Meryl Arnett, Meditation Teacher & Trainer

Our Mindful Nature: Meditation Inspired by Nature to Soothe the Overwhelmed Mind and Ease Anxiety

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Feeling overwhelmed despite your best self-care practices? You’re not alone. Anxiety, stress, and mental health struggles are at an all-time high — even for those of us in healing professions. After teaching and practicing meditation for 15+ years, host Meryl Arnett shares the secret to deep, restorative and helpful meditation practices - nature-inspired meditation. Meryl’s soothing guidance and high-quality nature soundscapes will help you to:- Cultivate a meditation practice that relieves stress and quiets the mind- Strengthen your resilience and compassion through mindful connection- Relax...

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Meryl Arnett, Meditation Teacher & Trainer

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Jul 9, 2026

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Should You Try Forest Bathing If You’re Meditating But Still Feel Overwhelmed By Anxiety? 22.05.2025

Are you feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected—despite your meditation practice? This episode explores how forest bathing—a mindful, sensory connection to nature—offers a profound way to release anxiety and return to balance, especially when traditional meditation falls short. Discover why simply being with nature—not hiking, not exercising—can be a transformative antidote to overwhelm and...

15 minute Guided Meditation: Chakra Meditation for Self-Connection and Energy Restoration 19.05.2025

✨Just the Meditation Join us for a powerful guided chakra meditation designed to restore your connection to self and refill your cup. Perfect for anyone experiencing burnout, emotional exhaustion, or feeling disconnected despite regular self-care practices. This episode includes a full guided meditation that walks you through connecting with each energy center in your body. Today's meditation is...

Overcoming Anxiety & Burnout: Mindful Chakra Meditation for Self-Connection 15.05.2025

In this episode, we explore why we often feel disconnected from ourselves despite regular self-care routines, and how mindfulness meditation can help us truly refill our energy cups. Join us for a powerful guided chakra meditation designed to restore your connection to self. What You'll Hear: The Self-Care Paradox Discover why traditional self-care activities sometimes fail to replenish your energ...

10 Minute Guided Meditation: May's Full Flower Moon 12.05.2025

Experience the energy of May's Full Flower Moon in this peaceful guided meditation. When flowers are in full bloom, it's time for the Flower Moon - a reminder not to hold back but to let your full energy shine. This gentle meditation helps you connect with the natural world, inviting you to find a comfortable spot near a window or outside where you can sense the world around you. Through breath aw...

4 Simple Ways to Foster Connection and Improve Mental Health 08.05.2025

Want to improve your mental health? One of the easiest and most effective steps you can take is to foster to CONNECTION But to what? And how? In this episode, Dr. Adam Dorsay, author and host of the podcast Super Psyched, joins us for conversation about the intricacies of connection. What You'll Hear: Understanding Connection Dr. Dorsay defines connection as "an internal emotional response that ma...

Guided Meditation: Connection & Resilience for the Overwhelmed, Anxious Mind 05.05.2025

✨Just the meditation In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, our May meditation series is going to dive into CONNECTION - to Self, to others, to the natural world and to Spirit - as a response to the mental health crisis of our time: disconnection. Experience a guided meditation that helps awaken your senses, quiet the overwhelmed and anxious mind, and build a resilient, connected spirit. Pres...

How Meditation Builds Connection and Resilience in a Disconnected World {Mental Health Awareness Month} 01.05.2025

Disconnection is THE mental health crisis of our time. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, our May meditation series is going to dive into CONNECTION - to Self, to others, to the natural world and to Spirit. In a time marked by political chaos, rising loneliness, and emotional exhaustion, many are searching for ways to restore a deep sense of belonging. This episode explores how meditation...

Guided Meditation: Why Tuning Into the Earth Element Can Instantly Soothe Burnout & the Overwhelmed Mind 28.04.2025

Just the Meditation ✨ In times of burnout, uncertainty, or overwhelming responsibility, it’s easy to feel unmoored. This episode offers a grounding antidote: reconnecting with the Earth not just as a planet, but as a living, supportive force beneath you. Whether you're navigating stress, healing from disconnection, or simply craving calm, this meditation practice will anchor you. Press play to jo...

From Burned Out to Resilient: How Earth Meditation Rebuilt My Inner Foundation 24.04.2025

Have you ever truly felt held by the Earth—not just standing on it, but supported in a deep, ancestral way? In times of burnout, uncertainty, or overwhelming responsibility, it’s easy to feel unmoored. This episode offers a grounding antidote: reconnecting with the Earth not just as a planet, but as a living, supportive force beneath you. Whether you're navigating stress, healing from disconnectio...

Earth Day Meditation & Nature Reflection {Retreat Recording} 22.04.2025

Honoring Earth Day ✨ In a fast-paced world where we often feel disconnected from ourselves and the earth, this episode offers a gentle yet powerful reminder that simple acts—like arranging flowers or walking in nature—can become profound spiritual practices that reduce anxiety and quiet the overwhelmed mind. Any yet, these elemental experiences aren't just calming—they reconnect us to something t...

Guided Water Meditation: Let Go and Trust the Journey 21.04.2025

✨Just the Meditation✨ In this episode, we explore the powerful lessons of the water element in meditation. Water moves with ease, follows the path of least resistance, and embraces the journey rather than the destination. If you’ve ever struggled with fear of the unknown or feeling stuck in life, this episode is for you. Press play now and discover how embracing the lessons of water can help you...

From Resistance to Flow: The Water-Inspired Path to Mindfulness 17.04.2025

Are you holding on too tightly to control, fear, or the familiar? What if the secret to peace was learning to let go—just like water? In this episode, we explore the powerful lessons of the water element in meditation. Water moves with ease, follows the path of least resistance, and embraces the journey rather than the destination. If you’ve ever struggled with fear of the unknown or feeling stuck...

