Under 30 Min. Stories & Meditations

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A calming guided visualization with mindfulness practices and affirmations to help you drift off to sleep.

My go-to mindfulness meditation for bringing me into our body and back to the present moment.

We can connect more deeply to a place of intuition and inner knowing, leaving behind the search for external validation.

When we feel triggered or overwhelmed, we can find stillness by bringing our attention to the senses.

By bringing our attention to the senses, we can find stillness and presence. Join this week's Awaken Your Myth zoom gathering by signing up at https://awakenyourmyth.com. In my free newsletter, I send you a story every month about something I’ve learned living here on the mountain along with some tips to help you get a better night’s sleep and a little more peace during the day. When you join, you’ll also get a free sleepy audiobook and a relaxing 30 minute recording of the creek behind my...

Two beautiful, sleepy letters from the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca to his friend Lucilius.

By bringing attention to the five senses, we can connect more deeply with present moment awareness and our human instincts.

This is a great practice for embodying presence, enhancing non-judge mental awareness, and increasing compassion for ourselves and others.

This meditation can help you find equanimity and peace by breaking the connection to reactivity that often starts with feelings of doubt or fear.

Anytime we feel stuck or are unsure of how to proceed in life, we can always stop and connect to our intuition to see what might be holding us back and find a way forward.

We can find incredible gifts in the shadow, the part of our unconscious mind that contains the traits and emotions that we have repressed or denied.

Yielding to the moment, to what life is presenting to us, we can begin to move with the synchronicity of all life and all beings.

Simply listening to sounds and the silence between them, we can experience the power of attention to connect us with the world around us.

Bringing attention to the breath and sensations in the body can help us calm the mind.

A classic fairy tale about a proud princess who learns the importance of humility.

When we feel stuck, it can take courage to see things differently, and we can find that courage by opening our hearts.

Bringing a gentle awareness to the light within us, we can see that there is no light without darkness and that the two can exist in harmony.

By focussing our attention on the breath, we allow thoughts to simply arise and pass away.

When set an intention to rest the mind and settle the body, we allow ourselves to surrender a little more deeply to the flow of life.

A sleepy but witty Irish story from 1916.

When we let our thoughts be as they are, we allow them to pass and reveal the peace that exists in the space between them.

We can release judgement and live life in the moment when we cultivate discernment with an openness to what's present.

A calming exploration into embodying intuition more clearly and deeply.