Start your day off with more energy, and more intention. Use these short affirmations to help you greet the day and set the tone for the day ahead.

Boost your morning energy and set the tone for the day with short affirmations.

Good Morning Affirmations

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

Taking a few minutes each morning to focus on a sense of gratitude is a wonderful way to begin your day. Beginning your day with gratitude can help you start your day with positive energy. It can help to cultivate a sense of mindfulness that you can carry with you throughout your day. I am grateful for this day.

Starting the day with gratitude cultivates mindfulness and positive energy that lasts throughout the day, making it a great practice.

Morning Gratitude

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

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

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 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…

Sometimes, when you find yourself in a heightened state, it can be difficult for your mind to settle. This short meditation helps you to meet yourself with compassion and patience. It encourages you to remember “this will pass.”

A short meditation to meet yourself with compassion and patience during a heightened state, reminding you that "this will pass."

This Will Pass

Mindful meditation helps you to be in the present moment. We spend so much of our lives focused on the next thing we think we need to accomplish or judging something from our past. This meditation will help you focus on being fully present without judgment or criticism. But with acceptance.

Mindful meditation helps you be present by focusing without judgment or criticism, promoting acceptance.

Acceptance

This short meditation reminds you that Enough is not a destination. Enough exists inside of you. Using the powerful affirmation “I have always been enough,” you can begin to replace the negative self-talk you have been experiencing.

Enough is not a destination, it exists within you. Replace negative self-talk with "I have always been enough." Short meditation to remind you of this.

You Have Always Been Enough

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 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

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

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…

Using affirmations consistently can help improve self-esteem, decrease anxiety and help to improve your mood. Use these affirmations daily to help you check in with yourself. To help you quiet your inner critic.

Consistent use of affirmations can improve self-esteem, reduce anxiety, and stabilize mood by quieting inner critics. Daily use is recommended.

Affirmations for Self Acceptance

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

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

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

Practicing gratitude daily can help to improve your physical and emotional health, as well as help you shift your overall mindset. Use these affirmations to help you begin to practice gratitude and start your day with a positive outlook.

Daily gratitude practice improves physical and emotional health, shifts mindset. Use affirmations for positive outlook.

Affirmations To Practice Gratitude

Learning to trust can be a difficult task for all of us. Learning to trust yourself may seem impossible at times. We all experience moments of self-doubt. This short meditation invites you to begin to explore the concept of self-trust and helps you to set an intention for your day.

A short meditation to explore the concept of self-trust and set an intention for the day, as learning to trust oneself can be difficult.

Trust In Yourself

Change is an inevitable part of life. There is no way to avoid it. And whether good or bad, change can be stressful. This meditation uses an affirmation to help you shift your relationship with change itself. To approach change with a more open mind.

Meditation helps to approach change with an open mind.

Accepting Change

Your day is not yet determined. It is full of possibilities. Use this meditation to help you create the day you need today.

Meditate to create the day you need today. Possibilities await.

Create Your Day

This short track uses affirmations to help you set aside any lingering thoughts, quiet your mind, and prepare you to ease into sleep.

Use affirmations to quiet your mind and prepare for sleep with this short track.

Affirmations To Help Ease Into Sleep

Living with chronic illness can be hard and can leave you feeling angry, sad, or scared. Chronic illness can be isolating and lonely. Use this short track to begin to acknowledge some of the feelings you may be holding in about the illness and to begin to shift some of your thoughts. Let this practice serve as a reminder that you are not alone.

Living with chronic illness is isolating and lonely, but acknowledging feelings and shifting thoughts can help you feel less alone.

Managing Chronic Illness

This track discusses something we all experience a some point, the fear of failure. Listen to learn how to shift your mindset when dealing with setbacks.

Learn to overcome the fear of failure by shifting your mindset when facing setbacks in this insightful track.

Overcome Fear Of Failure

What do you want to remember about today? This short track discusses how using this prompt can help you cultivate mindfulness, gratitude, and personal growth.

Reflect on today to enhance mindfulness, gratitude, and personal growth.

