A simple exercise in dealing with difficult emotions. Photo by LucasVphotos on Unsplash

What Do You Need Right Now?

Use this practice to take the break you need when you are struggling. This short practice helps you to acknowledge your feelings and give yourself the compassion you deserve.

Take a break and practice self-compassion to acknowledge your emotions and feel better.

3 Minutes of Self-Compassion

This is a practice of sitting with uncomfortable emotions, feelings, and sensations with an anchor in the present moment. A practice of showing up for yourself in ALL the emotions, feelings, and sensations, a practice of showing yourself compassion and kindness even amid the muck. A practice of sitting with yourself.

Mindful practice of sitting with uncomfortable emotions, showing self-compassion and kindness in the present moment.

Sit With Yourself

Release what no longer serves you, and move into the new day with a fresh intention. This meditation will gently guide you through the process of letting go of thoughts or feelings from the past that may be bothering you. You are then guided to choose your own intention that will help guide your words and actions throughout the new day. Background music: Meditation Impromptu 03 by Kevin MacLeod.

Let go of past thoughts and set fresh intentions with a guided meditation featuring background music by Kevin MacLeod.

Magical Morning - A Fresh Start

When we are suffering because of distance, cancellation, or conflict with someone in our life, we can learn to sense how we are triggered and become aware of the stress or anxiety we are holding and our relationship to it. Turn to this mindfulness meditation practice to access different ways of seeing conflict, for the expanded perspective of your emotions, and to witness the relationship with yourself and others in moments of vulnerability.

Mindfulness meditation helps to handle conflict by gaining an expanded perspective of emotions, witnessing the relationship with oneself and others during vulnerability.

Ways of Seeing - Truth & Conflict

This short meditation will help you to recenter and reset whenever you need it! Take a few moments to find stillness and attune to your body and your senses in this guided meditation. This meditation is accessible for any meditator who just wants to pause and reduce feelings of stress and overwhelm.

A concise meditation to recenter, reduce stress, and find stillness, suitable for all meditators.

Reset Your Day Meditation

So often we feel like we need to feel good all the time. This meditation is about being with what is and how incredibly beautiful and transformational that can be. Whether you are feeling great or need a pick-me-up, sitting with the breath and a little reflection to come to presence can do wonders for our acceptance, gratitude, and ability to move forward with trust and flow.

Meditation is about being present with what is, allowing for acceptance and gratitude, which can work wonders for our ability to trust and move forward.

Trusting Your Journey And Finding Joy

Meditation for obsessive thoughts, overthinking, and anxiety. Mindful meditation to reduce stress and quiet the mind.

Reduce stress and quiet the mind with mindful meditation for obsessive thoughts, overthinking, and anxiety.

Quiet The Overthinking Mind

Take a quick joy break and feel delighted again with these 5 simple joy affirmations. ~Joy is my natural state and from this day forward I choose to learn and grow through joy ~I breathe joy into all of my relationships ~I joyfully anticipate and welcome all good things today ~I choose to rebalance and reenergize my body with joy ~I open my arms to abundant joy in every area of my life Increase your long-term, joyful feelings by writing these down in your journal and repeating them often throughout your day.

5 simple joy affirmations to feel delighted again: Joy is my natural state, breathe joy into relationships, choose joy, rebalance body with joy, and open arms to abundant joy.

5 Simple Joy Morning Affirmations

As soon as you wake up you can fill your mind and heart with good feelings, peace and light. Begin your day with bliss and good feelings and carry those good feelings into the world around you. This mediation is best used literally as soon as you wake up so you start your day bathed in light and love. Enjoy!

Start your day with light and love through morning meditation; fill your mind and heart with good feelings, peace, and bliss.

Good Morning - It's A Brand New Day

Create the space to start letting go, by softening your physical body. Communicate with your body by acknowledging where you are carrying the weight. Come back to this as many times as you need!

Softening the body helps to let go, by acknowledging where the weight is, as many times as needed.

Letting Go

This meditation will help you to ground yourself and feel safe so you can recover from stress and anxiety.

Meditation for stress recovery and feeling safe by grounding oneself.

Feeling Safe

Acknowledge your emotions, thoughts, sensations, judgments, and feelings so that you can honor them and let them go.

Recognize and release emotions, thoughts, sensations, judgments, and feelings to find peace and move forward.

