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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Meryl Arnett 5/10/20 Meryl Arnett 5/10/20

Mini Meditation: Acknowledging Our Neurosis as Neurosis

Meditation reminds us that freedom doesn’t come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well. In this time of deep uncertainty, learning to enter the cave of mystery and uncertainty is akin to discovering the pathway to freedom. Join me for today’s short meditation to explore your own responses to fear and unknown.

Meryl Arnett 5/6/20 Meryl Arnett 5/6/20

Responding Creatively to Fear {Part 1 of 3}

This month’s meditation series is based upon one question –

“What do I do when I feel I can’t handle what is going on?”

Meryl Arnett 5/3/20 Meryl Arnett 5/3/20

Mini meditation: 7 practices of awakening with Dr. Rick Hanson

Today’s mini meditation is an extra special offering. This 10-minute guided meditation is led by Dr. Rick Hanson as he walks us through the 7 practices of awakening as outlined in his new book Neurodharma.

This is a practice you can come to again and again to explore the profound contentment that is possible from your meditation practice.

Meryl Arnett 4/29/20 Meryl Arnett 4/29/20

Rick Hanson on Neurodharma, Corona & 7 Practices of Awakening

Are y’all ready to geek out with me today? We are going deep!

Today’s episode is a special interview with Dr. Rick Hanson about his new book Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness

Meryl Arnett 4/26/20 Meryl Arnett 4/26/20

Mini Meditation: Too Soon

Oh, how my heart is hurting. I am angry and scared and overwhelmed with our local government’s decision to open the economy back up despite the science saying this is far too soon. It is precisely in this moment I turn inward for the calm and the confidence I need to move forward with courage. Today’s mini meditation is an invitation into spaciousness and timelessness that I hope offers a sense of alignment and an ease in making the decisions and taking the actions you/we/all need to make for the good of humanity.

Meryl Arnett 4/22/20 Meryl Arnett 4/22/20

Connecting the Dots {Part 3 of 3}

What is working for you right now? Has anything felt easy? Has there been an auspiciousness or a synchronicity that has shown itself to you? Even something that has just made you go… hmmm.⁠

Meryl Arnett 4/19/20 Meryl Arnett 4/19/20

Mini Meditation: Real & Not True

Today’s mini meditation is another short meditation practice designed to help you through the emotional & mental struggles of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the moment we must LET GO of convention and constraints. This is the moment we must let go of the shoulds, the coulds and the pressures of self-inflicted guilt.

Meryl Arnett 4/15/20 Meryl Arnett 4/15/20

Connecting the Dots {Part 2 of 3}

I want to talk about letting go today. Today marks week FOUR of our shelter-in-place, our quarantine.

And, the longer I sit and meditate and breathe and work and live and love in this time, the more I realize there has never been such a moment of “Both. And.”

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Since 2016, I have joyfully poured all my creative energy into the creation of this podcast. It has grown from an occasional meditation offering to a weekly show with interviews, book recommendations, guided practices and high-quality nature soundscapes. If these offerings support you and your meditation practice, please consider making a one-time or monthly donation to support the growth of this labor of love. If you can’t donate, please consider sharing this podcast with a friend or leaving a review wherever you listen to your podcasts.