Self-Intimacy and Healing
These meditations guide you back into your own body and heart, slowing down and turning inward. They are especially helpful if you are struggling with depression, pain, anxiety, or simply feeling disconnected. Here we learn to soften toward ourselves, to rest, and to listen deeply to what our body and being are telling us. This intimacy is the beginning of healing.
9 items- Rest. Recharge.A guided audio meditation for the exhausted, burned out, in pain, or overstimulated. It works by reducing input — the constant stream we keep pushing into ourselves — and relaxing into the natural inhalation and exhalation of life to find a deep, energizing rest that genuinely recharges.
- Slow DownTime expands as we slow down, paradoxically. Slow to the speed of a gentle curious playful stroll through the forest. Slow to the speed and natural rhythm of a single breath, and find the vastness contained within.
- Our Basic GoodnessA guided meditation on changing your relationship to thoughts — so they no longer define you — as the doorway to directly knowing your own basic goodness. Practiced over time, it shifts your whole relationship with the world toward joy and light-heartedness. Based on the companion "Basic Goodness" article.
- Who Is This Breathing Being?Becoming very intimate with ourselves is a powerful practice, and when we do so, when we love ourselves, we can learn to protect ourselves in the midst of these tumultuous times.
- Integrating Body, Heart, and MindMuch of the time we spend with our mind off in one place, our body doing something, we’re not quite sure what, and we don’t even hear our heart. Practice integrating all three, developing a listening for our heart.
- Close Intimacy with OurselvesBringing our attention right in close, to our body, on those parts we don’t like, examining our fears right up close is a powerful practice.
- You Are Not AloneWe all have a lineage to call on. Feeling connected to our unbroken heritage, that comes in many forms.
- Basic ConfidenceA powerful sequence from dissolving the self, to basic goodness, to basic confidence in the world, going beyond our fears into the senses and finding the joy and wonder in every blade of grass.
- Melting Our CocoonWe build our thoughts, judgements, fears, beliefs around us into a cocoon made up of threads of thoughts, spun into a protective shell. Sitting, following the breath, noticing these thoughts, and allowing them to be instead of feeding them and further building our cocoon is the way to a new kind of experience of life, where we directly contact the world rather than only seeing through our cocoon.