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Your First Meditation…. with Me
A wonderful 'first' guided meditation if you are new to the practice or a gentle reminder of the simplicity of meditation and how you may experience it easily in your life. Namaste!! xo SOME HELPFUL NOTES ABOUT WHAT MAKES MEDITATION SO BENEFICIAL... Any type of deep, slow diaphragmatic breathing — during which you visualize filling up [...]
‘Choosing How I Feel’: A Guided Meditation
Meditation teaches awareness; we learn to be mindful of how we are feeling - and for how we want to feel. Use this gentle meditation for changing your current mood state; for acknowledging the feelings that may typically be unavailable to you - with greater ease; and for choosing how you want to feel - [...]
How To Curate ‘Unleashed Joy’
Listen to this blog post in AUDIO: Joy is a heightened momentary blissful state. It may be best described as great pleasure, intense beauty, thrill, laughter, warmth, presence, excitement, exhilaration, appreciation, and love. Happiness as a consistent flow of positive affect is an underlying state of being that weathers a multitude of situations [...]
How The Stories You Tell, Become The Inspiration For Your Life.
How The Stories You Tell, Become The Inspiration For Your Life. The stories that you tell reflect how you think. Stories are reflective of your perceptions and therefore are not always be based in factual information. What you tell yourself, you believe. The stories you tell unto yourself and others, define your life. They [...]
in the stillness of my mind, i am at peace: a contemplative meditation
A contemplative 'prose' meditation guides you with descriptive cues and inspired thought ideas that allow you to be investigative, then to return to your breathing for a time, then to be investigative, and to again return to your breathing. A contemplative = 'prose' meditation also encourages self-reflection, asking some form of the question, 'Who Am [...]
This is Authentic Happiness – a WISDOM BLOG ‘a u d i o’ Original
"When you create a life that is meaningful for you, happiness is effortless." Authentic happiness is your natural state. A central theme of Buddhist and Hindu teachings, happiness is a reflection of dharma - living in accordance with your life's purpose. When your choices and behaviours reflect your truth, you feel authentic happiness. [...]
the power of forgiveness
Forgiveness is a deliberate power that you wield - releasing yourself from suffering - relinquishing the need to make others responsible for how you feel; acknowledging that others are not in control of your life - of the worth that you feel, - of the freedom that you hold. Forgiveness is upholding your power; living [...]
