Everyday Practices
Stronger Than You Think
For Remembering You’ve Come Through Before
US$6 3 practices · 6 tracks · listen or download
Get the pack · US$6When times are tough, the mind rarely reminds us of the hard things we’ve already come through. It doesn’t tend to give us the credit. It’s far more likely to tell us we don’t have the strength to do it again.
And yet most of us have pulled through before. Maybe with help, maybe giving up for a while along the way. But we got to the other side. Looking back at what that actually took can remind us of a strength that’s already there.
These practices help you look at your own direct experience, and let it speak a little louder than the mind. There’s a reflective practice and some short affirmations. There’s also a piece for when feelings start to come back after a time of feeling numb.
You Pulled Through comes in three lengths, and I Always Rise Again in two, for when time is tight.
What’s inside
You Pulled Through
3 versions
Full version · 19 minShorter version · 12 minMicro version · 7 min
A reflective practice for remembering your inner strength. You think back to a tough time, maybe two weeks ago, maybe twenty years, when things felt out of your control. Maybe you gave up at times. You still made it. Then you hear some words, like honesty and resilience, and notice which ones your experience tells you that you showed. The full version ends with a few minutes resting with the out-breath. The 11-minute version leaves out the breathing, and the 6-minute one is the reflection without the list of words.
I Always Rise Again
2 versions
Full version · 8 minShorter version · 4 min
Short affirmations for when things feel like too much. ‘I am stronger than my mind gives me credit for.’ ‘I am resilient, because I have risen from my challenges before.’ Then some simpler lines to hold on to, like ‘I’ve got this’ and ‘I always rise again.’ The full version goes through the affirmations a few times, and the shorter one goes through them once.
When the Numbness Melts
6 min
For when feelings start coming back after a time of feeling numb. We go to The Wisdom of The Waves: when you were surviving, you were in Protection Mode and couldn’t afford to feel everything. As the freeze thaws, even small pain can feel intense, because you’re no longer shutting it down. Then some words for yourself, like ‘What I feel now is proof I am alive.’ It ends with a rhyming affirmation.