Each week I tailor a new mindfulness session by incorporating ten affirmations to different parts of our lives. What we tell ourselves creates the life we live. This week's concept focuses on the morning and how we start the day. Practice kindness and self-care by repeating positive statements before our negative self-talk kicks in. Photo by Lindsey K from Pexels

Practice mindfulness by incorporating affirmations into your morning routine to promote kindness and self-care before negative self-talk takes over.

Morning Boost Of Confidence

It's so wonderful to start the day feeling love. Let's explore how to connect with love, first thing after we wake up. We'll awaken the love inside through soothing touch, enjoying comfortable sensations, and remembering kindness. There's less desire to chase love outside of ourselves when we remember we ARE Love!

Connect with love through touch, sensation, and kindness upon waking up to awaken the love inside and remember that we are love.

Wake Up With Love

The most important voice in your life is your own. Using powerful affirmations, this short track invites you to begin to speak to yourself with kindness and helps to improve confidence.

Boost your confidence and self-love with powerful affirmations that encourage you to be kind to yourself. Your voice is the most important one.

I Am Enough

A great way to start any day is in meditation. Let this mindfulness exercise support you to begin your day at Peace & with a calm mind.

Start your day with peace and calm by practicing mindfulness meditation.

You Are Peace & Loving Kindness

Wake up well! Practice for the morning to start the day with positivity & intention. When we wake up, we are completely fresh, our body, mind & nervous system have restored themselves through the sleep process & we are very receptive in our subconscious as we have just left the lands of dreams &symbols. It is the perfect time to take 5 minutes, think about the day ahead & listen to your heart for the guiding intention that will support you through the day. You will find, with daily practice, your intention arises with more ease & can be so beneficial to the smooth running of your day. Examples of Intentions: I intend to see the goodness in everyone. Or I intend to be kind to myself under pressure. Or I see goodness in everyone. Enjoy.

Start your day with positivity & intention by taking 5 minutes in the morning to think about the day ahead and set a guiding intention.

My Daily Intention Setting Practice

Short and sweet morning meditation to wake up and start your day in Gratitude for your fantastic heart! Gratitude for something so integral to our being gives us an anchor, brings us into presence, boosts our energy, and kick-starts the day with a positive attitude. This heart is what keeps us going, it is a little brain beating in there. Thank you, glorious Heart. Be kind to yourself & Have a wonderful day, x

Morning gratitude meditation for the heart to boost energy and start the day with a positive attitude.

Wake Up With A Heart Full Of Gratitude

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

This meditation will help you discover how you can treat yourself with kindness today. You will be gently guided through the process of checking in with your body, mind, and heart. By paying attention to how you are feeling, you can become aware of ways to be kind to yourself throughout the rest of your day. Background music: Meditation Impromptu 03 by Kevin MacLeod.

Meditation for self-kindness: check in with body, mind, and heart. Guided process to be aware of ways to be kind throughout the day. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Magical Morning - Be Kind To Yourself

Be ready to create a fantastic day. Project loving kindness to yourself and everyone you encounter. Expect joy and be ready and open to any opportunity. Use your slow, deliberate breathing to allow a few important moments of clarity and full awareness of a surprise situation. A great day is coming your way!

Create a great day with loving kindness, joy, and openness, and use deliberate breathing to be aware of surprise opportunities coming your way.

Good Morning, Sunshine

Starting your day feeling love for yourself and others sets the stage for all areas of your life. And when you can send love and forgiveness to those around you, you are healing yourself from the inside out.

Starting your day with self-love and forgiveness towards others can positively impact all areas of your life, leading to internal healing.

Loving Kindness-A Gift You Give Yourself

If you can begin to see your life as a celebration - as joy - as unlimited possibilities - as pleasure - as meaningful encounters, opportunities for loving-kindness, connection, care - you would live it this way. To celebrate your life you must be willing to look for and enjoy the beauty that exists everywhere - in every moment - you must be willing to find the good in others and yourself. Feel inspired. Best listened with your eyes closed, allowing the words to wash over you. Namaste Dorothy

View life as a celebration, find joy and beauty in every moment, and appreciate the good in others and yourself to truly live life.

