The ability to "relax" is an important prerequisite for our physical, mental, and spiritual health. Autogenic training's efficacy lies in its scientific foundation. Through consistent practice, it triggers the body's relaxation response, reducing levels of stress hormones like cortisol. This not only alleviates anxiety, restlessness, and worry but also bolsters the immune system, fostering a healthier physiological state. Moreover, its impact on the autonomic nervous system promotes a sense of calmness and equilibrium, making it a potent tool for managing various health conditions associated with stress. With love and kindness, Your Dr. Livingstone

Autogenic training promotes relaxation by triggering the body's response to stress hormones, improving physical and mental health.

What Is Autogenic Training

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

Self-love starts with you! When you focus on loving yourself even more, it radiates out everywhere. Join me for a few minutes of practicing loving on "You" by acknowledging, accepting, and nurturing yourself with kindness and loving words. Share your reflections, observations, and feelings by leaving a comment.

The text encourages self-love, emphasizing its positive impact on oneself and others, inviting readers to practice self-love through reflection, acceptance, and kindness.

Self-Love Meditation

Life's challenges are often easier to bear when we hold ourselves with an attitude of Loving Kindness, acceptance, and compassion. This deeply relaxing meditation uses the powerful healing of loving kindness to support, comfort, and nourish yourself on every level of your being. It combines mindfulness, grounding, breath awareness, and loving-kindness. It may be especially helpful if you are stressed, anxious, sad, can't sleep, or managing a chronic illness.

A meditation technique combining mindfulness and loving-kindness to alleviate stress, anxiety, sadness, sleeplessness, and chronic illness.

Loving Kindness Meditation

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

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

An uplifting, deeply healing meditation to support self-acceptance and self-growth. This practice celebrates you as a unique individual and supports the positive mindset that you are enough just as you are. Combining mindfulness, grounding, self-compassion, positive thinking, and loving-kindness.

A self-acceptance meditation that embraces individuality and promotes self-growth, combining mindfulness, self-compassion, positive thinking, and loving-kindness.

Self-Acceptance And 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

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

Connect with your inner ‘wise witness’ in this deeply calming, supportive, and nurturing practice. This meditation will help you release stress and anxiety and allow you to see the bigger picture. It will help you to appreciate yourself better and to recognize all the positives in your life. Combining grounding, mindfulness, breath awareness, self-kindness, and positive visualization. The beautiful music is: ‘Dreamer’ by Jeremy Siegel

Deeply calming meditation practice to release stress and anxiety, connect with inner wisdom, appreciate yourself, and see the bigger picture. Music: 'Dreamer' by Jeremy Siegel.

Meditation For Inner Wisdom & Insight

A deeply nurturing meditation for self-healing and recovery using the power of Loving Kindness and self-compassion to support you to heal, repair, and restore on every level of your being. This meditation can be especially supportive for chronic health, mental health, low self-esteem, or in challenging times. It gently helps to release stress, soothe anxiety, calm mental and physical tension and induce a deep sense of inner well-being. Combining mindfulness practice, visualization, Loving Kindness, and breathing techniques.

"Nurture self with Loving Kindness - a healing meditation aiding stress release, anxiety relief, & inner well-being through mindfulness & breathing."

The Healing Power of Love

Come on this soothing journey to self-love and loving-kindness through guided imagery and a loving-kindness mantra towards self and others, ease into a place of gratitude and peace as you drift off into dreamland.

Guided imagery and loving-kindness mantra help achieve self-love and peace while drifting into dreamland.

Once Upon A Dream : Loving Kindness Kid

A deeply relaxing and nourishing meditation for self-love. This practice nurtures a kind, supportive, and accepting relationship with yourself which can be especially important during difficult times. It combines mindfulness, grounding, breath awareness, and loving kindness. Music – ‘Constellations’ by Jeremy Siegel

Deeply relaxing meditation for self-love, fostering kind, supportive relationship with oneself during difficult times. Mindfulness, grounding, breath awareness, loving kindness with music 'Constellations' by Jeremy Siegel.

The Healing Balm Of Loving Kindness

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Kindness for the Body

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Cultivating Compassion for Mental Well-being" is a journey into the transformative powers of compassion and loving-kindness. This track provides you with guided meditation to nurture these qualities within, promoting psychological healing and acceptance. By the end, you'll have learned a valuable technique to foster an atmosphere of understanding and care for yourself and others, contributing to collective well-being.

Learn how to cultivate compassion and loving-kindness through guided meditation for psychological healing and contribute to collective well-being.

Cultivating Compassion Mental Well-being

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

Kindness Is Love: Spoken Word Meditation

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

Story about loving Kindness and Compassion. It can not only transform you but also others around you.

Love and compassion can transform both oneself and those around them, as shown in this story.

Doors of My Heart Are Open to You and Me

An inspirational story about a mean fairy witch, who met with some obstacles, showing that often difficult situations can teach us somthing. A story about kindness and friendships, great for kids, but also for adults. A gentle reminder abour treating all with love and understanding.

A tale of a witch facing challenges, teaching kindness and friendship, for both kids and adults, emphasizing love and understanding for all.