Happiness Insight Meditations

Allow yourself to sink into a deep sleep.

Falling back to sleep when we wake in the night can be difficult. Allow this meditation to help you let go of your thoughts and easily drift back to sleep.

Our breath is always with us, ever-present, our constant companion. This meditation practice helps us to use our breath to soothe and comfort us, and to help us to develop self-compassion.

This meditation uses the soft cleansing imagery of a rain shower to help you calm and centre yourself, allowing thoughts, feelings or difficulties to wash away.

Escape to a calm and relaxing forest, where you can feel relaxed and at ease.

At times, we just need a few moments to turn inwards so that we can recharge and recenter. At the end of this meditation, you will feel rejuvenated and energised.

Allow yourself to embody the qualities of nature to help you feel grounded and open to the changing seasons of life.

Let the stillness of a new day fill your heart with gratitude and openness.

Start your day well and set yourself up for the rest of the day with this meditation, which allows you to take in the stillness of the morning, that magical time when we feel deeply comfortable, relaxed and at ease.

This sleep meditation will help lull you into a deep and restorative sleep. Letting go of all the busyness and worries of the day. Allowing yourself to gently fall into a long and restful sleep so that your body can refuel for the day ahead. Sleep well, sleep deeply x

When we make a mistake, we often beat ourselves up or berate ourselves. Yet we know this is not an effective thing to do, as it often leaves us feeling worse and more stuck. This meditation helps you to cultivate compassion towards yourself and ease difficult emotions that come up with self-criticism.

When something positive happens in our day, we often just brush it off. But learning how to tune into and soak up these positive experiences really helps to increase our resilience to negative experiences.

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.

When we fight our reality or struggle against change, we can inadvertently create more suffering for ourselves. By allowing ourselves to let go and accept things as they are, we suffer less. This meditation is designed to help you let go of the things that you can't control through the use of your body and mind.

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).

While anger is a very normal emotion to experience, carrying feelings of anger with us throughout our day can lead us to feel tense and irritated. This meditation helps you to let go of anger through the use of your body.

This meditation will help you to let go of a busy mind, and help you to drift peacefully off to sleep.

In our daily lives, we are often rushing from one moment to the next. There is very little time when we don't feel like there is something pressing to do. This meditation is an invitation to pause, slow down for a few moments, and to reconnect with some stillness and peace amidst the busyness of your life.

This exercise is called Soften, Soothe, Allow. Lets's begin...

In our daily lives, if we stop and tune in, we can often sense a background hum of anxiety or stress. This meditation has been designed to help you let go of this constant feeling of stress and anxiety, and to inside find equanimity and peace.

We can find it hard to not engage in certain behaviours when we have strong urges. This meditation helps you to surf strong urges, so that you can choose how you want to respond, rather than react.

Let go of anything you don't need right now, to help you sink into a deeply relaxed state and let go of any anxiety.

This meditation explores the relationship between compassion and equanimity. By learning how to cultivate a strong back and a soft front, we can weather the storms of life, and be there for ourselves through it all. It allows us to be grounded and strong, while also remaining flexible and open to change.

We can find it difficult to experience our emotions, particularly when we get caught up in judging our emotions as bad or unwanted. This meditation allows you to experience your emotions in a way that feels tolerable and manageable.

Our lives are busy. We tend to spend a lot of our day rushing from one thing to the next. This meditation allows you to slow down, find peace and serenity, and is particularly helpful if you have been feeling stressed or overwhelmed.

During the busyness of the day, we forget to come home to ourselves. This meditation is designed to help you let go of the things that are stressing or bothering you and helps you to come home to yourself again, allowing you to feel connected and grounded.

Practicing gratitude allows us to build our resilience to negative or upsetting events that happen in our lives, and allows us to better navigate daily frustrations. This simple practice helps you to cultivate gratitude in your own life.

In times of struggle, connecting to our breath can allow us to feel calmer and more at ease. This meditation teaches you how to use your own breath to soothe you when you need it most.

When we are anxious or stressed, our brains go into flight or fight mode, and we find it hard to calm ourselves. This meditation helps you to reduce your anxiety by targeting the fear system of your brain and providing you relief from anxiety or stress.

