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

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

When we are suffering because of distance, cancellation, or conflict with someone in our life, we can learn to sense how we are triggered and become aware of the stress or anxiety we are holding and our relationship to it. Turn to this mindfulness meditation practice to access different ways of seeing conflict, for the expanded perspective of your emotions, and to witness the relationship with yourself and others in moments of vulnerability.

Mindfulness meditation helps to handle conflict by gaining an expanded perspective of emotions, witnessing the relationship with oneself and others during vulnerability.

Ways of Seeing - Truth & Conflict

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

Compassion is the balm that helps us to heal. You can cultivate it for yourself with practices like these from Mindful Self Compassion

Practicing mindful self-compassion helps cultivate the healing balm of compassion for oneself.

Self Compassion Break

Allow yourself a few minutes of comfort as we focus on our breath to help us manage illness. In this meditation, we use self-compassion and breathwork to manage uncomfortable sensations. We also focus on areas in the body that are well to help remind ourselves of the body's amazing capacity to heal. Take 10 minutes of self-care 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.

A 10-minute meditation using self-compassion and breathwork to manage illness by focusing on the body's ability to heal and alleviate suffering.

Meditation For When We Are Sick

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

We forget that everything is connected and interdependent on each others. That is why the true meaning of compassion is understanding and empathizing with other's pain.

Compassion means understanding interconnectedness and empathizing with others' pain.

Healing the Inner Child

A special journey to releasing the past and renewing yourself in the present moment.

"Release the past and renew yourself with a special journey to the present moment."

Letting Go of the Past & Being Free

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

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

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

Let's take a moment to bring lovingkindness to ourselves in this short meditation. Compassion for the self will inspire you to be more compassionate with others.

Meditate on lovingkindness for self to inspire compassion towards others.

Loving Kindness

This very special meditation will transport you into a state of infinite peace - enlightened awareness. You will soften into a deeply relaxed state of being, and you may even find it helpful for sleep. As you listen, your subconscious mind will align with higher states of consciousness, and your entire life will be uplifted and blessed. Listen regularly and experience healing of anxiety and spiritual renewal.

Experience infinite peace and spiritual renewal with this meditation that aligns your subconscious mind with higher states of consciousness.

Infinite Peace Meditation

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

This guided session is utilized to assist those suffering from grief and loss. This meditation focuses on being in the now and being with our grief. Not holding back, but accepting what is and being with it.

Meditation for grief and loss, focusing on accepting and being present with emotions.

Accepting Grief

We often turn away from our own struggles. This meditation is an invitation to listen in to what you truly feel and to respond with kindness. This practice gives us a new way to respond to whatever it is that we are feeling in this moment - sadness, loneliness, anxiety, or shame.

Meditation invites us to listen to our feelings and respond with kindness, offering a new way to address struggles such as sadness, loneliness, anxiety, and shame.

Meeting Your Needs with Kindness

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

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

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

Offering yourself self-compassion to let go and be good to yourself.

Releasing Worries Through Compassion

Cultivating kind intentions towards yourself and other people dear to you is a great way to boost mood and reduce negative feelings like fear and anger, and experiences more positive emotions like joy, love, and happiness. Like anything, it just takes practice.

Being kind to yourself and others improves mood and reduces negative feelings, leading to more positive emotions. Practice makes it easier.

May We Be Happy

With compassion and love, embrace your suffering, discomfort, or tension and open yourself up to your connection to the world around you. Photo by Todd Trapani from Pexels

Embrace and connect with discomfort: open yourself to the world with love and compassion.

Loving-Compassion for You

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

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

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

Meditation is perhaps the most powerful tool there is when it comes to calling forth the peace, love, joy, harmony, abundance, and wholeness that is inherent within each of us. As such, I have been guided to create The Way of Meditation Series. Each ”session” will begin with brief teaching around meditation followed by a meditation sitting. I invite you to join me for a beautiful, healing, soothing, and empowering moment of becoming still through meditation. Namaste Daniel

The Way of Meditation Series offers brief teachings and meditation sessions to access inner peace, love, joy, abundance, and wholeness. Join for healing empowerment.

