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"I dream of a world where I can lay my vulnerabilities out there, open for everyone, until they are my strengths. I am longing for this."
Harper Steele
Basic Info On Acceptance, Surrender and Allowing
Basic Info On Acceptance, Surrender and Allowing
Using NeuroMeditation for Acceptance and Surrender
Using NeuroMeditation for Acceptance and Surrender
** NOTE: The information on this page is NOT appropriate for people living with Suicidal Ideation, the language and imagery could be activating. Go to the Living with Suicidal Ideation Page for meditations for acceptance which ARE structured for that issue.
Importance of Therapy and How My Therapists Have Helped Me
Importance of Therapy and How My Therapists Have Helped Me
Go to Begin Here Page for more info on finding a therapist.
This is the most reliable and trustworthy resource for finding a licensed therapist. The filters allow you to search by zip code, by practice, by insurance and many other options.
This website has SO many AMAZING resources, which are broken down in clear and usable ways, to help you that is safe and inclusive.
This link takes you to the crisis section of a page, which has very important info, but also has more info if you scroll up. There you will find links to finding whatever resource you need.
Helpful Meditations for Acceptance and Surrender
This meditation anchors you in your strong, immoveable center and allows you to rest in strength as you observe all thought, feeling and sensation that arises
Music: Bamboo Garden by Buddha’s Flute
This meditation guides you through shifting your attention inward to: build connection with self and body; increase awareness of, and ability to listen to, information coming from your body which can help you begin to tune into what state your nervous system is in and to assess effectiveness of interventions
Music: Krishna’s Healing Power by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This Meditation anchors you into your stable, rooted self using the vagus nerve; balances the mind through bi-laterall focus and bi-lateral touch
Music: Vagus Nerve Stimulation by Narayanjot Records on YouTube
Ouroboros for Letting Go & Shedding the Past
** Caution: This Meditation is not suitable for people living with, or experiencing, suicidal ideation **
Using imagery of Ouroboros, this meditation supports you through times of great change, growth and/or transformation. It assists you through your process of, and your acceptance of, letting go and shedding the past - moving you forward into this new life phase.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation helps you to gently stretch into acceptance of things that may be difficult
Music: Dive into Tranquility - Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
This meditation supports you in expanding yourself as you hold both your joys and your sorrows.
Music: Buddha’s Flute - Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge
This meditation aids you in accepting and facing the unknown through connecting with your core immovable self and anchoring into your strength.
Music: Calm Mountains by Fantasia Echoes
Holding Both When You Feel Conflicting Things
This meditation can be helpful when you feel pulled in opposite directions or the splitting experience arising from what seems to be conflicting thoughts, feelings, or sensations. By helping you stretch and expand the meditation this supports you so that you don’t have to pick either/or, and rather can hold BOTH things.
Music: Krishna’s Harmonious Flute by Buddha’s Lounge
This meditation guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for self and others.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation uses imagery of being both the single rooted tree AND the entire forest to Open the Heart and increase connection
Music: Morning Flute Music - New Day by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Meditation for Self Forgiveness
This meditation gently guides you through sitting with your deep regrets and assists you in allowing and receiving the balm of self forgiveness
Music: Dive into Tranquility by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Increasing Awe & Wonder in Your Daily Life
Increasing Awe & Wonder in Your Daily Life
The Power of AWE & Wonder
The Power of AWE & Wonder
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Do this often - even for a couple minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This meditation guides you through remembering with all of your senses an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Quiet the Mind by Being the Tree & the Forest
This meditation connects you with being like a tree and then slowly to the feeling of being the entire, vast and expansive forest
Music: Relaxing Flute Falling Leaves by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation uses space imagery to quiet the mind for sleep. Using both the darkness between all things in space and its vast neverending expansiveness.
Music: 8 Hour Hans Zimmer Time Cover by Cozy Sleep Sounds on YouTube
Weave Yourself INTO Life
This Open Heart meditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
My Favorite Meditations from the NeuroMeditation Institute for Acceptance and Surrender:
How Choiceless Awareness Helps with Acceptance and Surrender
How Choiceless Awareness Helps with Acceptance and Surrender
How to Use Dancing the Cingulate for Acceptance & Surrender
How to Use Dancing the Cingulate for Acceptance & Surrender
Click Here for Insight Timer
Then click this link for the NMI meditations.
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Bookmark the two links here for easier future use.
Use this meditation to balance the mind, increase focus and attention, and most importantly to interrupt the signaling from the amygdala so that you can bring your system into CALM. This is my version of one from the NMI page on insight timer and also on this page.
Music: Powerful Meditation Music for Concentration and Focus by Meditation and Healing on YouTube
Acceptance, Surrender and SAFETY
Using the Cave of Safety for Acceptance and Surrender
Using the Cave of Safety for Acceptance and Surrender
The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This meditation is helpful for that, or whenever you need a barrier to the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work. Practicing often can help restore a sense of safety.
Music: Golden Blossom - Tranquil Flute by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Remember to go to the BEGIN HERE page for information, resources not found on this page, as well as the Other Resources and Tools page where you will find recommended reading.
The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory
Go to the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory Page for Images, Links and More Information
Working with Safety
Working to Know Thyself
Working with Connection
Working with Nature
Go to the pages below for more information and meditations for each:
Get Into NATURE
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
How to Use Movement Meditations to Help Acceptance & Surrender
How to Use Movement Meditations to Help Acceptance & Surrender
When You are Working to Accept the World's LACK of Understanding Gender
The Facts About Gender
Brain Gender
Transgender Neurobiology
Neuro-biology of Trans-Sexuality
Just a couple of Books for When Your Acceptance is of the World's LACK of Understanding Gender
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
by Rosemary A. Joyce
ISBN: 9780500051535
This is NOT in any way the only or best books to share for this, rather, these are two I have read and recommend.
This is NOT in any way the only or best books to share for this, rather, these are two I have read and recommend.
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
by Will Roscoe
ISBN: 0312224796
What Does Perception Have to Do With It All?
Why Understanding Your Perception Matters?
Why Understanding Your Perception Matters?
ReDefining and ReCLAIMING Your Perception
ReDefining and ReCLAIMING Your Perception
What Temperament are You?
What Temperament are You?
Why Does it Matter?
Why Does it Matter?
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Click Above for the link to the FREE survey!
Take time to answer the questions slowly and honestly for accuracy. They offer a breakdown of a buttload of very interesting and helpful information that can help you gain insight into yourself.
Go to the Other Resources page for information on recommended books and additional tools for increasing acceptance and surrender.
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