When we hurt it is because we have allowed someone to affect us negatively; to cause us harm, to feel doubt, fear, insecurity, or discouragement, when really each time that we experience someone's negativity, they are simply showing us their reaction, and their feelings and thoughts in that particular moment. How often do we allow others to hurt us? Your decision must be to step back, to step away from taking on whatever hurts may be directly or indirectly pointed at you. You wouldn't choose to be hurt. You would choose to be love and to feel loved. So begin with this. Become great at this. This is the ability to love yourself and to trust wholeheartedly in your goodness, your infinite power, your truth. with love Namaste!

Don't allow others to hurt you; step back and focus on loving and trusting yourself instead.

No One Can Hurt You Unless You Allow It

When you are experiencing burnout it’s important to allow yourself to rest and receive just a moment of comfort amidst the chaos.

It's crucial to rest and seek comfort during burnout.

Rest and Receive Comfort

We're often told we shouldn't be angry and that anger is damaging to our system. In this short session, we explore the bad rep anger takes on and how, if we can practice mindfulness amid the anger, we can use it as the transformation necessary at the moment. Through self-awareness, with a sense of peace and ease, the anger can take a new shape of compassion and thoughtful action.

Anger can be transformed into compassion and action through the practice of mindfulness and self-awareness.

Transform Anger into Thoughtful Action

Today's lesson was inspired by a documentary I'm watching in which a guy reacts very instinctively to someone he thinks is rude or inconsiderate. If you're honest with yourself, we've all encountered situations or people like this in our lives, then the question becomes, who is the real enemy?

Lesson: In a documentary, a man reacts instinctively to someone he perceives as rude. Who is the real enemy in such situations?

The Real Enemy

The peace we wish to see in the world begins within our own hearts and minds.

Peace Begins Within

Healthy self-regulation is the ability to be attentive to what you need at any given moment. It includes identifying what you want-how you want to feel-and your decision for optimizing this within the context of what is the best possible choice. In this episode of Life Coaching WISDOM, discover the importance of self-regulation, what constitutes 'healthy' vs 'unhealthy' self-regulation, and take inventory of whether your 'habits' are bringing you balance - or moving you further 'out of' balance. Join me for the 'spoken word' guided meditation at the end for deeper self-reflection and the experience of self-regulation for relieving anxiety and experiencing calm and inner peace. Namaste!! xo dorothy

Learn the importance of healthy self-regulation, identifying your needs and optimizing choices for balance in this Life Coaching WISDOM episode.

Defining Healthy Self-Regulation

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful practices there is for setting ourselves free to be in love, joy, peace, wholeness, abundance, prosperity, and harmony, regardless of external circumstances or conditions. However, the practice of forgiveness is largely misunderstood. And so, I invite you to join me in this first out of three sessions dealing with forgiveness. In this particular session, we will cover the theoretical aspects of forgiveness, what it is, and its purpose. Welcome.

Forgiveness is a powerful practice for inner peace and harmony, but is often misunderstood. Join a session to learn what it is and its purpose.

The Power Of Forgiveness Pt 1

This track explores how we can be our own worst critic and how we talk to ourselves through criticism can impact our outcomes in life. Listening to our self-talk and being kind to ourselves is an essential step on the road to creating the right mental environment to flourish.

Self-talk and self-criticism can greatly influence our outcomes, emphasizing the importance of being kind to ourselves for personal growth and success.

Be Kind To Yourself

"I`ll be happy when..." is the ego's way to ensure that you`ll never be happy. How you are feeling right now in this moment is what the Universe is responding to and that`s what you`ll get more of in the future.

Don't wait for happiness in the future, the universe responds to your current emotions. "I'll be happy when" mindset is self-sabotaging.

Stop Delaying Your Happiness

This track discusses how we can use kindness in our lives to set the right intentions, to help ourselves and others to help the world be a better place for the future.

The text advocates using kindness to foster positive intentions, benefiting both individuals and the world for a better future.

