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

Have you felt recently that you are not enough? This guided meditation will give you the motivation and support to get you through the toughest days ahead. With love and kindness, helping you to see how truly powerful and beautiful you are.

Guided meditation to boost self-confidence, motivation and support to help you recognize your power and beauty during tough times.

You Have The Power Within You

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

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

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

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

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.

Discover your emotions and learn a safe strategy for dealing with them in a session that helps you process emotions in your body, not just your mind.

Peaceful, Safe, Kind and Accepting

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

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

**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

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

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

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

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.

Creating a compassionate space and showing kindness towards oneself is essential for true healing. Receive the support you need in this session.

Compassionate Self-talk

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.

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

Sometimes we forget that we are loved and loveable. If you're having a hard time being your own BFF, this track is dedicated to you. Listen, breathe, enjoy and remember to be kind & loving to yourself.

Remember to love yourself with this dedicated track - listen, breathe, and be kind to yourself.

I Love Myself Meditation (YOUTH)

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

Kind attention to Body.Mind.Spirit helps heal; Rest in spacious awareness with kindness today for healing blessings.

Healing Attention

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

Practice kindness and mindfulness with Carla-Jo's meditations, but seek professional help if struggling with mental health.

Breathing Space with Kindness

Kindness for the Body

In meditation, we can acknowledge our need for forgiving ourselves, for acknowledging our 'humanness', and for releasing thoughts we hold that continue to cause our suffering. Let me guide you through a simple yet powerful means of 'self-forgiveness in this beautiful meditation. Let forgiveness be the way in which you honor yourself with love, compassion, patience, and kindness. In this meditation using visualization, experience the freedom that comes with love directed inward, of the generosity of spirit - in forgiveness. xo Dorothy

Find peace and freedom in self-forgiveness through a simple yet powerful meditation using visualization, guided by Dorothy.

Self-Forgiveness

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

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

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

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

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

When we practice loving kindness meditations, we start to cultivate a more loving and accepting relationship with ourselves. This meditation practice helps you to develop self-compassion.

Loving kindness meditation cultivates self-compassion by promoting a more loving and accepting relationship with oneself.

Cultivating Loving Kindness

Loving-Kindness Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash

Loving-Kindness

This meditation is wonderful to extend compassion and good feelings outward, but also within. It is said that one who extends compassion, is the one who heals.

Meditation helps extend compassion outward and within, with the belief that the one who extends compassion is the one who heals.

Metta Meditation (Loving And Kindness)

A short mindfulness practice of wishing loving-kindness for one's self and others.

Mindfulness practice of loving-kindness for self and others.

Loving Kindness for Self and Others

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

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 respond to whatever it is that we are feeling in this moment - sadness, loneliness, anxiety, or shame.

Meditation invites us to listen to our feelings and respond with kindness, offering a new way to address struggles such as sadness, loneliness, anxiety, and shame.

Meeting Your Needs with Kindness

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

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

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

A short, guided exercise in practicing kindness for ourselves.

Practice self-kindness with this guided exercise.

Kindness for the Self

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

A short, mindful exercise of giving loving affirmation to ourselves.

"Mindful self-affirmation exercise for self-love."

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

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

When we're feeling great, when our own cup is full of feelings of wellbeing, we can make ourselves even happier by offering those feelings of kindness and wellbeing out to other people. Photo by Derek Mack on Unsplash

Sharing feelings of kindness and wellbeing when we feel good can make us even happier, according to research.

Offering Out Compassion & Lovingkindness

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.

"Practice gratitude and kindness for a joyful life."

Treasure Yourself ~ gratitude 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

A meditation practice to develop self-kindness and warmth using phrases like 'may I be well,' but not a substitute for professional mental health help.

Kindness to Self - Using Phrases

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

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.

Kindness: Meditations