AWAKEN

To awaken is to be. Be still to awaken. Awaken and be.

Yoga & Meditation, Health and wellnessAmanda StokerSeptember 17, 2020guided meditation, meditation, healing, grief, loving kindness, self healing, compassion, awakenComment

HEAVY EMOTIONAL STATES

Intense emotional states are avoided like the door to the panic room. Its understandable why. Allowing ourselves to feel grief, shame, sadness and relive the stories underneath is terrifying. What is the motivation for letting these feelings in? It frees you from their power over you.

Yoga & Meditation, Self ImprovementAmanda StokerApril 18, 2020anxiety, fear, trauma, stress, guided meditation, meditate, loving kindness, compassionComment

THE VALUE OF EXPERIENCE

What motivates you to sit with your own mind? A desire? A desire to feel better? A desire to get better? A desire to be the best? Ask yourself, what is it that you want? What is your heart’s deepest desire?

Yoga & Meditation, Self ImprovementAmanda StokerApril 12, 2020meditation, meditate, guided meditation, loving kindness, forgiveness, healing, self healing, heal the world, peace, calm, mind training, mindset, love, compassion, kindnessComment

CALM AMIDST THE CHAOS

Meditation is a means of training the mind to be responsive rather than reactive. Our intention with meditation is to encourage a responsive, unwavering mind. By sitting in meditation and processing what is coming up, we lessen the effect that outside stimulus has on the mind.

WORKING WITH LOVING KINDNESS MEDITATION

Noticing what you have aversion towards is the initial process to the work. What is coming up? What is making you uncomfortable? What is drawing you away from sitting; from listening and allowing in. My aversion was the word suffering and the idea that I was suffering, not wanting to feel suffering.

Yoga & Meditation, Self ImprovementAmanda StokerApril 3, 2020meditate, mindset, meditation, compassion, how to meditate, guidedmeditation, loving kindness meditation, love, self love, healing, growth, wisdomComment

KINDNESS CALMS THE MIND

One of the most effective practices to calm the mind is to be kind. Currently, our world is practicing the most gigantic effort towards kindness. We are staying home. We are putting off our ‘to do’s’ ‘wants’ and anything nonessential for the benefit of the world population. I have never seen a greater act of united compassion. This is a wondrous time of global transformation.

Yoga & Meditation, Self ImprovementAmanda StokerApril 2, 2020meditation, meditate, peace, calm, relax, love, loving kindness, kindness, compassion, care, connection, heal the world, self healingComment