Kindness Is Magic

This is a practice of sitting with uncomfortable emotions, feelings, and sensations with an anchor in the present moment. A practice of showing up for yourself in ALL the emotions, feelings, and sensations, a practice of showing yourself compassion and kindness even in the midst of the muck. A practice of sitting with yourself.

Mindfulness practice involves sitting with uncomfortable emotions and sensations, showing oneself kindness and compassion even in trying circumstances.

Sit With Yourself

As we move along the Path of Freedom, we inevitably fall short of our expectations as to who we "should" be, what we "should" know, and what we "should" be able to do. Each and every time, we are offered the opportunity to, rather than beat ourselves up, get up and love ourselves up. In other words, we get to practice self-love and self-compassion in a beautiful way. I invite you to join me as we explore why it does not serve us to judge ourselves and how we can love ourselves unconditionally.

We should practice self-love and self-compassion instead of judging ourselves when we fall short of our expectations on the Path of Freedom.

When We Fall - We Love Ourselves Up

Sometimes it is the smallest things that make the biggest impact. Focus today on what small things can fuel you, nourish you, and fill you back up. Then, add it into your life and one small thing at a time create the life of your dreams.

Focus on small things that can fuel, nourish, and fill you up, adding them into your life to create the life of your dreams, one step at a time.

One Small Thing

How you show love and care towards yourself is everything. It makes you autonomous; free to rely on who and what you are for your happiness. Your love - your inspiration into the world and into who and what you are. Your love overshadows fear and self-doubt. The more that you appreciate and value your goodness and all of the many blessings of your life the more empowered you feel to strive for greatness. Join me here for the three actions of self-honor that guide you into self-love. Namaste!

Love and care for oneself leads to autonomy, inspires greatness, overshadows fear, and empowers individuals to rely on themselves for happiness.

Honor Who You Are

Do you ever take time to dream? Just, Daydream I mean. Daydreaming is an essential practice needed too unleash your creativity and explore the wonders of your own mind, without judgement. Follow along as I teach you some of the reasons it's so beneficial, and give you a few pointers how to get started.

Daydreaming is crucial for creativity and exploration of the mind without judgement, and this article provides reasons and tips on how to get started.

Take Time to Dream

We often harbor feelings of self-doubt, questioning whether we have done enough in our relationships, in our work, or by this time in our lives. It can leave us feeling that underneath it all we are never quite enough. If you have been struggling with feelings of self-doubt, unworthiness or not-enoughness, this short meditation is an invitation to connect with a deeper sense of worthiness. Knowing that at the heart of it, you are enough, gives you the strength and steadiness within to navigate the highs and lows of life.

Struggling with self-doubt? Meditate to find a deeper sense of worthiness and know that at the heart of it, you are enough to navigate life's ups and downs.

Knowing You Are Always Enough

This brief session offers a glimpse into the profound gift of forgiveness. My hope is that it serves as a gentle reminder that forgiveness is not only an act of strength but also an act of self-kindness and a doorway to freedom, allowing you to live more authentically and fully.

Forgiveness is a powerful act of self-kindness and freedom that allows one to live authentically and fully.

Practicing Forgiveness (It's For You)

Do you constantly feel like you're not good enough? Does your inner critic remind you of this all the time? This track will take you through an exercise to help you shift from not enough to being enough. Just as you are.

This track helps shift the mindset from feeling not enough to being enough as you are.

Not Good Enough?

An inspiring talk that teaches one of the most helpful relationship skills you can build. You will learn how how to navigate emotional turbulence with your partner by being present and listening without judgment.

Learn to navigate emotional turbulence in relationships through present and non-judgmental listening, in this inspiring talk on building relationship skills.

A Helpful Relationship Skill To Build

Whenever another individual acts in a hurtful and harmful way, rather than seeking to retaliate and strike back, we are wise to bless them and wish them well. Whatever they did or did not do, while we may have been victimized by it, it had nothing to do with us, but they were under the aegis of ignorance, under the influence of not understanding that there were higher choices available to them. I invite you to join me as we explore why we are wise to bless those who hurt us. Namaste

Rather than seeking revenge, bless those who hurt you, as their actions may have been rooted in ignorance and lack of understanding of higher choices.