Celebrate Your Life

The practice of loving-kindness has been proven to help people to feel more compassionate, loving, and more mindful about themselves and others. This ancient practice will help you to open up your heart for every living being on Earth, including yourself and those with who you might have a difficult relationship with. Start every morning with this practice and see your life transform through compassion and kindness. For an extended/longer version of this meditation please check out Lilla's profile.

Loving-kindness practice improves compassion, mindfulness, & transforms your life through kindness & compassion towards all beings on Earth.

Quick Loving Kindness Morning Meditation

This practice invites you to focus on yourself and direct kind intentions and wishes. We often focus on others and forget that we are equally worthy of kindness and care.

Focus on yourself with kind intentions and wishes, as you are equally worthy of care and kindness.

Well-Wishing for Yourself

This loving kindness (metta) meditation will help you foster a sense of goodwill and loving kindness, and direct it towards yourself and others.

Metta meditation promotes goodwill and kindness towards oneself and others.

Loving Kindness

Meditation is perhaps the most powerful tool there is when it comes to calling forth the peace, love, joy, harmony, abundance, and wholeness that is inherent within each of us. As such, I have been guided to create The Way of Meditation Series. Each ”session” will begin with brief teaching around meditation followed by a meditation sitting. I invite you to join me for a beautiful, healing, soothing, and empowering moment of becoming still through meditation. Namaste Daniel

The Way of Meditation Series offers brief teachings and meditation sittings to tap into inherent peace, love, joy, harmony, abundance, and wholeness.

Be Loving And Kind To Yourself

Your relationship with yourself is the longest relationship that you will have with anyone in life - it is important to love and appreciate yourself for the unique and beautiful human being that you are. Although a loving-kindness meditation usually involves sending loving thoughts to others as well as ourselves, in this meditation, we will focus only on nurturing feelings of love and appreciation for yourself. Background music: Planet Earth by Ajit Pramod Deshpande. Licensed by Sounds Of Nidra.

Love and appreciate yourself with a self-loving meditation, focusing on nurturing feelings for yourself alone. Use the Planet Earth background music.

Loving-kindness meditation for self-love

Practicing kindness is a transformative mindfulness tool. When we bring an attitude of kindness into our lives our quality of life will be enhanced. Explore this with me today!

Practicing kindness enhances quality of life and is a transformative mindfulness tool. Join me to explore it today!

Practice Kindfulness

Give yourself time and space to be gentle with yourself. When you can really wish yourself well, you embody gentleness in your way of being.

To be gentle, give yourself time and space and wish yourself well.

Hold yourself with Loving Kindness

The idea of a mantra to profess the privilege you hold, feels awe-inspiring! This is a perfect mantra to boost your confidence, to remind you of your worth and value, your important contribution to the world; and to live a privileged life in the presence of kindness and gratitude. As you listen, consider the simple yet profound aspects of your life that support and nourish you. Consider why you deserve privilege; why we all do; and the difference between privilege that is built upon ego and privilege that is known, and lovingly supported in humble gratitude. Namaste

A mantra to profess privilege is a perfect way to boost confidence, remind of worth and value, and live a privileged life with kindness and gratitude.

I AM Mantra - To Have And Hold Privilege

Kindness for the Body

What we tell ourselves creates the life we live. Allow this short affirmations practice to help us cultivate gratitude. Practice kindness and self-care by repeating positive statements before our negative self-talk kicks in.

Short affirmations practice helps cultivate gratitude, kindness, and self-care by replacing negative self-talk with positive statements that shape our lives.

10 Affirmations To Cultivate Gratitude

What we tell ourselves creates the life we live. Allow this short affirmations practice to help us cultivate a positive day ahead. Practice kindness and self-care by repeating positive statements before our negative self-talk kicks in. During this practice, 10 affirmations are spoken twice.

Positive affirmations help create a positive life. Repeat 10 affirmations twice to cultivate kindness and self-care and overcome negative self-talk.

