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The holiday season is a wonderful time to share and receive the gift of gratitude and connection with loved ones. Take a few minutes to practice this heart opening meditation to focus on the good within and around you.
This months meditation utilizes the strategy of Stop, Breathe, Notice, Reflect, and Respond to build awareness and greater tolerance of even the most difficult emotions, enabling for a decrease in the physiological and psychological the stress response. We hope you find this guided meditation a helpful addition to your stress management toolbox.
The poem The Guest House by Rumi beautifully elucidates the concept of mindful acceptance of emotion, whatever those emotions may be. Much of our energy and resultant behaviors can be spent in attempts to push away feeling states that we may find intense or distressing. The practice of avoiding our difficult emotions can lead them to loom larger and be feared. By allowing ourselves to feel our emotions, we can learn that we can tolerate, survive, and potentially grow through the inevitable joys and hardships that life may bring.
Do you ever find yourself lost in thought, experience difficulty in quieting your mind, or caught in self judgement? This short guided meditation will support you in the observation of thoughts that enter your mind without getting "hooked" into them.
Taking time to afford kindness, consideration, and compassion for ourselves and others has been found to relieve stress, depression, anxiety, and contribute to improved self-esteem and relationships. Take a few minutes to listen to this meditation and bask in the love and care that surrounds you.
Listen to this guided sleep meditation to gently ease your mind and body to a restful slumber.
This gentle guided meditation practice will invite you to cultivate compassion for your whole body.
The practice of noting is a foundational aspect of mindfulness and allows us to clearly observe what is happening without getting hooked into the experience. This exercise will help you practice separating your judgment of your experiences from the experiences themselves.
A guided meditation script with a detailed body scan that targets to relax each part of the body eventually reaching sleep.
Listen to this meditation to orient your mind towards appreciation and gratitude. A regular gratitude practice has been found to contribute to lower rates of depression, appreciation, reduced emotional reliance on food, and greater connection to others.