It's important for us to understand that not every piece of criticism is an attack against your character, in fact, most of the time it's not. If we can look at it from a perspective that the individual is simply identifying a behavior in you that is affecting their feelings then we can realize it's one of two things. Either the other person is misreading the way you are communicating or it means that you have a behavioral pattern that could benefit from altering for the sake of yourself and other people. Behavior is learned, it is not who you are. By separating behavior from our inner being then we can truly self-reflect and elicit growth and real progression in life.

Criticism is not always a personal attack; it can help identify areas for improvement, leading to personal growth and progress.

Stop Taking Things Personally

This meditation practice invites the listener to enter into practice, start a dialogue with the sensation and be open to the message that the sensation might be here to communicate. By taking this axiom, that our body is trying to support us by communicating via sensation, we start to perceive our experience as helpful rather than something to manipulate or change. And we can start to receive the wisdom and innate intelligence within us.

This meditation helps to perceive sensations as a form of communication from the body, leading to the reception of wisdom and innate intelligence within.

Inquiry Practice For Sensation

It's so important to express yourself in a healthy way when you are feeling overwhelmed and not yourself. Sometimes we don't even recognize that we are overwhelmed. This meditation is the first step in identifying your emotional state and taking action towards communicating your feelings in a healthy way. I will guide you through practices of releasing tension and affirmation to help with this.

Identifying emotional state and communicating feelings in a healthy way is crucial. This meditation helps release tension and affirm positive actions.

Healthy Communication When Overwhelmed

Before we communicate our Boundaries to others, it is essential to do inner work to draw Boundaries effectively. By working on our Chakras, we activate all the qualities in us that are required to express our Boundaries. Join Saqib in this meditation, in which he will guide you through a Chakra practice, so that you can get into a state of inner harmony, resulting in harmony in your relationships.

Activate your inner qualities through Chakra work to communicate boundaries effectively and achieve harmony in relationships with meditation led by Saqib.

Chakra Work For Boundaries

Aligning the Chakras with someone you love can create a conscious relationship that has deep connection, communication, and empathy. You can do this practice alone or with that person.

Aligning Chakras with a loved one fosters deep connection, communication, and empathy in a conscious relationship, whether practiced solo or together.

Chakra Work For Conscious Relationships

Chronic pain is a tragic reality of life for so many. I won't use this space to speak ill of medication because there's absolutely a time and place for it. However, I will say that there are natural remedies that have been proven to have as much or more of an effect than many pain medications and without any harmful side effects so why not give it a try? Within minutes of listening to these bowls in a safe and comforting environment, listeners can expect a significant reduction or complete release of many types of physical pain. It's my greatest hope that this sound bath helps relieve as many people from their unnecessary pain and suffering as possible so please share it with those who may find it useful!

Natural remedies, like sound baths, offer pain relief without harmful side effects, providing hope for chronic pain sufferers everywhere.

Pain Relief Sound Bath

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 practice uses affirmations to help you connect with a sense of calm.

Use affirmations to connect with calm in short practice.

Affirmations for Calming

We all feel overwhelmed, stressed, or even angry sometimes. These emotions can be difficult to manage at times. You might find yourself reacting impulsively or even reacting in a way that may make the situation worse. If this sounds familiar, use this short track to help you learn to STOPP and respond in a more intentional way.

Learn to manage overwhelming emotions and react intentionally with the STOPP technique, a short track for better emotional control.

Manage Your Thoughts: Learn To STOPP

In this short, powerful talk, you will learn how to work with your triggers to find insight into what’s underneath the surface. You will be invited to notice patterns that are holding you back and use your triggers as an access point for transformation.

Learn to use your triggers as access points for transformation by noticing patterns holding you back in this powerful TED talk.

Transforming Your Triggers

Do you feel stressed, anxious, irritated, on edge, and tired? These are signs of being in survival mode. Shift out of survival mode and into your body's resting state. Regulate your nervous system with this nourishing and balancing practice to feel calm, and safe, and activate the healing state of your body.

Shift out of survival mode and into a calm state with a nourishing and balancing practice to regulate your nervous system and activate healing.

Nervous System Regulation

Forgiveness is possible. Learning to understand the connection between your thoughts and feelings can help you learn to forgive and let go of the hurt and anger you may be experiencing.