Whatever They Did - Bless them

In this recording Inspire you to practice being more intentional and aware about how we are all connected to each other and how important it is for us to know how powerful the ripple effect is that we have on one another. To learn more about Tina Stinson, head over to https://www.tinastinson.com

Inspiring reflection on our interconnectedness and the impact we have on each other, urging intentional awareness. Learn more at tinastinson.com.

Be Intentional About Connection

Suppose you and your partner desire to re-calibrate ~ to experience the feelings of love that were once so powerful and to know a newfound level of intimacy and closeness. In that case, each (and all) of these best practices will help immensely in experiencing new love in your existing love relationship. Please reach out to me if I can further help you towards this goal of rebuilding and nurturing new love, intimacy, and compassion. Namaste! Please also be sure to listen to the full version of this track for the complete list.

This text provides best practices to rekindle and deepen love in a relationship, aiming to rebuild intimacy and compassion.

8 Ways To Fall In Love With Your Partner

As we move along the Path to Freedom, we eventually come to realize that every single moment offers a new beginning, the opportunity for us to make new choices, higher choices. With this freedom of choice comes a responsibility - that is we have to make our own choices. Whatever good we desire to see manifested, we need to make the choice to begin to move in that direction. And if we don't do it, that choice will not be made. I invite you to join me as we explore the implications of this.

Every moment offers new opportunities and choices on the Path to Freedom, requiring us to take responsibility and make our own decisions towards manifesting our desires.

If We Don't Choose It - Who Will?

In this talk, we'll explore how self-care is vital for our well-being. Resilient people know how to take breaks and nourish themselves. If we’re continually striving to put others first, we’re likely to burn out. We'll explore two easy ways to produce oxytocin, a hormone that helps us feel loved, safe, and supported.

Learn the importance of self-care for wellbeing and how to produce oxytocin in two simple ways to feel loved, safe, and supported.

Connect With Your Compassionate Self

Practicing self-compassion can feel like cushioning. Offering the unloved parts of yourself love and acceptance. Become your cheerleader.

Embrace self-compassion as a form of self-love by being your own cheerleader and offering acceptance to your unloved parts.

Self Compassion As Food For The Soul

In this talk, Lou helps you rethink the common spiritual advice to "let go" and instead invites you to focus on the practice of understanding. Using examples of anger, pain, and judgment, Lou explains how these feelings have a positive intention, even when their coping mechanisms are no longer helpful.

Lou challenges conventional spiritual advice to "let go" and encourages understanding emotions like anger and pain as having positive intentions despite outdated coping mechanisms.

Why Letting Go Doesn't Work

As we move along the Path to Freedom, while we sometimes feel as though we are alone and that so much rests upon our shoulders to deal with... we are wise to always remember that while we may be alone in the human dimension of life, we are never alone from a spiritual perspective. As God is all there is, which means that we eternally are standing in absolute oneness with Spirit - no matter what we are facing, we can always lean into God to carry us. I invite you to join me as we explore this.

We are never alone from a spiritual perspective on the Path to Freedom, as we stand in absolute oneness with Spirit and can always lean into God for support.

We Are Never Alone

The four seasons of the natural world can teach us so much about our internal worlds. Listen and reflect on how you can gain insights into your internal landscapes by honoring and noticing Mother Nature.

"Exploring the relationship between the four seasons and our internal landscapes can provide valuable insights into our lives and well-being."

What Mother Nature Teaches Us

This profound wisdom from AA Milne's beloved characters Piglet & Pooh is an elixir for difficult times and an invitation for us all to cultivate more understanding, compassion, and empathy.

AA Milne's Piglet & Pooh offer profound wisdom as an elixir for tough times, encouraging understanding, compassion, and empathy in all of us.

If You Need A Friend In Difficult Times

As we are walking along the Path to Freedom, there comes a point where we need to allow for the space of self-healing to happen. I invite you to join me as we explore a very simple and powerful tool to call that healing forth. A tool that we can lean into whenever we have a moment in between. Namaste.

