Love Your Calm: Mini Meditations
Mini meditations to help you slow down and find your balance in this fast-paced world.
If you have been feeling stressed, overwhelmed or even disconnected, you're in the right place. If you are focusing on personal growth, committing to a consistent self-care plan, or even making an effort to reconnect with yourself, you're in the right place. Sometimes it feels like there isn’t enough time in the day to tend to your own needs. These short, soothing meditations can help.
Meditation doesn't have to be intimidating. Anyone can do it. Give it a try. Most of these meditations are around 8 minutes and will help you feel calmer. Relax into this award winning guided meditation podcast led by mental health therapist and coach, Hannah Castillo. You'll love the sense of calm that exists within.
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Love Your Calm: Mini Meditations
Practicing Self-Compassion: A Self-Love Meditation
Hello and Welcome!
This week's mini meditation is focused on self-compassion. How you talk to yourself matters. This short practice uses a powerful affirmation and encourages you to treat yourself with kindness.
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Hannah Castillo: Welcome to the Love Your Calm podcast. Mini meditations to help you slow down and find your balance in this fast-paced world.
Hello and welcome.
This week's mini meditation is focused on self-compassion. It's no secret that the most important voice in your life is your own, so how you talk to yourself matters.
Let's spend a few minutes practicing talking to ourselves with kindness.
So let's get started.
Begin by taking a few moments to find a comfortable position. You can remain seated if that feels good for you, or you can choose to be lying down. Whatever feels best for you today. If it is comfortable for you. you can close your eyes softly or maybe just lower your gaze.
Take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold it for a moment and then exhale slowly through your mouth, beginning to release any tension.
Allow your breath to begin to just settle into its natural rhythm. With each inhale,invite in a sense of calm. On each exhale let go of any self judgment or criticism.
Now turn your awareness inward. Begin to acknowledge any feelings of self-doubt or unkindness that might arise. It's okay to feel this way. Everyone experiences moments of vulnerability. As you breathe, remind yourself that you deserve kindness and understanding just like anyone else.
I invite you to bring to mind a moment when you've been hard on yourself. Acknowledge this feeling without judgment. As you breathe in, imagine wrapping yourself in a warm embrace of kindness and with the exhale release any negative thoughts, allowing self compassion to fill the space instead.
As you continue to breathe, remind yourself that self-compassion is a practice and that you are worthy of love and acceptance regardless of any imperfections or setbacks. Begin to embrace the idea that it's okay to be human and to experience struggles.
Maybe consider repeating this powerful affirmation to yourself.
I am worthy of kindness.
Let this affirmation settle in, fostering a sense of acceptance within you.
I am worthy of kindness.
Take one final round of breath here, filling your lungs with warmth and compassion and exhale slowly, grounding yourself in the awareness that you deserve to treat yourself with love and understanding.
When you are ready, gently bring your awareness back to the present moment. Take any movements you may need and when it feels good for you, slowly open your eyes. Carry this sense of self compassion with you throughout your day. Maybe taking the opportunity to repeat this affirmation one final time.
I am worthy of kindness.
Thank you for joining me for today's short meditation. My name is Hannah and you're listening to the Love Your Calm: Mini Meditations podcast. It means so much to me that you've chosen to spend a few minutes of your day here.
If this is your first time listening, I hope you'll come back again next week. And in the meantime, consider building your daily meditation practice, catching up on all the past episodes. If you've been listening every week, thank you for following along. These weekly practices are for you.
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As always, thank you for helping me spread the word that including a few minutes of meditation in your day really can make a difference.
Until next week...
