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3 Guided Meditation Scripts for Wellbeing

One way you can cultivate wellbeing is with guided meditation scripts, which you can read out loud, record, or use with groups or in classroom settings. Over time, this process can help you internalize a greater sense of wellbeing in daily life. Here are three guided meditation scripts to get you started: 1. Gratitude meditation…

Premeditatio Malorum: The Stoic Art of Worst-Case Scenarios

Premeditatio malorum is the practice of visualizing what could go wrong in life in order to be practically and emotionally prepared for what may come. It is a key component of the ancient Roman philosophy of Stoicism. According to the Stoics of ancient Rome, by shielding yourself from the horrible things that may happen in…

Urge Surfing: How to Resist Urges Mindfully

Urge surfing is a way to create a mindful pause between cravings and action by “riding the wave” of your urges as they rise and subside. By surfing urges instead of acting on them right away, you can give yourself a chance to choose the action you want to take, rather than doing it on…

15 Mantras for Confidence & Self Esteem (+ PDF)

Self confidence mantras can help you cultivate self trust and come to rely on your instincts and abilities. Oftentimes, feelings of low self-esteem can create a distorted view of the world. This list of self empowering mantras to boost confidence is designed to build feelings of self-worth, trust, and belief in yourself. All of us…

A 9-Minute Guided Self-Love Meditation Script (PDF + Audio)

A self love meditation is a way to internalize compassion and love for yourself. This short guided meditation for self love can help you start to rewire your brain for self love, positivity, and inherent worthiness. For some reason, we often tend to treat ourselves worse than we treat others. Forgiving ourselves is often harder…

A 9-Minute Guided Confidence Meditation Script (+ Audio)

A confidence meditation is one way to begin to trust yourself, and your own intuition, in a stronger way. This short guided meditation for self esteem and confidence will help you make progress toward building trust in yourself. By repeating affirmations that promote trust in yourself and increased self-worth, you can internalize an enhanced sense…

191 Good Mantras to Live By (+ List of Mantras PDF)

Choosing a few mantras to live by can help you understand your values and what’s important to you. Repeating those mantras regularly can help you keep your focus on the things that matter to you. By going through this list of mantras, you can find the ones that resonate with you most—and take action on…

71 Printable Gratitude Affirmations (+ PDF) for a Thankful Life

Gratitude affirmations can help you grow in appreciation for every aspect of your life. Gratitude has a compounding effect – the more you express it each day, the more things you find to be grateful for. This list of affirmations for gratitude and abundance is designed to help you cultivate feelings of thankfulness. It’s easy…

71 Printable Self Love Affirmations (+ PDF)

Affirmations for self love are a way to internalize compassion and love for yourself. Over time, affirmations can help replace these negative thoughts with positive thoughts. This list of 71 self love affirmations and self worth affirmations (+ self love printable download) can help you start to rewire your brain for self love, positivity, and…

17 Mindfulness Group Activities For Adults

There’s way more variety to group mindfulness activities than the seated meditation, group yoga, and gratitude lists that most of us first think of. From outside meditation to group hugs to mindful cooking classes, the options for mindful group exercises are endless. When you’re designing mindfulness activities for groups, it can be hard to know…

31 Fun & Calming Mindfulness Activities for Teens

Mindfulness activities for teens are similar to the activities you’d practice as an adult. But it’s important to put them in a context teenagers are interested in. That means you need mindfulness activities for teens that are relevant to their lives (like meditating to make studying easier) or doing exercises that spark curiosity (like mindful…

Calming Mindfulness Activities for Adults

25 Quick Mindfulness Activities for Adults (+ PDF)

Mindfulness activities for adults are much more diverse than the typical activities we think of first, like seated meditation and yoga. From gratitude to self-compassion, from mindful eating to mindful hugs, the options for incorporating mindfulness into your everyday life are endless. Mindfulness is such a vast topic that sometimes it’s hard to know where…

The 10 Best Crystal Subscription Boxes for 2024

The best crystal subscription boxes include Mindful Souls and the Crystal Variety Box. Each box includes unique crystals to support your practice. Read on for a comparison of each box, so you can decide which is right for you. There’s nothing more exciting than getting something fun in the mail, after all, and if it…

Mindful Cooking Tips for Cooking Meditation

9 Mindful Cooking Tips to Cook With Intention

Mindful cooking, also known as cooking meditation, is the art of cooking with patience, curiosity, and nonjudgment, while paying attention to smells and flavors. When you’re cooking mindfully, you treat cooking as if it were a meditation by approaching each action with intention, rather than rushing through it. I’ll be honest – cooking is often…

7 Movement Meditation Examples to Clear Your Mind

Movement meditation techniques like yoga, walking meditation, and tai chi are a way to bring a more active energy to your meditation practice. We often think of meditation as a practice that happens in stillness – but it doesn’t have to be, as long as you’re still paying attention to the present moment, nonjudgmentally. Some…

How to Get In Touch with Your Emotions (10 Ways)

If you’re struggling with how to get in touch with your emotions, the best way is to pay attention to what’s happening in your mind and body, to recognize common emotional triggers, and to challenge yourself to identify underlying emotions by going one level deeper. When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of…

The 10 Principles of Mindful Marketing

Mindful marketing is about your audience, not about you. It’s about education, relationships, values, awareness, human-to-human interactions, helping first, and asking for permission instead of spamming. The best way to explain mindful marketing is simple: Default to helping people first. Some companies operate based on what THEY need. The focus is on 100 cold calls…

7-Day Printable Mindfulness Journal Template

A mindfulness journal template is one way to get started with mindfulness journaling quickly. Mindfulness can have profound effects on your life, but its effects aren’t immediate. That means that keeping your practice going will be one of your biggest challenges. For many people, a template for journaling can help. If you’ve ever felt like…

Christian Mindfulness: An Introduction

Christian mindfulness embraces living in the present moment, contemplative prayer, silent reflection, meditating on Biblical passages, avoiding worry about the future, and noticing and letting go of negative thoughts. Let’s start here: mindfulness itself isn’t religious. That means Christians can practice mindfulness separately from their religious activities, just as they would with exercise or therapy….

35 Fun Facts About Meditation That Will Surprise You

This list of 35 interesting facts about meditation shows that there are 275 million meditators around the world, the most popular city for meditation is Melbourne, Australia, and many other meditation fun facts. You’ve no doubt heard many of the most popular facts about meditating. Perhaps you’ve heard meditation can make your body healthier, your…