Resilience Boosts
Mini Lessons + Guided Exercises
In the whirlwind of deadlines, meetings, and constant demands, taking time for yourself can feel like an impossible luxury. This 15-minute guided meditation is here to remind you that even a small pause can make a big difference. By creating a sense of spaciousness in your mind and body, you’ll discover more clarity, calm, and capacity to handle what’s on your plate—not by doing more, but by slowing down. This practice will help you: •Break free from overwhelm, even for a moment •Reconnect with what truly matters to you •Bring calm and intention into your workflow You don’t have to wait for life to slow down—create space for yourself right now. Because when you thrive, so does everything else. 🌟
This meditation is designed to help you navigate the anxiety you may be feeling as we approach the upcoming election. Whether you're looking to start your day centered or need a midday reset after reading the news, this guided practice offers a moment to pause, find grounding, and reconnect with yourself. Key Benefits: - Practice techniques for managing election-related stress - Stay grounded when feeling overwhelmed by news and media - Build emotional resilience during uncertainty - Discover a reliable foundation of calm within Take good care of yourself this week and next. Remember that taking a few minutes to pause and breathe can make all the difference as we move through the chaos.
In our ever-evolving business landscape, adaptability and creativity are key. That's why we're excited to introduce this mental exercise. In just 12 minutes, this guided practice will help you: ~ Ground yourself during change ~ Transform challenges into opportunities ~ Unlock your innovative potential Perfect for starting your day, prepping for big meetings, or tackling complex problems. Remember, innovation often begins with a moment of stillness. We're excited to see how this practice enhances your professional journey and contributes to our collective success.
This 8-minute video includes a brief reflection on the unique energy of the summer season and a guided pause practice designed to help you stay grounded amidst the festivities. Whether you're feeling the excitement of summer celebrations or the pressure to do it all, this practice will help you: • Reconnect with your inner wisdom • Find balance between enjoyment and overwhelm • Truly savor the joys of the season Take a few moments out of your day to pause with Ryan and set an intention for a mindful and fulfilling summer ahead!
This guided mental exercise combines focused-attention and open-awareness techniques to help you stimulate creativity by inviting your brain to shift between concentration and receptivity. Focused-attention meditation hones your concentration skills and also supports cognitive flexibility – your brain's capacity to adapt to changing circumstances and think about problems from different angles. Open-awareness meditation promotes relaxation and reduces stress (a known inhibitor of creativity). It also invites you to step back and observe your experience from a neutral perspective, which helps your brain make novel connections that are not generally accessible in your "default"mode of thinking.
When our workloads increase and stress levels rise, two vulnerabilities we often encounter are: 1. Increased cynicism (our brains start to amplify what's going wrong, doubt, and fixate on problems) 2. Difficulty unplugging from our work after long days/weeks ("MUST...KEEP...GOING!!") This video will help you bring awareness to these two factors in your own experience and explore a couple of strategies to help keep your mindset strong and your work/life boundaries in place during peak work stretches.
This unique New Year's Worksheet with guided reflections/intentions will help you connect with yourself on a deeper level, gain valuable insights from your experiences, and set meaningful intentions for your year ahead. Take a moment, prepare your space, and let this reflective journaling meditation guide you towards a more intentional and fulfilling year! (👆Click the image above to download the worksheet)
Your physiology and mindset undergo subtle yet significant shifts with the change of seasons. Mindfulness practice helps you bring awareness to these shifts and align yourself with the wisdom of each season so you can avoid unhelpful resistance and use your energy more constructively. In this video, you'll tap into the wisdom of fall by slowing down, tuning in, and welcoming the release and renewal that Autumn brings.
Shift your perspective on mindfulness from another nagging task on your to-do list to a refreshing pit stop for your mind and body. Just a handful of minutes is enough to help you reboot your brain and nervous system and re-engage those to-do's with fresh energy and focus.
In moments of stress, it's often our instinct to rush or juggle multiple tasks in an effort to resolve the issues at hand. Yet, the most fruitful course of action is almost always to PAUSE and deliberately carve out mental and physical space. By allowing your mind and body to settle for even a few minutes, you can replenish your inner resources and tap into a fresh perspective that yields new insights as you return to the task of problem-solving. This guided exercise offers a thought-provoking poem and guided visual imagery of a forest to illuminate this process of skillfully creating a “clearing” in your everyday life.
“Small mind” is your thinking, intellectual mind and the ruminative mental space from which you usually operate. “Big mind” is the broader, more expansive perspective of AWARENESS, and the part of the mind that knows and observes your thinking. Through practice, you can learn to shift into “big mind” to calm and reset your nervous system and also open up to a wider mental field of awareness in which creative insights and fresh ideas can emerge.
In the midst of busy work days, stressors, and unpredictable challenges, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or stretched thin. This new guided meditation offers a chance to step back, reset, and reconnect with a very potent inner resource: HOPE. In this 13 minute guided practice, you’ll: - Create space to soften and ground yourself in the present moment. - Visualize a gentle light of hope growing within you. - Explore ways to hold uncertainty with kindness and care. - Rest in a sense of spaciousness and quiet strength. Take a moment to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the pilot light of hope that already exists within you.