What Do You Want to Remember?

Taking the time to get to know yourself can be invaluable. Who you are is so much deeper than what you do for a living, where you live or even the roles you fill in your life. Really getting to know yourself takes time and intention. This short track can help you understand how to begin to really get to know yourself and explains how this awareness can help in your everyday life.

Getting to know yourself is crucial for personal growth; this track gives tips to understand and improve yourself for a better life.

Take Time To Get To Know Yourself

Every parent has most likely been faced with helping their child manage big emotions and the meltdowns that often result from this. This short track discusses why children, or even teens, may experience these meltdowns and how parents can approach these situations with more confidence.

This track explains why children have emotional meltdowns and how parents can handle them with confidence.

Parenting Tips: Managing Big Emotions

This short track discusses the benefits of starting your day with a morning routine and then gives 3 building blocks to help you get started on creating a routine that works for you.

Learn the benefits of a morning routine and how to create your own with three simple steps in this short track.

Building a Morning Routine

Getting caught up in a never-ending cycle of busyness and productivity is easy. But once you get stuck in this cycle it is easy to overlook the importance of simply “being.” This short track discusses practicing “being” and how you can include this in your day.

Avoid the cycle of busyness by practicing "being" to appreciate the present moment and enhance your day.

The Importance of Practicing “Being”

This short track explains how to improve your productivity by using the 10-minute rule.

Boost productivity with the 10-minute rule for effective time management and focus.

Productivity Hack: The 10 Minute Rule

Use this short visualization exercise to help create the day you would like to have. Start your day with peace and positivity.

Start your day with peace and positivity by using a short visualization exercise to create the day you desire.

Good Morning Visualization

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

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

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

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

Taking a few minutes each morning to set an intention can help you begin your day with positivity. This short meditation will guide you through setting an intention for your day.

Meditate to set intention and start your day positively with a short guided session.

Begin With an Intention

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Annabel Lee, a beautiful but haunting poem by Edgar Allen Poe, comments on love and loss, reminding us that those we love are always with us even after we have to say goodbye. Annabel Lee is in the public domain.

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe is a haunting poem about love and loss, highlighting the idea that our loved ones remain with us even after their passing.

Annabel Lee

This poem encourages you to start each morning with gratitude by saying thank you. To take a minute to say thank you for all of your experiences-to acknowledge everything that has brought you to this moment.

Start each morning with gratitude by saying thank you for all experiences that have brought you to this moment.

Thank You

Some friendships can be life-changing. Camden was an only dog for a little over 2 years. This story tells about the day she met Mabel and all of that changed. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Camden's life changes when she meets Mabel, starting a beautiful friendship.

Camden And Mabel: The Beginning

Camden and Mabel are the best of friends, but like any friend, they sometimes have minor disagreements. They sometimes hurt one another unintentionally. In this story, they remind us all about the power of forgiveness.

Camden and Mabel, best friends who sometimes argue, teach us about the power of forgiveness in this heartwarming story.

Camden And Mabel: Forgiveness

We can all learn about self-acceptance by watching our dogs. Mabel is such a unique dog. But whether she is greeting people with her trademark smile, roaming around the yard, or even checking out artwork, she always seems happy with herself and her life.

Observing Mabel's self-acceptance teaches us valuable lessons in the same.

Mabel: Self Acceptance

Camden and Mabel love their evening walks. Even in this routine, everyday activity you can see how well their different personalities work together to bring some balance to both of their lives.

Camden and Mabel's evening walks showcase how their different personalities complement each other and bring balance to their lives.

Camden And Mabel: Evening Walk

We can find inspiration in the most unlikely places. Camden and Mabel remind us that we can all use a little balance in our lives.

Camden and Mabel inspire us to seek balance in life.

Camden and Mabel: Breakfast Edition

Finding a balance in life is so important. In so many ways. Finding relationships in our life that support us, that help us in ways we need help, without question and judgment…these relationships can make all the difference.

Finding supportive relationships that help us without judgment is crucial for achieving balance in life.

