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

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

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!

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

Self-criticism evokes the same response in the body as danger or threat. Self-compassion on the other hand soothes and regulates our nervous system. Here, we will learn a little bit about each response and do a brief self-compassion practice.

Self-criticism triggers stress response, self-compassion calms it. Learn about both and practice self-compassion in this article.

Stress Resilience and Self-Compassion

Have you ever wondered if a gentle approach can truly be more powerful than force? Inspired by the wisdom of the timeless fable of "The North Wind and the Sun," journey through this enchanting fable together, which reminds us of the power of kindness in our daily lives. Embrace the moral of this story, which teaches that gentle persuasion often triumphs where aggression and bluster fail. In today's world, where forceful tactics can seem pervasive, let's rediscover the transformative power of warmth and compassion.

The fable "The North Wind and the Sun" teaches that gentle persuasion is more powerful than force in daily life, promoting kindness and compassion.

Choose Warmth & Kindness In A Cold World

In this lesson, I share with you one of my favorites, albeit unattractively named, personal development ideas: The Mold idea. To reconcile a desire for growth with the wisdom of acceptance and not having to do anything is the journey of a lifetime. Through this simple metaphor, we can remember to hold compassion for ourselves (and others) on the path.

The Mold idea is a personal development concept that promotes growth through acceptance, reminding us to be compassionate towards ourselves and others.

The Mold Idea

"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

Listen to Jon explain the reason why you might want to try the mindful compassionate break exercise. Self-compassion is the key to well-being and understanding why we do it can deepen our understanding and practice.

Jon explains why trying the mindful compassionate break exercise is important for well-being by deepening our understanding and practice of self-compassion.

Compassionate Break Conversation

Tuning in to other people with mindfulness means letting go of the instant labels our mind creates to categorize others. Actively removing those judgments and offering a statement of loving-kindness creates compassion.

Mindfulness involves releasing judgments and offering loving-kindness to tune into others, fostering compassion.

Removing Labels

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?

As we are walking along the paths of freedom and manifestation, while we need to learn to reclaim our minds, there is no need for us to work ourselves into exhaustion witnessing, observing our minds, and turning our attention away from what we don’t wish to experience toward what we wish to experience. We need to do this work, but we do not need to do it 24/7, there is another way to move ourselves into the higher vibrations that we are wise to also lean into. Join me as we explore what it means to celebrate our way through life and how that will beautifully serve us as we continue to grow, unfold, and expand.

Embrace freedom and manifestation by reclaiming your mind and focusing on desired experiences without exhausting yourself, move towards higher vibrations.

Let's Not Be Too Hard On Ourselves

Grab your journal and pen! We’ll take a moment to do a meditation and reflect on journaling prompts to activate the heart chakra, your chakra for love and compassion. Leave a comment to share your discoveries. Please say hello to Chel at www.chelrogerson.com.

Activate your heart chakra with meditation and journaling prompts for love and compassion. Visit www.chelrogerson.com for more guidance.

Heart Chakra Journaling

This track is designed to help you manage and understand your emotions with greater ease and compassion. This guided session offers a calming and effective breathing technique to support emotional regulation and inner balance.

Guided track for emotional management through calming breath technique for inner balance and self-compassion.

Navigate Emotions With Grace

This talk discusses the notion that there is no one right way to meditate. This is for anyone who feels they are meditating "wrong" or that they "can't meditate".

No Right Way To Meditate

Have you ever thought about loving yourself or how you would like to be loved? Then take a moment to experience visualization and expand your knowledge of self. You will be taken through a journey that will bring you to grace and compassion for yourself.

Experience self-love through visualization and journey towards grace and compassion for yourself.

Self-Love & Visualization Day 4

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.

Morning Affirmations

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This guided meditation emphases being gentle with redirecting attention.

This guided meditation emphasizes gentle attention redirection.

Gentle Attention

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This track guides you through a nurturing journey of self-love and acceptance as you prepare to drift into a restful slumber. This gentle bedtime talk invites you to cultivate a deeper connection with your body, fostering a sense of appreciation and gratitude for all that it does for you. As you listen, allow yourself to release any tension, and invite feelings of love and compassion to flow freely. By the end of this track, you'll feel a newfound sense of peace and harmony with your body, paving the way for a night of deep and restorative sleep.

A soothing bedtime talk to cultivate self-love and gratitude, leading to a peaceful and restful sleep.

Gentle Bedtime Talk: Love Your Body

A soothing journey into self-compassion and inner peace. This track offers a safe space to unwind and connect with the most supportive and understanding friend you have: yourself. Let this bedtime talk be a reminder that you are worthy of love, compassion, and gentle care, especially from the most important person in your life - YOURSELF.

A comforting bedtime track promoting self-compassion and inner peace, reminding you to treat yourself with love and care.

Bedtime Talk: Your Inner Best Friend

A gentle bedtime talk designed to guide you on a journey of self-connection. Allow the soothing words to create a tranquil atmosphere, inviting you to turn your attention inward and embrace the profound wisdom within your heart. With each gentle narration, feel the layers of stress and tension melting away, making room for a profound sense of calm and self-compassion. This contemplative session encourages you to cultivate a deeper connection with your heart, fostering a harmonious balance between mind and spirit. As you embark on this tender exploration, may your heart be embraced with the warmth of self-love, creating a serene pathway to a restful night's sleep.

A soothing bedtime talk guiding you to connect with your heart, relieve stress, and cultivate self-compassion for a restful night's sleep.