Everyday Peace

Today, evidence to support your practice. Get insight into what, exactly, is happening in your body as you spend time in or visualize nature.

Nature is a proven stress aid. Research shows that, when we spend time in nature, we recover more quickly and fully from episodes of stress, and that simply calling nature to mind can have the same effect.

Today’s practice invites you to relax into the sounds, sights, scent and feel of a calm beach. Practice daily to build your ‘visualization muscle’, allowing you over time to find calm space even in the most hectic environments.

When you’re unable to sleep, it can feel all-consuming. Here, a perspective shift and two practices for such times.

Two additional practices to help you find moments of rest, subtle but essential, at work.

Modern work culture asks us to work overtime, skip lunch breaks and wear our busy-ness like a badge of honour. Our health suffers as a result.

Today’s episode asks you to create small moments — even thirty seconds — of rest at work. It includes a short practice to help you get started.

Restlessness might be situational for you, or it might seem like a permanent state.

For some of us, growing up in our homes didn’t feel safe, or we experienced trauma in life and relationships. This can put our nervous systems on alert; we are hypervigilant, our bodies unable to rest in a true sense due to a vague sense of ‘unsafe’.

Today’s episode offers a short practice to help calm the nervous system, paired with a mantra such as ‘I am safe’. In this way, we aim to ease our bodies into much-needed rest.

A practice to interrupt the desire to ‘keep on doing’. Intermittent rest is essential to health, especially if you struggle with sleep, irritability or anxiety.

For six minutes, remind your body that it can rest — by turning off fight, flight, freeze — to recharge and heal.

This, like many things, takes practice.

Come back to this meditation, or any adaptation that works for you, daily for one month.

Stress buries us when we forget that it’s temporary.

Even in situations that feel stuck — a dead-end or draining job, an unhappy marriage, a financial crisis — there is always opportunity for renewal.

Today, we bring that mindset to your biggest current stressor.

Without renewal, life cannot exist.

The wheel of life carries all stages of renewal, from birth to death, and in today’s talk we’ll explore what that means in our everyday lives. We offer ourselves gratitude for renewing again and again.

You, right now, are in a state of renewal.

Spring reminds us of life’s endless potential for growth, change and rebirth.

In this practice, we hold that truth in our bodies and remind ourselves that — no matter where we are on the wheel of renewal right now; if we’re feeling stuck in a valley, pushing uphill, or cruising along — we are always living toward renewal.