Meditations and Life Recipes - to be you!

Your mindset, the set of beliefs you hold and way you think, has power. It determines your attitude, outlook, and eventually outcome. You can observe the beliefs you hold by taking some time in stillness. This time connecting within helps you to create some space between what happens and how you are responding. You can examine what beliefs are serving you and which are not. Awareness is the first...

You are perfectly imperfect. Being vulnerable is doing what you know what is right even when it is hard. This life recipes shares some inspiration on showing up, being vulnerable and embracing your perfectly imperfect self.

Practicing loving kindness helps you feel and extend love. This guided meditation allows you to feel love inside you. This is your essence. Through the practice it becomes easier to love yourself and love others. As you begin to treat yourself with loving kindness, you experience life more fully because you are not fearful. You open up to life's experiences, see them as a way to grow yourself and...

Your truth is felt. Living in your truth is not about becoming who we are supposed to be. It’s about removing those parts of us that are learned, that are not in alignment, so we can be the person that we truly are. Understanding our truth is perhaps best understood by what is not our truth. We can start living in our truth by letting go of the thoughts we hold the walls up that take us away from...

When our days are full, its hard to think about our future and what we want more of in our life. We can just go through the motions but we are all made for more. Allow this guided visualization to bring you to a place of appreciation for where you are now- for all that you’ve accomplished to get where you are. Your struggles may be a part of the dream you once had. Know that you can focus on the g...

What is meditation and how can you integrate it into your day in easy way? Listen to this life recipe for a practical heart-centered method and meditation to get your practice started. Start feeling the overwhelming benefits in body + mind + spirit from taking time for stillness and meditation.

Allow this simple guided meditation to ground you. To recenter you. To help you return to the peace within you. Whenever you need a lift or even before you go to sleep or in the morning as you wake up. Meditate to this to begin your practice or compliment one you already have.

The root of all things is vibration. An energy. Even the thoughts we think. We may not utter them but they are felt. Whenever we are thinking thoughts that don’t serve us or others, we can Pause. Breathe. And see that you are more that that thought. You are the thinker who thinks the thought. We can create some space and observe those negative thoughts knowing they don’t raise you up. Our mind kno...

Vitality is a powerful word. It means life and it’s within all of us. But there are different ways we feel it. Different ways we express it. So we have to tune into our own still voice and take time in our day to feel. It’s about creating meaningful experiences regardless of what is happening around. We can find meaning, be full of life and vitality. It’s a choice, a tuning in to that stirring. No...

Mindfulness is being present in this moment. Being the watcher of our thoughts. As we become more mindful, we are aware of what we’re feeling in our bodies and what we’re feeling around us. Allow these couple simple mindfulness activities to help you tune in to the moment, remember to breathe when things are hard, and know that right now in this moment it’s you’re ok. And help to remind you to ext...

Listen to this guided meditation to center yourself and start your day in a positive, calming way. The positive affirmations will help you feel inner peace, be more present, and connect to the love within you and all around you today. The affirmations will help you remember that at any time throughout the day you can pause, breathe, and start fresh. Each new moment is an opportunity to start fresh...

Marianne Williamson said in her book A Return To Love “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?” Within each of us is love. Our essence is love, goodness, curiosity, cou...

Gratitude is the gateway to all the good stuff that we desire more of in our life - joy, peace, abundance, love. We often think of being thankful for when we are experiencing the good. Yet, we can use this practice to help us when we are facing a big challenge. A roadblock. A problem that feels like it has no solution. Taking a moment to get into a solution mindset. We can never solve a problem wh...

Awareness is the first step toward becoming more present, mindful, and connected. When we become aware of our thoughts and the meaning we are giving our thoughts that may be causing suffering, we can begin to make a shift. We have the power to create a new story for ourselves, one that is for us, instead of against us. As we bring awareness and openness in to that voice that is causing suffering,...

Allow this guided body scan meditation to help you get into a calm. peaceful state. This is a wonderful guided practice that will be beneficial to those who are new or old to meditation. As you focus on your body from head to toe and connect within you feel greater peace, presence, and wholeness that can help you rest into sleep, find focus, or start your day in a grounded, centered way.

30: Connecting to your soul. Spiritual practice to connect. Beginning a practice of being still allows us to reconnect with the parts of us that bring us greater meaning fulfillment and love. Our soul is like no other and when we tap in and listen, we feel grace we feel a whisper that lights us up, ignites our work and service, and spreads out onto others. We’ve all felt it at times in our life bu...

26: The work: not believing the thoughts that make us suffer. Buddha says it’s not the hurt that causes our suffering, it’s the meaning we give our suffering. How often do we get caught up on a thought about something that happened. So much that it causes us to feel suffering. We can pause and take a moment to go back to what caused the feelings of negativity sadness or hurt. The act that spurred...

27: Choosing courage over comfort is not always easy but it is where joy, meaning, love is- all the good stuff. We want to be present, connected, and showing up as our highest self. Seeing the good in ourselves, our experiences and in our relationships. That means we have to be aware of the story we are telling ourselves. The thoughts we are thinking. When we bring awareness we can make a shift if...

Today is a wonderful day. Just as we fuel our bodies, we need to fuel our mind. We are whole and complete and can move forward wholeheartedly. Allow these positive words to guide you into your day. The words we use are powerful- having the power to change the way we show up and what shows up in our life. The way we think about and respond to what comes up is more important than what happens. We ca...

Gratitude. We are learning how important the simple practice of gratitude is in improving our wellbeing. It’s like a lubricant for our brains. For beginning to see things from a new perspective. Our brains are made for survival. We have to train our brains for success and happiness. Gratitude is the most simple practice toward training our brains. We begin to see the challenges, the people, the ex...

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking” - H. Jackson Brown Jr. It’s important to think about our core values. Our values are what drive the choices we make moment by moment which determines how we show up in our life, how we work, we we connect with those around us. Our character is felt and goes deeper than anything external. When we think about our values and begin to move...

What if we could allow our thoughts to be. Be the observer knowing our thoughts are not who we are at our soul level. Mindfulness allows us to bring awareness to our thoughts with equanimity- allowing them to come and go without push or pull. How often have the the thoughts in our head, the storyline, taken us away from the experiences in front of us the connection and joy that is ours. How often...

We can use our breath at any time to tune into this moment, the present and feel the peace and calm that is within us. The more we practice meditation and body awareness and being still the more easily we can see when we’re not in this place. We recognize when we’re in a reactive agitated and stressed place and we have the tool we need to get back to presence. Allow this meditation to calm you, cr...

Wealth actually means well-being. We’ve begun to narrow the definition to refer to bank accounts and material objects. Yet spiritual wealth is so much more. Material wealth alone does not give us the contentment, fulfillment and level of well-being we desire. Wealth is a spiritual well-being that is within each of us and in flow with creativity, life, love, source. Like wealth, prosperity is way o...

We have to actually design our life for health if we want to be healthy. It just takes a little planning, making a commitment.  We live in a world where everything we need or want is at our fingertips - and we can use that for us or against us.  Yes, there are unhealthy choices lurking everywhere. But there are healthy ones too. We have to seek them out. We are traveling and the food bei...