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Our Mindful Nature: Meditations Inspired by Nature to Soothe the Overwhelmed Mind and Ease Anxiety

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Apr 3, 2025 • 19min

3 Signs Your Inner Ecosystem Is Out of Balance & How to Fix It with Elemental Meditation {Wind Edition}

Have you ever felt stuck, weighed down by stress, or unsure how to move forward? What if the key to clarity and transformation was as simple as connecting with the elements?This episode explores the power of elemental meditation, focusing on the wind element as a tool for clearing, movement, and renewal. Through guided practices, you’ll learn how to tap into the natural forces within and around you to cultivate balance and mindfulness.
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Mar 31, 2025 • 10min

Nurtured by Nature: Meditation for Emotional Exhaustion

✨ Just the meditationEmotionally exhausted? This meditation is for you.Crafted from the latest in PTSD treatment techniques this meditation offers a unique visualization practice that you can use on and off the cushion. Take a deep breath, settle in, and press play to immerse yourself in a meditation practice that will help you release exhaustion and regain a sense of calm and renewal.
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Mar 27, 2025 • 15min

The Unexpected Link Between PTSD Treatment & Meditation for Emotional Exhaustion

Feeling emotionally drained and completely exhausted? Ever wondered if there's a way to restore your energy and reset your nervous system through meditation?Compassion fatigue and emotional burnout are all too common, especially when juggling the demands of caregiving, work, and personal life. This episode explores how meditation can not only help you acknowledge exhaustion but also actively restore your energy using a powerful visualization technique rooted in PTSD treatment research.☑️ Learn how emotional exhaustion zaps the nervous system and why your body responds as if it is being attacked.☑️ Discover a guided meditation that uses sensory memory to downregulate stress and restore balance.☑️ Experience a practical, accessible technique to refill your emotional cup and reconnect with a sense of safety and joy.Take a deep breath, settle in, and press play to immerse yourself in a meditation practice that will help you release exhaustion and regain a sense of calm and renewal.
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Mar 24, 2025 • 12min

Spring Equinox Meditation {Live Retreat Recording}

Just The Meditation: Spring Equinox ✨ A Journey of Renewal & Healing Awaits -As light and dark come into perfect harmony, the spring equinox offers a powerful moment to pause, reflect, and realign with your true essence. Honored across cultures as a time of renewal and rebirth, this sacred season invites you to shed the old and embrace new possibilities. In this **special live-recorded meditation** from our retreat, you’ll be guided through the ancient symbolism of the golden egg—representing protection, potential, and prophecy—to awaken your inner wisdom and set powerful intentions for the months ahead.
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Mar 20, 2025 • 0sec

Harness The Hidden Power of the Spring Equinox with a Meditation for Renewal and Growth {live retreat recording}

A Special Spring Equinox Meditation Retreat ✨Are you overlooking the power of the equinox in your meditation practice?As day and night find perfect balance, this season invites us to reflect, reset, and realign with our truest selves. Ancient traditions recognized this time as one of possibility, creativity, and rebirth. In this meditation, we explore the profound symbolism of the egg—protection, potential, and prophecy—helping you connect with your inner wisdom and set intentions for the months ahead.
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Mar 17, 2025 • 0sec

How to Sit with Grief: A Meditation Practice for When Sadness Feels Too Big

✨Just the MeditationGrief, sadness, and heartache can feel all-consuming, making it difficult to stay present. Today's meditation practice is an invitation to hold these emotions with care—not to fix or erase them, but to nurture connection to ourselves, others, and the natural world.☑️ Experience a guided meditation practice infused with poetry, breathwork, grounding techniques, and the sounds of Glacier National Park to hold space for your emotions with kindness.Take a deep breath, find a quiet place, and press play to explore a compassionate approach to meditating with grief.
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Mar 13, 2025 • 0sec

3 Ways to Meditate Through Heartache Without Feeling Overwhelmed

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by grief that it seemed to erase every other emotion? In those moments, meditation might feel impossible—but what if it could become a space for tenderness rather than escape?Grief, sadness, and heartache can feel all-consuming, making it difficult to stay present. This episode explores how meditation can help us hold these emotions with care—not to fix or erase them, but to nurture connection to ourselves, others, and the natural world.- Learn how to recognize your personal “window of tolerance” and when meditation can support your healing.- Discover how nature-inspired mindfulness can offer a sense of peace, even in the midst of sorrow.- Experience a guided meditation practice infused with poetry, breathwork, and grounding techniques to hold space for your emotions with kindness.Take a deep breath, find a quiet place, and press play to explore a compassionate approach to meditating with grief.
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Mar 10, 2025 • 10min

Nurtured by Nature: Meditation for Anxiety

Just The Meditation ✨Do you ever feel like you're being tossed about by life's constant changes, unable to find solid ground in the midst of chaos?In our fast-paced world filled with uncertainty, finding stability can seem impossible. But what if you could stand strong like a mountain through life's storms?In this meditation, you'll experience a peaceful meditation practice focused on equanimity—that steady, balanced quality that helps you remain centered when everything around you is changing.Immerse yourself in this guided practice with the soothing sounds of Haleakalā on the island of Maui as your backdrop. Feel the calming energy of nature support your journey toward inner balance.Take a deep breath and press play to discover your unshakable center amidst life's changing winds.Sign up for my newsletter at https://merylarnett.substack.com/ to receive free mini meditations each week, creative musings, and more.Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:https://www.nickcmcmahan.comhttps://www.instagram.com/brianna_podcastpro/Watch on YouTube, Make a donation, or learn more about my free offerings and live classes by visiting merylarnett.comyoutube.com/@ourmindfulnatureThis podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.
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Mar 6, 2025 • 17min

How to Use Meditation as a Tool for Navigating Anxiety and Stress

Feeling overwhelmed by the constant changes in life? Struggling to find stability in the chaos? This meditation explores the power of equanimity—your ability to stay steady like a mountain amidst life’s storms.In a world where personal stress, anxiety and global turmoil seem never-ending, how do we stay grounded? Through meditation, we can develop a sense of inner steadiness that allows us to navigate uncertainty with more ease. This episode provides a reflective practice to help you cultivate resilience and balance.
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Mar 3, 2025 • 10min

Honoring Our National Parks: A Meditation for Connection and Gratitude

How can we honor and protect the sacred lands that sustain us? Join this special meditation practice dedicated to the Earth, where we deepen our connection and commitment to its well-being.With national parks and natural spaces under increasing threat from policy rollbacks, climate change, and resource exploitation, it’s easy to feel powerless. But through mindful reflection and meditation, we can cultivate a deeper relationship with the Earth—one that moves beyond gratitude into active reciprocity.✨ Experience a guided meditation that shifts focus from self-centered practice to offering support and reverence for the Earth.✨Learn how to integrate reciprocity into your mindfulness routine, acknowledging nature as an equal partner in your well-being.✨Feel a renewed sense of connection, responsibility, and appreciation for the land, water, and life that surrounds you.Press play now and join this transformative meditation to honor, support, and deepen your relationship with the Earth.

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