Understanding the link between thoughts and feelings enables forgiveness and release of hurt and anger.

Learn to Forgive

Once you learn this technique, you can do it in less than a minute, at any time. This technique interrupts stress, frustration, worry, annoyance in its tracks and helps you get present and pivot mindfully. STOP stands for Stop, Take breaths, Observe and Proceed. Try this to STOP what's not serving you and START nurturing yourself.

The STOP technique interrupts negative emotions, allowing mindfulness and self-nurturing. Can be done quickly and easily at any time.

STOP Technique For Stress Or Frustration

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

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

This quick session is designed to create space between you and everything else, taking a moment to slip into a warm, grounding stillness, where nothing is required of you. Breathe into a sacred space with me, and let all your worries dissolve.

Take a moment to find stillness and let your worries dissolve with this quick grounding session.

Mini Vacation - 4 Min Peace Meditation

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

Forgiveness is the key to help you unlock your dreams and desires that you've been trying to create in your life. If you want to live your best life you cannot skip this step!

To fulfill your dreams, forgiveness is crucial and not to be overlooked.

Forgiveness

We generally tend to push away uncomfortable or difficult emotions which might work in the short term, but over the long term can lead to resentment and anxiety. This meditation invites the listener to work with welcoming emotions, letting them be present, and use guided visualization to enter into a dialogue to better understand the emotion.

This meditation encourages welcoming difficult emotions and using guided visualization to better understand them, avoiding long-term resentment and anxiety.

Welcoming Difficult Emotions

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

Start your day off right with these powerful affirmations to help strengthen your relationship with money. These daily affirmations are designed to create a positive mindset to attract money and abundance in your life. What you believe you can achieve!

Boost your money mindset and attract abundance with daily affirmations designed to strengthen your relationship with money and achieve success.

Daily Abundance & Wealth Affirmations

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

Amor Fati is a Latin phrase that the stoics have used for centuries. When you begin using this term like a mantra it will move you from being a victim to a hero in this journey called your life! Cheers~

Use the Stoic mantra "Amor Fati" to transform from a victim to a hero in life's journey.

Amor Fati!! Enjoy Your Life!

Use this simple breathing exercise at any time of day to help you manage your emotions or quiet any racing thoughts you may be experiencing. It is a great way to start your day, refocus your thoughts when a break is long overdue, or even help you settle in for a good night’s sleep.

Practice this breathing exercise to manage emotions, quiet racing thoughts, and improve focus anytime of day, whether to start the day, take a break, or sleep.

Breathe in Peace

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

Let go of rumination and reactivity, in this meditation with breath, thoughts, and emotions. We'll soften and soothe tension in the body and mind, finding breathing space and balance again. Helpful for when we're depressed, angry, anxious, or stuck in unhelpful patterns of thinking.

Meditation helps release rumination and reactivity by soothing tension, restoring balance, and creating space for breathing, thoughts, and emotions.

Reducing Rumination And Reactivity

Whatever you are going through, this short guided meditation will help you find calm and inner peace. In less than 3 minutes it incorporates a perfect mix of breathing, relaxing the body, and a gentle reminder of the impermanence of all things. Keep this recording close and let it become your companion through troubled times. Image by Iva Rajovic @ Unsplash.

Find calm and inner peace with a short guided meditation, incorporating breathing, relaxation, and a reminder of impermanence in under 3 minutes.

Become Calm In 3 Minutes

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 helps release anger by using the body to let go of tense and irritated feelings.

Letting Go of Anger

Your inner critic thrives on fear and creating feelings of inadequacy and doubt to keep you safe. from embarrassment, failure, or trying new things. This track will teach you how to rescript the dialogue of your inner critic with messages that will help you instead of holding you back. To find out more about what I do visit www.wideopenstages.com

Learn to silence your inner critic by rescripting its dialogue with positive messages to overcome fear and self-doubt. Visit www.wideopenstages.com.

How To Rescript Your Inner Critic

Most of us are challenged by difficult emotions; either pushing them down or acting out of them. This talk gives a way of working with difficult emotions that comes from observing how cows and buffalo approach storms.

Learn how to work with difficult emotions by observing how cows and buffalo approach storms in this talk.

