One man's journey discovering mindfulness, meditation, mantras and positive affirmations in his quest to heal from an abusive relationship. What he discovers, more importantly, is not only how to heal but how to grow and ultimately flourish into a new, more confident, independent, happier person tha…
Start your day with a short positive morning meditation. Being grateful and appreciating this new day. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
Forgiving others helps us to remove guilt and shame and move forward with our lives. It helps us to lead a life with compassion and kindness. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
It is important to forgive ourselves in order to move forward positively with our lives. We need to forgive ourselves for the mistakes that we make. We are only human. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
Learning to forgive ourselves for things that have upset or hurt other people is important to remove feelings of guilt or shame. This is essential for us to move forward positively. Also, forgiving others who may have hurt us. We can also get caught up in guilt and shame and blame ourselves for what other people have done to us. This can affect how we feel about ourselves. We can make ourselves feel like bad people. We need to forgive them too to move forward. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
A short meditation on noticing thoughts. Do you get stuck in thoughts of the past or thoughts of the future? Use this meditation to ground yourself back in the moment with your breathing and notice when your thoughts drift off to the past or future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
A short 5 minute guided meditation focusing on the sounds around you. This helps ground you in the present moment and bring you back to here and now. Use this any time you find thoughts wandering into the last or the future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
Our self narrative is what we consciously and unconsciously tell ourselves about who we are. Do you tell yourself positives about who you are? Or, do you listen to negatives from the external world or other people? Change your self narrative and self talk to be positive and consciously focused on the positive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
Accepting ourselves and loving ourselves is key to improving our vibration and being happy. Try this positive affirmation each day to accept and love yourself. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
All too often we look towards others to make us feel loved or good about ourselves. Only we can make ourselves feel truly loved or good. It is up to us to love ourselves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
Chris practices a brief breathing meditation and some of the techniques which helped him heal and grow. The first in a series of meditations you can follow along with, helping to focus on the present moment and our breath to bring us back to the present. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
A positive morning affirmation to set up your day. Start the day with a positive mindset using 'I am...' the two most powerful words. Use these each day to grow and flourish. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
What do we mean when we talk about 'affirmations'? I am.....can be the two most powerful words in the English Language. Chris discusses how these can be either negative or positive and how we, and others, use them to shape our thinking. All too often we negatively affirm things in our minds based on what others tell us, or we tell ourselves. We can believe them and they become who we are, we need to re-frame these and affirm all the positive affirmations in ourselves to become more positive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
Chris practices a gratitude meditation and some of the techniques which helped him heal and grow. The second in a series of meditations you can follow along with, helping to focus on the present moment and all there is to be grateful for in life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
Gratitude and appreciation helps bring the mind back to the present and away from thoughts of the past or future. Sometimes our thoughts of the past can be painful or make us feel negative feelings. Similarly, thoughts of the future can make us anxious or worry causing us to worry about things that haven't happened or we think might happen. These thoughts bring us down or lower our mood, If we are grateful and appreciate we focus on now, the present. We bring our awareness and attention back to positives and away from those negatives of the past and future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
In the second episode Chris shares a little of his own experiences and what has led him to record this podcast. Chris shares some of the challenges faced during an abusive relationship and the eventual insights and knowledge this led to. Chris explains how meditation, mindfulness and positive mantras and affirmations helped him move forward with his life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
Join your host Chris as he explains what the Learning to Heal and Love Yourself Podcast is all about. The podcast will contain meditations, mindfulness, positive affirmations, mantras and discussions on a range of topics to help you grow and flourish into a stronger, happier you. And, hopefully, heal some of the negative impacts of the past and negative thinking. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stillmeditations/message
© 2020-2025 Ivy Podcast Discovery LLC