In our fast-paced and demanding world, resilience is more important than ever. In this 20-minute journey you'll: 1. Take time to ground yourself in the present 2. Acknowledge past challenges you've overcome 3. Tap into your innate strength and adaptability 4. Connect with the collective resilience of humanity Like a tree with deep roots, your resilience grows stronger with each challenge you face. As you engage with this practice, you may discover new depths of inner strength and resolve.
This 15-minute guided practice offers a compassionate approach to working with one of our most challenging emotions: ANGER. Whether facing work stress or personal challenges, the guidance offers tools to become more aware of anger and to channel the energy of anger into positive change. More specifically, it will help you: - Observe anger mindfully in your body - Recognize anger as a signal of important needs - Transform angry energy into strength and clarity - Develop compassion for yourself and others We hope this supports your emotional well-being and professional growth. Happy practicing! 🌟
This guided visualization practice is designed to help you find inner peace and groundedness by immersing yourself in a natural environment that resonates deeply with you. Regardless of your physical location, this practice will help you tap into the healing power of nature to reduce stress, rebalance your nervous system, promote relaxation, and provide a much-needed break from the demands of daily work and life. Take a few moments out of your day to explore this unique and creative practice!
When stress accelerates, it's human nature to bury our heads in our work and reach for quick fixes to avoid the discomfort. Unfortunately, relying on this default strategy depletes our precious energy reserves and leaves us increasingly susceptible to burnout. In this video, we explore the mechanics of automatic stress reactivity and how a few simple strategies can help calm your nervous system and bring your wise brain back online so you can better manage your stress. This "small moments, many times" approach is a reminder that consistent self-care practices, no matter how small, can significantly impact overall well-being and performance.
This practice offers a fresh perspective and concrete way to resource yourself, combat feelings of overwhelm, and find contentment in ordinary everyday moments. The exercise involves training your brain to notice and appreciate neutral experiences (neither distinctly pleasant nor unpleasant) and allow them to fill your cup.
When we feel stressed, our instinct is to throttle forward and try to fix or control the external things that are stressing us out. This makes perfect sense, but sometimes, paradoxically, the most effective response is to pause and take care of what’s happening inside our minds and our bodies. Instead of chasing the elusive calm “out there”, tuning in – in a kind way – is a highly effective strategy for uncovering the calm we so deeply want. In this video, we explore what it’s like to pause and allow calm to arise from within.
The world-renowned neuroscientist Richard Davidson identified four key pillars of wellbeing that we can train through intentional practice: 1. ATTENTION 2. OUTLOOK (PERSPECTIVE) 3. RESILIENCE 4. GENEROSITY This guided exercise zooms in on the pillar of ATTENTION and underscores how taking small moments each day to reclaim this valuable resource is one of the most meaningful things we can do. It also emphasizes the quality of NON-STRIVING and the invitation to cultivate concentration not by exerting more effort, but by relaxing into it.
Anxiety is often fueled by irrational thoughts or stories that are not rooted in reality. When you “drop the story” and any negative labels (“this is bad,” “I am panicking,” etc) and pay direct attention to the sensations in your body, you shift out of your survival brain (amygdala) and into your wise brain (prefrontal cortex), which helps you gain perspective and deescalate anxious thoughts. This practice offers a powerful reading by Jeff Foster called “What Would Happen…” and a guided exercise to help you recognizing the liberating truth that things are, in Foster’s words, “never as bad as they seem.”
This powerful practice can help you ground and center yourself quickly in the midst of overwhelm and also releases the "happy chemical" oxytocin in your brain to produce a sense of safety and connection.
In the workplace, DOING is necessary. There’s always more to do! But if DOING is the only mode we know how to operate in, we put a lot of strain on our brains and nervous systems and make ourselves increasingly vulnerable to burnout. We also enjoy life a lot less. One of the best ways to build your personal resilience and wellbeing is to learn how to shift into BEING MODE throughout your day to give your mind and body a mini break. In this guided practice, you’ll explore the benefits of taking your foot off of the accelerator, letting go of any specific goals or outcomes, and simply letting yourself be.
Anxiety is something all of us experience as a natural response to the fears and uncertainties of life. While there will always be many things we can't control, we also don't have to live in a state of constant anxiety. Through awareness, we can build our capacity to better understand our minds, relate to our thoughts with curiosity so they don't fuel anxiety, and use body-based tools to de-escalate anxious mind/body states.
With every moment and every breath, we can always choose to begin again. We forget this, and instead get bogged down by should-haves or self criticism. We can practice waking up to the energizing truth that we can actually start fresh, over and over. In the words of Sharon Salzberg, “The amazing gift of being alive is that no matter what, you can always begin again.”
Under duress, we do not rise to our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
~ BRUCE LEE