Camden and Mabel

Camden has always been an anxious dog. But with a little patience, she is able to overcome her fears and make a new friend.

Anxiety-ridden Camden befriends a new pal with patience.

Camden: Patience

Camden has always been afraid of storms. But with her friend by her side, she is able to find the comfort she needs to make it through.

Camden overcomes her fear of storms with the support of her friend.

Camden And Mabel: Comfort

Camden and Mabel recognize the signs that the holiday is fast approaching. They remind us all to slow down and enjoy our time with those we love as the holiday rush begins.

Camden and Mabel urge us to slow down and cherish time with loved ones as the holiday season approaches.

Camden And Mabel: Holiday Edition

Adoption can be a remarkable, life-changing journey. For Serena, adoption gave her forever.

Serena's life was transformed by adoption.

Forever

Settle in for a cozy night at a peaceful beach house. Use this story to wind down as you drift into a peaceful sleep.

This text is a bedtime story to help readers relax and fall asleep in a peaceful beach house setting.

The Cozy Beach House: A Sleep Story

Take a stroll through a peaceful meadow on a perfect summer night. Use this story to wind down as you welcome the restorative power of sleep.

Relaxing story of a peaceful meadow stroll on a summer night, perfect for winding down and embracing restful sleep.

A Perfect Summer Night: A Sleep Story

Emotional reasoning is a type of cognitive distortion. It is often experienced by people who feel anxious, sad or even procrastinate frequently. This short track explores emotional reasoning, and how it can contribute to increased anxiety of sadness and discusses how to manage this more effectively.

"Exploring emotional reasoning as a cognitive distortion, its link to anxiety and sadness, and ways to manage it effectively."

Emotional Reasoning

Even on the hardest days, you can find hope. Hope is not an unrealistic expectation that everything will be fine. Hope is a choice, a mindset, a belief that things can get better. This track discusses the 3 components of cultivating hope.

This text emphasizes that hope is a choice, mindset, and belief for better days, offering insights on cultivating hope even during difficult times.

Cultivating Hope

Listen to this short track to learn more about using the concept of a stress bucket in order to help you manage your stress more effectively.

Learn how using the stress bucket concept can enhance stress management by listening to this brief track.

Manage Your Stress Bucket

Overthinking can leave you feeling exhausted, anxious, or frustrated. It can leave you feeling depleted. It can be hard to stop the cycle and begin to move forward. This track discusses one strategy to help combat overthinking so that you can begin to break the cycle.

This track offers a strategy to combat overthinking, which can leave one feeling exhausted, anxious, or frustrated, and help break the cycle.

Manage Your Thoughts: Overthinking

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

The stories we tell ourselves matter. The way we narrate our lives can affect not only how we view ourselves, but how we interact with the people and world around us. This short track talks about understanding your narrative and the steps you can take to change it.

The power of narrative: understanding and changing the stories we tell ourselves to shape our self-image and interactions with the world.

Changing Your Narrative

Sometimes a good metaphor can be a great tool. The hands as thoughts metaphor uses a simple exercise to help demonstrate the power of changing how you relate to your thoughts.

The hands as thoughts metaphor is a powerful tool for demonstrating the importance of changing our relationship with our thoughts.

Manage Your Thoughts: Hands As Thoughts

Understanding the concept of the sphere of control can help you learn to identify which things are truly within your control and learn to accept which things you have no control over.

The sphere of control helps identify what you can and can't control.

Letting Go Of What You Can’t Control

“What if” thoughts can be challenging to say the least. But playing the “what if” game rarely works. With practice, you can learn to recognize and reframe this thinking style.

Recognize and reframe "what if" thoughts to avoid the pitfalls of this challenging thinking style.

Reframing “What Ifs”

A should statement is a type of negative thinking pattern. “Shoulds” lead to judgment and can trigger feelings of anxiety and self-doubt. With practice, you can begin to identify and work on reframing your “Shoulds.”

"Eliminate negative thinking patterns by reframing 'shoulds' that lead to judgment, anxiety, and self-doubt."