This session will help you discover how you are feeling and give you a safe strategy for being with those feelings. It will give you space to be, just be, as you are. You will get beneath the thinking and storylines to be in your body and process emotions.

Peaceful, Safe, Kind and Accepting

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

Whenever there is occasion for worry or self doubt we can feel immobilized, afraid of our steps forward - that they may be wrong or undeserving.  

What are the ways in which you might release doubt, uncertainty, or any inaccurate perceptions you may hold about yourself?

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 xo dorothy



Release Doubt... a Spoken Word Meditation

In this kindness to self meditation we gently cultivate a sense of warmth and kindness to ourselves using phrases like 'may I be well'. 

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 

Kindness to Self - Using Phrases

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.


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!


Being a Beacon of Kindness

Every part of your body deserves kindness. Even when it does not feel and do as you want it to feel and do. This practice trains us to give ourselves the kindness we are meant to give and receive

Being Breathing Kindness

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.




Inner Smile ~ a Kindness Meditation

Nurture yourself today. We are often disconnected from our bodies. Our body holds great wisdom and needs our kind attention. 

Body Kindness

We often turn away from our own struggles. This meditation is an invitation to listen in to what you truly feel and to respond with kindness. This practice gives us a new way to to respond to whatever it is that we are feeling in this moment - sadness, loneliness, anxiety or shame. 

Meeting Your Needs with Kindness

If you are struggling with chronic pain, cancer or other medical conditions you may find using a healing meditation improves body and spirit and a reduction in stress. I invite you to bring stillness and kindness to yourself through this meditation.

Healing the Body 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 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. 



How to Love and Accept Yourself

Offer yourself to rest in smooth kindness. You deserve it. 

Practicing Kindness

This meditation helps you to develop a sense of calm and kindness towards yourself.

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 

The Kindly Breath Meditation

Loving Kindness for Self and Others

Body.Mind.Spirit longs for your kind attention. This kindness is what helps us heal. I invite you to take some time today to rest in a spacious awareness with kindness. Blessings of healing


Healing Attention

Using the breath to become aware of habitual reactions of mind and body when faced with a stressful situation.  Our body is constantly sending us messages- information in the form of sensations, thoughts or feelings.  Accept what is there with kindness.

Reactions

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.


Well-Wishing for Ourselves and Others

This is a Loving Kindness practice for parents - to help you give love and compassion to yourself and to your dear ones. This is the antidote to habitual negative thoughts and built-up anger. 


Loving Kindness Practice for Parents

This short guided mindfulness meditation, invites the breath to the center of your awareness. Feeling the sensations as you breathe in and out. You might feel the sensations at the nose, throat, chest or abdomen. Learning to rest your attention wherever the sensations are most obvious to you. I hope you can learn to train your mind as you stay with the natural breath, coming back when the mind wanders. Mental noting may help you experience the breath and this can sometimes support your practice. May your ongoing meditation continue to nourish you each day, as your intention grows to practice regularly with kindness & patience. 
Best wishes
Lisa Pollard
www.lisapollard.com

Awareness of Breathing

Loving kindness, like any muscle can be strengthened with practice, leading to the opening of our hearts and minds to ourselves and each other. At the end we may discover that which we truly are - loving awareness.

Loving Kindness

By practising 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.


Wishing Well Practice

Offering your body a little kindness and gratitude in this moment. Tending to this body that has always done its best to take care of you.

Keeping Your Body Company

In moments of difficulty this brief practice can really make a difference: We acknowledge the difficulty, we recognise how this connects us to others, and we turn towards our experience with kindness. As a result we no longer feel alone and isolated, and can begin to turn towards our experience with kindness and acceptance.

Self-Compassion Break

Often we find it easier to give kindness to others than to ourselves. This practice helps us appreciate this quality, our kindness.

Being Kind

Loving-kindness Meditation is the practice of wishing oneself and others to be happy, content, and at ease. In loving-kindness, the invitation is to send well wishes to yourself and then to others. It is a soothing balm for difficult emotions.

This practice brings together the anchoring effect of following the breathing with the beautiful practice of wishing well for yourself and another.


Breathing in Kindness for Me and Out for You

This is an invitation to bring healing and awakening to your heart. This practice allows you to increase kindness towards yourself and share your unique gifts with the world.

Kindness of Heart

Kindness is Love...a spoken word meditation

We're so hard on ourselves. True healing takes place when we're able to show up to a given condition honestly and fully, the highs and the lows. It could be called a compassionate space. In this session, create a hospitable space that includes kindness towards yourself. Receive the words of support that you so need right now. 

Compassionate Self-talk

Through these uncertain times some of us may be feeling anxious, fearful or lonely. This loving-kindness meditation helps us to feel connected, safe and hopeful (even from a distance).

Covid-19 Series: Reconnecting with Love, Hope and Safety in Uncertain Times

Smiling Inside is an invitation to observe what happens when we make a small gesture with the mouth and discover if anything responds within the body heart & mind. Can you experience the connection within your mindfulness practice? This short practice also invites kindness through touch and warmth to the body, to support wellness and generosity. A generative practice where words can invite ease  with the breath and a quiet internal dialogue. Enjoy your practice and I hope it supports you each day. 

Smiling Inside

With compassion and love, embracing your suffering, discomfort or tension and opening yourself up to your connection to the world around you. 

Loving-Kindness for You

Enjoy life with a grateful heart. A mindfulness practice to learn how to embody kindness and gratitude in everyday life.
May you treasure yourself always.


Treasure Yourself ~ gratitude 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.


Heart Like the Sun

Feeling a bit lonely, worried or off-balance? This practice helps us evoke feelings of connection, kindness and self-appreciation. 

Kind Friend

We often live in our heads, unaware of the messages the body gives us. The Body Scan offers a gentle way of bringing the mind in the body, noticing our bodily experiences  with curiosity and kindness, in the present moment.



Body Scan

This meditation uses imagery to help you begin to cultivate kindness towards yourself and can help you feel more peaceful.  

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 


Kindness to Self - Using Imagery

We often live in our heads, unaware of the messages the body gives us. The Body Scan offers a gentle way of bringing the mind in the body, noticing our bodily experiences  with curiosity and kindness, in the present moment. This practice can done sitting or lying down.



Body Scan 13mins

By practicing kindness for ourselves and others, we can cultivate this beautiful emotion. In this practice we use the breath as a vehicle to carry the kindness deep within us, and to reach out to another on the outbreath.


Breathing in for Me and Out for You

Loving-Kindness

Kind Mind

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.


Well-Wishing for Yourself

Open the heart and mind and deepen your sense of connection with this loving-kindness practice directed towards a dear friend.  

Loving-Kindness for a Friend

Everybody has capacity to be kind. Let’s get in touch with our kind nature and begin from there. 

Taste of Kindness

When you love someone, the best gift you can offer is your attention. How can you love, if you are not there? Rather than judging, you can approach with open attention and kindness.

Deep Listening - Mindfulness of Sound

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.

Awareness of Being


This short body scan is an opportunity to cultivate awareness by attending to your body, just as it is, with kindness, care, and a gentle curiosity.

Take a moment out of your busy day to breathe and cultivate kindness. Kindness is so important to help melt away daily stressors and yet it can often be overlooked. Take 3 or 7 minutes out and bathe in kindness.

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 



Breathing Space with Kindness

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.

Kindness: Meditations