Hey Om Amigo,
I’m super excited to share that I’m about to start recording my first meditation album! Folks have been asking me to do this for quite some time, so I thought it would be useful to record meditations that really help me personally. Plus, I want to be able to be there for you anytime, anywhere. This album is my way to connect with you one-on-one and support you even further. It’s a dream come true and I really hope this project serves you as much as possible.
Update: The Self-Care for Busy People Meditation album is now available!
Opt-in to listen to a sample track below or get the full album here.
Anyway, the focus of the album is “Self-Care for Busy People” and I’d love to know what you need most. Meditations for more energy? Sleeplessness? Increased confidence? Reducing anxiety and melting stress? Meditations to free yourself from fear or cravings? I’m open to all your suggestions—even if they don’t perfectly fit the topic. My goal is to keep these recordings under 10 minutes each, um, because we’re all busy!
Meditation has been a grounding force in my wellness practice for over a decade. I was first introduced to it by my mom and then embraced it fully when I was diagnosed. During the summer of 2003, months after my life and health had seemingly changed forever, I found my way to a Zen Monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico called Upaya. It was there that I discovered the deep peace and healing power of a calm mind and open heart. While I’m not as dedicated as some meditators, and I don’t always stick to a daily practice or follow one particular method, I do have a sacred practice that works for me and it continues to empower my life and shape my future.
Self-care practices like meditation, or just taking time to check in with yourself, go hand in hand with nourishing our bodies. In fact, while consciousness can begin on our plate (it certainly did for me), to fully embrace it, we’re called to go beyond food. How we connect with ourselves has a direct effect on our level of consciousness. Naturally, the more we balance the thoughts and habits that don’t serve us, the easier it is to create a healthy, passionate, satisfying life. If the word meditation scares you, just call it a mindful or contemplative practice. And remember, it’s called a practice for a reason: It can never be perfected (thankfully!).
Lastly, it’s my hope that this album will inspire you to create or enhance a practice that works for you. On your own terms. No rules. More flow, less rigidity. After all, your life is your meditation. May it be peaceful and joyful.
Now I want to hear from you: What meditations do you need, oh precious one?
Peace & inner wisdom,
Awesome! Definitely meditations for relaxation like yoga nidra and feeling refreshed and confident to start the day 🙂
This may be too specific but one addressing scan-anxiety or fear of relapse would be helpful….which ties into anxiety and sleeplessness!
Thank you, Kris! Meditations created and offered by you will be such a beautiful gift to the world!
I love so many of these ideas and would add what first came to my mind when I read your question because It is something I do in a non-guided way and have found to be so enriching and grounding and freeing and the spirit of it is very much in keeping with your spirit.
I think that your take on it would be SO WONDERFUL!
it is to simply take time to relaxedly delight in the elemental goodness and beauty around me, all of which is otherwise so easy to take for granted; I guess it would be a sort of “delight” meditation.
I do it in the morning.
I do it as if I have all the time in the world, even if it is just for five minutes.
I delight in my sweet dog, sharing precious affection with her; I delight in the colors around me if we are indoors;
If outdoors, I delight in the ever-beautiful sky, the plants that bless our world; the bird sounds; the breeze…
And always I delight in my breath. Last year I took care of my Dad until he died. He basically died by drowning in fluid in his lungs. Our every breath is such a sweet blessing.
My morning delight keeps me strong and grounded, grateful and peaceful and filled with faith and joy throughout the day.
It makes me feel connected to and filled with the capital L Life which in great measure allows me to take the incidents and conditions of lowercase life in stride.
…I do not know why; it just does… 🙂
Would love meditation for anxiety and stress relief. Xo
Oh yes! A relaxation/peace/healing type meditation to listen to at night to promote good sleep would be really great. Meditations for reducing stress and anxiety would also be very helpful. I look forward to the release of this new project of yours. Good for you!
Thanks, great idea!
Energy, fears and sleeping well would be wonderful!
I would like a meditation for healing (specifically for pain and discomfort) or a meditation that focuses on faith and believing that some sort of healing will come.
Thanks Kris!
I’m really excited that you’re doing this meditation series Kris! YAY!!
I would absolutely looooooooove a meditation practice for those of us like me who suffer from crazy non-stop busy brain, as well as well, the best way I can put it is some anxiety and maybe even a bit of fear of the thoughts that will bombard some of our brains. Sometimes my binge eating gets 80,000 times worse if I get quiet; and, because I suffer from clinical depression, those thoughts can take me down quickly.
I know for me some kinds of visualization have worked better than straight out meditation. Over the years that I have worked on calming the blankety-blank down, only twice did I feel that wonderful, safe, and calming all day feeling that meditation (I just realized that meditation and medication have only a 1 letter difference! that’s interesting huh? 🙂 is “supposed” to give us. One was a visualization about thinking about a color that is soothing and direct it to places in your body that have stress, distress, sadness etc etc. That worked great….once. The other ones are more common place I think about going to your so called “happy place” and the ones in the vein that have worked best for me have been ones that have you actively (in your brain, not physically of course) doing something.
I don’t know whether visualization has the same health and healing qualities as meditation, but those are my thoughts.
Oh also, something short enough, and easy enough and not scary enough that I, and again others like me, would really honestly not only drudge myself to do each day (taking care of myself is VERY hard with the depression and anxiety), but actually look forward to, because results will actually happen.
Thank you Kris <3 Keep rockin' and rollin 🙂
Super valuable info here. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for doing this Kris! CLARITY is what I’m searching for. If you and your meditations can help me on that path, I would be uber grateful!
Peace & Love to you!
Christine
I, like others may, find it difficult to start my day with meditation. I almost hit the ground running in the mornings, as I am a 30 year military veteran, so it’s kind of difficult to slow down. So a meditation to start my day on a more conscientious, thought provoking mode toward SELF is what I need. So if you fit something like that in, buono!! Grazie!! Benissimo!!
Namaste!
I would love a meditation for going within and connecting with my own divine source of peace and guidance. Something that would awaken my intuition and help me remember my spiritual ‘source’ throughout the day. I love meditations that get me out of ‘thinking and doing’ and keep me centered in ‘feeling and being’. Namaste!
Yes!
I would love to meditate to try and “melt” my cancer away….
I would love to meditate to get rid of anger issues….
I would love to meditate to increase my level of spirituality…
I would like a meditation for calming. When I’m at work and feeling overwhelmed and things are piling up I begin to resent people bringing more work to me to be finished. This is probably along the same lines of what Sue said about needing a re-focus meditation while she’s anticipating the arrival of her teenagers coming home from school. I need that re-focus moment when the voice in my head is saying “If one more person comes to me needing something done, or if the phone rings one more time, I’m just gonna lose it.”
A gratitude type of meditation to start the day, a mid day to reduce anxiety & fear, and one for the end of day to wind down would be so perfect.
Thank you!
Gretchen
I would love one to increase energy and reduce anxiety, pain and pessimism. Thank you Kris.
I would love one for increasing physical energy and also for reducing anxiety and pessimism. Thanks so much Kris….you’re a star as always!!
Hi Kris,
I think a meditation for balance would be cool.
Terence
I would love to have you include some reducing anxiety and melting stress meditation techniques on your album. I believe this would help with sleeping at night too.
Thank you for this 🙂 Meditations for releasing thoughts/behaviours that hold us back, creating change, releasing negative energy that we pick up at work or elsewhere, and meditations that help lower cortisol and release stress would be wonderful.
I would love a meditation for peace (starting in my own mind) and selflove and confidence
Thank you!
Greetings,
Sigrid