA Milne's charming tale follows Pooh as he visits Rabbit's house in this heartwarming story.

Winnie The Pooh Goes Visiting

Here is a lovely and lesser-known story by Beatrix Potter read in a soothing voice to ease you into sleep.

Beatrix Potter's lesser-known story, read in a soothing voice, is perfect for bedtime relaxation.

The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan

This is a timeless and heartwarming story by Oscar Wilde. In it, a selfish giant's heart melts as he watches children playing in his garden.

Selfish giant learns compassion by watching children play in his garden in Oscar Wilde's heartwarming tale.

The Selfish Giant

Another charming story from the Winnie the Poo, to ease you into gentle sleep. This story appeals to all ages with its gentle humour and timeless themes.

Charming bedtime story from Winnie the Pooh, perfect for all ages with gentle humor and timeless themes.

Eeyore has a Birthday

Another lovely tale from the Winnie the Poo series. Allow yourself to fall asleep to this whimsical and gently humorous story.

Sweet dreams with Winnie the Pooh in this whimsical and humorous bedtime story.

Piglet Meets a Heffalump

In this sweet story Poo and Piglet wander about in the snow.

Poo and Piglet explore snow in a heartwarming tale.

Winnie The Poo and Piglet go Hunting

This is a chapter from the bedtime story, "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne. This charming track is timeless and funny, perfect for easing you into gentle sleep.

Endearing chapter from "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne, a timeless and funny bedtime story to help you drift off to sleep.

A Charming Winnie the Pooh Bedtime Story

Nicky Mouat

Mindfulness and Compassion Coach (RN)

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