Helpful tools to soothe the inner critic and move past negative thought loops that can keep us awake at night

Tools to calm inner critic and overcome negative thoughts to improve sleep.

Quiet Your Mind for Peaceful Sleep

A track that will help you navigate grief or loss told through a personal experience shared by coach Lisa. Grief is an all-consuming shadow that can envelop our lives in the wake of loss. It is a journey through the darkest night of the soul, one that tests the very fibers of our being. Lisa shares her deeply personal experience with grief, offering an honest narrative that resonates with the collective human experience of loss, mourning, and ultimately, the pursuit of healing.

Grief is a consuming shadow after loss, a journey through the darkest night of the soul. Lisa Hopkins shares her personal experience on our podcast.

Light & Healing In The Wake Of Loss

Let's talk about something we all do every day but rarely think about critically - sleep. Specifically, let's dive into why sleeping in total darkness might be one of the most underrated health hacks out there. You know, it's funny how darkness gets such a bad rap. Think about it - from the time we're kids, we're taught to be afraid of the dark. Monster under the bed? Better keep that night light on. Scary movie? The bad stuff always happens when the lights go out. We've been programmed to feel uneasy in the darkness.

Sleeping in total darkness is an underrated health hack that is often overlooked due to societal fears of the dark.

The Sleep Secret Nobody Talks About

A powerful guided morning meditation to start your day off on the right foot. Start your day by coming back to 3 very important pillars: gratitude, compassion, and love. Doing this exercise or similar ones every morning, will likely have a hugely positive knock-on effect on the rest of your day. You will often find yourself in better moods and more loving dynamics over time. Enjoy & let me know how it supports you. Much love, Felix

Morning meditation focusing on gratitude, compassion, and love sets positive tone for day, leading to improved moods and relationships.

Morning Meditation - Self Compassion

A Morning (or anytime!) Meditation focusing on gratitude for the Sun & to the Sun. The Sun provides us warmth & light, & shows up for us each & every day! Beginning the day with a simple recognition of this & an intentional display of gratitude & compassion can have a positive impact on the whole rest of the day. Let this meditation guide you into an attitude of gratitude that will last all day!

Practice gratitude for the Sun with this morning meditation to cultivate a positive attitude that can impact the rest of your day.

Gratitude for the Sun

Starting your day off with words of self-compassion & self-acceptance can have a profoundly positive impact on the whole rest of the day. Get the resilience you need - the resilience you deserve - to manifest a great day!! Let these words of positive affirmation carry you throughout your day!

Starting your day with self-compassion can have a positive impact on the rest of your day. Use positive affirmations to manifest a great day.

I Am Enough (Morning Affirmation)

Starting the day with self-compassion and acceptance can positively impact the rest of the day, providing the necessary resilience for a great day.

I Am Good (Morning Affirmation)

Starting the day with self-compassion and acceptance can improve the rest of your day. Positive affirmations can help manifest resilience for a great day.

I AM Worthy (Morning Affirmation)

Finding Softness in Morning Light: A Reflective Meditation is a gentle, guiding embrace of the early hours—perfect for those who seek a moment of calm before the bustle of the day begins. In this soothing session, you’ll be invited to rest your active mind and settle into the supportive stillness of dawn. Through intentional breathwork and a nurturing awareness of body and heart, this meditation helps you rediscover your inner balance, cultivate self-compassion, and welcome each new day with clarity and warmth. If you long to begin your morning grounded, thoughtful, and open-hearted, this peaceful practice is your gentle companion.

A reflective meditation to find calm in the morning light, rediscover balance, cultivate self-compassion, and welcome each day with clarity.

Finding Softness In Morning Light

Offer yourself to rest in smooth kindness. You deserve it.

Take a break and be kind to yourself, you deserve it.

Practicing Kindness

Feeling off today? Join this 10-minute meditation to accept where you are, let go of negativity, and embrace a positive mindset. Through guided acceptance, visualize a warm light filling you with peace and compassion. Let go of your worries by releasing an imaginary balloon and feel the lightness that follows. Choose positivity and visualize yourself handling the rest of your day with confidence and ease. End with a sense of fulfillment and peace, ready to embrace the rest of your day.

10-minute meditation to accept, let go of negativity, and embrace positivity. Visualize warmth, release worries, choose confidence and ease for rest of day.

