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 2/25/21 Meryl Arnett 2/25/21

What’s Love Got To Do With It {part 4}

This month, we have been exploring the cycle of awakening in this 4 part series - ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’ And, with today’s episode, we reach the pinnacle of this cycle. Reciprocity.

Meryl Arnett 2/22/21 Meryl Arnett 2/22/21

Mini Meditation: What A Wonderful Day

Today’s mini meditation is a practice inspired by the words of Maya Angelou -

“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.”

A practice of gratefulness and wakefulness without the requisite “3 things you are grateful for…” cliche.

Meryl Arnett 2/18/21 Meryl Arnett 2/18/21

What’s Love Got To Do With It {part 3}

A gratefulness that feels alive in our bodies doesn’t come from a mandate that “you SHOULD practice gratitude”. In fact, I believe that gratitude isn’t something we can ‘do’. I think it is actually the spontaneous evolution of waking up to a more heartfelt existence.

So, in today’s episode of The Mindful Minute, I ask you to brave a discussion of gratitude; we will look at it perhaps from a different perspective, with absolutely no request to journal 3 things you are grateful for at the end!! Ready?

Meryl Arnett 2/15/21 Meryl Arnett 2/15/21

Mini Meditation: Receive The Gifts

Today’s mini meditation practice is a practice in recognizing the gifts that your time and attention bestow on you. Every breath, every thought, every feeling is a gift from your soul to your ego-self.

Meryl Arnett 2/11/21 Meryl Arnett 2/11/21

What’s Love Got To Do With It {part 2}

Every breath, every thought, every feeling is a gift from your soul to your ego-self.

Will you waste these gifts obsessing about your next to-do, or will you witness that obsessive thought with a smile and a “thank you” as you honor the gift of wisdom that just landed in your lap?

Today’s episode of The Mindful Minute is a practice in recognizing the gifts. ALL the gifts.

With every distraction, every discomfort, every joy, every mundane thought, we will remind ourselves, “this is a gift.” Curious what comes from a practice like this? Try it for yourself and find out!

Meryl Arnett 2/8/21 Meryl Arnett 2/8/21

Mini Meditation: The Art of Attention

I’m currently reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. In it, the author writes of providing an antidote to what she calls “plant blindness” - the learned ignoring of the plant life around us. This blindness “impedes the recognition of the green world as a garden of gifts.”

Kimmerer offers an antidote via a cycle of experience-

Attention
Gift
Gratitude
Reciprocity

I recognize this cycle as also being the cycle of waking up. This is the cycle of an ever-deepening meditation practice. And it begins with paying attention. Let’s try it together in today’s mini meditation.

Meryl Arnett 2/4/21 Meryl Arnett 2/4/21

What’s Love Got To Do With It {part 1}

My February meditation series lays out a map that moves us through this deepening cycle from a mindful mind to an awakened heart with plenty of practice time so you can feel for yourself what love has to do with it 💛⁠

Meryl Arnett 2/1/21 Meryl Arnett 2/1/21

Mini Meditation: Sunset Meditation

Meditating at sunset is an invitation to honor the ritual of cycles in our lives and the wholeness that comes when we don’t miss any of the steps in the cycle.

Join me for today’s mini meditation as we learn how to meditate at sunset and cultivate the quality of compassion as part of this practice.

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