Daily Affirmations for Mindful Meditation
The Urge to Make It Stop It started with something small — a tightness behind the sternum that arrived mid-morning, uninvited, the way a draft slips under a door you thought was sealed. We couldn’t name it right away. Frustration? Grief? Some hybrid creature that didn’t fit neatly into any vocabulary we’d been taught. The…
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The Storm That Arrived Uninvited It started the way it usually does — not with a dramatic event, but with something small. A message left unanswered too long. A tightness in the chest before the coffee had even cooled. We sat down this morning carrying something we couldn’t quite name, and for a moment, the…
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The Storm That Didn’t Need Fixing It started with something small — a message that landed wrong, a tone we misread, or maybe read exactly right. The heat rose fast this morning. We felt it in the jaw first, that familiar clench, then the tightness behind the sternum like a fist quietly closing. The coffee…
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The Email That Started It It was barely eight o’clock when the email arrived—one of those messages that doesn’t say anything overtly cruel but carries a tone, a clipped formality, that landed in my chest like a stone dropped into still water. I read it twice. The second time was worse, because by then my…
Read moreWe often experience great difficulty in allowing our emotions to be experienced without judgement. We are so quick to label them as right or wrong, good or bad that we often forget the importance of just being able to sit with them and accept that they exist. To do this requires a kind of mental…
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Breathing is the simplest way to create a sense of peace and balance in our lives. When we take a moment to pause, become still and observe our breath, we can open up an awareness of all that is around us. We can focus on each inhale, becoming present with any emotions or sensations that…
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In this modern world, it can be easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life and forget about ourselves. We spend so much time worrying about our responsibilities to others that we often ignore what makes us feel best within ourselves. Learning how to open myself up to feeling emotions without…
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As I move through my practice, I am aware of not just the physical but also emotional and mental states as they arise. My breath is a constant reminder to stay present. As I focus on each step or stretch, all else begins to fade away until there’s only me and my body in the…
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