Reset & Recharge: Turn Your Day Around

Let us take a few minutes of self-care as we focus on our breath to help us manage days when our energy level is low. During this meditation, we use self-compassion and breathwork to manage physical or emotional discomfort. We allow ourselves to feel uncomfortable emotions. Take 10 minutes to nurture your body, to help alleviate suffering, or to get some rest. Please remember that this is not medical advice and you should always consult your doctor when you are not well.

Take a 10-minute self-care meditation using breathwork and self-compassion to manage low energy levels and discomfort, but consult your doctor when necessary.

Meditation For When Our Energy Is Low

In this practice, Carla-Jo guides you to cultivate a sense of connection with a friend, being, or animal, so that you feel held and supported. This practice can be done at times where you feel a little stressed or alone to help the body and mind tap into the rest & digest system. When we are in connection with others we feel safe with, the body begins to soften and relax. The amazing thing about our mind and body is that we can generate these feelings internally. To find out more about Carla-Jo and her work please see carlajo-mindfulness.com Please note: If you are struggling with your mental health then please seek professional help. These meditations are not a substitute for that but can be used alongside therapy to help you.

Carla-Jo's meditation helps cultivate a sense of connection with a friend, being or animal to tap into the rest & digest system when feeling stressed/alone.

You Are Not Alone Meditation

Take this short break to connect with yourself, to give yourself some love and appreciation - through a slow body scan, deep belly breaths, and sharpening your sense of touch. In this meditation, you will be guided through a relaxing practice of self-awareness, with a gentle massage of some acupressure points that will help you release tension and feel more at ease. Taking time for yourself each day is essential, so use this practice as your space for reconnecting and nourishing yourself with love. Enjoy!

Reconnect with yourself through body scan, deep breaths, and acupressure in this self-awareness meditation for relaxation and tension release.

Self-Care Ritual: Relax & Unwind

This sound bath is my personal interpretation of Pisces into a sound bath experience. It's perfect for Pisces, Sun, Moon, and Rising signs as well as anyone who wants to experience some creativity and compassion in their lives.

A Pisces-themed sound bath for creative and compassionate experiences, suitable for Pisces signs and others.

Pisces Sound Bath

Welcome each day with a heart full of positivity through the "Morning Affirmations" meditation. This session is crafted to help you foster a nurturing mindset, guiding you to affirm your strengths and embrace the day with a spirit of openness and readiness. Through a sequence of empowering affirmations, you will be encouraged to honor your body and the space you occupy, cultivating a garden of positivity in your mind. Ideal for individuals at any stage of their self-love journey, "Morning Affirmations" is your daily dose of self-affirmation, setting a harmonious tone for the day ahead. Start your morning rooted in self-compassion and optimism.

"Morning Affirmations" is a guided meditation to start your day with positivity, self-compassion, and optimism, cultivating a garden of positivity in your mind.

Morning Affirmations

Start your day by shifting into a place of acceptance, gratitude, curiosity, and compassion with these morning affirmations.

Morning affirmations help shift your mindset to acceptance, gratitude, curiosity, and compassion, setting a positive tone for the day.

Doubt. Anxiety. Sadness. They are all a natural part of life, but sometimes they linger. Sometimes you just feel stuck. This meditation encourages you to meet yourself with compassion in these moments. To recognize that you don’t need to have all the answers right now. It is ok to just start wherever you are.

Meet yourself with compassion during moments of doubt, anxiety, and sadness; start wherever you are and know that it's okay to not have all the answers right now.

Start Wherever You Are

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

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

Peace Begins Within

Start your day with this morning's prayer and sound meditation to focus on self-compassion and compassion for others.

Begin your day with a morning prayer and sound meditation to cultivate self-compassion and compassion for others.

Morning Prayer For Compassion

Start your day with this gratitude practice that will expand your capacity for finding gratitude in the most microscopic things like your blood cells to expansive things outside of our sight like our solar system! In this guided sound meditation, you'll hear Crystal Singing Bowls tuned at 432hz, Tibetan singing bowls, and Koshi chimes with custom binaural beats added to the audio. The combination of these instruments enhances your gratitude practice by allowing your mind to find relaxation as you expand your sense of compassion for yourself and the world. To truly feel the benefits of this practice, come back to this meditation 5 days a week and notice a difference in your capacity to tap into gratitude throughout your days.

Guided sound meditation using crystal singing bowls, Tibetan singing bowls and Koshi chimes with custom binaural beats to enhance gratitude practice.

