Everyday Peace

Everyday Peace

By Kaitlin WrightSociety & CulturePhilosophy
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Everyday Peace episodes

  • Practice: Find Your Centre

    When you get caught up in life’s stressors, you might describe feeling “off”. You might say you need to centre yourself.

    This language exists for a reason: when we connect with our centre, we find a place that feels true and wise, from which we wish we could make all life’s decisions.

    Come back to this practice during times of acute stress, or when you feel like you’re off track.

    For more resources to help you make peace with stress, head to everydaypeace.ca

    7 min
  • Practice: Body Scan
    A basic body scan from bottom to top. By following the flow of energy through your body, feeling it in areas you may never have concentrated on before, you allow yourself to be here, fully. You let yourself be just as you are: a body, no more and no less.
    This is one of my favourite practices, and I encourage you to come back to it often. Use it to ground yourself during travel or before a big meeting.
    For more resources to help you make peace with stress, head to everydaypeace.ca
    8 min
  • Practice: Gratitude
    What lights you up? Tap into everyday gratitude with this simple practice, focused on necessities such as breath, food and shelter.
    Gratitude is more than ‘polishing a turd’; it’s finding lightness in even the darkest corners.
    Whether you have a lot to be grateful for as you enter this new year, or are struggling to feel a spark these days, sit with me for just four minutes. Set the intention for gratitude and lightness. See what comes up.
    For more resources, including more on gratitude, visit everydaypeace.ca.
    6 min
  • Practice: Beginner's Mind
    A Zen Buddhist concept, beginner’s mind asks you to drop preconceptions.
    When you contemplate without judgement, you accept that much of life is unknown.
    So much of what we worry about hasn’t even happened yet. With beginner’s mind, we redirect ‘what if’ thoughts to one simple truth: I cannot know what will happen. So take the weight of knowing off your shoulders for a few minutes, and be the beginner.
    Come back to this practice if you find yourself dreading, or worrying about things outside of your control. For more practices and readings to support you, check out everydaypeace.ca.
    7 min
  • Practice: Watch the Body, Calm the Mind
    What calms or comes up when you pause to hear your body?
    Sensations in the body come and go, often for a reason. If you feel your chest expanding, you might be taking in breath. If your stomach feels tight, you might be tense.
    In this practice, you can rest your brain for seven minutes and give your body a chance to do the talking. You might feel sensations you’ve never felt before, or the same old discomfort might come up. Can you stay with that feeling for just a moment, watching it ebb and flow?
    Come back to this practice when you’re feeling aches and pains, or find yourself caught in worry. Over time, it can retrain your attention; you can learn to tap into the wisdom of your body.
    Want to keep learning? More practices to support you at everydaypeace.ca
    8 min
  • Practice: Letting Go
    Sometimes, we add fuel to our stress by tensing around it, by trying to control too many of life’s outcomes, by forcing things.
    Today’s practice gives you permission to let go.
    Return to this practice when you feel yourself clinging to an outcome, or stressed over things outside of your control.
    Additional resources to help you cope with stress at everydaypeace.ca
    5 min
  • Practice: Stress SOS
    Stress is a normal, healthy part of life. But it can feel overwhelming at times.
    This practice aims to interrupt worried thoughts, to give your body a moment of rest even during times of chronic stress.
    Come back to this practice regularly as a 'reset' for your nervous system.
    Find readings to support your journey at everydaypeace.ca
    4 min

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Everyday Peace; peace is attainable right here, right now. Short guided meditations and visualizations to help you find peace, no matter your stress level.