Use this practice to take the break you need when you are struggling. This short practice helps you to acknowledge your feelings and give yourself the compassion you deserve.

Take a break and practice self-compassion to acknowledge your emotions and feel better.

3 Minutes of Self-Compassion

This meditation is wonderful to extend compassion and good feelings outward, but also within. It is said that one who extends compassion, is the one who heals.

Meditation helps extend compassion outward and within, with the belief that the one who extends compassion is the one who heals.

Metta Meditation (Loving And Kindness)

This guided meditation allows you to introduce yourself to a part of your inner child by looking at memories that may cause sadness or pain, as well as memories that bring about happiness and playfulness. By getting to know your inner child, you as an adult can begin to care for and parent those parts of yourself.

Guided meditation helps adults care for their inner child by exploring both happy and painful memories.

Meeting Your Inner Child

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.”

Take a 90-minute Attention Restoration Meditation break at work for renewed focus; use earphones to block noise and sit for a few moments after.

The Source: Attention Restoration

A short micro-practice for daily use or to be used anytime, anywhere. Attune to others and practice compassion in less than three minutes.

Daily micro-practice to attune to others and practice compassion in under three minutes, anytime and anywhere.

Attuning to Others

We can never find the time to be kind to ourselves when we are having a difficult moment. This short 3-minute exercise can fill that short gap and make it achievable for you to take some time out to have a break and take a breath.

A 3-minute exercise can help you take a break and be kind to yourself during difficult times.

Self Compassion Break

Practice Attention Restoration Meditation every 90 minutes at work for renewed focus; use earphones and take a few moments to sit and "be" afterwards.

Song of the Waterfall: ARM

Empowering the listener with love for themselves and for those around them. For best results, listen to this track once per day for 15 days in a row. It will hugely help the listener to build more compassion for their friends, enemies, and self.

Listening to this track daily for 15 days fosters self-love, compassion for others, and personal growth.

Soma Loving Kindness 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 and image courtesy of listeningearth.com.

Take an Attention Restoration Meditation break every 90 minutes at work to give your mind a self-compassion break and resume work with renewed focus.

Water Over Pebbles: an ARM

Offering compassion to oneself is a powerful tool on your healing path.

Compassionate Self

This is a silent practice meditation. I'll start with a short pep talk about meditation, and gently we will be moving through our sweet practice. This meditation has silent spaces in order to bring awareness within. Thank you for listening. I'll see you on the other side. Cata.

Silent practice meditation with pep talk, sweet practice and silent spaces for awareness.

Awareness & Silence Meditation

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.

Breathe to soothe and comfort yourself, develop self-compassion.

Affectionate Breathing

A micro-practice of compassion sharing that can be done anytime, anywhere.

Compassion sharing micro-practice anytime, anywhere.

I Wish You Well Today

In this exploratory practice, notice what it means to be mindful. Mindfulness defined is: as 'being aware, reflective, being of presence, observant, attentive to what 'is', and curious with compassion.' It is focused attention, non-doing, actively tuning into each moment to be awake and aware. Your mindfulness practice teaches you how to become self-aware, proactive, 'in control', and learn about yourself. Together, let's experience an openness to the practice of mindfulness. Namaste!

Mindfulness is the practice of being present, observant, and aware, teaching self-awareness and control, promoting openness and curiosity.

3 Minutes Of Mindfulness

A breathwork exercise, following the FARMs format I developed for meditation. FARMs is an acronym for Facilitation of Accommodating Recommendations for Meditation & is designed to support us in cultivating, & growing a mindfulness practice through meditation. This exercise is great as a practice for beginners, as well as a starting point in self-led meditation for more experienced practitioners!

A beginner-friendly breathwork exercise using the FARMs format for cultivating a mindfulness practice through meditation.

Tranquility, Compassion, & Empathy

During this meditation, we will focus on the breath to quiet the mind and then offer self-compassion to different areas of the body. By resting your awareness in different areas of the body, we can relax those areas with care.

Meditation to quiet the mind and offer self-compassion to different areas of the body by resting awareness in those areas to relax them with care.

Compassion for the Whole Body

Often it can be easier to extend kindness and compassion to those with who we have effortless and easy connections, but not as easy to direct that energy towards ourselves, or to those with who we are experiencing difficulties within a relationship. In this guided meditation, we take time to practice sending loving-kindness towards ourselves and to others, regardless of the status of our relationship with them.

