Mindful Medicine: Recent Episodes
Abigail Morrissey
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday explore your breathing habits. Do you hold your breath? Is your inhale more inclined to be longer than the exhale? Deep into Nature composed by Music Of Wisdom - Licensed from www.meditationmusiclibrary.com.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday, Abby does something new. Find balance with a variation of Nahdi Shodana or Alternate Nostril Technique. Deep into Nature composed by Music Of Wisdom - Licensed from www.meditationmusiclibrary.com.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday Abby leads you through a guided meditation to give thanks for balance. Deep into Nature composed by Music Of Wisdom - Licensed from www.meditationmusiclibrary.com.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby will take you through a series of journaling prompts to connect to your heart. Deep into Nature composed by Music Of Wisdom - Licensed from www.meditationmusiclibrary.com.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby reads a quote from Rumi. Check-in and see where and how you expand and contract throughout the day. How do you find balance? Deep into Nature composed by Music Of Wisdom - Licensed from www.meditationmusiclibrary.com.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday Abby walks you through tree pose. Play with balance, grow your roots and branches, as you find your center. Deep into Nature composed by Music Of Wisdom - Licensed from www.meditationmusiclibrary.com.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday connect to feelings of discomfort in the body, can you open and bring acceptance and understanding here? Deep into Nature composed by Music Of Wisdom - Licensed from www.meditationmusiclibrary.com.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday give thanks for all that is present. Extend gratitude to yourself by giving yourself a hug, accepting yourself just as you are at this moment.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday practice ways to deepen self-acceptance. Deep into Nature composed by Music Of Wisdom - Licensed from www.meditationmusiclibrary.com.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares a quote from Jack Kornfield. Can you bow to the uncomfortable feelings? To the suffering and pain? Bow in acknowledgement, accepting what is. For more information on Jack Kornfield go to https://jackkornfield.com/discover-what-is-asking-for-acceptance/.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday we are diving into acceptance. Hinge over and touch your toes. Can you forget what you "should look like" and accept where you are in the pose today?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday connect to feelings of respect and disrespect.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday give thanks for your feelings, emotions, and body for communicating with you your wants and needs.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday connect to your emotions, connect to your feelings, and speak from your experience. Own your feelings, and stop projecting onto others.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares a quote from Brene Brown and Marianne Williamson. Reflect on your relationships. What are your boundaries in each of your relationships? Is there a theme?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday practice eagle arms, noticing the lack of boundaries in the pose. The theme this week on Mindful Medicine is boundaries. As you move through your day notice boundaries within yourself and in relationship with others.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday connect to the feeling of flow. When do you come to oneness, when do you flow?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday connect to gratitude for the water you drink, for things that cleanse you and for Mother Earth.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday assess your body's hydration ques. How does your body let you know you are dehydrated?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby poses a question. What is in the water you drink? Where is your water coming from? Need answers? Investigate on www.ewg.org.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday, bring movement to the lymphatic system by tapping up and down the body, paying special attention to the armpits, breast and groin area.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday connect to love and acceptance for yourself.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday give thanks for your mind, body, and spirit. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday connect to your inner child by finding a photo of yourself as a child. Hang it up somewhere you will see it every day. Spend time with the photo, with the image of yourself as a child, and when you speak to yourself, speak with the same compassion and love that you would speak to the child.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby reads a quote from Thich Nhat Han. Do you understand yourself, your true nature? Do you accept yourself for your constitution and being?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday we are practicing self-compassion and self-love. Shake out your wrists and shoulders and then give yourself a big hug!
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday connect to feelings of nourishment, satisfaction, and fullness.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday we give thanks and gratitude to food and nutrients that support our body. We give thanks for experiences, people, and places that nourish our mind-body, and soul.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby shares some general guidelines for good nutrition, digestions, and absorption for optimal health. Find more information on buying organic at https://www.ewg.org/
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday we discuss a quote from Hippocrates. What would your life look like if the food was your medicine, and your medicine your food?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday let us twist! Twists promote digestive and spinal health. First, we twist the to the right, then to the left to left to encourage excretion and following the natural pathway of the intestines.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday connect to the feeling of being heard, of being seen.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday connect to feelings of gratitude and thanks for the wisdom and inherent knowledge of the body. Take a moment to listen to the body, and then give thanks to the body for sharing, and alerting the mind and spirit to such wisdom.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby guides you through a deep listening practice. Grab a friend that you trust, set a timer for 5 minutes, and allow your friend to talk. Work your listening muscle and practice the art of deep listening while your friend talks. Set the timer for another 5 minutes and talk while your friend holds space and listens to you. How did this feel? Did you become aware of any new insights? How did it feel to have someone deeply listen to you?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares a quote by L. J. Isham and the Dalai Lama. How do you listen?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday open the chest and throat the centers for the 4th and 5th Chakras. The 4th Chakra is the Heart Chakra and the 5th Chakra is the Throat Chakra. This week we will focus on listening and look at our habits around listening.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday connect to the feeling of deep relaxation.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday connect to feelings of gratitude and thanks for something related to your sleep.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby invites you to check in with your energy level. How did you feel when you woke up? How did you feel yesterday when you woke up? How did your energy level feel as you moved throughout your day? Then check-in and assess your sleep routine. What do you do every day to get yourself ready for sleep and relaxation each night?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares information about the importance of sleep. How do you promote sleep in your daily life? What activities or practices do you use to get the body ready for sleep?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday Abby will guide you into a forward fold. This pose can help support the body to release and unwind. The posture brings your attention inwards and is comforting. Come into the posture before bed or use it in the middle of the day to take a moment to check-in.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday we check into our breath and notice it as if it is the first time we are breathing. Then we connect to the feeling of curiosity and trying something new.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday we give thanks to all that we learn when we fail
