Inner peace or bust
Meditation: Balance, Breathe: Relax Deeply (4-7-8) Length: 5 minutes Where: Bedroom, Michigan How It Felt: Hard Yesterday was basically a recovery day for me. Steve and I drove home, ate, showered, relaxed. We read a bit, and he gave me a shoulder massage. He had a regular work day today, so he went to bed…
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Meditation: Balance, Daily MeditationLength: 10 minutes Where: Our bedroom in my uncles’ house, Huntington, INHow It Felt: Loved it! My family’s Christmas party was a blast this year. We were having so much fun that we stayed up playing cards and laughing until 4:30am- and then went to the kitchen to pick over what was…
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Meditation: Calm, Body ScanLength: 3 minutes Where: Bedroom, Michigan How It Felt: Short but Relaxing Quick post! We are on our way to Indiana for my family Christmas party, and I want to get back to our audiobook! Did a quick mediation with a great reminder at the end- see image below. Too excited about…
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Meditation: Calm, 7 Days of Managing Stress: Creating Balance Length: 12 minutes Where: Comfy Chair, Living Room, Los Angeles How It Felt: Perfectly Timed Today’s meditation was about how we forget to take care of ourselves when stress becomes the focus of our lives. We often forget to eat well, exercise, sleep, or take time…
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Meditation: Balance, End the Day Length: 3 minutes Where: In bed, Los Angeles How It Felt: My eyes closed… Deep into some “me” time. I don’t think I’ve spoken aloud all day, except to my cat. I’ve been texting, sure, but not speaking, really. Watching cooking shows, cleaning, reading a bit, relaxing, and snuggling. One…
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Meditation: Balance, Anxiety Length: 5 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los Angeles How It Felt: Helpful, a bit It’s strange to write about this now because I’m definitely feeling a lot calmer today, but I was crazy anxious yesterday. And the past few days. And when I woke up this morning. And… ok, probably still a little…
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Meditation: Calm, 7 Days of Managing Stress: Working with Strong Emotions Length: 14 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los Angeles How It Felt: Long but good Who Joined Me: Steve (until he fell asleep) Today I woke up motivated and ready to finish this year strong! I’m tired of whining about how hard it is to write…
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Meditation: Calm, Timed MeditationLength: 5 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los AngelesHow It Felt: Soothing Deep into my alone time. Totally relaxed. I managed to go so deep I looped all the way back around- I’m energized again, and already back to getting stuff done! Last night I was just getting started, though, and I was a…
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Meditation: Calm, 7 Days of Managing Stress: De-escalating StressLength: 12 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los AngelesHow It Felt: Calming One last early morning tomorrow. I just have to get up early one more time, before I get soooo many days to sleep in. Yay! I saw tick, tick…BOOM! tonight. It was amazing. Inspiring. And it helped…
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Meditation: Calm, Calm Light Length: 3 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los Angeles How It Felt: Short but I was so tired I have not been using meditation for its full purpose and I am definitely feeling the effects of missing out. I’ve just been running on fumes this past week, and meditation has mostly been getting…
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My Year of Meditation 