A guided meditation to practice loving-kindness towards oneself and others, even in difficult relationships, to cultivate compassion.

Practising Loving Kindness

This meditation helps us to lessen the grip that emotional or physical pain can have on us, by practicing lending a soft and soothing compassionate awareness to what is felt - instead of resisting or pushing it away. Coming from love, not fear.

This meditation teaches us to embrace and alleviate emotional or physical pain with compassionate awareness, reducing its hold on us.

Soften, Soothe, Allow

We can practice sending loving thoughts toward others which are easier than sending them to ourselves sometimes. In this practice, we start with others to open our minds and then we sit and allow feeling to emerge when we direct these kind words toward ourselves. Self-compassion is good for our health even though we think it is difficult.

Practice sending loving thoughts to others first to open your mind, then direct them towards yourself for self-compassion, which is good for your health.

Loving Kindness For Self And Other

This self-love visualization meditation guides you to connect with memories of pure, unconditional love, whether it’s the joy of your first puppy, the warmth of a loved one’s hug, or a heartfelt gift. By immersing yourself in these feelings, you’ll visualize love as a golden light showering over you, filling you with care, compassion, and joy. This practice reminds you that self-love comes from within and empowers you to fill yourself with light and limitless love at any moment. Source Love is limitless.

Self-love visualization meditation connects you to memories of pure love, visualizing it as golden light showering over you. Love comes from within.

Source Love Guided Meditation

Join me for a short journey into nature to simply let go, and regain that feeling of lightness within you.

Take a brief journey into nature to let go and rediscover inner lightness.

Letting Go Meditation In Nature

This gentle meditation brings awareness to any areas of the body that feel tension, anxiety, or discomfort. Offering compassion and softening to these areas can be very calming and healing.

A gentle meditation that brings awareness to tense and uncomfortable areas of the body, providing comfort and healing through compassion and softening.

Mindfulness Of The Body

This meditation is a lovely way for a child to learn to connect with his/her higher self. You may also wish to refer to a guardian angel, inner voice, or spirit guide. In this meditation, I refer to a special fairy. Meditation is ideal to do before any creative activity, as it can help a child to reconnect with his/her creativity and innate gifts. Background music: Deep Into Nature composed by Music Of Wisdom

Meditation helps children connect with their higher self, guardian angel, inner voice, or spirit guide, and this particular meditation includes a fairy and is ideal before creative activities.

Tree Fairy - Connecting With Higher Self

This meditation invites you to scan not only your body, but your "being", to bring your awareness to self, and this present moment. End the session with self-love and compassion.

This meditation encourages body and self-awareness, emphasizing self-love and compassion in the present moment.

Simple Body Scan & Body Gratitude

Use this guided meditation to connect to that love inside of yourself and then use that love to give to all beings, even the ones you may feel don't deserve it! This meditation creates the energy of unconditional love inside every cell of your body. It will help you to practice forgiveness, practice becoming less judgmental, and practice having more love and compassion in your life!

Meditation creates unconditional love inside every cell of the body, helping to practice forgiveness, becoming less judgmental, and having more compassion.

Love All Beings

This meditation session will help you develop a sense of compassion and understanding by coming to feel our shared sense of experience as human beings. This practice called, “Just Like Me” can help overcome that sense of difference and distrust by opening channels of compassion for ourselves and others.

"Practice 'Just Like Me' meditation to build compassion and understanding by connecting with shared human experiences."

Compassion For Others Meditation

Your regular self-talk is often unkind. You can tune in to this voice and acknowledge these thoughts with mindfulness. You can also learn to tune in to the things you like about yourself.

Be mindful of your self-talk; acknowledge unkind thoughts and focus on positive aspects of yourself.

What You Like About Yourself

Self-compassion encourages us to treat ourselves with kindness. Being self-compassionate serves as a reminder that we are never alone in our sorrow. We improve our ability to control our emotions, maintain composure in the face of adversity, and withstand stress and adversity.

Breathing Self-Compassion Meditation

Approach your day from a place of ease. Use this short track to create a sense of peace. Carry this simple affirmation into your day to help meet the challenges of the day with patience and flexibility.

Use a short track and affirmation to approach your day with ease, creating peace and enhancing patience and flexibility for meeting challenges.

I Am At Ease

Finding time to take a few mindful minutes can help to create peace… even if it seems like you are in the midst of chaos. This short meditation uses a simple affirmation to help you create a sense of peace, even on the most stressful of days.

