This is a practice of sitting with uncomfortable emotions, feelings, and sensations with an anchor in the present moment. A practice of showing up for yourself in ALL the emotions, feelings, and sensations, a practice of showing yourself compassion and kindness even amid the muck. A practice of sitting with yourself.

Mindful practice of sitting with uncomfortable emotions, showing self-compassion and kindness in the present moment.

Sit With Yourself

Start the day on a positive note with this gentle morning loving-kindness meditation.

A gentle morning loving-kindness meditation to start the day positively.

Morning Loving-kindness

We could all use a little peace and kindness in our lives. Use this short practice to help connect with a sense of loving-kindness and direct it towards yourself and others.

Practice loving-kindness meditation to cultivate peace and kindness within yourself and extend it to others.

Short Loving Kindness Meditation

This calming morning meditation invites you to begin your day with a sense of lightness, clarity, and openness. Through soft body relaxation, gentle breathwork, and a mindful release of yesterday’s weight, you’ll create space for a fresh start. You’ll choose a single guiding word—such as ease, kindness, or energy—and breathe it into every part of your being, letting it shape the tone of your day. Emerging refreshed and grounded, you’ll carry this gentle focus forward, feeling steady, present, and ready for whatever comes next.

Start your day with a calming morning meditation, setting a positive tone with soft relaxation, breathwork, and a guiding word for a fresh start.

Letting Go - A Gentle Morning Reset

A great way to start any day is in meditation. Let this mindfulness exercise support you to begin your day at Peace & with a calm mind.

Start your day with peace and calm by practicing mindfulness meditation.

You Are Peace & Loving Kindness

A visualization meditation that focuses on self-love and self-compassion. You deserve to feel wonderful, and this meditation will help you achieve exactly that.

Visualize self-love and compassion in a meditation to help you feel wonderful and deserving.

Loving-Kindness Meditation

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 the morning and how we start the day. Practice kindness and self-care by repeating positive statements before our negative self-talk kicks in. Photo by Lindsey K from Pexels

Practice mindfulness by incorporating affirmations into your morning routine to promote kindness and self-care before negative self-talk takes over.

Morning Boost Of Confidence

Mediation is a life skill and we can fall into the trap of being too passive or too active when we sit. It is finding the middle ground with your breathing, awareness, and attitude. We all have busy minds and we will all fall into the trap of thinking we are failing and not trying hard enough. In the mindfulness world, we learn to drop all of this and be with whatever is going on at the time with kindness and acceptance.

Mediation is about finding a balance between being too passive or active, and learning to be present with kindness and acceptance despite our busy minds.

How To Meditate?

Wake Up Within Awareness and Gratitude is a short guided meditation designed to awaken your day with deep appreciation and presence. Breathe in the gift of life, connecting to the beauty of nature, the strength of your body, and the miracle of each moment. As gratitude flows through you, open your heart to the mystery of the day ahead. Ask yourself. What is my mission today? Whether a simple act of kindness or something profound, trust that life will reveal it. Grounded in gratitude and awareness, step into your day with purpose, connection, and an open heart.

Awaken your day with gratitude and awareness through a guided meditation, connecting to the beauty of life and embracing your purpose.

Wake Up Within Awareness & Gratitude

This meditation will help you discover how you can treat yourself with kindness today. You will be gently guided through the process of checking in with your body, mind, and heart. By paying attention to how you are feeling, you can become aware of ways to be kind to yourself throughout the rest of your day. Background music: Meditation Impromptu 03 by Kevin MacLeod.

Meditation for self-kindness: check in with body, mind, and heart. Guided process to be aware of ways to be kind throughout the day. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Magical Morning - Be Kind To Yourself

Close your eyes, and picture the first glimmer of daylight gently stretching across a quiet landscape, painting the horizon in soft peaches and golds. Imagine that tender glow seeping into your heart, thawing any lingering worries with its gentle warmth. Let each breath draw in the comforting scent of morning air, invigorating your spirit with hope and fresh potential. Feel gratitude awaken within you, as though every cell in your body hums in harmony with the dawn. This is your sacred time—an intimate meeting with the day’s first light, where you set an intention for kindness, growth, and calm.

Embrace the tranquil beauty of dawn, setting intentions for kindness, growth, and calm as you bask in the gentle warmth of a new day.

Glorious Day Ahead - Morning Meditation

The most important voice in your life is your own. Using powerful affirmations, this short track invites you to begin to speak to yourself with kindness and helps to improve confidence.

Boost your confidence and self-love with powerful affirmations that encourage you to be kind to yourself. Your voice is the most important one.

