Accepting Major Life Changes, Day 1: "Accepting Change" meditation series
Release Date: 04/28/2024
#2819 Day 1: Refresh: A Gentle Reset for a Brand New Year
Daily Meditation Podcast
Welcome to this special series: Refresh — a gentle, powerful reset for the start of a brand new year. If you’ve been craving that clean-slate feeling—not just on your calendar, but inside your mind and in the way you live—this is for you. Because a new year isn’t only a date. It’s an invitation. To clear what’s been cluttering your inner space… to come back to what matters… and to choose how you want to feel as you move forward. Over the next seven episodes, we’re going to refresh seven key areas of your life—not with pressure, perfection, or a long list of goals… but...
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#3443 Day 7: Stop Overthinking, Regulate Stress, and Recenter Today - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
After the first few days of the new year, the “fresh start” energy meets real life—and that’s exactly why today’s arc focus is BALANCE. In this soothing Day 6 meditation, you’ll learn a simple, science-supported way to calm your nervous system and create a sustainable rhythm you can actually keep. We’ll practice longer-exhale breathing to support stress regulation, then use a gentle recalibration method—Anchor • Breathe • Choose—so you can return to center in under a minute anytime you feel rushed, reactive, or overwhelmed. You’ll leave feeling steadier, clearer,...
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#3442 Day 5: How to Pick a Word of the Year: Guided Meditation + Ceremony to Begin Again - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Step into day 2 of the new year, the moment when New Year motivation can fade and real life returns. In this guided meditation and ceremony, you’ll choose a powerful Word of the Year and turn it into a practical, heart-centered plan you can actually live. You’ll learn the psychology of fresh starts (why New Year’s creates a real “reset” in the brain), how values-aligned intentions lead to deeper well-being, and why tiny “if–then” plans can make your new theme stick. You’ll be guided through calming slow breathing, a candlelit “Bless the Word” ritual, and a comforting...
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#3441 Day 5: New Year's Day Meditation to Set Intentions - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Start your year with calm, clarity, and a meaningful New Year’s Day meditation ceremony designed to help you reset your nervous system, welcome a fresh start, and set intentions you can actually follow. In this guided practice, you’ll use soothing slow-breathing to settle your body, a simple water-and-candle ritual to mark a new beginning, and an inspiring story to remind you that you don’t have to change everything at once—you only need to open the doorway. You’ll also create one clear intention for the year ahead and turn it into a practical “if–then” plan (a research-backed...
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#3440 New Year's Eve Meditation Ceremony - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Close the year with a soothing New Year’s Eve meditation ceremony designed to help you release what no longer serves you, reflect on what truly mattered, and step gently into a fresh beginning. In this episode, you’ll be guided through a calming yet powerful meditation and a simple end-of-year ritual to create real emotional closure, and a warm, inspiring story to remind you that you don’t have to “fix” yourself—you’re simply clearing the lens so your inner light can shine. Together, we’ll honor the lessons, the tenderness, and the strength that carried you through the past...
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#3439 Day 3: Ground Your Body, Quiet Your Mind - "Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace Meditations"
Daily Meditation Podcast
On Day 3 of Closing the Year with Gratitude and Grace, we shift into GROUND—the practice of finding your footing before the new year arrives. If your mind has been looping through what happened this year (or racing ahead into what’s next), this episode will bring you back into your body with a calming, science-backed breathing practice called Coherent Breathing (5 seconds in, 5 seconds out). You’ll learn why grounding works—how slow, steady breathing supports your nervous system, quiets mental noise, and helps you feel safe enough to settle. Through a gentle shoreline story and an...
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#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"
Daily Meditation Podcast
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...
info_outlinePause at least 3 times throughout your day and accept change. Think of the changes that are constantly occurring throughout your day and life. Accept whatever is trying to happen.
A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:
You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
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