A mindful body scan gives us the rare opportunity to experience our body just as it is, in this moment. It allows us to feel connected with ourselves, grounded and relaxed. Many of us carry so much tension in our body and it's not until when we tune into it, that we can start to let go of everything that is weighing us down.

This meditation is designed to help you let go of the anxiety associated with not receiving a reply from someone. It will help you to let go of the anxiety and come to peace with the situation at hand.

Using your breath to nourish you and carry you off to sleep, letting go of what you don't need.

In a moment of panic, this meditation helps you to calm and centre yourself by using your greatest asset - your breath.

This meditation is designed to help you feel calm and grounded as you move throughout your day.

Often we seek happiness from external things, yet happiness resides within us. This meditation helps you to connect with your own sense of happiness, joy and inner contentment.

There are certain times in the day when we just need to take a breath and reconnect with ourselves. This meditation helps you to step out of the busyness of your day and gain back some clarity.

At times, sleep can feel so out of reach. This meditation is designed to help you drift peacefully off into a deep and restful sleep. May you enjoy the drift.

The ocean is a symbol of renewal and cleansing. Allow the waves of the ocean to wash away any troubles, and come away with a renewed sense of clarity and energy.

Calm your busy mind with this imagery mediation.

Imagine yourself on a cloud, as it carries you off to sleep.

There are times in our life when things change and we weren't expecting them to. When unwanted change happens, we find it extremely difficult to accept and embrace it in our lives. This meditation helps you to open yourself up to accepting change, and allows you to let go of the suffering that comes along with unwanted change.

So many of us wake up feeling exhausted, with a long list of things to do. This meditation is an invitation to pause, to sit in the sunshine and feel truly centred before the day begins. Rise and Shine.

This meditation was designed with the beginner in mind. This meditaiton guides you through the basics of how to sit in meditation and helps you to start developing your practice.

Connecting with nature has shown to increase our levels of happiness and helps us to feel calm and grounded. This meditation allows you to connect with the outdoors through your senses.

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.

At the end of a long day, it can be all too easy to just eat mindlessly. This meditation helps you to practice eating mindfully, so you can start to slow down and really enjoy your meals.

This mindful body scan helps us to feel calm and grounded in our bodies.

Allow yourself to be immersed in the soothing sounds of nature, to help you feel calm, relaxed, and at ease.

Often when we are stressed or tense, we spend out time thinking about what we have to do next. Yet this means that we can lose touch with what is already here. This is a simple practice to help you come home to presence and fill your heart with gratitude.

Our breath is an ever present anchor that allows us to tune into the here and now. This meditation practice helps you to tune in and focus on your breath, and helps you to ground and center yourself.

Connect with the soothing rhythm of your breath and feel nourished and restored. This meditation will help you bring kind attention to yourself and use your breath to soothe yourself.

When we're in a period of busyness, it can be difficult to quiet our mind enough to fall off to sleep. This meditation will help you to settle your busy mind and send you off to sleep.

When we want to calm or soothe ourselves, it can help to take ourselves in our mind's eye to a safe place in our mind. This meditation exercise allows you to create a safe and soothing place, so that you can feel calm and relaxed.

Often we get caught up in our minds or swept away by our emotions. We can feel unsteady, disconnected or overwhelmed. This is a simple practice for reconnecting and grounding ourselves in the present moment, so that we can move through our day with a sense of ease and internal balance.

Whatever happens outside of ourselves, there is a joyful place that is all our own, a place of inner refuge. Discover a newfound resilience that is your inner smile.

A progressive muscle relaxation to help you let go of tension and drift off to sleep.

Taking a three minute breathing space allows us to refocus and recenter. This meditations helps train your attention, to be both narrow and wide. It teaches you how to choose what you are tuning in to, and calms and focuses you.

By tuning into our senses, we can connect more deeply with the present moment, and cultivate the skill of mindfulness. This meditation uses the sense of sound to connect with the here and now, and allows you to improve you focus, reduce anxiety, and alleviate stress.

When we wake from a nightmare, we can find it hard to settle back to sleep. This meditation helps you to rewrite your nightmare and gently drift back to sleep.

When we transition from our work day to home, we can sometimes take home the frustrations and stress from our day, and let it impact our home life. This meditation helps you to enter the "third space", a transitionary space that allows us to let of work and our busy day, and enter into a new and replenished headspace.

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