I Am Enough

Loving yourself is essential for a fulfilling life. In this simple guided meditation, you are encouraged to stop, breathe, connect and nourish yourself with kindness and loving words. Saying I love you to YOU is practice... let's practice in this meditation.

This guided meditation encourages self-love through breathing, connection, and kind words, emphasizing the importance of saying "I love you" to oneself.

Loving Myself

Short and sweet morning meditation to wake up and start your day in Gratitude for your fantastic heart! Gratitude for something so integral to our being gives us an anchor, brings us into presence, boosts our energy, and kick-starts the day with a positive attitude. This heart is what keeps us going, it is a little brain beating in there. Thank you, glorious Heart. Be kind to yourself & Have a wonderful day, x

Morning gratitude meditation for the heart to boost energy and start the day with a positive attitude.

Wake Up With A Heart Full Of Gratitude

The way you start your day can be the most important and uplifting part of the day. This meditation will help you begin your day with inspiration, positivity, and kindness, by sharing loving and acknowledging words with your inner child + empowering messages for your body temple. This will help set the tone for deep self-love and self-care that will last throughout your day ahead. I invite you to do this meditation daily for 3 weeks and notice the transformational results in your life. ~ Meditation by Prema Gaia ~ To connect with Prema, visit: www.premagaia.com/newsletter

Meditation for starting your day with inspiration, positivity, and self-love to transform your life in 3 weeks.

Morning Meditation For Positive Energy

This practice invites you to focus on yourself and direct kind intentions and wishes. We often focus on others and forget that we are equally worthy of kindness and care.

Focus on yourself with kind intentions and wishes, as you are equally worthy of care and kindness.

Well-Wishing for Yourself

Sometimes we forget that it starts with ME. This meditation is a great way to return to being kind to yourself. Taking a few minutes with self-compassion and kindness is just practice...so let's PRACTICE.

Practice self-compassion with meditation to be kind to yourself.

Kindness Starts With Me

It's so wonderful to start the day feeling love. Let's explore how to connect with love, first thing after we wake up. We'll awaken the love inside through soothing touch, enjoying comfortable sensations, and remembering kindness. There's less desire to chase love outside of ourselves when we remember we ARE Love!

Connect with love through touch, sensation, and kindness upon waking up to awaken the love inside and remember that we are love.

Wake Up With Love

The practice of loving-kindness has been proven to help people to feel more compassionate, loving, and more mindful about themselves and others. This ancient practice will help you to open up your heart for every living being on Earth, including yourself and those with who you might have a difficult relationship with. Start every morning with this practice and see your life transform through compassion and kindness. For an extended/longer version of this meditation please check out Lilla's profile.

Loving-kindness practice improves compassion, mindfulness, & transforms your life through kindness & compassion towards all beings on Earth.

Quick Loving Kindness Morning Meditation

Wake up well! Practice for the morning to start the day with positivity & intention. When we wake up, we are completely fresh, our body, mind & nervous system have restored themselves through the sleep process & we are very receptive in our subconscious as we have just left the lands of dreams &symbols. It is the perfect time to take 5 minutes, think about the day ahead & listen to your heart for the guiding intention that will support you through the day. You will find, with daily practice, your intention arises with more ease & can be so beneficial to the smooth running of your day. Examples of Intentions: I intend to see the goodness in everyone. Or I intend to be kind to myself under pressure. Or I see goodness in everyone. Enjoy.

Start your day with positivity & intention by taking 5 minutes in the morning to think about the day ahead and set a guiding intention.

My Daily Intention Setting Practice

We're so hard on ourselves. True healing takes place when we're able to show up to a given condition honestly and fully, the highs and the lows. It could be called a compassionate space. In this session, create a hospitable space that includes kindness towards yourself. Receive the words of support that you so need right now.

Creating a compassionate space and showing kindness towards oneself is essential for true healing. Receive the support you need in this session.

Compassionate Self-talk

This meditation is wonderful to extend compassion and good feelings outward, but also within. It is said that one who extends compassion, is the one who heals.

Meditation helps extend compassion outward and within, with the belief that the one who extends compassion is the one who heals.

Metta Meditation (Loving And Kindness)

Take a moment out of your busy day to breathe and cultivate kindness. Kindness is so important to help melt away daily stressors and yet it can often be overlooked. Take 3 or 7 minutes out and bathe in kindness. Please note: If you are struggling with your mental health it's really important to seek professional help. These meditations are not a substitute for that but can be used along side therapy to help to support you. For more on Carla-Jo and her work please see www.carlajo-mindfulness.com

Practice kindness and mindfulness with Carla-Jo's meditations, but seek professional help if struggling with mental health.

