HeartWorks by Kristy Arbon

White-Browed Babbler in the Morning: an Attention Restoration Meditation

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be fully with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.” Nature sounds courtesy of listeningearth.com. Image by JJ Harrison (jjharrison89@facebook.com) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Breath Meditation with Affection

Bring mindfulness to your breathing in an affectionate way to warm up your relationship with your breath and with your body. Photo by Raychan on Unsplash.

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Self-Appreciation: 3 Things I Like About Myself

Appreciating things about yourself that, deep down, you like about yourself. Deep down, in the core of your being, there are some really good things about yourself that you really like - allow yourself to savor these good feelings.

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Anxiety Caring Connection

Taking a moment to slow down with your anxiety and to honor the fact that you feel anxious because you care. Honoring the person who is feeling anxious.

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This Emotion is not Me or Mine

We don't choose to have difficult emotions. They are not ours to claim. We didn't create them, we can release them, and they don't define us. We can find a little relief at the moment by choosing to not hang on to difficult emotions. Photo by Julia Caesar on Unsplash

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Allowing Yourself to Feel Satisfaction

Taking a moment to savor all the good intent and actions that lead you to this moment of practicing for yourself. Allowing yourself to let yourself know that you've done a good job.

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What Do You Need Right Now?

A simple exercise in dealing with difficult emotions. Photo by LucasVphotos on Unsplash

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Mixed Flock of Thornbills: ARM

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be full with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.” Nature sounds courtesy of listeningearth.com. Image by Mdekool (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Gratitude for Small Things

Gratitude for Small Things Photo by David Bartus from Pexels

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Gratitude For The People In Your Life

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.

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Distant Waters with Robin and Wren: ARM

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be full with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.”

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Song of the Waterfall: ARM

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be full with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.”

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Your Future Un-stressed Self

Projecting yourself into the future where all of the things that are causing your current stress are behind you, a time when there is nothing left for you to feeling stressed about. Savoring this feeling, allowing yourself to feel into the relief of being done with all of these things. Allowing your future self to soothe your current self. Photo by Jessica Felicio on Unsplash

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Breathing Kindess In, Releasing Difficulty Out

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.

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A Moment of Release

Imagining your life without a current situation that is causing you stress and anxiety. What would your life be like without this stress?

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Releasing Your Stress to the Earth

Allow your stress to flow out of your body and down into the earth to be transformed into light and ease. Photo by Jan Zikán on Unsplash

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Water Over Pebbles: an ARM

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be fully with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.” Nature sounds and image courtesy of listeningearth.com.

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Jacky Winter: an Attention Restoration Meditation

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation break at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be fully with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.” Nature sounds courtesy of listeningearth.com. Image by Aviceda (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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May You Have Everything You Need

Sit with yourself, be with yourself for a few minutes and offer yourself words of support and encouragement. May you thrive, may you feel peaceful, may you remember that you are a precious human being, may you feel at ease.

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Shoulders and Neck Care

Often we could go throughout the day, feeling stressed, feeling anxious, tensed and we don’t even realize that we are holding on to a lot of tension on our shoulders and our neck. This will help you to bring your awareness to the shoulders and neck and to give permission to rest down. Photo by Yan Krukov from Pexels

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Morning in the Primeval Forest: an Attention Restoration Meditation

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be fully with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.” Nature sounds courtesy of listeningearth.com. Photo by Bryan Rodriguez on Unsplash.

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Releasing Thoughts

Visualizing your thoughts traveling on your in breath and being integrated into your vast, wise, deep body. Allowing any residual thoughts to leave via your out-breath. Photo by Silas van Overeem on Unsplash

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A Moment of Self-Appreciation to Use Later

Allowing yourself to feel some appreciation for yourself. Things that you've done in your life have lead to you feeling this way. Allow yourself to delight in yourself and all of your good work, and then save this feeling for a time you need it in the future.

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Gratitude for Muscles

This thoughtful meditation can be used often and throughout the year to re-enforce our gratitude muscles.

