Nature-Inspired Meditations
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 and reconnect deeply with immersive, nature-infused meditations
Tune in every Monday and Thursday for nature-inspired meditations designed to calm an overwhelmed mind, ease anxiety, and deepen your connection to yourself and the world around you.
Now, let’s grab a cup of tea, a comfy seat and settle in for today’s practice.
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Releasing Resistance
re·sist·ance
noun
1. the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.
2. the ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely.
What Peace Really Means
Our meditation practice is the practice of The Middle Way. Meaning the practice isn’t about perfection, a goal or an end-game. The practice IS the practice.
You Are Sky
#truestory This morning, my almost-3-year-old wakes up and the very first words out his mouth are, “Mommy, I’m like sky.” Although I haven’t shared this teaching with him, I love that he innately knows it…
True Belonging
This month at Sacred Chill {West} our theme of the month is True Belonging. Not the belonging of fitting in or “finding your tribe”, but the belonging of being at home in your body and therefore the world.
Meditation Compassion Action
Speaking on the day of the Las Vega tragedy, I don’t have any answers. I don’t have any action plans or suggestions, even. But, I am sharing my thoughts around cultivating compassion, the importance of meditating and the importance of action.
The Life Affirming Practice of Meditation
Tapas is a sanskrit term that can described as the friction created when we move against the grain… When we move up against the edges of our comfort-level… Today we spend a few minutes talking about our meditation practice as a form of Tapas and how this “friction” helps us to experience more joy in our daily lives.
Stepping Into the Fire
Tapas is a sanskrit word translates to mean “heat”. Often it is used within a yoga practice as self-discipline, spiritual growth, transformation, austerities…
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