We're often told we shouldn't be angry and that anger is damaging to our system. In this short session, we explore the bad rep anger takes on and how, if we can practice mindfulness amid the anger, we can use it as the transformation necessary at the moment. Through self-awareness, with a sense of peace and ease, the anger can take a new shape of compassion and thoughtful action.

Anger can be transformed into compassion and action through the practice of mindfulness and self-awareness.

Transform Anger into Thoughtful Action

Letting go of the things that no longer serve you, takes self-reflection and compassion.

Releasing what no longer serves you requires self-reflection and compassion.

Time To Let Go Of What Doesn't Serve You

What if self-sabotage was self-compassion - a subconscious means of protecting yourself? Self-sabotage comes as a result of conflicting desires. Deeply held beliefs drive your behavior, keeping you stuck between what you want and your ability to make a change. When you dig deeper into the beliefs behind your actions, you can find the grace and forgiveness you need to find lasting change and happiness.

Self-sabotage may be self-compassion, but conflicting desires and beliefs keep you stuck; understanding them leads to lasting change and happiness.

From Self-Sabotage to Self-Compassion

A special journey to releasing the past and renewing yourself in the present moment.

"Release the past and renew yourself with a special journey to the present moment."

Letting Go of the Past & Being Free

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

You are a warrior! This Poem was written for the girl, the woman, the feminine energy, the strong, heart-led warrior within us all. One of the most wondrous, challenging, and rewarding adventures a human can have in this life is opening the heart. However broken, wounded, bruised, or battered, to find the strength, softness, self-compassion, and inner-healing to invite love. To love ourselves, to be loved, to love others, to love all as ourselves. This balance between strength and softness, effort and ease, force and surrender is the adventure of this warrior's heart. You are beautiful, you are loved, you are home. You are the mysterious rhythm, the sound, and the silence, the beats of your heart.

A poem for the warrior within, finding strength and self-compassion to invite love and balance strength and softness in the adventure of the heart.

Your Warrior Heart: Poem For Empowerment

A reminder that you are worth loving. Go deeper into the heart space to be reminded of feeling love, compassion, forgiveness and learn to get familiar with your capability of truly embodying warmth.

Remind yourself that you are worthy of love and learn to embrace feelings of love, compassion, and forgiveness.

Tap into the Heart

This meditation will guide you into deep space within yourself; a place of unconditional love. As you allow all negativity to melt away in the fire of Divine Love, of Unlimited Compassion, you will find that all fear dissolves, and only Love remains. This meditation is a journey into the pure bliss of your being. It is a doorway into the Pure Light of God’s Love. Music by Life Illumined.

Meditation to access inner unconditional love and dissolve fear through Divine Love and Unlimited Compassion, guided by Life Illumined music.

Unconditional Love

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

Taking a few minutes to stop, soothe and self-care, with mindfulness and self-compassion.

Mindful self-care promotes self-compassion in a few minutes every day.

Self-Care Break

Decrease depression and stress and enhance your well-being with a gratitude practice. I Hope you will join me in the transformative practice. Gratitude meditation provides numerous benefits, including improved mental and emotional well-being, such as increased happiness and reduced anxiety, and depression. It also offers physical advantages, like better sleep, reduced stress, and potentially improved immune function and lower blood pressure. Additionally, it strengthens social bonds through increased empathy and compassion, and can lead to greater self-compassion and resilience. You can choose to make this a regular practice.

Short gratitude practices can decrease depression and stress and enhance well-being, according to studies. Join in the transformative practice.

Gratitude Meditation

This meditation can help you ease any anxious thoughts and sensations by giving them the compassion and comfort they need. This process is based on the work of Don Hadlock from The Process Therapy Institute and Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems.

Meditation eases anxiety by providing compassion and comfort to troubled thoughts and sensations, based on work from Don Hadlock and Richard Schwartz.

Soothing Anxiety

Soften your heart to receive the fullness of life. This is a meditation to cultivate courage and endurance. We appreciate and enjoy life more when our hearts are open. When our hearts are open and soft it also gives us the strength to deal with life's challenges. This can be used on a regular basis.

