Difficult Times Meditation

How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.

Finding Guidance and Courage: A Light in Hard Times We all face tough times. But how can we meet these difficult situations with a compassionate heart and a clear mind? "Inside each of us is an inner light that I call 'The One Who Knows,'" teaches Jack Kornfield. "Awakening to this wisdom can...

Whether you’re having a moment of minor overwhelm or find yourself in a state of panic, you can turn to this Audible Original for solutions and support. These six messages are simple, reliable, spiritual solutions that will free you from fear and inner turmoil. In order to show up for life and all its challenges, we must be able to regulate our nervous system, calm our mind, and trust our inner wisdom to give us clear direction.

"In When Things Don’t Go Your Way, Haemin Sunim offers readers a warm and reassuring path through the most challenging moments of our lives. By sharing his hard-won wisdom, he guides us from hardship to self-discovery, helping us to stay centered and feel whole." -Lori Gottlieb, New York Times...

Iyanla Vanzant knows hard times, and how to work through them using the power of faith. Before writing five New York Times bestsellers, she had a troubled childhood followed by teen pregnancy, two abusive marriages, and welfare. How did she manage to turn her life around? Finding Faith in...

We always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way...

What does healing mean to you? For many of us, to ‘heal’ is to solve a problem – to remove an illness, put a trauma behind us, or get rid of something we don’t like in our life. Yet does that idea of healing serve us … or does it cut us off from life’s gifts? With A Healing Space, Dr. Matt Licata extends an invitation to explore the endless richness of your life – without minimising or turning away from hardship, nor by seeking the shelter of comfort or certainty.

For more than 800 years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the practice of lojong, or mind training, to transform difficulties into insights. Lojong training is grounded in a special meditation technique and complemented by 59 written maxims—a treasury of practical wisdom that inspires everyday...

How do we make sense of our lives when our world seems to be falling apart?In this beautifully written guide, scholar and teacher Stephen Cope shows that crises don't have to derail us from our purpose-they can actually help us to find our purpose and step forward as our best selves.The Dharma...

Sometimes in life when a person needs some help, it may be for a minor issue we feel a friend or a family member can handle, or a major problem requiring the help of a higher power. Whatever the life challenges, God can address them all. When we turn to God for help or guidance, we need to know what to say and how to say it. In this book of Daily Prayers, you will find a prayer solution to your problem. Prayers provided, including prayers for such things as protection, healing, repentance, and guidance. It will open your mind to receive God’s intervention and have a glorious victory ...

Insights and Practices for Finding Sanctuary in Any Circumstance When the difficulties and losses of life feel overwhelming, is there someplace we can turn for the safety, nurturing, and peace that we long for? Most of us are strongly conditioned to react with fear and confusion, falling back on...

Life has a way of pressing down harder than we expect. A diagnosis, a loss, a financial strain, a relationship breaking apart. In those moments, you need more than encouragement. You need a steady place to bring your fear and your faith together. Novena for Strength in Difficult Times offers nine days of guided prayer for anyone walking through hardship. Each day includes an opening prayer, a Scripture passage, a reflection grounded in real struggle, a brief story from a saint who endured their own trial, intercessions, the Lord's Prayer, and a closing prayer of trust. Written for Catholics...

If you want to overcome trauma, stress and panic attacks and find inner peace, then keep reading. Do you experience stress and panic attacks? Are you looking for a way to overcome trauma, eliminate stressful thoughts and quiet the mind? Guided meditation can help you. This audiobook contains a...

Fear doesn't have to have the final word. Do anxious thoughts keep you awake at night? Do you find yourself worrying about tomorrow, struggling to trust God, or feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty? You're not alone—and you don't have to face fear by yourself. In When Fear Takes Over, pastor and author Gideon Crane offers biblical encouragement and practical guidance for anyone longing to replace anxiety with lasting peace. Rooted in Scripture and written with compassion, this book helps you move beyond fear by learning to trust God's promises in every season of life. Inside you'll discover...

This is a very powerful, transformational, guided meditation/hypnosis session with a healing effect that increases every time you use it. This meditation is for everyone who needs some extra peace of mind; who wants to feel safe and supported during difficult times in life. This is your personal key to awakening and making the world a better place one meditation at a time. By making yourself feel better you make the whole world a little better, too. So keep going!

Not transformation. Something quieter. Do and Be Rewarded is a book about the relationship between a person and their own word — the slow, mostly private work of becoming someone you can trust. Three hundred and sixty-five daily entries for the ordinary year: the difficult weeks, the unremarkable ones, the departures and the returns. Written in the tradition of Meditations and The Comfort Book, each entry is brief enough for a morning or evening reading. Together, they offer the particular steadiness that comes not from instruction but from genuine companionship — a book that sits with ...

From the author of The Secret Tale of Starlit Dreams now comes a new story, touched with a heartfelt depth. In The Hidden Ways of Hope Reborn, a visual and musical journey ensues, enfolding the listener with perspectives and reflections that evoke a unique expression of an ancient strength of character. Atmospheric scenery and sights calm the nervous system, engaging the imagination and leading up to the unfolding of a grand story - a story based on true events that has moved countless hearts and left an imprint in the consciousness of humanity.

The area of using meditation for self-healing has been of great interest to brain researchers around the globe. It was proven that meditation will help you overcome anxiety and depression. By reducing stress, it will also help you rebalance your hormones and keep your heart healthy. In short, meditation can transform the mind, and the mind can transform the body. If you are new to meditation, this beginner-friendly audiobook will help you to get started! You are going to feel immediately refreshed and at peace once you complete your very first meditation, and then you'll never stop.

This wonderful resource book will help as you go through illness, grief, or surgery. The Psalms are prayers to God and will help you focus on Him. The Bible teaches us that God pays as much attention to the person praying to Him as the words that are read, meditated on or spoken. God wants a close relationship with you, His adopted child. He wants to guide and comfort you as you go through difficult times as well as answer your prayers that you direct to Him. Jesus teaches us in John 16:24, “Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will ...

Do you have problems getting stressed out on a regular basis? Not enough will power? Sleeping issues such as insomnia? Or do you have anxiety? If you do, this audiobook will help you to counter these problems by playing relaxing content which can help you get to rest much more easily.