Mindfulness for Creativity, Day 7 Creativity Quest
Release Date: 03/12/2021
#3438 Day 2: A Meditation for Deep Rest at Year’s End - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Rest is not a reward—it’s a biological necessity. This guided meditation for rest helps calm mental fatigue, quiet the nervous system, and release the pressure to do or resolve anything before the year ends. Through gentle affirmation and reflection, this episode supports deep rest, emotional recovery, and nervous system regulation—perfect for the quiet days between the active holiday season and New Year. This is day 2 of a 7-day meditation series, "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations," episodes 3437-3443. ABOUT THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION JOURNEY: Closing the Year with...
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#3437 Day 1: Release Emotional Weight - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
This year-end meditation invites you to gently release emotional weight, mental clutter, and nervous system tension from the past year. Through science-backed insight and guided visualization, you’ll learn how release supports stress reduction and emotional healing—without forcing closure or positivity. This daily meditation is designed to help you let go safely, soften the body, and begin the New Year transition with grace and ease. This is day 1 of a 7-day meditation series, "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations," episodes 3437-3443. ABOUT THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION...
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#1303 Day 7: Lasting Joy Practice - "Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Welcome to the final episode of our joy journey—an invitation to gather everything you’ve practiced and carry it forward as a living, breathing way of being. In this longer, closing meditation, you’ll be guided to return to your joyful center—breath by breath—until joy feels less like an idea and more like a felt experience in your body. From that steadiness, you’ll reflect on what it means to choose joy as a daily practice: not by avoiding life, but by meeting life with a softer nervous system, clearer boundaries, and a kinder inner voice. This finale is about integration....
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#1302 Day 6: Release Self-Doubt - "Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations"
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Day 6 is a gentle peace meditation for the third chakra (solar plexus)—the inner space of confidence, purpose, and passion. When life feels noisy or demanding, this center can tighten into pressure, self-doubt, or overthinking. Today’s longer, supportive practice helps you return to a calmer relationship with your own power—so your passions can feel steady, warm, and true. You’ll be guided to settle the breath, soften the body, and bring kind attention to the area above the belly button—inviting ease into the places where you’ve been holding yourself too tightly. As peace gathers...
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#1301 Day 5: Christmas Day Calming Meditation - "Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
On Christmas Day (and on any day), you’re invited into a loving, spacious meditation that helps you nurture peace within yourself—and gently share that peace outward. This practice is for everyone, whether you celebrate Christmas or not. It’s a universal moment to pause, breathe, and remember that peace is not something we wait for the world to give us; it’s something we can cultivate inside, then carry into our relationships, our homes, and the spaces we move through. You’ll be guided to soften the body, settle the mind, and return to a calm inner center. From there, you’ll begin...
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#1300 Day 4: Christmas Eve Peace Meditation - "Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations"
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Day 4 invites you into a longer, restorative meditation on peace—the quiet strength that softens the heart without asking you to ignore reality. When the world feels heavy, peace becomes a way to stay human: present, discerning, and still open. You are offered preparation to create a personal Peace Retreat for yourself. Whether you celebrate Christmas Eve or not, this is a universal meditation for peace. You’ll be guided to settle your breath, soften the body, and release the mental noise that pulls you away from the present. From that steady inner stillness, you’ll practice...
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#1299 Day 3: - The Practice of Joy - "Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Today’s theme is a powerful one: joy is our first and most fundamental responsibility. Not as a performance, and not as something we wait to “earn,” but as a daily priority we practice—one breath, one choice, one moment at a time. In this longer, bonus-style meditation, you’ll be invited to release the habit of postponing your happiness and to reconnect with what’s already present beneath the noise. You’ll be guided into a simple breathing technique designed to cultivate joy from the inside out—a gentle way to shift your nervous system toward ease, brightness, and quiet...
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#1298 Day 2: Joy Reset - "Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Welcome to Awaken to Joy, a bonus celebration series created as a gift to you—especially for seasons of reflection, renewal, and fresh beginnings. These longer guided meditations invite you to slow down, soften your shoulders, and return to what’s steady and bright within. Each episode weaves gentle breath, soothing guidance, and a simple affirmation you can carry into your day: “I awaken to my inner joy.” Whether you’re celebrating, healing, or simply craving a moment of peace, these meditations are here to help you reconnect with calm, gratitude, and the quiet happiness that lives...
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#1297 Day: 1 Meditation for Peace, Gratitude & Renewal - "Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
As the year gently comes to a close, this special episode of Awaken to Joy Celebration Meditations invites you into a sacred pause. Between this week's celebrations of Christmas and Hanukkah, and any other spiritual celebrations, light and love are celebrated in different ways—but the invitation is the same: to slow down, reflect, and soften into gratitude. This special bonus episode of Awaken to Joy is part of a meditation series I recorded a few years ago—created not for a moment in time, but for moments like this. As the year draws to a close and the light of celebration fills the...
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#3436 Day 7: How to Calm Your Nervous System - "Emotional Reset: Your 7-Day Plan: Restore Calm, Clarity, and Inner Balance"
Daily Meditation Podcast
In this final episode of the series, we explore what it truly means to return to calm presence—not as a perfect state, but as a place you can come back to again and again. You’ll learn why calm isn’t the absence of disturbance, but the ability to remain grounded within it. Drawing on neuroscience, we look at how gentle repetition, nervous system regulation, and vagal tone help calm become a familiar baseline rather than a fleeting moment. Through a simple story and reflective guidance, this episode invites you to notice the quiet moments of steadiness already woven into your day. This is...
info_outline"Inspiration exists but it has to find you working." -- Pablo Picasso
What part of yourself are you holding back from expressing? This is a week to unleash your creative brilliance. Being creative takes courage. Creativity releases possibilities during times of uncertainty.
This is day 7 of a 7-day Unleash Your Creativity series, episodes 2250-2256. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Unleash your creativity by expressing yourself. In each episode this week, you'll discover what kind of creativity to unleash for each day. Get ready to express yourself. To make this week extra meaningful, journal about how you feel with each creative burst. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Day 1: Visualization Day 2: Affirmation Day 3: Breathing Technique Day 4: Mudra Technique Day 5: Chakra Technique Day 6: Layer Meditation Techniques Day 7: Reflection + Introspection SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual!SUBSCRIBE, LEAVE A REVIEW + TAKE OUR SURVEY
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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.