From Me to Me

[luneloving]

avoiding being honest about your feelings in order to not worry people roots from feeling like your experiences are not valid, important, or worth anyone's time. please know that the things that you are afraid to share are worth worrying about, and there's only so long that you can keep it all inside. take your problems seriously. your suffering matters and you deserve to be heard.

[florial]

[returntoeden]

♡ ° loving-kindness meditation! °♡

Loving-kindness meditation, also known as maitrī, is a meditation practice that focuses on the embodiment and evocation of love. It awakens our hearts, allowing self-love, compassion, and gratitude to flow more freely. Try this quick and simple practice for an instant boost in love! step one: sit with your feet planted on the ground, back straight, heart open, and palms rested in your lap. turn your focus inwards, allowing yourself to get lost in your breath. breathe deeply until you feel a sense of calm wash over you. step two: visualize two people who love you, one on your right side and one on your left. this can be a friend, family member, spiritual guide, deity, etc. the goal is to focus on feeling the love that they have for you! practice receiving that love, even if you don’t feel worthy of it. you may feel a warmth or tingling in your heart. step three: send love back towards these people! in your mind, speak affirmations towards them, wish them well, tell them how much you adore them. step four: visualize an acquaintance standing in front of you. this should be someone who you are neutral towards. a neighbor, the postman, a coworker, etc. see this person and choose to send love to them! wish them well, share an uplifting message, pour out love.  step five: visualize the earth as a tiny sphere, small enough to fit in your hand. look over the earth and all of the people in it. choose to show love to this little sphere. share your love, send healing, and pour out affirmations! step six: finish by taking several deep breaths and noticing the presence of love that surrounds you. close the meditation by giving gratitude to yourself and to the world!

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here is a short guide of loving-kindness meditation! (15 minutes) 

here is an extended version! (30 minutes)

[luthienne]

“Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness / and give it back to the earth’s own weight; / the mountains are heavy, the oceans are heavy.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Poetry of Rilke; “Sonnets to Orpheus”

[thesadghostclub]

The times we struggle through can feel like wasted opportunity, it can feel like we’ve gained nothing because we’re focusing so much on getting through the days, or recovering. You might find you’ve grown a lot through this periods, and that is such a good thing. You’re becoming stronger, more in touch with yourself, and it’s important not to diminish that <3 

You’ll grow and you’ll change and you’ll learn and that is GREAT!

This is available as an A4 print here!

[thecalminside]

“Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.”

Mooji

[zenwords]

[florial]

[xenxone]

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[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[letgoness]

Realize it’s subjective. You create an expected reality and then find yourself in tension as things turn out differently. Your conflicts, affronts, your worries and disappointments; they exist in your subjective attitude. You want freedom? Understand and allow.  

Nisargadatta Maharaj

[pridefulsuggestion]

if we could all stop pretending we are whole, and instead embrace our constant becoming…

[threshold-suggestion]

…perhaps we could begin to love the process of growth and change, rather than anxiously awaiting the final form.

[mothcub]

[charlottes-awakening]

[tightlittleskirt]

[ashramof1-deactivated20201019]

“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

[quotemadness]

“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.”

— S.E. Hinton