A short meditation with a simple affirmation can help create peace during chaos and stress.

Creating Peace Within

This short meditation uses a simple affirmation to invite you to incorporate gratitude into your daily life in a more intentional way.

Use a simple affirmation to invite gratitude into your daily life with this short meditation.

I Am Grateful

This meditation invites you to take a few minutes to embrace your personal journey. Your journey is comprised of all of your experiences, those that have already taken place, and those that are yet to come.

Embrace your personal journey by reflecting on past and future experiences in this meditation.

Embrace Your Journey

Use this short track to create a moment of peace anytime you need it.

A short track to find inner peace whenever needed.

Moment Of Peace

This short reflection invites you to begin to listen to your inner voice…as you ask, “what do you need today?”

Reflect on your inner voice by asking yourself "What do you need today?"

What Do You Need Today?

Start your mornings off with this meditation or whenever you feel like you need to stop and return to the present moment. This track will have you feeling reenergized, clear headed and calm.

Meditation track to start mornings or return to present moment; promotes reenergization, clarity, and calmness.

Morning Meditation For Clear Head & Calm

This short reflection invites you to let go of any judgment you be holding toward yourself and accept yourself-wherever you may be in your journey right now.

Let go of self-judgment and accept yourself wherever you are in your journey.

I am…

It is important to take a few minutes every day to just rest. Listen to these affirmations as you allow yourself to rest and take a self-care break.

Take a self-care break and listen to affirmations to rest for a few minutes every day.

Affirmations For Self-Care

So often we're running from one thing to the next and forgetting that in each moment, we have the option to feel that we have arrived. Feel the sense of peace and relaxation as you practice with these words - why not try it?

Take a moment to feel the sense of peace and relaxation in each moment by practicing the option of feeling that you have arrived.

I Have Arrived, I Am Here

Use this short track to take a break from the stress around you and begin to find stillness within.

Find inner peace by taking a break from stress with a short track.

Finding Stillness

Use this short morning practice to start your day with intention. Take a couple of minutes to focus on the day ahead and then use a brief visualization to nurture this focus. The music in this meditation is “Free Spirit,” by Leon Riskin, which you can also listen to here on Aura.

Start your day with intention by using a short morning practice that includes focus and visualization, accompanied by calming music.

Preparing for a Great Day

Taking time to care for yourself is one of the most important things you can do. Use this short meditation to take a self-care break.

Self-care is vital, take a break with a short meditation.

Relaxed & Ready

By choosing to practice gratitude every day, even in hard times, you are choosing to up-level your happiness and well-being in every area of your life. During this session, you are invited to choose one thing that you are grateful for in five important areas of your life.

Practicing gratitude daily can improve overall happiness and well-being in every aspect of life by focusing on one thing to be thankful for in five important areas.

Simply Grateful

A great way to start any day is in meditation. Let this mindfulness exercise support you to begin your day at Peace & with a calm mind.

Start your day with peace and calm by practicing mindfulness meditation.

You Are Peace & Loving Kindness

This short, guided meditation will help you to be fully present in this moment. Taking short breaks throughout the day to just “be here” in the present moment can help to decrease anxiety, manage emotions, release tension and improve focus. Building a consistent mindfulness practice can start by allowing yourself a few minutes to just be here in this moment.

A guided meditation to be present in the moment can reduce anxiety, manage emotions and improve focus, helping to build a consistent mindfulness practice.

Be present in this moment

Settle in with this relaxing practice to find balance between your breath, body and mind; checking in, beginning again, again.

Relax and find balance through a practice of checking in with your breath, body, and mind, beginning again and again.

Beginning Again

This 3 min meditation will anchor you firmly in the present moment. Freeing you from the anxiety and stress of the past and future.

A 3-min meditation to free you from stress and anxiety by anchoring you in the present.

Present Moment Meditation

This short meditation pairs a relaxed breathing pattern with a powerful affirmation to remind you that you are already whole. Just as you are.

Meditation with breathing pattern and affirmation to remind you of wholeness.

I Am Already Whole

Building a consistent meditation practice can be transformative. Meditation offers so many benefits. The opportunity to experience your feelings without judgment, the ability to ground yourself in the present moment, and the chance to learn another critical skill-beginning again. It is normal for your thoughts to wander when practicing meditation. Bringing your attention back to the present moment allows you to practice the skill of beginning again (and again). With practice, this skill can then be used in other areas of your life. It can often be helpful to bring yourself back to this moment and begin again.