{Mini Meditation} Fire Meditation to Avoid Emotional Burnout and Reignite Passion 14.04.2025

✨ Just the Meditation ✨ Fire is perhaps the most often referenced element within sacred practices from around the world. In cultures near and far, the belly is seen as the home of our life force, our passion, our drive, our digestion {of food, thought and feeling}. When we work with the element of fire in our meditation practice, it is useful to reflect on the element of fire in the external wor...

Why Meditating On Your Inner Fire Can Transform Stress Into Strength 10.04.2025

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by stress or weighed down by old stories that no longer serve you? What if fire—the element of transformation—held the key to clearing out the past and reigniting your passion for life? In this episode, we dive deep into the ancient wisdom of fire energy, exploring how intentional "burning" can help us release limiting beliefs, manage emotions, and create space for n...

From Mental Clutter to Inner Calm: The Power of Wind Meditation {Mini Meditation} 07.04.2025

✨ Just the Meditation ✨ When an ecosystem is healthy and thriving, we see the elements {Earth, Air, Fire & Water} working in tandem to promote the most prosperity and diversity possible. The same holds true within the inner landscape. We can use the elements both as an anchor for our meditation practice as well as tools for balancing anxiety, depression and overwhelm. In today’s mini meditat...

3 Signs Your Inner Ecosystem Is Out of Balance & How to Fix It with Nature Meditation {Wind Edition} 03.04.2025

Have you ever felt stuck, weighed down by stress, or unsure how to move forward? What if the key to clarity and transformation was as simple as connecting with the elements? This episode explores the power of elemental meditation, focusing on the wind element as a tool for clearing, movement, and renewal. Through guided practices, you’ll learn how to tap into the natural forces within and around y...

Nurtured by Nature: Meditation for Emotional Exhaustion 31.03.2025

✨ Just the meditation Emotionally exhausted? This meditation is for you. Crafted from the latest in PTSD treatment techniques this meditation offers a unique visualization practice that you can use on and off the cushion. Take a deep breath, settle in, and press play to immerse yourself in a meditation practice that will help you release exhaustion and regain a sense of calm and renewal. Today's...

The Unexpected Link Between PTSD Treatment & Nature Meditation for Emotional Exhaustion 27.03.2025

Feeling emotionally drained and completely exhausted? Ever wondered if there's a way to restore your energy and reset your nervous system through meditation? Compassion fatigue and emotional burnout are all too common, especially when juggling the demands of caregiving, work, and personal life. This episode explores how meditation can not only help you acknowledge exhaustion but also actively rest...

Spring Equinox Nature Meditation {Live Retreat Recording} 24.03.2025

Just The Meditation: Spring Equinox ✨ A Journey of Renewal & Healing Awaits - As light and dark come into perfect harmony, the spring equinox offers a powerful moment to pause, reflect, and realign with your true essence. Honored across cultures as a time of renewal and rebirth, this sacred season invites you to shed the old and embrace new possibilities. In this **special live-recorded medit...

Harness The Hidden Power of the Spring Equinox with a Nature Meditation for Renewal and Growth {live retreat recording} 20.03.2025

A Special Spring Equinox Meditation Retreat ✨ Are you overlooking the power of the equinox in your meditation practice? As day and night find perfect balance, this season invites us to reflect, reset, and realign with our truest selves. Ancient traditions recognized this time as one of possibility, creativity, and rebirth. In this meditation, we explore the profound symbolism of the egg—protectio...

How to Sit with Grief: A Meditation Practice for When Sadness Feels Too Big 17.03.2025

✨Just the Meditation Grief, sadness, and heartache can feel all-consuming, making it difficult to stay present. Today's meditation practice is an invitation to hold these emotions with care—not to fix or erase them, but to nurture connection to ourselves, others, and the natural world. Experience a guided meditation practice infused with poetry, breathwork, grounding techniques, and the sounds of...

3 Ways to Meditate Through Heartache Without Feeling Overwhelmed 13.03.2025

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by grief that it seemed to erase every other emotion? In those moments, meditation might feel impossible—but what if it could become a space for tenderness rather than escape? Grief, sadness, and heartache can feel all-consuming, making it difficult to stay present. This episode explores how meditation can help us hold these emotions with care—not to fix or erase...

Nurtured by Nature: Meditation for Anxiety 10.03.2025

Just The Meditation ✨ Do you ever feel like you're being tossed about by life's constant changes, unable to find solid ground in the midst of chaos? In our fast-paced world filled with uncertainty, finding stability can seem impossible. But what if you could stand strong like a mountain through life's storms? In this meditation, you'll experience a peaceful meditation practice focused on equanimi...

How to Use Nature Meditation as a Tool for Navigating Anxiety and Stress 06.03.2025

Feeling overwhelmed by the constant changes in life? Struggling to find stability in the chaos? This meditation explores the power of equanimity—your ability to stay steady like a mountain amidst life’s storms. In a world where personal stress, anxiety and global turmoil seem never-ending, how do we stay grounded? Through meditation, we can develop a sense of inner steadiness that allows us to nav...

Honoring Our National Parks: A Nature Meditation for Connection and Gratitude 03.03.2025

How can we honor and protect the sacred lands that sustain us? Join this special meditation practice dedicated to the Earth, where we deepen our connection and commitment to its well-being. With national parks and natural spaces under increasing threat from policy rollbacks, climate change, and resource exploitation, it’s easy to feel powerless. But through mindful reflection and meditation, we ca...

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