Enhance Mood

Our mood reflects our overall level of well-being in a given moment, and it moves when our beliefs move. These practices help us observe our emotions and the beliefs underneath them, notice when those beliefs have become exaggerated, and shift them toward something more reasonable and better supported by evidence.

Rhythmic Breathing Meditation – 10 Minutes

Keeping the rhythm of your breath steady makes your heartbeat more cohesive, which increases blood flow to the brain and helps you think clearly.
Resilience Meditation – 15 Minutes

Resilience comes from trust and acceptance, not from bracing harder. This practice builds the skills for shifting our stories so we can recover from…
Compassion Breathing Meditation – 15 Minutes

Looking honestly at what we believe can be uncomfortable. Self-compassion lets us see our struggles as part of being human, so we can be…
Expanding A Positive Mindset Meditation – 15 Minutes

A practice in seeing ourselves as a positive influence in the world. You breathe in the good around you and amplify it as you…
Releasing Perfectionism – 15 Minutes

A mantra practice for loosening the harsh judgements we hold about ourselves. Excellence is worth pursuing. Perfection was never on offer.
Loving Kindness #2 Meditation – 15 Minutes

A variation on the traditional loving kindness practice, opening up and sending good wishes to ourselves and then out to the people around us.
Loving Kindness Meditation – 15 Minutes

The traditional practice. We open up and send good wishes to ourselves first, and then outward to others, because the second becomes much easier…
Gratitude Meditation – 15 Minutes

Gratitude is one of the most reliable ways to shift how we explain our lives to ourselves. Everyone has more to be grateful for…
Open And Allowing Meditation – 15 Minutes

Open and allowing is a stance rather than a technique. We stop pushing at what is happening and let it be, which is how…
Embrace A Positive Experience Meditation – 15 Minutes

Our brains hold on to what goes wrong and let what goes right slide off. This practice trains our attention toward what is good,…
Releasing Negative Beliefs Meditation – 15 Minutes

Negative stories surface often. Noticing them as they arrive lets us observe them rather than believe them, and their certainty starts to loosen.
Self-Compassion Meditation – 15 Minutes

Self-compassion lets us look at our experiences, ourselves, and other people with more kindness and curiosity. That is what makes honest self-examination bearable.
Thoughts/Images Meditation – 15 Minutes

Thoughts and inner dialogue arrive constantly. We cannot stop them appearing, but we can practise seeing them as passing events rather than facts.
Body Scan Meditation – 15 Minutes

Our emotions play out in our bodies, so learning to feel the sensations that come and go is a direct route to knowing what…
Emotions Meditation – 15 Minutes

A practice in noticing our emotions as they arrive, and recognizing them as information about where we stand rather than problems to be solved.