Explore a powerful self-healing tool on the Path to Freedom, to lean into in-between moments.

A Healing Conversation With Self

Curious to know what self-compassion is? Learn the ins and outs of what self-compassion is and don't forget to check out the other sessions in this self-compassion series.

Discover self-compassion and explore related topics in this series.

What Is Self-Compassion?

Deep down, we all want to feel connected. To feel connected with each other, with our community, and with all beings. We all want the same thing; To be happy, to be loved, and to feel connected.

We all desire connection and happiness through love and a sense of belonging with others and all beings.

Daily Practice For Love & Happiness

What can you do when you have a rainy day or an old memory that you would like to resolve. Learn how self-compassion and the RAIN exercise can help you to loosen the grip of negative emotions.

Learn how self-compassion and the RAIN exercise can help you let go of negative emotions on a rainy day or when resolving old memories.

We All Have Rainy Days!

What if self-sabotage was actually self-compassion - a subconscious means of protecting yourself? Self-sabotage comes as a result of conflicting desires. Deeply held beliefs drive your behavior, keeping you stuck between what you want and your ability to make a change. When you dig deeper into the beliefs behind your actions, you can find the grace and forgiveness you need to find lasting change and happiness.

Self-sabotage may be self-compassion, but conflicting desires and beliefs keep you stuck; understanding them leads to lasting change and happiness.

From Self-Sabotage to Self-Compassion

Heaven and Hell are not places we are either promised or eternally condemned to. But they are both states of consciousness, states of being. The beautiful thing with this is that we thus get to choose, in every single moment, if we wish to live in Heaven or Hell. I invite you to join me as we explore what Heaven and Hell are and how we can begin to give ourselves permission to live more and more in a heavenly state of consciousness. Now.

Heaven Or Hell - We Get To Choose, Now

Giving yourself permission to pause is the ultimate act of self-love and self-compassion. Self-care isn't selfish, it's necessary. Here are some gentle ways to find clarity and calm.

Self-care is necessary, so give yourself permission to pause for clarity and calm.

Permission To Pause

The art and practice of Embracing and allowing that which is to be as it is, is one of the most fundamental practices we can engage in to allow for the peace, the harmony, and wholeness to emerge from within us, as well as vibrationally align ourselves with the good that we desire. Learning to embrace and allow means to release and let go of attachments, opinions, and stories about what should and should not be. I invite you to join me as we move deep into exploring this beautiful practice.

Embrace and allow things to be as they are, let go of attachments and opinions, to find peace and harmony and align with desired outcomes.

The Art and Practice of Embrace & Allow

We're socialized to be nice. However, nice is not about connection, it's self serving. Nice is generally superficial. Instead, let's be kind. Kindness is connection. Kindness is in service. What's the difference? Listen to this brief recording to find out.

Being nice is superficial; being kind is how we truly connect. Learn the difference by listening.

Stop being nice!

Here we discuss how to shift your dialogue from judgment to compassion by asking yourself powerful questions. This, in turn, can improve your self-love, and body acceptance, and allow you to begin experiencing more self-kindness.

Shift from judgment to compassion by asking powerful questions to improve self-love, body acceptance, and experience more self-kindness.

Questions to Improve Your Self Esteem

Featuring a classic Theodore Roosevelt quote, hopefully, this inspires you to find new ways to give back! Follow for more insights that help you develop stronger self-awareness and strengthen the mindsets of your best self.

Inspiring Theodore Roosevelt quote encourages giving back and developing a stronger mindset. Follow for more self-awareness insights.

Do What You Can With What You've Got

Guiding wisdom for how best to live your life at this very difficult time; an opportunity to raise your level of consciousness; and to be compassionate and loving towards yourself, and others. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru_2jbIudkk May you all feel comfort and hope. Namaste! xo

Video offers guidance on living well during difficult times, raising consciousness, and showing compassion towards self and others. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru_2jbIudkk.

Helpful Calm & Guidance During Covid-19

Do you judge and criticize yourself when you make mistakes? Let's discuss forgiveness and the value behind a more compassionate and loving approach when we make mistakes.

