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

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

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

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

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

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.

Loving Kindness

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

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

**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

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'

Kindness for the Body

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

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

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

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

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

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

Smiling inside is an invitation to observe what happens when we make a small gesture with the mouth and discover if anything responds within the body heart & mind. Can you experience the connection within your mindfulness practice? This short practice also invites kindness through touch and warmth to the body, to support wellness and generosity. A generative practice where words can invite ease with the breath and a quiet internal dialogue. Enjoy your practice and I hope it supports you each day.

A short mindfulness practice that explores the connection between smiling and the body, heart, and mind, while inviting kindness and ease.

Smiling Inside

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Future Is Now

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

Kindness Is Love: Spoken Word Meditation

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

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

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

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

Listen to this beautiful story by Oscar Wilde of an act of spontaneous generosity and kindness that brought wonderful rewards to the giver.

Oscar Wilde's tale of spontaneous generosity and kindness brings wonderful rewards to the giver.

The Model Millionaire

How to be kind and use your resources so others don't take advantage of you

Be kind while preserving resources to prevent exploitation by others.

Silly Snake in Search for Wisdom

Step into a world of enchantment where a sheltered princess longs to glimpse the outside world, a mysterious fairy weaves hidden mischief, and unexpected adventures test the power of kindness and courage. The Princess Mayblossom is a magical fairytale filled with wonder, secrets, and the promise of happily-ever-after.

A sheltered princess seeks adventure with a mysterious fairy, facing tests of kindness and courage in a magical fairytale filled with wonder.

The Princess Mayblossom

Most precious things in life do not have a price. Be kind, be open :)

Priceless things in life are kindness and openness.

Be Kind Even When You Are Impatient

In this fairytale, a young squire's son, yearning for adventure, leaves home and encounters a mysterious figure known as the Man of the Wildwood: a wild, noble man imprisoned in a cage. Feeling sympathy, the youth frees him, an act of kindness that will later be returned.

A squire's son frees a wild man from a cage in the forest, leading to a surprising turn of events in this enchanting fairytale.

The Man of the Wildwood

A gentle fairy tale about wise leadership, compassion, and seeing the lives of others, The Magic Mirror follows a young king who learns to rule with kindness by understanding his people’s daily joys and struggles. This calming, magical story invites listeners into a peaceful kingdom where empathy, humility, and love transform both ruler and realm.

A fairy tale about a young king learning wise leadership through empathy and compassion in a magical kingdom.

The Magic Mirror

A humble gardener’s son embarks on a journey where kindness, courage, and quiet faith open doors no magic alone could unlock. Through gentle wonders, enchanted places, and acts of selfless goodness, this soothing fairytale reminds listeners that every good deed circles back in time, like the calm return of a river to the sea. A tender bedtime story filled with warmth, wonder, and the peaceful rhythm of hope restored.

A gardener's son discovers that kindness, courage, and faith lead to magical adventures in this soothing fairytale of selfless goodness and the power of good deeds.

The Ring That Remembers

A gentle, luminous fairy tale about kindness, compassion, and quiet transformation, Wonderwings follows a small fairy who discovers that true beauty is grown through helping others. This calming, magical story invites listeners into a world of light, service, and hope, where every act of care becomes a shining star.

A gentle fairy tale about kindness and transformation, Wonderwings shows true beauty grows through helping others in a world of light and hope.

Wonderwings

On a quiet New Year’s Day, a small act of kindness in a warm country kitchen gently heals an old family rift and brings unexpected joy. This cozy, heart-soothing sleep story by L. M. Montgomery invites you to rest in the comfort of forgiveness, homecoming, and the promise of a hopeful year ahead

A heartwarming story of forgiveness and joy on New Year's Day in a cozy country kitchen, filled with hope for the year ahead.

Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner

Aunt Cyrilla insists on bringing her big, rustic basket full of homemade treats and gifts to visit family for Christmas, despite her niece Lucy Rose’s embarrassment about its country appearance. When a heavy snowstorm traps them and other passengers on a train, Aunt Cyrilla’s basket becomes a source of comfort and joy, as she shares its contents and spreads kindness among the diverse travelers, including a wounded soldier, a struggling mother, and a shop girl. By the end of the unexpected Christmas journey, Lucy Rose learns to appreciate the basket’s true value as a symbol of generosity and community.

Aunt Cyrilla's rustic basket brings comfort and joy to diverse train passengers during a snowstorm, teaching Lucy Rose the value of generosity.

Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket

Meet little Paulina, whose father had been wrongfully banished to Siberia; the stranger whom she rescued from the forest, and the surprise and happy ending as the two became friends. A little magic, kindness and a 'feel good' story to warm your heart. Merry Christmas!

A heart-warming Christmas story about a girl who befriends a stranger she rescues in the forest, leading to a surprise happy ending.

Paulina's Christmas

Set beside the sea cliffs of a quiet coastal village, Miss Sally’s Company is a heartwarming classic story about loneliness, hospitality, friendship, and the quiet power of kindness. When two young women stop at a tiny seaside cottage for a drink of water, they meet Miss Sally — a sweet, lonely woman who longs for company and connection. What begins as a simple visit soon transforms Golden Gate Cottage into a beloved gathering place filled with laughter, friendship, tea, and warmth. This gentle classic tale is perfect for relaxation, cozy listening, bedtime, stress relief, and anyone who enjoys comforting stories with emotional depth and peaceful seaside imagery.

Miss Sally’s Cottage becomes a warm seaside haven where kindness turns a lonely visit into lasting friendship.

Miss Sally's Company

Journey with Princess Marigold and the kind-hearted Sir Charming through a world of golden rivers, gentle giants, and wise woodland creatures in this reimagined fairytale of courage, compassion, and renewal. Filled with magic, kindness, and soothing imagery, this story invites listeners to unwind, reflect on the power of gentleness, and drift peacefully into dreams where every heart finds its way home.

Princess Marigold and Sir Charming embark on a magical journey of courage and compassion through a fairytale world of kindness and renewal.

The Story of Princess Marigold

Listen in as I read Tilly’s Christmas, a sweet and uplifting story about finding hope and kindness in the simplest moments. As we follow Tilly through her humble Christmas Eve, this gentle tale reminds us that love, generosity, and quiet miracles have a way of showing up right when our hearts need them. Settle in for a cozy, comforting story that brings a soft glow of peace and Christmas warmth.

Join Tilly on her humble Christmas Eve journey filled with love, generosity, and quiet miracles, reminding us of the kindness in simple moments.

Tilly's Christmas by Louisa May Alcott

A curious youth sets out to discover what it means to feel awe and delight rather than fear. His gentle encounters with moonlight, lanterns, enchanted cats, and a shimmering spirit teach him that courage and curiosity open the heart to life’s quiet miracles. This calming sleep story blends magic, kindness, courage, and wonder—a soothing tale to ease the mind into peaceful dreams.

A brave boy learns to embrace awe and delight over fear through gentle encounters with magic, kindness, and wonder in this calming sleep story.

The Dreamer Who Learned to Wonder

Listen in as I read The Old Man and His Grandson, a touching Brothers Grimm story that gently reminds us of the power of compassion and the example we set for others. As we follow a family learning to rediscover empathy for their aging father, this short tale invites us to slow down, reflect, and consider how our actions shape the hearts of those watching. Settle into this thoughtful, comforting story that speaks to dignity, kindness, and the tenderness we all deserve.

A heartwarming Brothers Grimm tale about the power of compassion and setting a positive example for others through empathy and kindness.