Whenever you want! I love meditating in the morning before I pray. It gets me in a receptive state. I also love meditating if I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back asleep.  For me guided meditations are perfect for this.  I love using Sleep Phones so I don’t bother […]

Whenever I fill my water filtering pitcher, I take that 45 seconds to meditate.  I have to fill it at least once a day, so in the middle of my day I get to sneak in this short but sweet meditation time. As the water pitcher fills, I breathe in and out to a positive

You should have the mantra “Breathing in peace and calm, breathe out and smile.” Firmly implanted into your mind, body and spirit.  You have been practicing it for well over 21 days now.  I want to show you how you can mix it up with different mantras! I think that using the breathing and the

Some people are afraid of the word Mantra.  I remember I wrote it on the board in a church lesson once and someone gasped.  I had to chuckle a bit.  We all have mantras, whether we are aware of it or not. Here is a good definition of a mantra. “A statement or slogan repeated

I have enjoyed the free 21 day meditation challenges that Oprah and Deepak have done.  Every few months they come out with a new one.  It is set up with an interesting format.  Oprah talks about a subject, then Depak speaks and sets up a meditation.  Then there is a period of silence while you

I love listening to guided meditations at night before I fall asleep.  It gets me in this deeply relaxed state.  I usually end up falling asleep during the meditation.  Some may worry, “Oh no! It won’t ‘work’ if I fall asleep.” I think “Oh Yay, ultimate multi-tasking AND I sleep better!” When I taught Hypnobabies

Your mind and body need to communicate with each other.  Our mind needs to respect what our body is saying.  Our body needs to hear and respect our mind. Our mind and body need to hear and respect our spirit. When you are in a relaxed and restorative state, it is easier to “hear” and

Guess what you are a pro at Phase 2 of meditating! Great job. You didn’t even know you were learning phase 2, but you were! Now I am going to go backwards and teach you a great Phase 1. You have learned about grounding and shielding the last week.  Grounding and Shielding is such an

After I had been doing the 10 second meditations for a few months, I wanted to meditate longer, but wasn’t sure how.  I decided to download this app.  It is very simple and had some guided meditations to help increase my length of meditation.  This is different than the guided meditations I have shared, in

Why do we need to practice relaxing and restoring?   We know that meditation helps us to relax our body, mind and spirit.  This will help refresh and restore ourselves. In our modern lives there is little space for relaxing and restoring. Many people try to relax and restore by watching TV at night or surfing