Open and soften your heart to receive the fullness of life and cultivate courage and endurance. Appreciate and enjoy life more while dealing with challenges.

Heart Space ~ healing breath meditation

This very special meditation will transport you into a state of infinite peace - enlightened awareness. You will soften into a deeply relaxed state of being, and you may even find it helpful for sleep. As you listen, your subconscious mind will align with higher states of consciousness, and your entire life will be uplifted and blessed. Listen regularly and experience healing of anxiety and spiritual renewal.

Experience infinite peace and spiritual renewal with this meditation that aligns your subconscious mind with higher states of consciousness.

Infinite Peace Meditation

Offering yourself self-compassion to let go and be good to yourself.

Releasing Worries Through Compassion

Access deep healing that benefits your mind, body, and emotional regulation. Allow more acceptance, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and self-compassion to enter into your life. This type of body scan is inspired by Davidji and the study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital, which has shown that practicing this body scan for 56 days changes the physical structure of your brain. Practice this body scan every day with me to heal your mind and body deeply.

Heal your mind and body with a daily body scan practice inspired by Davidji and Massachusetts General Hospital, proven to change brain structure.

Deep Healing & Relaxation Before Sleep

The Heart is one of the most powerful tools we have in this life. The energy contained within the heart is the subject of spiritual & scientific studies alike. Our Electromagnetic fields begin & end from our heart center, the source of eternal compassion & unconditional love is stored here too. This simple meditation is intended to help you to drift off to sleep in the glow of your heart, to ignite the warmth, wisdom, and beauty of this special place in the body, then give space for this warm light to travel to the extremities of the body, invigorating the organs and limbs to surround you, prepared for a peaceful sleep. You can repeat the visualization as many times as you like as you drift off into the sweetest dreams.

Meditation to ignite the warmth, wisdom, and beauty of the heart center, allowing warm light to travel to extremities for peaceful sleep.

Light Of The Heart: Breathe To Relax

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

There are external resources and there internal resources that can help us navigate life on this earth. With the trust and curiosity that mindfulness brings we can access our innate resources for wisdom, compassion and healing. Through the power of the present breathing body and the energy flowing within our deepest sense of self we can connect to our inner power.

Mindfulness can help us access our innate resources for wisdom, compassion, and healing and connect to our inner power through the present breathing body and energy flow.

Connect to Your Inner Power

Healthy self-regulation is the ability to be attentive to what you need at any given moment. It includes identifying what you want-how you want to feel-and your decision for optimizing this within the context of what is the best possible choice. In this episode of Life Coaching WISDOM, discover the importance of self-regulation, what constitutes 'healthy' vs 'unhealthy' self-regulation, and take inventory of whether your 'habits' are bringing you balance - or moving you further 'out of' balance. Join me for the 'spoken word' guided meditation at the end for deeper self-reflection and the experience of self-regulation for relieving anxiety and experiencing calm and inner peace. Namaste!! xo dorothy

Learn the importance of healthy self-regulation, identifying your needs and optimizing choices for balance in this Life Coaching WISDOM episode.

Defining Healthy Self-Regulation

Do you have a hard time accepting yourself just as you are? Acceptance refers to the ability to stay present. We can take a step back from resisting things as they are. In the twinkling of an eye, we may observe the compassion in one another. The tone of life is altered when we approach concerns with unconditional love and acceptance. When sitting in quietude and contemplation there is an unfolding, an opening that occurs towards greater acceptance.

Acceptance is about staying present and approaching concerns with unconditional love, leading to a shift in tone when sitting in quiet contemplation.

Acceptance

Soften into this loving meditation on self-compassion. At a time when we can feel so much pressure upon ourselves, self-compassion is a healing balm; a returning home. If you feel overwhelmed in your life with negative feelings; regret, shame, disappointment, perfectionism, and so forth, let this short meditation bring you back to love. You are a divine soul. Take a few moments to remember… Music by Life Illumined.

A loving meditation on self-compassion to ease negative feelings and remind one of their divinity, featuring music by Life Illumined.