The Way Of Meditation - Self Compassion

Compassion is a strong concern for yourself and others when suffering. We all experience suffering, even if it is merely our everyday experiences of sadness, stress, or worry. By shining more compassion on yourself on the inside, you become a beacon of compassionate light on the outside as well. Photo by Gabriel Siqueira from Pexels www.christina-mcmahon.com

Developing compassion for yourself and others during times of suffering can transform you into a beacon of compassionate light.

Light Of Compassion

It's not always easy to believe in yourself and your infinite potential when obstacles and fear arise. Our narratives matter. Mindfully engage in self-compassion practices and try working with these affirmations - to free energy your journey and radiate strength and confidence.

Believe in yourself and overcome obstacles with self-compassion practices and affirmations to radiate strength and confidence on your journey.

Affirmations Encompassing Beauty

This meditation is an exercise in self-compassion. By gently breathing into any difficult emotion we are feeling, we allow that emotion to feel total acceptance. After that, it usually feels safe enough to release on its own. www.christina-mcmahon.com

Meditation exercise for self-compassion by accepting difficult emotions gently through breathing. Emotions usually release on their own.

A Somatic Practice For Emotional Release

Developing an attitude of friendliness towards ourselves can help us deal more effectively and realistically with the challenges of daily life. And, if we are able to cultivate this attitude towards our self, we're much more likely to offer the same attitude to others, and in so doing improve our relationships. This practice is a great way to start the day.

Being friendly towards ourselves leads to better relationships and effective handling of daily challenges; making it a good daily practice.

Befriending and Self-Compassion

So much of our lives are spent doing-- constantly looking to what is next and what we can do to be better. Sometimes what we need is to just be. To be exactly where we are and how we are and NOTICE.

Instead of constantly striving for improvement, sometimes we need to just be present and notice our surroundings.

Practice Being

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 courtesy of listeningearth.com. Image by JJ Harrison (jjharrison89@facebook.com) - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15717619

Take an Attention Restoration Meditation break every 90 minutes at work, use earphones, and enjoy nature sounds for renewed focus.

Rainbow Bee-Eater and Friends: an Attention Restoration Meditation

'All of you are welcome here'. How can we invite the concept of accepting the full spectrum of self and the journey you are on, in all its glory? Where in your life can you welcome more of you?

Embrace your true self and journey by welcoming all aspects of yourself in every aspect of life.

Daily Acceptance

In moments of difficulty, this brief practice can make a difference: We acknowledge the difficulty, we recognize how this connects us to others, and we turn towards our experience with kindness. As a result, we no longer feel alone and isolated and can begin to turn towards our experience with kindness and acceptance.

Acknowledge difficulty, recognize connection, turn towards experience with kindness - feel less alone, more accepting.

Self-Compassion Break

Does your overactive mind get the better of you? Do your thoughts race and take over? This practice invites you to regain your mind's control. A release that can soften your sharp edges.

Regain control of your overactive mind and soften sharp edges with this calming practice.

The Over Active Mind

Connect with your breath to bring compassion to yourself. This is a powerful practice that can be used often throughout the day.

Practice connecting with your breath to cultivate self-compassion throughout the day.

Compassionate Breath

Equanimity is the quality of awareness that fosters wisdom and creates inner balance. It teaches you to have a deep understanding of the nature of change and allows you to be with lifes change with insight and compassion. Equanimity arises from intentional observation and the ability to be aware of without being caught by what we see. When well-developed this gives rise to a great sense of peace. This practice may be profoundly helpful during this time of uncertainty.

Equanimity cultivates inner balance and wisdom through intentional observation, allowing for insight and compassion towards life's changes, resulting in peace.

