Do what you love. Do it with conviction, resolve, and privilege. Hold grace in the idea that your life has meaning. For it is in the throes of what matters most ~ that you follow a path that both inspire your life and nourishes your soul. Find love in what you do each day ~ in the simple wonders unfolding to you. As you live open to connection and kindness, you actively practice living each moment, as if it was made in your perfection of you. WISDOM Notes are a weekly source of guidance and inspiration for the week ahead ~ whenever you listen. Thank you for joining me here! Namaste love Dorothy

Do what you love with conviction and grace, find love in the simple wonders unfolding each day, and live open to connection and kindness with WISDOM Notes.

Do What You Love ~ Wisdom Notes

Do you sometimes struggle to feel confident about yourself? We can practice speaking words of encouragement and kindness to our self - and holding belief in who we are as being more than good enough, capable, intelligent, and any other adjective that describes what is true rather than what we might currently tell our self. In this episode of Life Coaching WISDOM, I offer the strategies for building a more confident version of yourself, and for how to practice loving kindness directed inward. If you would like my help, please reach out to me - let me help. Namaste! MUSIC: Justin Woodward & John Murphy, 'sunshine adagio'

In this Life Coaching WISDOM episode, learn how to build confidence and practice self-love through words of encouragement and kindness.

Building a More Confident You

Strengthen self-confidence and release doubt through rituals that bring you joy and empowerment. Discover what has the most meaning for you and make them a part of your day with kindness, flexibility, and creativity. When you make yourself a priority, you build confidence in your ability to balance life.

Build self-confidence through empowering rituals that bring joy and make yourself a priority.

Strengthen Confidence Through Rituals

Which words do you long to hear? In this meditation, we'll explore our needs and find phrases of loving-kindness, choosing self-talk to soothe us and boost our happiness and confidence.

Meditation for exploring needs and choosing self-talk to boost happiness and confidence with phrases of loving-kindness.

The Words We Long To Hear

Soothe anxiety with this grounding, stabilizing guided meditation. When we are dealing with uncertainty of any kind, it can disturb our sleep patterns, raise our stress levels and make it difficult for us to focus on everyday tasks. Underlying stress, an over-busy mind, and 'catastrophizing' thinking only worsen matters. This meditation combines simple mindfulness practice, breath awareness acceptance, loving-kindness, and affirmations to release stress from the body, calm the mind and reassure the 'self'.

Stabilize and calm anxiety with a guided meditation that combines mindfulness, breath awareness, loving-kindness, and affirmations.

Manage Anxiety

**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

This grounding, centering practice allows you to release any stress or anxiety your body and mind are carrying and give yourself permission to rest in the present moment. It gently helps you draw your energies back from where they lie scattered and places a healing ring of protection around you. Especially useful for boosting focus and productivity. Combining mindfulness, grounding, breath awareness, self-kindness and guided visualization.

A practice to release stress and anxiety, boost focus and productivity, and create a healing ring of protection using grounding and mindfulness techniques.

Centering & Healing Meditation

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

When thoughts of people prevent us from falling asleep, it's easy to become entangled in our emotional reactions, leading to sleeplessness and mental distraction. However, by engaging in a visualization exercise that involves connecting with the person in question and synchronizing our breaths while consciously breathing slowly, we can effectively shift our focus from the mind to the sensations in our body. This process facilitates relaxation and enables us to detach from racing thoughts. Additionally, we have the opportunity to cultivate a sense of kindness and compassion by directing loving phrases toward them. This practice not only promotes a state of calm and serenity but also fosters increased awareness of benevolence and empathy.

Connecting with our breath and visualizing while detaching from racing thoughts can promote relaxation, kindness, and empathy for a better night's sleep.

Exchanging Breath And Well Wishing

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 get stuck in the "fix it" mentality. This guided meditation will allow you to see your problem and only focus on it for what it is seen as. Straying away from trying to physically fix it, or change the situation. We will simply breathe into awareness and loving-kindness for the body to calm stress and anxiety in regards to this particular problem.

Guided meditation to shift away from the "fix it" mentality and instead focus on breathing into awareness and loving-kindness for the body.

Awareness Of Your Problem Without Fixing

This is a powerful visualization of you as a younger self that will help you release negative beliefs and promote self-love.

Visualize your younger self to let go of negative beliefs and enhance self-love.

Loving Kindness - Child Visualization

Karuna Hum is a Sanskrit mantra that can be used as a silent focus of meditation, whispered or chanted aloud. Karuna: A deep compassion and universal love for all beings, which are connected through a shared consciousness. Hum: I am. The mantra can help achieve a deep sense of compassion and connection with others. It reduces or even removes any false sense of separation and defensiveness against others, and cultivates feelings of deep love and kindness.

Karuna Hum is a Sanskrit mantra used for meditation, promoting compassion and connection with others through a shared consciousness, reducing false separation.

Karuna Hum ( I am compassion)

In this track, you're invited to imagine everyone you expect to see today and send them kind thoughts. It can help your interactions with others today go so much more smoothly and pleasantly!

Imagine and send kind thoughts to everyone you'll see today to improve interactions and make your day smoother and more pleasant.

Kindness For People You'll See Today

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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

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

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'

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

Kindness for the Body

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

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 cause 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

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

Mindfulness is present moment awareness without judgement and with great kindness towards ourselves and others. When we dwell in this moment we begin to note that it has no center, no boundaries and this allows us to relax.

Mindfulness is being aware of the present moment without judgement, leading to relaxation through recognizing its lack of boundaries.

Awareness of Being

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.