Upgrade Your May: Day 30 - Affirmations & A 15 Minute Guided Meditation

Upgrade Your May: Day 30 - Affirmations & A 15 Minute Guided Meditation

Today's Upgrade topic is Affirmations! Today's podcast was so fun to record, running around the theatre in Edinburgh. Take me back! 

You can listen to the podcast by clicking the podcast image below or use your phone camera to scan the QR code to listen on your phone!

Today's freebie is your next installment in building up your meditations to longer and longer, in the easiest way possible - a little bit at a time. How have you gotten on with the previous installments? You can find these by clicking the giant logo above and finding the blog posts with the 3, 5 and 10 minute guided meditations.

If you're ready to try 15 mins, click the link below!

To download the audio on a computer: click the link for it below, then right click the audio bar and click "Save audio as." To play it on your phone you can then either send it to yourself after saving on a computer, or open the link below on your phone, let it load, and it will playback even with no internet connection. ​

15 Minute Guided Meditation

Also today I would like to share with you one of my favourite mindfulness poems that helped me a lot recently. Read this slowly and aloud, and let me know what you think:

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The Guest House
By Jelaluddin Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
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Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

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Why not leave a comment below, drop me an email, or head back to the social media that linked you here and leave a comment on how you got on. Any questions are also very welcome! 

Thanks for joining me for Day 30, I hope you liked it!

See you tomorrow!

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