Equanimity Meditation ~ for Dealing with Uncertainity

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 your body a little kindness and gratitude in this moment. Tending to this body that has always done its best to take care of you. Photo by Audrey Fretz on Unsplash.

Show gratitude to your body for always taking care of you.

Keeping Your Body Company

An invitation to get in touch with your inner self, sensations, and feelings - non-judgmentally and with compassion.

Connect with your inner self, sensations, and feelings through non-judgmental and compassionate exploration.

Embracing Emotions

Moving from top to bottom is a systematic way to connect with the experience of the body. In frenetic or anxious times, going from top to bottom can be grounding, too. I've heard "top to bottom" scanning described as "combing" through the body, like gently combing tangles from hair.

"Top to bottom" scanning is a grounding technique that helps connect with the body; it is described as gently combing through the body.

Survey: Top to Bottom

We're often so caught up that we forget to listen in to our bodies or our hearts. This meditation allows you to make room for whatever your heart might be calling out for, bringing a loving presence to your own experience.

This meditation helps you listen to your body and heart, bringing a loving presence to your experience and making room for what is needed.

Listening to Your Heart

Self-Forgiveness is a practice. The practice of letting go of self-blame, regret, & guilt, choosing to accept ourselves & move forward. It involves acknowledging our mistakes or shortcomings, taking responsibility for our actions, & choosing to release ourselves from the burden of negative emotions & self-judgment. Affirmations can be a powerful tool for self-forgiveness because they help us to reframe our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. By repeating positive statements to ourselves, we can shift our focus away from self-criticism & towards self-compassion, self-love & self-acceptance - For ourselves & others. Affirmations can also help us replace negative self-talk with more supportive & empowering language; Rewiring our brains.

Self-forgiveness is a practice of letting go of guilt, accepting ourselves and moving forward. Affirmations can help shift focus from self-criticism to self-compassion.

I Forgive Myself - Affirm & Reframe

We often carry a sense of not feeling enough. Not good enough, not doing enough, not being enough. This meditation helps you to connect with a sense of enoughness so that you can stop searching for this. You are enough, just as you are.

Meditation helps you to feel enough, stop searching and accept yourself as you are.

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 courtesy of listeningearth.com. Image by JJ Harrison (jjharrison89@facebook.com) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Take an Attention Restoration Meditation every 90 minutes at work using earphones and nature sounds to renew focus and give your mind a self-compassion break.

White-Browed Babbler in the Morning: an Attention Restoration Meditation

How do you meet challenges in your life? How does it feel in your body? Stepping more into softening and accepting challenges, allows us to move through these moments with more ease and openness. Reminders that your pain and confusion have a place, they do not define you.

Embrace challenges with softness and acceptance, allowing for ease and openness in navigating through life's difficulties.

Stepping into the Face of Challenge

In this guided meditation, you will embark on a journey towards self-compassion, allowing yourself to embrace and nurture your true essence with kindness and understanding. This practice is designed to help you cultivate a gentle, loving approach to yourself, especially during challenging times.

Guided meditation for self-compassion and nurturing true essence with kindness and understanding during challenging times.

Cultivate Self Compassion

The emerging of softness into every corner of your body. Whether you are stressed, tight, stiff, tense, sad, overwhelmed, overworked, or unloved, this will help you to soften and release.

Softening into the body to release stress, tension, and sadness, promoting relaxation and healing.

The Soft Body

Self-compassion meditation is a practice that aims to cultivate kindness, understanding, and acceptance toward oneself. It involves directing loving and compassionate thoughts and feelings toward oneself, especially during times of struggle, pain, or self-criticism. This meditation can be helpful in fostering self-care, resilience, and emotional well-being. Here's a description of a self-compassion meditation.

Self-compassion meditation cultivates self-kindness and acceptance, fostering self-care, resilience, and emotional well-being during challenging times.

Compassion: Meditations