Dealing with Difficult Emotions

This simple breathing practice is ancient, our ancestors discovered that the key to calming the mind and body is longer exhalations. Neuroscience later discovered that when your exhale is longer than your inhale, the vagus nerve (running from the neck down through the diaphragm) sends a signal to your brain to turn up your parasympathetic nervous system and turn down your sympathetic nervous system. In other words when your exhalations are longer than your inhalations you move the nervous system into a calm state rather than a state which is ready to react to any perceived threat. Awesome!

Longer exhalations activate the parasympathetic nervous system, calming the mind and body; an ancient practice confirmed by neuroscience.

Calm Your Nerves With 7:11 Breathing

In this short meditation give yourself just the pause you need to start again. With whatever has happened, allow yourself to reset and go into whatever is next without any baggage from whatever has occurred. Fresh mindset starts now.

Reset your mind and start anew, leaving behind any baggage from past events.

Hit the Reset Button

In order to stay in alignment with the Universe, it's not necessary that you maintain a vibration of Joy and Happiness. In today's session, we will discuss the 22 different emotions that are on the scale so that when you find yourself in the lower vibrations you will know how to gradually move up to feeling better! Cheers

Learn 22 emotions to move up the vibrational scale for feeling better in a session on staying aligned with the Universe. #selfimprovement

Moving Up The Emotional Scale!!!

Experiencing pain, whether physical or emotional, can be overwhelming. Using affirmations can help to empower you and bring a sense of comfort as you heal.

Affirmations can empower and comfort during healing from physical or emotional pain.

Affirmations For Healing

Feeling angry or really stressed right now? This meditation is designed to help you return to the present moment during times of high emotion. It's hard for us to find mental clarity when we are looking through mental fog, let's clear the atmosphere of the mind so we can see clearly again.

Meditation helps to find mental clarity during high emotions and clear the fog to see clearly again.

Quick Stress & Anger Management

Even though it is very normal for us humans to resist that which is, resistance does not serve us in any way. In fact, at the metaphysical level, resistance only serves to magnify and amplify the very thing we are resisting. Not to mention that it makes us feel bad. If we instead can embrace and allow that which is to be as it is, without judging it or giving it names or labels, we are calling forth only peace, joy, harmony, and wholeness. It is all up to us to choose what we desire to call forth.

Resistance only serves to amplify what we resist; embracing and allowing things to be as they are brings peace, joy, harmony, and wholeness.

Embrace And Allow That Which Is To Be

Whenever we are faced with a challenge, we are also faced with a choice. We can either choose to take on the role of the victim, complaining and bemoaning our ill fate. Or seek to mine the challenge for the good that inherently is within each and every single challenge. To allow for the latter, we are wise to lean into these powerful questions to make us open and available to catch the gift and the blessing of transformation to reveal itself so that we may grow through our challenges with ease and grace.

When faced with challenges, we have a choice to either be a victim or find the good. Powerful questions can help us grow through challenges with ease.

Three Powerful Questions To Ask

Although it is very normal for us humans to complain and bemoan about as well as resist that which is, from a metaphysical perspective, none of these serve us. As the sacred laws can only reflect back to us our predominant vibration, the only thing complaining and resisting serves is to magnify and amplify the very thing we are complaining about. And so the way to move beyond and out of any unwanted condition is to turn our attention away from what we don't want to what we do want.

Complaining and resisting only magnify unwanted conditions; focus on what you do want to move beyond them, according to sacred laws.

Why Complaining Never Serves Us

Accepting | Releasing | Inviting This short refocusing meditation can be done anytime & anywhere to release the tension that is being consciously or unconsciously held in the body (& the mind). We can often encounter multiple stressful events during the day, adopt certain postures and positions of the body that are held for long periods of time, sometimes we don't even realize that there is tension in our muscles until we relax. This exercise accepts the tension and slowly, gently releases the tension using the simple, powerful tool of the breath. Progressively allowing softness into the body, breathing out the tension. Letting go of the tension we are able to reframe to invite relaxation into the body to feel calm & restored.

Refocus and release tension with a simple breath exercise that accepts, releases, and invites relaxation into the body, anytime, anywhere.

Deal with Anger