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Gratitude for 4 Senses

This is a guided practice on awareness of gratitude, to calm the body and relax

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You Are Not Alone

You are not alone in your experience of sadness. Everyone feels just like this sometimes. This is a common humanity experience. You can keep yourself company. Photo by Eye for Ebony on Unsplash

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Morning Forest: Attention Restoration

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be fully with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.” Nature sounds and image courtesy of listeningearth.com.

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Offering Out Compassion & Lovingkindness

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

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Being Rocked By The Breath

Noticing the gentle rhythm of your breathing, the way your body is sweetly rocked by the breath.

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Head, Heart, Belly Awareness

When we bring our kind awareness to our head, our heart and our belly, we can tune in to what's going on in our body, calm ourselves, and tap into the wisdom in our body. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

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You Are A Deeply Caring Person

We need to take care of ourselves so that we can take care of the people and tasks in our daily life. Take a few moments to connect with yourself and to remind yourself that you are worthy of your own care and concern and the reason you feel stressed is because you are a deeply caring person. Photo by Sasha Freemind on Unsplash

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Breath Gratitude

Spending some time bringing awareness to the life-giving energy of the breath. Practicing some gratitude for this old friend. Photo by Le Minh Phuong on Unsplash.

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Rainbow Bee-Eater and Friends: an Attention Restoration Meditation

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be fully with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.” Nature sounds courtesy of listeningearth.com. Image by JJ Harrison (jjharrison89@facebook.com) - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15717619

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Awareness of Experience and Experiencer

Bringing our kind awareness to both ourselves as the experiencer and the experience in the moment. Photo by madison lavern on Unsplash.

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Breath Mindfulness

Resting your awareness gently on your breathing. There is nothing else to do except to notice that you are breathing. Allowing your experience to be simple and nourishing. Photo by Egor Vikhrev on Unsplash

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Body Scan Release

Giving your body permission to relax and release, even if just for a moment. Honoring this hard-working body in this practice. Photo by Carl Newton on Unsplash

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The Source: Attention Restoration

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be full with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.”

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Firm Foundation Meditation

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Keeping Your Body Company

Offering your body a little kindness and gratitude in this moment. Tending to this body that has always done its best to take care of you. Photo by Audrey Fretz on Unsplash.

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Edge of Alder Swamp: ARM

Enjoy an Attention Restoration Meditation (ARM) at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be fully with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.” Nature sounds courtesy of listeningearth.com. Image by Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=369466.

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Lovingkindness for Ourselves and Others

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What Is Important In This Moment?

Checking in with tension in thoughts, emotions and sensations, getting perspective, and grounding in the basics of what is important right now. Photo by @30daysreplay on Unsplash

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This Is a Temporary State

An exercise on how to deal with the temporary state of uncertainties.

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Breathing in Waves

Come home to your old friend, the breath. As you tune in to the cycle of your breathing, like waves on the ocean rising and falling, feel your mind quieten as you center your awareness.

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Compassionate Visitor's Gift

Gifts can come from within. We don't need approval or permission from the external world to use our gifts, or to cherish them. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

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Being With Sadness

Spending some time with our sadness. It is a part of us, and it means we care. Sadness will leave on its own - we don't need to push it away. How is it to honor your sadness at this moment? Photo by Volkan Olmez on Unsplash

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White Throated Gerygone and Friends

Enjoy an attention restoration meditation at least every 90 minutes at work. Give your mind a self-compassion break so that you can resume work with renewed focus. Put aside the time needed to be full with this meditation and use earphones so that you can block out noise in your environment. After enjoying the meditation, give yourself a few moments to sit and simply “be.” Nature sounds courtesy of listeningearth.com. Image by Aviceda (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Savoring the Sounds of Nature

A short, relaxation meditation using the sounds of nature.

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Savoring the Breath, Breathing Into the Back Lungs

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Listening to the Bird Song of Joy

A short meditation of listening to birds to relax and go back to our day.

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External Body Meditation

A short, mindful meditation in bringing awareness to our body.

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Immersing Yourself in Breath Awareness

Focusing your awareness on the breath and resting with this very simple, constant body process. How is it to rest your awareness on the breath for a while? Photo by Elijah Hiett on Unsplash.

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Internal Body Meditation

Inner body meditation is a simple way to slow your mind's pace of thinking and settle into a healing state of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

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Including Ourselves in Our Circle of Kindness

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