10-Minute Self Compassion Meditation

"I`ll be happy when..." is the ego's way to ensure that you`ll never be happy. How you are feeling right now in this moment is what the Universe is responding to and that`s what you`ll get more of in the future.

Don't wait for happiness in the future, the universe responds to your current emotions. "I'll be happy when" mindset is self-sabotaging.

Stop Delaying Your Happiness

It's not always easy to believe in yourself and your infinite potential when obstacles and fear arise. Our narratives matter. Mindfully engage in self-compassion practices and try working with these affirmations - to free energy your journey and radiate strength and confidence.

Believe in yourself and overcome obstacles with self-compassion practices and affirmations to radiate strength and confidence on your journey.

Affirmations Encompassing Beauty

This gentle practice will invite you to bring more self-compassion into your day, particularly when you are experiencing a difficult emotion. Photo by Rowan Chestnut on Unsplash

Practice self-compassion during difficult emotions with gentle exercises.

Gentle Release

We have all had some tough experiences and they can hold us back and stop us from living our lives fully. This meditation helps you come back to a place of total forgiveness, where you are completely free from guilt, shame, regret, and all negative feelings. Coming back home to higher states of being.

Meditation for total forgiveness and freedom from negative emotions, allowing higher states of being and full living.

Beyond Guilt, Shame, Mistakes Into Peace

With compassion and love, embrace your suffering, discomfort, or tension and open yourself up to your connection to the world around you. Photo by Todd Trapani from Pexels

Embrace and connect with discomfort: open yourself to the world with love and compassion.

Loving-Compassion for You

Want to understand how or why self-compassion actually works? In this session we look at the science of self-compassion and how self-compassion affects our brain. Learn all about the power of oxytocin and how to actually make yourself feel better.

This session explores the science of self-compassion, its impact on the brain, and the power of oxytocin to help individuals feel better.

Science of Self-Compassion

Equanimity is the quality of awareness that fosters wisdom and creates inner balance. It teaches you to have a deep understanding of the nature of change and allows you to be with lifes change with insight and compassion. Equanimity arises from intentional observation and the ability to be aware of without being caught by what we see. When well-developed this gives rise to a great sense of peace. This practice may be profoundly helpful during this time of uncertainty.

Equanimity cultivates inner balance and wisdom through intentional observation, allowing for insight and compassion towards life's changes, resulting in peace.

Equanimity Meditation ~ for Dealing with Uncertainity

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful practices there is for setting ourselves free to be in love, joy, peace, wholeness, abundance, prosperity, and harmony, regardless of external circumstances or conditions. However, the practice of forgiveness is largely misunderstood. And so, I invite you to join me in this first out of three sessions dealing with forgiveness. In this particular session, we will cover the theoretical aspects of forgiveness, what it is, and its purpose. Welcome.

Forgiveness is a powerful practice for inner peace and harmony, but is often misunderstood. Join a session to learn what it is and its purpose.

The Power Of Forgiveness Pt 1

Giving yourself permission to pause is the ultimate act of self-love and self-compassion. Self-care isn't selfish, it's necessary. Here are some gentle ways to find clarity and calm.

Self-care is necessary, so give yourself permission to pause for clarity and calm.

Permission To Pause

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 deeply relaxing, restorative meditation for releasing stress, easing anxiety, and allowing the body and mind to rest so they can replenish their energy. This self-care guided meditation includes a gentle body scan and combines mindfulness practice, grounding, breath awareness, and self-compassion. It may be especially helpful for either first thing in the morning to start the day peacefully or for winding down at bedtime if you can't sleep.

Relaxing guided meditation to release stress and anxiety, replenish energy, and promote peaceful start or end of day.

Completely Release All Stress

Radiate Love: A Heart Activation Meditation" is a transformative journey that opens your heart chakra to its fullest potential. Experience deep connections, release barriers, and become a beacon of love, fostering healing and compassion in your own life and the world around you.

"Radiate Love" is a meditation that opens the heart chakra, connecting deeply, breaking barriers, and spreading healing and compassion worldwide.