Morning Gratitude Sound Meditation

Step into a world of tranquility and embrace the beauty of a fresh start with this captivating Morning Meditation. Cultivate a positive mindset, radiate love, and compassion, and set your intentions for a day filled with joy as Lisa Whatley guides you through an immersive visualization that will awaken your senses and fill your heart with gratitude. Allow this transformative meditation to elevate your spirit, infuse your day with positivity and set the stage for a truly remarkable journey ahead. Lisa is honored to share her work with you here on Aura and InfinityLightHealing.com, enjoy your journey!

Start your day with a transformative Morning Meditation by Lisa Whatley, cultivating positivity, love, and gratitude for a remarkable journey ahead.

Morning: Embrace The Beauty Of A New Day

This brief meditation invites the listener to do an emotional check-in; to take a moment, pause, and check in on the emotional state. It is so easy to get caught up in our day and forget that we are a feeling and emotional being, that needs acceptance and compassion.

Meditation prompts emotional check-in, reminding us to take a moment to acknowledge feelings and practice self-compassion.

Emotions Check-In

The practice of loving-kindness has been proven to help people to feel more compassionate, loving, and more mindful about themselves and others. This ancient practice will help you to open up your heart for every living being on Earth, including yourself and those with who you might have a difficult relationship with. Start every morning with this practice and see your life transform through compassion and kindness. For an extended/longer version of this meditation please check out Lilla's profile.

Loving-kindness practice improves compassion, mindfulness, & transforms your life through kindness & compassion towards all beings on Earth.

Quick Loving Kindness Morning Meditation

During challenging times, you can contribute great good by adding your prayers (intentions) of peace, love, compassion, healing, and hope to those who need it most, in the world. Thank you for taking 3 minutes today to join with me and contribute your positive energy and peaceful intentions...it makes a difference. Namaste

Contributing prayers of peace, love, compassion, healing, and hope can make a difference during challenging times. Take 3 minutes to join and make a positive impact.

Send A Prayer Of Peace To The World

This guided meditation emphases being gentle with redirecting attention.

This guided meditation emphasizes gentle attention redirection.

Gentle Attention

This meditational prayer track focuses on the heart chakra, which is located at the center of the chest and is associated with love, compassion, and connection. The meditation encourages listeners to bring their attention to their heart center. The track uses soothing music and affirmations to help listeners release any emotional blockages and cultivate feelings of love and kindness towards themselves and others. By the end of the meditation, listeners may feel more open and receptive to giving and receiving love.

Meditational prayer track for heart chakra with soothing music and affirmations to release emotional blockages and cultivate love towards self and others.

Morning Prayer For The Heart Chakra

Letting go of the things that no longer serve you, takes self-reflection and compassion.

Releasing what no longer serves you requires self-reflection and compassion.

Time To Let Go Of What Doesn't Serve You

Listen to this healing morning meditation to help you start your day with self-care. If you have health problems and/or physical or emotional pain, then this type of meditation can help you start your day with a healing mind. You are your own best healer! Start a new day with self-love and compassion.

Start your day with self-care by listening to a healing morning meditation to help alleviate health problems and emotional pain.

Morning Healing

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

This meditation helps you remember that you have power over your thoughts and your experience of life. Shift your thoughts and energy and you will shift your reality.

Meditation empowers you to control your thoughts and shape your reality by shifting your energy, as per the text.

I Am Good Enough and I Trust Myself

Allow compassion to surround & support you in this practice as you imagine being encircled by the most loving beings you have ever met or can imagine.

Envision loving beings to embrace you while practicing to cultivate compassion.

Circle of Love

This meditation can help you ease any anxious thoughts and sensations by giving them the compassion and comfort they need. This process is based on the work of Don Hadlock from The Process Therapy Institute and Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems.

Meditation eases anxiety by providing compassion and comfort to troubled thoughts and sensations, based on work from Don Hadlock and Richard Schwartz.

Soothing Anxiety

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 renew focus and give your mind a self-compassion break.

Morning Forest: Attention Restoration

Take a few minutes out of your day to check in and send a little love and gratitude to yourself - you deserve it!

Give yourself love and gratitude by taking a few minutes out of your day.

A Love Hug

There are external resources and there internal resources that can help us navigate life on this earth. With the trust and curiosity that mindfulness brings we can access our innate resources for wisdom, compassion and healing. Through the power of the present breathing body and the energy flowing within our deepest sense of self we can connect to our inner power.