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday we reflect on how we felt when we learned something for the first time. How did it feel to learn something new? Can you bring that feeling to task you do every day? What would you learn if you brought excitement and curiosity into your day to day tasks?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares a quote by Shunryu Suzuki about beginner's mind. Where can you open and view a situation like you were a beginner?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday bring your beginners mind into your movements of the day. Get curious and feel into the body to make the position the most comfortable, imagine as if you have never moved this way before. Bring your inquisitive and curious self into your postures.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday find a comfortable position and lay down. We will practice a body scan to connect to emotions that are present so we can witness them and then make space for something else.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday we give thanks for a place that we are grateful for.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby shares Marie Kondo's Art of Tidying up. Get clear with yourself about what life you would like to live, who do you want to be? With this answer in mind go through your items and let go of things that do not align with that person or life. Keep things that spark joy, the rest give thanks for what they have given you and then let them go. For more information check out https://konmari.com/.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares the introduction written by Brother Phap Dung from the book "Making Space" by Thich Nhat Hanh. What is one action you could take today to make bring peace to your home, work living space?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday we will practice "Blown Palm" to create space in the side of the body
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday connect to the Feeling of JOY! Find the emotion of Joy in the body. Notice if joy shows up with any other emotions.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday give thanks for all that brings you joy and cultivates a feeling of happiness. Then give thanks for all you have present in your life in this moment, the light and the dark the happiness and the sadness.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday invite play into your day. Can you make your daily tasks more like a game? Where can you invite room in for fun and laughter?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares a phrase that has resonated with her throughout her life: joie de vivre, or the joy of life. What brings you joy in your life? What makes you exuberant?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday we are going to bring some movement to the face. Have some fun, laugh, and don't take yourself too seriously.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday we look a little deeper at our attachments and notice the root feeling of the attachments.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday Abby invites you to give something up for a predetermined amount of time. Then when you allow yourself to use whatever you gave up connect to a sense of gratitude and thanks when you bring it back into your life.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday we journal on our attachments. What is the feeling behind the attachments present in your life? This is an invitation to hold your attachments and fears with compassion. Once you recognize your attachments you can open to love in its fullest form.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares a quote from Buddha.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Movement Monday Abby leads you through a pose to help detoxify the body, and illicit relaxation. Change your perspective and stretch the lower body by placing your feet up the wall!
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feeling Friday we will connect with fear. Fear is an emotion that we are often told to conquer or overcome. This does not create a healthy relationship with fear. When we resist fear when we try to overcome it we refuse to see it. Fear then will show up in other ways such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, procrastination, and insomnia. Today we will allow fear to be present. We will acknowledge it sit with it. Today's practice is based on Kristen Ulmer's work on fear. Visit her website https://www.kristenulmer.com/ and check out her bookThe Art of Fear: Why Conquering Fear Won't Work and What to Do Instead.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday we connect to fear and give thanks for any lessons we may have learned as a result of fear.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday learn a breathing technique to bring your awareness to your breath while practicing holding the breath or retaining at the end of an exhale. The majority of us have ineffective breathing patterns and this can help us to breathe more efficiently. More information on breath training can be found at https://trainwithkpr.com/ and https://oxygenadvantage.com/
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby reads a quote from Marianne Williamson about fear. As you move through your day today will you choose fear or love?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Mindful Medicine Abby walks you through Balasana or Child's pose. Come into the pose when you feel overwhelmed, or overstimulated. Feel the belly rise and fall as you inhale and exhale.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Feelings Friday connect to the feeling of freedom. What does freedom mean to you? What does it feel like? How can you feel free in your life?
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Thankful Thursday Abbu guides you through a gratitude practice to give thanks for all that has left and for all that is present.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby will introduce you to EFT Tapping. EFT stands for emotional freedom technique and is a type of acupressure that releases tension and emotions from the different energy channels in the body. For more information and to work with a certified EFT practitioner check out https://www.efttappingtraining.com/what-is-eft/
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Cultivate a life full of love, acceptance, and inner peace. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby reads a quote from Kyle Maynard. Find more about Kyle at https://www.kyle-maynard.com/
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Cultivate a life full of love, acceptance, and inner peace. Today on Movement Monday Shake It Out! Move the body, take up space, and move energy. Find a place where you can be undisturbed with music and your movement. Pick a song and shake it out for five minutes!