Discusses the importance of forgiveness and self-compassion when making mistakes to avoid self-judgment and criticism.

How Do You Approach Mistakes You Make?

It can be very difficult to find compassion sometimes when you're at odds with someone. But taking the time to understand their point of view can create a better, happier world for you, them, and everyone!

Understanding others' perspectives leads to a better world for all.

More Compassion for More Happiness

We reflect on the layers of identity we construct—shaped by our physical appearance, attitudes, and the roles we choose to play. These identities often define how we present ourselves to the world, but what lies beyond them? What exists behind the masks we wear, beneath the surface of who we think we are? Today, we will explore the essence beyond the identities we cling to, inviting you to release the need for definition. In the stillness, you may begin to sense the presence of the true self—an identity untouched by labels, roles, or expectations. Allow yourself to experience the freedom that comes with uncovering the deeper "you."

Exploring the essence beyond constructed identities, uncovering the true self untouched by labels or expectations, finding freedom in release.

The Essence Behind Identity

To open the heart chakra, try repeating affirmations related to love and healing such as “I am open to love”, “I forgive myself and others”, “I love myself and all human beings”, or “I have an open heart”. Over time, repeating these affirmations will invite more love and compassion into your life! Cheers!

Repeating affirmations related to love and healing can help open the heart chakra, inviting more love and compassion into one's life.

Opening Your Heart Chakra!

If you and your partner have a desire to re-calibrate ~ to experience the feelings of love that were once so powerful and to know a newfound level of intimacy and closeness, then each (and all) of these best practices will help immensely for experiencing new love in your existing love relationship. Please reach out to me if I can be of further help to you toward this goal of rebuilding and nurturing new love, intimacy, and compassion. For more please find The WISDOM blog here: dorothyzennuriyejuno.com Namaste!

Learn best practices for rekindling love and intimacy in your relationship, and reach out for guidance on rebuilding and nurturing new love and compassion.

There are many examples of why we need more peace in the world; peace between countries and across nations, peace within our homeland; in our communities, and amongst the people that we see and interact with daily; and of course peace with our loved ones. What is needed for all of this to exist in peace in and of your heart; is to be the greatest expression of what you are. You find peace in your heart so that you can walk in peace regardless of what others may say or do. You find peace first within you. Then, you may walk the planet in ways that illuminate peaceful measures, kind action, words of care, and the presence of this moment for what this moment may offer and for what you demonstrate. Join me! Namaste!

To foster peace in the world, one must first find peace within themselves and walk in peaceful ways that demonstrate kindness and care towards others.

The Miracle of Peace (Sample)

The wisdom of the waves returns for some insights into this quality of compassion. These gentle words can be used as meditative listening. Today, Reuben guides us to simplify acceptance. This simplification goes against the grain of how we are conditioned to think about it.

Reuben simplifies acceptance, offering compassionate insights through meditative listening in the wisdom of the waves.

The Wisdom Of The Waves: Acceptance

Patterns of thinking, beliefs, assumptions, and the daily habits of the mind and body that keep us far removed from the precious experiences of our life and the way in which life reveals how perfect each moment truly is and how we can witness this purity with an open heart. In this episode of ‘ask dorothy’, we examine how life can be sacred, how it can feel special and hopeful ~ and how you can live your daily habits and routines as the most beautiful moments ~ enjoyed purely. If you enjoyed this look at living sacred, please check out the full episode here. Next, join me for the full series on the Niyamas (Saucha is the first of five episodes) and a deep dive into how you can nurture the relationship you have with yourself)! Namaste!

Learn how to break patterns of thinking and daily habits that keep us from experiencing life's precious moments, and witness the purity of each moment.

The Discipline Of Purity - Saucha (3min)

It doesn’t make a difference how extreme your pain is, or whether anyone else can recognize that it hurts as much as it does. Your pain still matters. And it is important to feel and acknowledge it fully. Listen to find out why this is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and the world.

Acknowledge your pain fully as it matters, regardless of its intensity or recognition, as it is essential for yourself and the world.

Compassion: Life Coaching