Meditation provides transformative benefits like grounding in the present, learning to begin again, and practicing mindfulness for use in daily life.

Begin Again

The way we start our day sets the tone for the rest of the day. This short set of guided prompts is designed to make the next 24 hours flow with ease and grace.

Guided prompts for starting the day to make the next 24 hours flow with ease and grace.

Have a Great Day

Life can feel chaotic. The pressure to keep up, to balance it all, can feel overwhelming. Sometimes the best thing you can do in these moments is to be still. This short track allows you to practice resting in the moment. To be still.

Amid life's chaos, find peace by practicing stillness with this short track.

Be Still

Explore a simple technique to shift your focus and gently quiet and calm an anxious or racing mind. Find peace and relaxation.

Learn how to quiet your racing mind and find peace through a simple focus shifting technique.

From Anxiety to Calm

This is the right practice to get introduced to our Chakra System. To many of us, the Chakra System is still an alien concept. Saqib will guide you through the process of Chakra Balancing that is easy to understand, follow and practice. It starts with a brief talk by Saqib explaining the concept so that you connect better with the meditation, followed by the guided practice. It is also a good exercise for regular practitioners of Chakra Balancing as they will experience a new and interesting approach to this practice. The Chakra Music in the background creates the perfect ambiance for this practice.

Learn about Chakra System & practice Chakra Balancing with Saqib's easy-to-follow guided meditation using Chakra Music as the perfect ambiance.

Learn Chakra Balancing

Letting go is a necessary part of moving on, but letting go is something that is so hard for many of us. This meditation invites you to use the exhale to begin to let something go.

Exhale to let go and move on with this meditation.

Let Something Go

Starting each day with gratitude can help to improve your mood and lower your overall stress. This short track helps you prepare for the day by encouraging you to focus on gratitude.

Start your day with gratitude to improve mood and reduce stress with this short track that encourages focus on gratitude.

Start With Gratitude

Sometimes when you start to feel sad, anxious, or overwhelmed, it can indicate that you may be holding on to hurt. This meditation can help you begin to let go of some of that hurt and open your heart to the possibilities that the universe has in store for you today.

Meditation helps to let go of hurt, anxiety, and sadness, and open your heart to the possibilities that the universe has in store for you.

Letting Go of Hurt

Self-esteem is not a constant. The stress of everyday life can sometimes take a toll on how we feel about ourselves. Practicing affirmations can help improve your self-esteem.

Stress affects self-esteem, affirmations improve it.

Affirmations For Self-Esteem

This short track will help you tune into the present moment and encourage you to accept this moment “as is.” Use this track to start your day with an open mindset or to take a break any time you might need it.

A mindfulness track to embrace the present moment and cultivate an open mindset for a refreshing start to the day or a rejuvenating break.

As Is

The most important voice in your life is your own. Using powerful affirmations, this short track invites you to begin to speak to yourself with kindness and helps to improve confidence.

Boost your confidence and self-love with powerful affirmations that encourage you to be kind to yourself. Your voice is the most important one.

I Am Enough

This short, guided meditation encourages you to take a break from the pressures of life, whether external or internal. It reminds you that “it is ok to pause.”

Guided meditation encourages a break from life pressures and reminds it's okay to pause.

Pause…

In today’s world, feeling overwhelmed is bound to happen at some point. This short meditation uses an affirmation to help you check stop to check in with yourself. To acknowledge your feelings, whatever they might be today.

Overcome feeling overwhelmed with a short meditation that uses affirmations to check in with yourself and acknowledge your feelings.

All of My Feelings Are OK

Take a quick joy break and feel delighted again with these 5 simple joy affirmations. ~Joy is my natural state and from this day forward I choose to learn and grow through joy ~I breathe joy into all of my relationships ~I joyfully anticipate and welcome all good things today ~I choose to rebalance and reenergize my body with joy ~I open my arms to abundant joy in every area of my life Increase your long-term, joyful feelings by writing these down in your journal and repeating them often throughout your day.

5 simple joy affirmations to feel delighted again: Joy is my natural state, breathe joy into relationships, choose joy, rebalance body with joy, and open arms to abundant joy.

5 Simple Joy Morning Affirmations

This short track will help you ease into your day peacefully. It will leave you feeling calmer, lighter, and ready for the day ahead.

Boost your morning with this calming track, leaving you peaceful, lighter, and ready for the day ahead.

Beginner Meditations