Meditations and Life Recipes - Stepping Stones to a Fulfilling Life

Listen to this guided meditation to help you find ease and peace in your body, mind, and whole being as you prepare for sleep.

Be guided to notice any tension you are feeling. As you bring a gentle awareness to that tension, you are able to release it and return to the ease and calm of your breath.

With focused breath, body scan, positive affirming mantra, moments of stillness, and soft music, you will gentle ease into a sleep.

You will sleep peacefully and wake up feeling refreshed and ready to begin a new day. When you wake, consider listening to Ep. 117 Daily Mindful meditation so you start the day with focus, presence, and gratitude to enjoy more and stress less!

See what happens as you bring meditation into the start and end of your day. You will feel the greater ease, abundance, and flow that will trickle into all the areas of your life.

Thanks for tuning in. The light in me honors the light in you.

Allow this guided Mindful Meditation to help you bring awareness to your breath and your body. As you do, you grow your awareness and presence. With greater presence, you are better able to focus and more fully enjoy the experiences in your day. By practicing the presence through guidied meditations like this, you grow your self-love and love for others and enjoy more moments of your day.

Thank you for listening. The light in me honors the light in you.

Listen in for a guided body scan meditation to help you return to your wholeness and strength and be present.

Take a deep breath in. Allow yourself to be here now as you find a comfortable position.

Straighten your spine. Relax your shoulders. Close your eyes or if you keep them open, find an anchoring point within your space to focus on.

As you take a few more deep breaths, allow yourself to become aware to notice the feeling of breath moving through. Notice it. Allow. Allow your breath and your awareness to bring all the areas of your body at ease. Notice your feet firmly planted with earth and know you are supported, you are grounded.

Bring awareness into the center of your abdomen. Breathe in. Noticing the gentle expansion with your in breath and contraction with your out breath. Breathing in Balance and flow. Releasing out anything that does not serve you. Breath is healing. Breath is calming. Let it calm every cell of your body as you breath in with appreciation and gratitude from the soles of your feet, to the tips of your fingers, through the crown of your head.

Thoughts, Feelings, Sensations, Circumstances come and go. Your presence is always here. At peace. Peace begins within. Peace begins within.

Thanks for listening. The light in me honors the light in you!

116. Creating time for the Sacred

The quality of our life is in the quality of the moments.

This season of Advent helps us prepare for Christmas, the birth of Jesus and the rebirth of that light and love awakened in us.

Creating time to awaken and strengthen your spirit helps you bring forth the divine attributes that are within you strengthening you. These attributes are Faith, Hope, Peace, Love, and Joy. Within all of us, we just have to tap in and step forth.

Being in the sacred, the stillness, whatever it is for you that helps you feel full and whole, make time for it. So you can be your whole, loving self as you were created.

If you bring everything into everything we enjoy nothing. Be responsible for the energy you bring.

What is Sacred for you?

Sacred can be a treasure, a warmth, a mystery, a light, and a profound refuge, and awareness to the presence of spirit.

Sacred is a special word.

What in your life is sacred?

What is sacred that I have lost sight of?

It's up to you to raise your consciousness and be your best so you bring forth the dreams you have in your heart.

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the ​passion to reach for the stars to change the world."   - Harriet Tubman

115. Manifesting Strength for your day or your next big thing

We are all here for our soul's growth, unfoldment and expansion. We're all on different journeys but one thing is true for all of us. We are meant to be growing. That is what life is. We see this growth in nature. Life is every changing, evolving, and growing.

Listen in to this meditation to grow your strength and shift your perspective from fear to excitement. These two strong and powerful feelings actually share the same physiological reaction: the adrenaline that courses through the body when a person is scared is the same as when they are excited. The difference is not how the body reacts, but how the mind interprets the experience.

Learn some tools to respond differently to that feeling so you can do what is yours to do and feel that greater fulfillment that comes from leaning in, choosing courage over comfort.

Singer and songwriter David Bowie on how to produce your best work:

"If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."

Get Unstuck and Find Clarity to Take your Next Right Step.

Not sure of your right next step or lacking the courage to take a step forward into what you want and desire to create greater joy, fulfillment, challenge, or success. This life recipe and guided meditation is for you.

Listen in to move forward. Everything starts with one step As the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said; “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. He wasn't wrong, because you won't get anywhere unless you start the journey.

Follow these 5 steps and know your guided, supported, and right where you need to be.

“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” - Frederick Douglass

Guided Meditation to Allow, Open, and Energize.

Listen in and feel supported and at ease tune into the natural rhythm of love, of presence.

The power of meditation is being aware of being aware. As we mindfully notice our thoughts, we become present. This allows our body and mind to calm. Just by becoming aware of what we are thinking, what we are feeling in the moment. It is from this awareness, we can return to the love, light, within. This simple awareness practice helps us return to heart, to love. This is how we show up as our higher self, with love. That higher energy that helps us be our best.

As you practice the presence, you can bring it into your day, so you return to love, to peace when challenges arise, you can be at ease.

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Life Recipes are practical methods to help you live with greater intention, be in truth, and love this one and precious life. We all need little reminders, techniques, and methods to be better. It's natural for us as humans to do what is easy instead of what is right and good. But that is no way to live... if we want to feel better when we rest our heads at night, we have to do the work. One step at a time.

Listen in to this life recipe to start a gratitude practice and stick to it. We all know it leads to more meaningful living to stay in appreciation and gratitude, but we don't always do it. Sometimes it feels easier to stay in the story of victim, of why me, of woe is me. Listen in to choose differently, to stay on the path of appreciating instead of finding fault, judging, or wallowing. It's a choice we can all make and this life recipe helps us stay on the side of appreciation for more moments of our day - as we do our heart opens and feel deeper joy, love, and meaning - and attract more good into our lives. Give it a try!

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As we lay our heads down at night, we have to answer the question, how was my day, am I happy with who I am? Imagine ending the day feeling like you did what was yours to do, you were your best, and treated others as best you could.

It's just us and we get to reflect and find peace within. Allow this meditation to guide you into reflecting on the good parts of your day so you can be at ease, rest, and wake up feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.

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