This morning meditation can help you to notice how you are doing and bring kindness to what you find. You are invited to ask the question "What do I need" for the day ahead.

Morning meditation fosters self-awareness and compassion, prompting you to ask "What do I need?" for the day ahead.

Waking Up With Kindly Awareness

We can often get caught up in worrying thoughts, which increases anxiety. Displacing our attention by tapping into the innate calming quality of the breath can help us develop a self-soothing habit. Over time, this habit enables us to automatically turn attention toward these calming qualities, both in our everyday lives and when we most need it.

Calm anxiety by shifting focus to breath, developing soothing habit to naturally turn attention to calming qualities.

Calm Anxiety With This Breath Meditation

We can bring kindness and gratitude to the body while we rest.

Infuse body with kindness and gratitude during rest for ultimate rejuvenation and relaxation.

Kindness For The Body in Deep Rest

We are very good at showing others kindness. Here is a short practice that can help us get into the habit of showing kindness to ourselves and rewriting our sometimes self-critical script.

Practice showing kindness to yourself by rewriting your self-critical script and forming a habit of self-compassion.

A Kind Gesture for Yourself

In this meditation, we explore revisiting happy experiences through the senses. Doing this is a simple and accessible way of realigning our mood and cultivating gratitude for small moments that have brought us joy.

Revisit happy memories through senses to boost mood and inspire gratitude for joyful moments in meditation.

Exploring Happiness Through The Senses

We can gently counter self-criticism by directing kindness to ourselves in meditation. We are not trying to feel anything in particular or forcing kindness, but gently countering some of the more critical voices we may have given attention to in our lives through no fault of our own. This is a process, and we may need to revisit this practice repeatedly.

Cultivate self-kindness in meditation to counter self-criticism gently and repeatedly, redirecting attention from critical voices.

Directing Kindness to Yourself

There may be times when stopping and taking the time to do a short practice right amid things can be helpful. It might even give us the chance to ask a really important question: What do I really need right now?

Pause for a moment to do a short practice amidst chaos to ask: What do I really need right now?

Breathing Space For When Times Are Hard

We can use the power of our imagination to create a 'Safe Place'. Somewhere, we can use our imagination to furnish, and somewhere we can return to where we feel a sense of safety and belonging.

Utilize imagination to create a safe haven for feelings of security and belonging.

A Safe Place Meditation

Here is a lovely and lesser-known story by Beatrix Potter read in a soothing voice to ease you into sleep.

Beatrix Potter's lesser-known story, read in a soothing voice, is perfect for bedtime relaxation.

The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan

Drift off to sleep with Mini the Elf as she sleeps by the river.

Fall asleep with Mini the Elf by the riverside.

Bedtime Story-Mini the Elf

This is a timeless and heartwarming story by Oscar Wilde. In it, a selfish giant's heart melts as he watches children playing in his garden.

Selfish giant learns compassion by watching children play in his garden in Oscar Wilde's heartwarming tale.

The Selfish Giant

Nicky Mouat

Mindfulness and Compassion Coach (RN)

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