Ever feel like everyone around you is grumpy or negative? This often means we ourselves are not being that kind because the world mirrors our own energy back to us. Meditation can helps us look in that mirror to get down to the real cause of our own energy. 

Sit with a journal and set your intention to know how to be more kind. This will help you see where you may be hypercrical and where you can open your heart. 

Healing our perspectives can increase our joy and attract much happier, kinder people!

Did you know that almost 40% of adults do not get enough sleep every night? Sleep deprivation has a huge impact on your mental health. It can affect your ability to problem solve, focus, and recall memories. Driving tired is just as dangerous as driving under the influence. 

Get at least 7-9 hours of sleep every night. Go to bed at the same time. Create a dark and quiet place to sleep. Unwind a few hours before bed. Disconnect from your digital devices. Read, meditate, colour in an adult colouring book, or paint. Find an activity that relaxes you. Get better sleep and put your mental health first. You will be more productive and happier in the long run!

Here's a quick tip to help you expand your thinking so you don't limit yourself. Words create thought patterns and quite literally program our life. When we recognize this power, we can use it to take the lid off of our mind. 

Sit quietly and close your eyes. Ask to see where you are limiting yourself in your mind. Wait for the answer to show up. Write down what comes. Now ask yourself, where did this limiting viewpoint come from? Write down what comes.

The answers that come to us can be simple yet profound. Our mind is very powerful and when we use it to our benefit we can overcome many obstacles that we allow in our lives that make us work harder than we need to. 

Feeling all over the place? Here's a quick meditation to clear your mind. Keeping our mind uncluttered improves our health and happiness. 

Sit with your eyes closed and take a deep breath. As you exhale watch all your thoughts leaving your body. Do this two more times. Now sit in a blank space where there are no thoughts. When you see a thought start to come into your blank space tell it gently, not now. 

You can now choose one thought and let's make it a positive one. How about this, 'today is the best day of my life.' This will put you in a high frequency and help train your mind to keep it simple and keep it positive. True independence and happiness comes from training our mind.

Are you using meditation to let go of negative perceptions about your life? Your perception dictates not only your experience, but also attracts certain things and people into our lives.

You're the screenwriter of the movie of your life. Sit and meditate and look at your negative perceptions where you may be overcritical or not seeing the positive side. Release those thoughts to the universe and replace them with gratitude.

Now, look at the stories that have been playing in your mind about your life. Are they positive? If not, let them go and play one with a happy present, past and future!

Did you know meditation can help heal your relationship? We often lose sight of our intention and become defensive if we don't take time to slow down and direct our mind to be loving, compassionate and have the intention to care for the person we are in a relationship with. 

Meditation helps us overcome the insecurities that can ruin our relationships because we try to impress the other person or become unloving because our ego is trying to prove we are worthy of love.

Instead of thinking about ourselves and what we can get from another person, meditation allows us to see the soul of the other person by opening our intuitive knowing. This allows us to move above the insecure identity we project onto our partner so we can love both ourself and them unconditionally as well as put our mind in a place of kindness and being caring instead of greediness.