Guided Meditations
These meditations accompany the 90-day Joy Journey. All you need to begin is a space where you can simply be.
Day 1: Delight in Your LIfe
Joy is one of the great gifts of life.
As we begin our journey, we begin with awareness. And as it turns out, there are many ways to be aware - our surroundings, our bodies, our thoughts, our feelings…
Day 4: Suffering and Joy
To live is to be in a constant state of transformation.
With living comes hope. Where our spiritual lives are concerned, we may hope that spiritual practices will help us avoid negative feelings. We may hope that our connection to these practices and to Source (the Divine) will take away the difficulties of life - or at least ease those difficulties significantly...
Day 5: My Present Moment
Setting an intention for our day helps us to
live intentional lives.
This week, our exploration of joy involves the practice of awareness, and oftentimes, awareness involves our senses: What can we see, feel, hear, smell, taste…
Day 8: The Practice of Letting Go
Notice your thoughts so that they
don’t carry you away.
Equanimity is a word we sometimes use for this act of “not getting carried away.” Others may call it “being non-judgmental.” Whatever words we use, the idea behind all of them is the same: Not every emotion or thought is worth reacting to...
Day 15: Gratitude
Joy is what happens when we are able to
hold both the difficult and the good.
It turns out, gratitude is an essential part of living a life where Joy can actually be the unlimited essence of our being. It helps us relish our experiences, connect with the people around us, appreciate the goodness that exists in our lives, and on and on...
Day 22: You Can
Our perception affects our seeing.
This week we will be taking time to hone in on the idea of reframing, which allows us to look again, with a beginner’s mind, with childlike wonder, with the understanding that there may well be more we have yet to see, to know, to learn, to feel…
Day 40: Inner Light Visualization
Light offers us many gifts. Like energy.
And transcendence.
...Imagine a small light that originates at the core of your being. It may be a light that originates in your heart space, or perhaps quite literally at the center of your core...
Day 62: Reducing Suffering, Bringing Joy
Small actions make big impacts.
...Consider again the words above: Small actions make big impacts. As you hear these words, allow the face of someone you care about - and with whom you have no current conflicts with - to come to mind...
Day 64: Mindsets, Actions, and Choices
What happens is one thing.
How we interpret what happens is another.
...Engaging our meaning and purpose is a way to focus our energies, find grounding, and experience connection. In a world of possibility, meaning and purpose help us understand our what and our why....
Day 72: This, Too, Belongs
Life becomes more joyful when we can accept our circumstances.
The ability to be present in each moment is about accepting the vulnerability, discomfort, and anxiety of everyday life. As we sit with this idea of accepting life as it is, while we aren’t talking about ignoring reality, we are talking about dealing with reality as it is and journeying ahead from the place we actually are...