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Cultivate a life full of love, acceptance, and inner peace. Today on Feelings Friday connect to the feeling of LOVE. Abby will lead you through a meditation where you visualize light growing out from the heart center as you inhale, as you exhale feel the light come back to a pinpoint at the heart. This practice comes from Alan Finger. You can learn more about him and practice with him at ISHTA Yoga http://ishtayoga.com/ishta-online/
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Cultivate a life full of love, acceptance, and inner peace. Today on Thankful Thursday reflect on something that brought you joy from this morning.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Cultivate a life full of love, acceptance, and inner peace. Today on Wild Wednesday practice saying "I love you" to all those present in your life.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Cultivate a life full of love, acceptance, and inner peace. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday reflect on a quote from Rumi.
What you feed your mind will grow. Water the garden of your mind with mindfulness practices. Nourish the seeds of thoughtfulness, gratitude, awareness, connection, and wellness with these daily tools. Cultivate a life full of love, acceptance, and inner peace. Today on Mindful Monday open and close the arms to flush out the heart center. Bring movement and open the fourth Chakra, Anahata our center for giving and receiving unconditional love.
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Feeling Friday connect to inner peace and calm. Allow the feeling of peace to grow and expand inside your body and inside your life.
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Thankful Thursday Abby leads you through a guided meditation to connect to feelings of gratitude.
Take a moment to connect with the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby introduces Metta Meditation to cultivate lovingkindness for yourself, a loved one, and then for all of humanity. This Metta Meditation was based of a Metta Meditation from Jack Kornfield. You can read more about him and meditation at his sight https://jackkornfield.com/meditation-on-lovingkindness/
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby reads a quote by Don Miguel Ruiz. Today you have a choice, what will you choose?
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Movement Monday Abby guides you through Mountain pose or Tadasana. Engage the inner legs, connect to your core, and your strength. Allow you upper chest to open feel the spine grow long.
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Feeling Friday learn to let it go! Whatever you are holding onto, let it go!
Take a moment to connect to your body and quiet the mind. Today on Thankful Thursday give gratitude for yourself. Give thanks for your body, your breath and your spirit. Your challenge today is to do something just for you.
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby guides you through the sacred practice of stream of consciousness journaling. Abby will share a prompt and you will journal for 3 minutes without picking up your pen from the paper. See what magic comes from journaling!
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby invites you to connect to the feelings of thoughtfulness and compassion. With these feelings present your challenge is to complete an act of kindness for a complete stranger,
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Movement Monday Abby walks you through a rib and thoracic massage. Explore the area under your rib cage by gently massaging under the ribs as you exhale. Curl your fingers under the ribs and use your finger pads to gently massage and free up the ribs and thoracic area. Start at the center or midline and work your way out to the lateral aspect of the ribs. Sync the movement up with the exhale to get the fingertips up under the ribs.
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Thoughtful Thursday can you find gratitude for a challenge you faced in your life? Are you able to send thanks to an uncomfortable situation you had to overcome?
Take a moment to connect to the body and quiet the mind with Mindful Moment. Today on Wild Wednesday learn the ancient pranayama technique of Nadi Shodhana or alternate nostril breathing. This technique brings the body back into balance by activating the left and right sides of the brain. For modifications check out my Instagram at @set_on_shine for visuals and step by step instructions for two other versions.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday we are going to switch it up! Today I challenge you to complete an act of kindness for someone that you may overlook or take for granted in your life.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Movement Monday we are going to explore abdominal massage, so find a comfortable place to lie down so you can relax the belly. Belly massage is a beautiful way to detoxify and rejuvenate the organs in the abdominal cavity, and helps release tension and promotes digestion.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Feeling Friday dive in and notice if you judge your emotions as negative or positive. Can you just allow the emotion to be without judgment?
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Thankful Thursday Abby will lead a gratitude practice from a heart-centered place
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby explains affirmations and how to use them throughout the day.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares a quote by Roald Dahl. Where can you open yourself up to magic?
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Movement Monday Abby will walk you through a tapping sequence to move energy throughout the body, encouraging movement of lymph and blood flow. Send love and gratitude to your body and organs as you tap over them.
Take a moment to connect to the with Mindful Moment. Today on Feeling Friday Abby dives into the practice of acknowledging emotions, witnessing them and then letting them go.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Thankful Thursday connect to one of your 5 senses ..
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Wild Wednesday we will explore a breath awareness to balance the left and right side of the body.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares a poem from Keith Kent called “Anyway, The Paradoxical Commandments”
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Movement Monday engage your legs and core in chair pose.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Feelings Friday take a moment to check in with your feelings,
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Thankful Thursday connected to a feeling of gratitude for your body.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Wild Wednesday Abby will take you through a guided meditation to connect to a place of calm.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Movement Monday move through a Sun Salute with Abby to get into your body.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Feeling Friday get curious about the emotion of anxiety, then sit and feel into the emotion of calm.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Thankful Thursday take time to give thanks for all the support in your life.
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Wild Wednesday lets move energy trapped in the body and have a dance party!
Take a moment to connect to the body with Mindful Moment. Today on Thoughtful Tuesday Abby shares a quote from Ram Das.
Today for Movement Monday lets move! Get off your seat and lets play with balance while connecting to the body and becoming aware of the breath!