Release

"Love what you hate, and it will lose power over you." This was the message that Saqib received as he woke up one morning after a long night of suffering. Through this practice, you will learn how to love your fears and, eventually, transform them. As you delve deep into the labyrinth of your fears, he will transport you to a realm of profound introspection. Unveil the hidden stories behind your fears, untangle their intricate knots, and witness the alchemy of transformation as you emerge with newfound courage, ready to conquer life's challenges with unwavering strength and serenity.

Love what you hate to lose its power over you - a message Saqib received. This practice helps transform fears, unveil stories behind them and gain courage.

Transforming Fear

While anger is a very normal emotion to experience, carrying feelings of anger with us throughout our day can lead us to feel tense and irritated. This meditation helps you to let go of anger through the use of your body.

This meditation helps release anger by using the body to let go of tense and irritated feelings.

Letting Go of Anger

A daily morning gratitude practice only takes a few minutes, but it can change your day completely. It offers a chance to reflect on & express gratitude for the blessings in our lives. By intentionally focusing on the positive aspects of our lives, we can shift our mindset away from unsupportive thoughts & feelings, and give ourselves the opportunity to cultivate a sense of abundance & contentment. A consistent gratitude practice has wonderful benefits for mental & emotional health. It lets us be fully present & focus on what we appreciate from moment to moment. As each day had different challenges, we can cultivate this beautiful tool. Starting the day with intentional gratitude sets the tone for a more positive & fulfilling day ahead.

A daily gratitude practice cultivates contentment and mental health by focusing on positive aspects of life, offering benefits that can change your day completely.

Sweet Sunrise Gratitude Daily Practice

Start your day finding back to your happy place, check in with yourself and become more mindful about the unconscious habits you built for yourself. This practice will help you to build a more positive morning routine and practice finding back to yourself when needed.

Develop a positive morning routine by checking in with yourself and becoming mindful of your unconscious habits to find your happy place.

Morning Calibration For A Peaceful Day

Ho’oponopno is a Hawaiian healing practice that means to make right, right. It uses four phrases to cleanse and clear the energy around you so you can release any old feelings of negativity. The phrases are: I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you. This practice has been called magical. I believe you will find it to be useful.

Ho’oponopono: Hawaiian healing practice using four phrases to clear negativity, I am sorry, Please forgive me, I love you, Thank you, called magical and useful.

Self-Forgiveness Practice: Ho'oponopono

In today’s world, feeling overwhelmed is bound to happen at some point. This short meditation uses an affirmation to help you check stop to check in with yourself. To acknowledge your feelings, whatever they might be today.

Overcome feeling overwhelmed with a short meditation that uses affirmations to check in with yourself and acknowledge your feelings.

All of My Feelings Are OK

How many times do you wake up and offer thanks for your blessings? Cultivating gratitude is a powerful tool. It has the potential to shift our experience of life into days filled with happiness and contentment. In this meditation, I invite you to begin your journey toward becoming aware of what you are grateful for. Enjoy!

Cultivating gratitude can lead to happiness and contentment, and this meditation can help you become aware of your blessings.

Cultivation Of Gratitude

Awaken your day with serenity and renewal through "Morning Anchor." This calming morning meditation guides you on a journey of peaceful visualizations, easing away stress and fostering inner harmony. Designed to set a positive tone for the day, it nurtures emotional well-being while energizing your mind and body. Begin your morning with clarity and balance, equipping yourself to face life’s challenges with resilience and grace. Whether you’re new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, "Morning Anchor" offers a tranquil sanctuary for holistic wellness and mindful beginnings.

Start your day with peace and renewal using "Morning Anchor" - a calming meditation for inner harmony and emotional well-being, setting a positive tone for the day ahead.

Morning Anchor

Building a consistent meditation practice can be transformative. Meditation offers so many benefits. The opportunity to experience your feelings without judgment, the ability to ground yourself in the present moment, and the chance to learn another critical skill-beginning again. It is normal for your thoughts to wander when practicing meditation. Bringing your attention back to the present moment allows you to practice the skill of beginning again (and again). With practice, this skill can then be used in other areas of your life. It can often be helpful to bring yourself back to this moment and begin again.

Meditation provides transformative benefits like grounding in the present, learning to begin again, and practicing mindfulness for use in daily life.

Begin Again

This brief meditation invites you to be exactly where you are. Notice your feet on the earth, your breath in your body, and the sensations of the present moment. Anchor into this present moment and just be.

Meditation prompts to be present, feel sensations, and just be.

Be Where You Are

Gently calm your anxious thoughts, feelings of overwhelm, and clear tension in the body with this peaceful meditation.

Relax and find peace with this calming meditation to ease anxious thoughts, overwhelm, and bodily tension.

