This brief session offers a glimpse into the profound gift of forgiveness. My hope is that it serves as a gentle reminder that forgiveness is not only an act of strength but also an act of self-kindness and a doorway to freedom, allowing you to live more authentically and fully.

Forgiveness is a powerful act of self-kindness and freedom that allows one to live authentically and fully.

Practicing Forgiveness (It's For You)

This track explores how we can be our own worst critic and how we talk to ourselves through criticism can impact our outcomes in life. Listening to our self-talk and being kind to ourselves is an essential step on the road to creating the right mental environment to flourish.

Self-talk and self-criticism can greatly influence our outcomes, emphasizing the importance of being kind to ourselves for personal growth and success.

Be Kind To Yourself

In this episode of ‘ask Dorothy, I share a real-life client story that speaks to the beautiful nature of the human spirit when we can offer kindness and care to others in the words we speak, in sharing our possessions and our desire to help others in challenging situations ~ all of which convey our 'oneness'. In this episode, we see how my client Olivia* chose to face the negativity and criticism among some of her colleagues by the teaching impermanence and connection, and by practicing the presence of 'oneness'. Join me for the practical wisdom of living aparigraha ~ non-attachment ~ in your life. *If you enjoyed these 'clips' please look out for the full-length version here on Aura! Much love to you! Namaste!

Dorothy shares a client's story of kindness and care, promoting the power of 'oneness' and non-attachment in facing negativity in the workplace.

The Teaching Of Impermanence (3/7 min)

Wisdom for right now... and for the week before you. Each week, let my Wisdom Notes guide and support you in the best possible way. The moments that you live of grace are the moments that define life in the certainty of what you are. When you consciously choose in each moment to live of grace ~ to be kind to all others ~ to rejoice in the choices that you make to be remarkable ~ to surround yourself with the most loving people and live a life of the highest integrity, in an instant, you will shed all unhappiness and fear. For the Week ahead... and for the life that you continue to manifest, practice opening your heart in meditation, in mindfulness, and in the presence of each moment. Sending you great love..... namaste.

Receive guidance and support with weekly Wisdom Notes; choose to live with grace, kindness, integrity, and surround yourself with love to shed fear.

Grace is Love ~ Wisdom Notes w/Dorothy

Have you ever wondered if a gentle approach can truly be more powerful than force? Inspired by the wisdom of the timeless fable of "The North Wind and the Sun," journey through this enchanting fable together, which reminds us of the power of kindness in our daily lives. Embrace the moral of this story, which teaches that gentle persuasion often triumphs where aggression and bluster fail. In today's world, where forceful tactics can seem pervasive, let's rediscover the transformative power of warmth and compassion.

The fable "The North Wind and the Sun" teaches that gentle persuasion is more powerful than force in daily life, promoting kindness and compassion.

Choose Warmth & Kindness In A Cold World

This talk points to questions of doubt and lack of clarity meditators encounter at all levels of practice. It points to the lessons to be learned by experiencing doubt and a lack of faith interest. Through kindness, acceptance, and patience you will move to the next stage on your path.

Navigating doubt and lack of clarity in meditation leads to growth; embrace kindness, acceptance, and patience to progress on your spiritual journey.

Why We Keep Meditating

As we move along the path of awakening, we are wise to, from time to time, stop and ask ourselves - what are we leaving in our wake? What is our legacy? When we leave this place, what have we contributed to? Have we contributed to making this world a better place for all, or have we contributed to making it a worse place for all? Are we raising the collective vibration, or are we lowering it? I invite you to join me as we explore these questions in the field of love, kindness, and compassion.

Reflect on your legacy and contribution to the world, whether you are raising or lowering the collective vibration, in the field of love, kindness, and compassion.

What Are We Leaving in Our Wake?

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

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

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

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

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

**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

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

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

Kindness for the Body

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

In this meditation, Vanessa guides you through a faith-based loving-kindness meditation where she holds space for you to express love towards yourself and others. The practice includes gentle guidance through visualization and concludes with a prayer.

A faith-based loving-kindness meditation with visualization and prayer led by Vanessa to express love towards oneself and others.

Christian Loving Kindness

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

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

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.