Breathing Space with Kindness

Start your day grounded in your truth and connected to your unique light. In this gentle morning meditation, you’ll be guided through conscious breath, heart connection, and the remembrance that your presence is a gift to the world. As you awaken your inner radiance, you’ll feel empowered to move through the day with purpose, kindness, and authenticity. Even the most minor acts, your smile, your words, your essence, can create ripples of light. Rise today, and let yourself shine.

Start your day with a morning meditation to connect to your inner light and spread kindness and authenticity to the world, empowering yourself to shine.

Rise and Illuminate the World

This is a simple, 5-minute practice that uses the concept of Loving-Kindness in order to help you to tap into the vast healing and expansive capabilities of intention and love. This is one of the best meditations to shift out of a bad mood.

A 5-minute Loving-Kindness meditation to shift out of a bad mood and tap into the healing and expansive capabilities of intention and love.

Loving-Kindness To Change Perspective

Good morning, beautiful, This week, our theme is kindness. Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. And today, we’re going to practice focusing that kind of energy on ourselves.

Theme for the week is kindness, focusing on being friendly, generous and considerate to ourselves.

Be Kind to Yourself This Morning

Have you felt recently that you are not enough? This guided meditation will give you the motivation and support to get you through the toughest days ahead. With love and kindness, helping you to see how truly powerful and beautiful you are.

Guided meditation to boost self-confidence, motivation and support to help you recognize your power and beauty during tough times.

You Have The Power Within You

We can be so hard on ourselves, however meditation can help remind us to be kind and understanding. Each breath is an opportunity to begin again, start fresh. This meditation helps remind us of this.

Meditation can remind us to be kind and start fresh with every breath, helping us to be more understanding of ourselves.

Begin Again

You can never be too kind, to yourself and others, though we often forget kindness for ourselves. With a practice like this one, you start to cultivate that within yourself, and life starts to feel easier and warmer.

Kindness towards self and others makes life easier and warmer. Cultivate kindness with a simple practice.

3- Min May I Be Kind To Myself

It is easy to conflict with our minds and thoughts, particularly thoughts that promote anxiety and stress. This meditation invites the listener to adopt a loving, compassionate attitude toward the mind, bringing a sense of peace and acceptance of what is.

Meditation encourages self-compassion and peace by overcoming negative thoughts that cause stress and anxiety.

Loving Kindness For An Anxious Mind

Start your day grounded in love with this gentle 3-minute meditation inspired by Rumi’s timeless words: “What you seek is seeking you.” This practice invites you to release tension, open to gratitude, and trust in the natural law of return. That the love, kindness, and energy you offer to the world will always find its way back to you. Breathe into the beauty of new beginnings and awaken with confidence, grace, and interconnectedness. Let this be a sacred pause to align with your heart and step into your day with clarity and warmth.

Ground yourself in love with a 3-minute Rumi-inspired meditation, releasing tension and opening to gratitude, trusting in the law of return.

Awakening Into Love

This session will help you discover how you are feeling and give you a safe strategy for being with those feelings. It will give you space to be, just be, as you are. You will get beneath the thinking and storylines to be in your body and process emotions.

Discover your emotions and learn a safe strategy for dealing with them in a session that helps you process emotions in your body, not just your mind.

Peaceful, Safe, Kind and Accepting

A short mindfulness practice of wishing loving-kindness for one's self and others.

Mindfulness practice of loving-kindness for self and others.

Loving Kindness for Self and Others

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

"In the smallest acts of kindness we give and receive love." In this simple reminder of 'mindful kindness' we give our attention to the present moment, to our breath, and to what we become aware of - in the 'here and now'. We are reminded of the power of deliberate kindness directed unto our self and to others - and how we can deliberately curate kindness. I hope that this meditation is uplifting for you and a great reminder of what is possible with intention and kindness. Namaste! xo

Mindful kindness reminds us of the power of deliberate kindness towards ourselves and others, curating kindness and love in the present moment.

Mindful Kindness

Sitting in this meditation helps us befriend the mind and body, promoting relaxation. As we sit in stillness, we cultivate a closer relationship with our thoughts and emotions, observing them without judgment. By connecting with our bodies, we become more attuned to physical sensations and tensions, allowing us to release stress and achieve a state of calmness. The practice of meditation enables us to be present, fully embracing the moment and fostering a sense of inner peace and a sense of kindness. Through regular practice, we develop the skill of relaxation, empowering us to cope better with life's challenges and enhancing overall well-being.