Calm Clarity: Morning Anxiety Meditation

When on a healing journey, whether that be physical healing or emotional healing, it's easy to get caught up in stress with trying to help the healing along. This guided meditation invites the listener to get in touch with our innate wellbeing and innate intelligence that knows exactly what we need to reach our next stage of wholeness.

Guided meditation helps reconnect with innate wellbeing and intelligence to achieve next stage of healing, reducing stress.

Return to Health & Wholeness

This 3-minute mindfulness meditation breathing technique will help you to learn to use the breath to bring yourself back to the present moment. It can be used either at the start of the day to help you ground yourself and relax, or at any time when you're feeling anxious or overwhelmed.

Learn a 3-minute breathing technique to ground and relax yourself at any time of the day using mindfulness meditation.

3 Minute Mindful Breathing Anchor

When irritated and annoyed, the best thing to do is to honor the experience by feeling. Nothing is permanent anyway, and the faster we allow, the faster things pass : )

Feel your irritation and annoyance to let them pass quickly.

When Irritated & Annoyed

Often when we are stressed or tense, we spend out time thinking about what we have to do next. Yet this means that we can lose touch with what is already here. This is a simple practice to help you come home to presence and fill your heart with gratitude.

Practice gratitude to come home to the present moment and alleviate stress.

Feeling Stressed?

Are you feeling lost? Perhaps you don't know which path to take or you have a decision to make. Listening to our small still voice within for the guidance we seek. Our intuition is always our true north, but the world overshadows our authentic spirit. In this meditation, we still the chatter of the mind so we can hear the whisper of our intuition for guidance.

Meditation helps to still the mind and hear the whisper of intuition for guidance in decision-making.

Feeling Lost? Go Within For Guidance

This meditation invites you to learn skills to deal with feelings of overwhelm and release any tensions from the body and mind.

Learn to deal with overwhelm and release tension with this meditation.

Manage Overwhelm

"Open Your Heart Like a Flower" is a soul-stirring morning meditation designed to awaken the light within you. As dawn stretches across the sky, this meditation guides you into a space of gentle expansion—where love, warmth, and possibility bloom effortlessly. Through poetic imagery and deep emotional resonance, you will release the weight of yesterday and embrace the beauty of the present moment. Like a flower unfurling its petals to the sun, your heart will soften, open, and radiate its natural brilliance. This is not just a meditation—it is an invitation to live unguarded, unafraid, and unapologetically open.

"Open Your Heart Like a Flower" is a morning meditation to awaken inner light, guiding you to release yesterday's weight and embrace the beauty of the present moment.

Open Your Heart Like A Flower (Morning)

We often feel inadequate in so many ways and this feeling of inadequacy can make us feel sad and lonely. The good news is it's not true! none of us is perfect, but learning to feel that we are good enough can bring great relief and peace.

Feeling inadequate leads to sadness and loneliness, but accepting imperfection can bring relief and peace.

You Are Enough

Want to listen to something that can help you to calm down anywhere? This meditation is a quick easy guide to reset your emotional state quickly and you can do it anywhere!

Discover a quick and easy meditation guide to reset your emotions and find calmness anytime, anywhere.

Quick Calm Down & Reset

Take a deep breath, it's going to be okay. This gentle meditation is an immediate recentering to calm yourself after high stress or intense emotions. Use this practice as many times as needed when dealing with regulating your emotions.

"Immediate recentering through gentle meditation to calm high stress or intense emotions; use as needed for emotional regulation."

It's Going To Be Okay

Enjoy this relaxing and uplifting gratitude meditation to boost positivity and inner wellbeing by inducing the release of endorphins, the body's feel-good hormones. The 'endorphin effect' can last several hours and act as a natural painkiller. Neuroscience shows that focusing on the things we are thankful for in our lives has the power to bring about positive shifts in our physical, mental, and emotional states. This meditation combines mindfulness practice, grounding, gratitude, and breath awareness.

Boost positivity and inner wellbeing with a gratitude meditation inducing endorphins, acting as a natural painkiller and bringing positive shifts to physical, mental, and emotional states.

Uplifting Gratitude Meditation

Embrace the power of curiosity as a transformative tool to dissolve anxiety and reclaim inner peace. Explore mindfulness practices that invite you to shift your perspective, observe anxious thoughts with curiosity, and cultivate a deep sense of self-awareness. Unlock the door to a life free from the grip of anxiety and begin your journey of profound personal growth and emotional well-being.

Embrace curiosity to dissolve anxiety, cultivate self-awareness, and unlock personal growth for a life free from anxiety's grip.

