Shifting Your Inner Narrative | with a guided meditation

What you tell yourself will manifest and become part of your life. Whether busy or calm, the state of your mind - and how you see yourself and the world around you - is all within your power.

The following fusion of lessons derives from meditation techniques, psychologists, and Sanghas of the Vipassana and Tibetan lineages.

To be aware of your thoughts you must first become an observer of them. Take a mental step back and observe the thoughts as if they were children at a playground. What can you learn from those thoughts? How did social conditioning, parents, moods, and friends shape those thought patterns? The observing mind, behind the chattering, is where self-empowerment lives.

Read more on  Practicing Everyday Mindfulness.

If action follows thought, then promising ideas require reasonable efforts. Allow yourself to shed the narratives you hold inside yourself as they are in the past and no longer serve you. What are you  at this moment? How do you want to be now at this moment?

Change requires willpower and mindfulness. More than anything, positive affirmations need an inner dialogue of compassion.  

Start with "I am _______ ". Change your perspective in an instant.