Mindfulness can help us access our innate resources for wisdom, compassion, and healing and connect to our inner power through the present breathing body and energy flow.

Connect to Your Inner Power

Sharing a little love, forgiveness, and compassion can go a long way in your life and in the lives of others. Use this affirmation when you’re struggling to have compassion for yourself or others. If you enjoyed this affirmation, you can sign up to receive free daily affirmation delivered to your inbox each morning at www.thedivinepause.com.

Spread love, forgiveness, and compassion with an affirmation to help overcome struggles, and sign up for free daily affirmations at thedivinepause.com.

Affirming Love, Forgiveness & Compassion

Your thoughts have a powerful effect on your reality. This is a short Meditation to start your day with the right tone. Choose the right words to create positive vibrations for your day. Go along in a gentle and smooth meditative flow to calm the mind and bring peace to your daily experience. This is your morning expresso of self-love and joy.

Meditate every morning to create positive vibrations for a calm and peaceful day; it's your morning expresso of self-love and joy.

The First Thought Of The Day Meditation

What we tell ourselves creates the life we live. Allow this short affirmations practice to help us foster more love and self-compassion. Practice kindness and self-care by repeating positive statements before our negative self-talk kicks in. During this practice, 10 affirmations are spoken twice and then repeated.

Practice self-love and kindness by repeating positive affirmations before negative self-talk takes over; 10 affirmations are spoken twice and repeated.

10 Affirmations For Self-Growth

This meditation will guide you into deep space within yourself; a place of unconditional love. As you allow all negativity to melt away in the fire of Divine Love, of Unlimited Compassion, you will find that all fear dissolves, and only Love remains. This meditation is a journey into the pure bliss of your being. It is a doorway into the Pure Light of God’s Love. Music by Life Illumined.

Meditation to access inner unconditional love and dissolve fear through Divine Love and Unlimited Compassion, guided by Life Illumined music.

Unconditional Love

Self-criticism and putting too much pressure on yourself undermine your physical and mental health. This meditation helps you to build a kinder, more compassionate attitude towards yourself and develop self-acceptance. It combines mindfulness, grounding, breath awareness, loving kindness, and affirmations. This soothing practice may be particularly helpful for depression, stress, or difficulty with sleeping.

Meditation for self-acceptance and compassion combines mindfulness and affirmations to combat self-criticism, depression, stress, and sleep difficulties.

Being Kind To Yourself

Brief morning meditation to start your day with self-compassion and love. By surrendering judgment and being accepting of all that you can do, this meditation will help you focus on the positive and become aware of your thoughts throughout the day. With awareness of thought, you can consciously decide to be more loving to yourself. Because you deserve it! www.michellessanctuary.com

Start your day with self-compassion and meditation to focus on the positive and become aware of your thoughts throughout the day.

Go Easy On Yourself

Begin your day with appreciation and positivity! Take a moment to be grateful for life as you reflect and give thanks for the amazing people in your life, the exciting opportunities ahead, the wonders of the world around you, and ultimately through self-compassion. You'll step into your day beaming with gratitude, ready to tackle challenges with motivation and positivity. This is the perfect meditation to set you up to enjoy every moment that comes your way.

Start your day with gratitude and positivity, appreciating life, people, opportunities, and the wonders around you, for a motivated and fulfilling day.

Morning Gratitude Reflection

Today’s self-love meditation will remind you that there is nothing for you to prove, that you ARE enough.

Self-love meditation affirms that you are enough, without needing to prove yourself.

You Are Enough

Being present, breathe yourself gently into the here and now.

Bring yourself to the present moment by breathing gently.

Embracing Your Presence

An interactive story for Bedtime, Morning Stretches, Bathtime, and anytime in between. Gold to Gold is a little rhyming story all about the power of the Heart! Send Gold Kindness to your family, friends, to the trees, to stars, to yourself, and more! The Practice of gratitude and appreciation can start at any age and practice makes progress. Feel free to settle down to sleep with an open heart, or to pause after each exercise in the story to smile like the sun, twinkle like the stars, spin like the world, gently sway like a tree... visualize the Gold Kindness flowing from the Golden Jewel in the chest and send it to the whole universe! How far can your Gold Love go? With Love from me to you <3 (Recommended Age 3 - 7)

"Gold to Gold" is an interactive rhyming story promoting the power of the heart and the practice of gratitude for children aged 3-7, to be enjoyed anytime.