Dissolving Anxiety Through Curiosity

We're often so caught up that we forget to listen in to our bodies or our hearts. This meditation allows you to make room for whatever your heart might be calling out for, bringing a loving presence to your own experience.

This meditation helps you listen to your body and heart, bringing a loving presence to your experience and making room for what is needed.

Listening to Your Heart

We can get caught up in trying to change our internal (and external) environment, by pushing away certain feelings or sensations, or getting frustrated with sounds. But the most direct way to access a sense of peace and equanimity is to welcome our internal experiences, just as they are. This meditation invites the listener to welcome their experience, just as it is.

Meditation teaches to welcome internal experiences to attain peace and equanimity.

Welcome What Is

When you take away all the noise, opinions, beliefs and stories who are you really beyond the depth of knowledge. If you've ever asked the question 'who am I?' Then it's time to go beyond your ego.

Discover your true self by going beyond your ego; remove opinions, beliefs, and stories.

Discover Your True Nature

Emotions are natural and beautiful, but when we are extremely sad or fearful, or angry, our energy is depleted. Likewise, when we are around others who are exhibiting extreme emotions, they can stick to us. This meditation is a technique that will help you to feel extreme emotions, release them, and find strength on the other side.

Meditation helps release extreme emotions and find strength on the other side, as intense emotions can deplete our energy and stick to us when we are around others.

Find Strength From Extreme Emotions

Choosing how you deal with difficulties and challenges affects your happiness. This meditation works with whatever difficulties you are facing and chooses to transform them.

Transform difficulties with meditation for increased happiness.

Dissolving Difficulties

It's so easy to get caught up in thoughts, anxiety and stress. These Inner Refuge guided meditations invite the listener to locate the sensation of the breath and connect to an inner refuge.

Inner Refuge guided meditations help ease anxiety and stress by focusing on the sensation of breath and finding an inner refuge.

Inner Refuge: Breath

Welcome to this short relaxation meditation. The more your unconscious mind has permission to allow memories, thoughts, and feelings to let go, the more it changes the way you feel. This meditation uses the intention of “this too shall pass” to help you transition into a calmer and more content state. In collaboration with Squeak E. Clean Studios.

Short meditation helps release thoughts and feelings, promoting a calmer state; collaboration with Squeak E. Clean Studios.

This Too Shall Pass Meditation

Let go of stress, anxiety and feeling overwhelmed...let go, get grounded, and relax deeply into peace and calm.

Relax deeply and let go of stress, anxiety, and feeling overwhelmed to achieve peace and calm.

Sigh of Relief - Grounding Meditation

Take a few moments to acknowledge the "stuff" you pick up throughout your day and put down what is not yours to carry and what is no longer serving you.

Practice mindfulness by recognizing and releasing the burdens you accumulate during the day, freeing yourself from unnecessary weight and negativity.

Put Down What Is Not Yours To Carry

A simple exercise of acceptance to the things and emotions, as is.

Acceptance of things and emotions without judgment is a simple exercise.

As Is

This meditation invites you to choose trust in yourself and the universe rather than fear. All feelings change, so is fear. No matter what you are going through, you can choose trust in the process and what the universe presents to you each moment.

Choose trust over fear in yourself and the universe; all feelings change, and you can trust the process no matter what you're going through.

Trust Rather Than Fear

Going from a place of self-abandonment to self-acceptance is not an easy journey. We have to work through parts of ourselves that we are not comfortable with to find a place of fulfillment. Self-love is key to working through abandonment issues and this meditation can work as a great catalyst for beginning your journey of self-acceptance. Be gentle with yourself throughout this process because overcoming past trauma is not an easy thing to do but with a bit of love and patience you will get there.

Self-acceptance requires working through uncomfortable parts of ourselves; self-love is key and this meditation can be a catalyst for beginning the journey.

From Self Abandonment To Self Acceptance

We generally tend to push away uncomfortable or difficult emotions which might work in the short term, but over the long term can lead to resentment and anxiety. This meditation invites the listener to work with welcoming emotions, letting them be present, and use guided visualization to enter into a dialogue to better understand the emotion.

This meditation encourages welcoming difficult emotions and using guided visualization to better understand them, avoiding long-term resentment and anxiety.

Welcoming Difficult Emotions

This is a visualization session. We bring to mind a special place in nature and access the feelings this place provides. This is about cultivating an "inner resource" by recalling the feeling of time alone in nature - and this is available to us anytime time when we need it!

Visualize a special place in nature to cultivate an "inner resource" and access the feelings it provides, available anytime when needed.

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