10 Positive Morning Affirmations

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

We could all use a little peace and kindness in our lives. Use this short practice to help connect with a sense of loving-kindness and direct it towards yourself and others.

Practice loving-kindness meditation to cultivate peace and kindness within yourself and extend it to others.

Short Loving Kindness Meditation

Loving kindness meditation brings out our natural capacity for connection and love for ourselves. It helps us to feel less separate and alone. In this practice we practice cultivating love for two beings that we have a strong connection to (this can also include pets). Then we imagine them showering us in love and we finish by cultivating love for ourselves. Please note: If you are struggling with your mental health it's really important to seek professional help. These meditations are not a substitute for that but can be used along side therapy to help to support you. For more on Carla-Jo and her work please see www.carlajo-mindfulness.com

Loving kindness meditation cultivates self-love and connection to others, imagining them showering us with love, but it's not a substitute for professional help.

Loving Kindness Meditation

This track discusses how we can use kindness in our lives to set the right intentions, to help ourselves and others to help the world be a better place for the future.

The text advocates using kindness to foster positive intentions, benefiting both individuals and the world for a better future.

Kindness Is Magic

By practicing well-wishing we cultivate the habit of kindness in our hearts and minds. We all like to receive kindness, and we can learn to generate it for ourselves as well as for others. You don't need to feel any special way while doing this practice, but it will help to make kindness a habit. Well-wishing also helps dispel irritability, anger, and grumpiness.

By practicing well-wishing, kindness becomes a habit and helps dispel negative emotions like irritability, anger, and grumpiness.

Wishing Well Practice

If you are hard on yourself and filled with self-critical thoughts, then try Loving Kindness Meditation. It is one of the best techniques to be kinder to yourself and be less judgmental. It is the first step towards greater acceptance.

Loving Kindness Meditation helps to be less self-critical and more accepting towards oneself, making it a beneficial technique to try.

Loving-Kindness Meditation for Calm and Peace

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

This meditational prayer track focuses on the heart chakra, which is located at the center of the chest and is associated with love, compassion, and connection. The meditation encourages listeners to bring their attention to their heart center. The track uses soothing music and affirmations to help listeners release any emotional blockages and cultivate feelings of love and kindness towards themselves and others. By the end of the meditation, listeners may feel more open and receptive to giving and receiving love.

Meditational prayer track for heart chakra with soothing music and affirmations to release emotional blockages and cultivate love towards self and others.

Morning Prayer For The Heart Chakra

Offering gratitude to someone who has been good to you. Cultivating and savoring feelings of kindness and appreciation as a way to support your own wellbeing.

Express gratitude to enhance your own wellbeing by cultivating and enjoying feelings of kindness and appreciation towards others.

Gratitude For The People In Your Life

Start the day on a positive note with this gentle morning loving-kindness meditation.

A gentle morning loving-kindness meditation to start the day positively.

Morning Loving-kindness

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 in the midst of the muck. A practice of sitting with yourself.

Mindfulness practice involves sitting with uncomfortable emotions and sensations, showing oneself kindness and compassion even in trying circumstances.

Sit With Yourself

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

A story of friendship, gratitude, and female empowerment. Relax with this inspiring story that encourages us all to be kind.

Inspiring story promoting kindness, female empowerment, and gratitude.

The Kindness of Women

An interactive story for Bedtime, Morning Stretches, Bathtime, and anytime in between. Gold to Gold is a little rhyming story all about the power of the Heart! Send Gold Kindness to your family, friends, to the trees, to stars, to yourself, and more! The Practice of gratitude and appreciation can start at any age and practice makes progress. Feel free to settle down to sleep with an open heart, or to pause after each exercise in the story to smile like the sun, twinkle like the stars, spin like the world, gently sway like a tree... visualize the Gold Kindness flowing from the Golden Jewel in the chest and send it to the whole universe! How far can your Gold Love go? With Love from me to you <3 (Recommended Age 3 - 7)

"Gold to Gold" is an interactive rhyming story promoting the power of the heart and the practice of gratitude for children aged 3-7, to be enjoyed anytime.