Guided Meditations

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 Finding and nurturing your breath is essential to maintaining balance and promoting well-being. It is one of the foundations of mindfulness. This guided meditation will help you identify your breath.   You are warmly invited to sit, listen, and follow along this nurturing meditation so that you may foster your mental well-being.. 

 We all need to eat. But where does our food come from? Where do we, as consumers of this food, fall in this chain?  Before we prepare a meal, let's first begin by bringing mindful awareness to what activities, care, and awareness to what transpired before this food reaches our plate. 

 One of the steps of the Noble Eightfold Path is Right Speech. Therefor, when we speak with others it's important we are mindful of the words we use. Word choice and tone are instrumental for us in getting our message across in a positive and loving manner.
 

 As our lives continue to move forward we will all eventually lose someone that we love. Be it a parent, sibling, friend, or pet their death will eventually come. It's natural to be sad when their passing comes however at times the grief we experience may be overwhelming at times.   I warmly invite you to listen along with this guided meditation that will help you invite emotions in with openness and acceptance and focusing on the positive when dealing with life's mysteries.  

 Anxiety happens when we face a situation that we anticipate to be emotionally challenging. These situations may vary from individual but the mental and physical response often present themselves as muscle tightness, headaches, or maybe even teeth grinding. For some this can be overwhelming, not allowing them to perform skillfully.   Listen along to this guided meditation that will help ease your anxiety by opening the understanding that all beings feel anxious at times.  

 With the stress and uncertainty life brings, anxiety can become an unhealthy byproduct. Understanding that many types of thoughts will enter our mind every day this meditation will help you acknowledge them for what they are and that you are not your thoughts.    Listen along to this peaceful guided meditation that will help ease your anxiety by opening the understanding that all beings feel anxious at times.  

 At some point in our lives we encounter someone who we may find frustrating. It's common for people to become closed hearted to them and perhaps become less caring.  As a result of this closing we unskillfully perpetuate suffering.  This guided meditation helps reverse that process and instead allows us to recognize this person as a loving human being just as you are and to compassionately care for and love that person as all humans are deserving of. 

 Boredom can happen to us when we begin to feel restless and when there is no stimuli. As a result we may do activities that do not nurture our well-being like mindless eating or social media scrolling.  Instead of letting boredom take hold and diminish the present moment learn how we may overcome this feeling and transform it into something more advantageous to our happiness. 

 Equanimity is having mental calmness or evenness of temper especially in difficult situations. In Buddhism, it is the ground for wisdom and freedom and the protector of compassion and love. Equanimity allows you to navigate difficult situations with balance instead of charged, harmful emotions. 

 Our minds can become busy and distracted after a hectic day which may lead to an unrefreshing sleep. Or perhaps you'd like to begin your day with calm and clarity before you venture outside. Clarity before your day begins sets a positive and open mindset ready for any unexpected events.

 How we choose our food is just as important as what we eat. Everything from looks, texture, and fragrance needs to be considered before we incorporate this medicine into our bodies. 

 In our busy and active lives it's easy to overlook they way our body is responding to outside stimuli and internal mental conditions. A body scan meditation is are a wonderful way to reconnect with every cell and fiber of your being and learning to relieves stress and anxiety associated with busy lives.  You are warmly invited to listen and connect as I guide you along in this refreshing body scan meditation. 

 We've all had hard times and the fact that you're here reading this supports the fact that you're resilient.  But we don't often recognize that we are truly resilient especially in the midst of a stressful situation.  This guided meditation is ideal for times when you're under a lot of stress as well as for when you're not. Practicing this meditation when you're not facing a crisis will help to minimize the stress during those challenging times. 

We sometimes forget where are are during the course of our busy days. This results in us losing awareness to our mental well being, physical well being, or even the task at hand.  You are warmly invited to sit and listen to this nurturing and grounding guided meditation to help cultivate that awareness so you may continue promoting your well being.  

When someone does an action, lives a certain lifestyle we disagree with or perhaps they're even a different race or ethnicity we often gravitate towards this difference to support our belief.  This dismissal removes their humanity and one may begin to view them as a lesser being.   This guided meditation with help cultivate the connections that you share with each and every person on Earth by identifying these commonalities.    

We all want to be the best we can. We try to do things that benefit our wellbeing as well as others.  But sometimes we let negative emotions overcome our kindness. Or we partake in harmful activities instead of wholesome ones.  You are warmly invited to listen along to this guided meditation on living a wholesome life. 

 It's OK to tell someone no.  In fact, it's often necessary to do so in order to protect our wellbeing. Afterall we're human and not automatons without feelings and limits.  In this guided meditation we will bring mindful attention to developing and maintaining healthy boundaries so the we may continue to be of noble service to ourself and others. 

Our roots help us establish vital connections we have have with ourselves and others. But strengthening our roots also helps us understand that we are all connected and that there is no separation of 'self' and 'others'.  You are warmly invited to listen to this guided meditation that will help strengthen your roots and strengthening that connection.

Our next days activities always being with a full and rejuvenating nights sleep. Sleep is necessary for a healthy mind and body and maintains our wellbeing throughout the day.  Join me in this relaxing guided meditation to help you fall asleep and where we sail onto and then walk along a charming seaside village on the beautiful island of Okinawa, Japan. 

How many times have you read a news article, read a social media post, or made a judgment on someone just by looking at them or their actions.  The same judgment you've made of others has been and is probably occurring towards you right now.   Just because it's happening now doesn't make it a positive and uplifting action. Judging others categorizes them into something they are not and removes their humanity.  Judging others also takes away from your own curiosity and compassion. 

Sometimes we overlook the what we may consider small things in our lives thinking that they really don't matter. But in reality, the small things are truly the largest parts of our lives.  You are warmly invited to sit with me as I guide you through this meditation on gratitude for the smallest things in  our lives to the largest.  We graciously ask that you please consider liking this video and subscribing to our channel.

Change can be hard to accept but it is a natural part of living. For example, you're no longer an infant and have gone through many changes in your life until now. And you will continue to do so until the end.  With the right perspective and view we can learn to accept these natural and wonderful changes that go on all around and within us.  You are warmly invited to listen to this guided meditation on accepting that all things change.

In order for us to grow from our current circumstances we need to accept where we are at this present moment.  From here, in this very moment, all of our journeys may begin. 

The breath. The heart. The mind. Three vital components to life. Each performing a separate function to unify your life.  You are warmly invited to listen to this guided meditation that brings awareness to in oneness of all parts of you for a more harmonious existence.