Meditation promotes relaxation, cultivates a closer relationship with thoughts and emotions, releases stress, and fosters inner peace.

Befriending, Getting Closer To Ourself

We often turn away from our own struggles. This meditation is an invitation to listen in to what you truly feel and to respond with kindness. This practice gives us a new way to respond to whatever it is that we are feeling in this moment - sadness, loneliness, anxiety, or shame.

Meditation invites us to listen to our feelings and respond with kindness, offering a new way to address struggles such as sadness, loneliness, anxiety, and shame.

Meeting Your Needs with Kindness

Cultivate kindness towards yourself and others to make life easier and warmer; forgetfulness of self-kindness can be remedied by practicing it.

7-minute May I be Kind to Myself

This is a short meditation to help shift any toxic energy back to a positive sensation through loving-kindness. Anytime that you are feeling sad, stressed, or anxious come back to the power of the heart, as it is the seat of unconditional love and tranquility.

A short meditation uses loving-kindness to transform toxic energy into positivity, emphasizing the heart's power as a source of unconditional love and tranquility.

Heart Meditation

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 creating an abundance mindset. Practice kindness and self-care by repeating positive statements that will allow abundance to come into our lives.

Weekly mindfulness session with ten affirmations to create abundance mindset through positive statements for kindness and self-care.

Weekly Affirmations: Abundance

Welcome to this Loving-Kindness Morning Meditation. Find a comfortable position and take a deep, calming breath. Envision a warm light glowing within your heart, filling you with compassion and love. Silently repeat loving-kindness phrases for yourself, then extend these feelings to others, spreading warmth and support. Conclude with a deep sense of interconnectedness, carrying this loving-kindness with you throughout the day, guiding you with warmth and compassion. #LovingKindness #MorningMeditation #Compassion #InnerPeace #MindfulLiving

Morning Meditation: Embrace loving-kindness, feel warm light in heart, spread compassion to self and others, carry interconnectedness throughout day.

Loving-Kindness Morning Meditation

In moments of challenges and difficulty, offerings of self-compassion and self-kindness can build our resilience so we can be grounded in strength and awareness to face what comes our way. This self-compassion break evokes self-kindness and caring, combined with mindfulness and a sense of belonging to build your resources. This meditation is part of the Mindful Self-Compassion program developed by Kristen Neff and Chris Germer.

Offering self-compassion can build resilience and mindfulness, as part of the Mindful Self-Compassion program.

Self-Compassion Break

Loving-Kindness Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash

Loving-Kindness

Your relationship with yourself is the longest relationship that you will have with anyone in life - it is important to love and appreciate yourself for the unique and beautiful human being that you are. Although a loving-kindness meditation usually involves sending loving thoughts to others as well as ourselves, in this meditation, we will focus only on nurturing feelings of love and appreciation for yourself. Background music: Planet Earth by Ajit Pramod Deshpande. Licensed by Sounds Of Nidra.

Love and appreciate yourself with a self-loving meditation, focusing on nurturing feelings for yourself alone. Use the Planet Earth background music.

Loving-kindness meditation for self-love

In this track, you will practice some slow inhales and exhales and allow yourself to rest in the rhythm of your breath. You will also use mindfulness to tune into your emotions, body, and sensations with kindness.

This track helps you relax and focus on your breath while being mindful of your emotions, body, and sensations.

Create A Mindful Space Within

When we practice loving kindness meditations, we start to cultivate a more loving and accepting relationship with ourselves. This meditation practice helps you to develop self-compassion.

Loving kindness meditation cultivates self-compassion by promoting a more loving and accepting relationship with oneself.

Cultivating Loving Kindness

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

Loving-Kindness towards yourself and others. Cultivate compassion and love.

Practice self-love and extend compassion towards others, fostering a culture of kindness and love.

Be The Love & Light In The World

In meditation, we can acknowledge our need for forgiving ourselves, for acknowledging our 'humanness', and for releasing thoughts we hold that continue to cause our suffering. Let me guide you through a simple yet powerful means of 'self-forgiveness in this beautiful meditation. Let forgiveness be the way in which you honor yourself with love, compassion, patience, and kindness. In this meditation using visualization, experience the freedom that comes with love directed inward, of the generosity of spirit - in forgiveness. xo Dorothy

Find peace and freedom in self-forgiveness through a simple yet powerful meditation using visualization, guided by Dorothy.

Self-Forgiveness

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.

Kindness: Meditations