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For 17 years Björn Natthiko Lindeblad lived in Thailand’s jungle as a forest monk. He speaks about how he gave up his life as a high-powered business executive for a simple life with few material possessions. He explains with refreshing honesty  how he managed to tackle the difficulties of meditation, learned to become a better friend to himself and experienced the beauty of life in a new way. Björn’s book is called I May Be Wrong: And Other Wisdoms from Life as a Forest Monk, and it became a Swedish sensation.

This is a podcast from Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul collection. Brother David Steindl-Rast shares his wisdom as a Benedictine monk, explaining how a spirit of gratefulness and enjoyment of the simple things in life can enhance our everyday wellbeing. He describes his thoughts on how hope is more than just clinging to a dream, but something much more inspirational – a mindset that is openness for surprise. A fascinating podcast from a wonderful man.

If you want to hear answers to the key questions of ‘why are we here?’, ‘why do bad things happen?’, ‘do I have any control over my fate?’ ‘what is my purpose?’ etc, this book can help as they are addressed directly. This is a collection of three volumes of channelled conversations that the author had with God. He has a Christian upbringing, and the book takes the form of questions the author has about the Christian religion; shedding light on why we were created, clarifying the puzzling and potentially contradictory aspects of Christianity, and how to use the power we have been given to manifest our reality. He reveals a God who is loving, believable, understanding of our weaknesses, and, most importantly, easy to talk to. It’s a very large book so you might like to buy volume 1 first as they are available separately.

The internationally recognised Esther Hicks channels a group of entities known collectively as Abraham, and the focus of this teaching is manifestation. Esther has published several books on the subject that outline the teachings and supporting techniques to prepare your mindset for a life of abundance and happiness. She has conducted many seminars, and selected teachings are regularly updated to YouTube by various people, such as Animated Abraham and Andrea Roman.

Tara Arnold is a trance channel medium with the Ascended Master called Saint Germain. She relays his messages of love and guidance to assist humanity. Tara says that everyone is able to channel because it is a natural ability; and she offers courses on how to channel. The messages she receives offer a different perspective on how to master our thoughts to create a life of peace and abundance and she offers a monthly energy update to see how we can align ourselves with the energies of the coming month.

Lee Harris is a spiritual teacher who channels a group of entities called ‘The Zs’. This book is an incredibly powerful blueprint for transformational growth and change. It provides practical guidance and inspiration on the things that matter most to us, including love, sex, money, personal power, self-expression and purpose, emotional healing and well-being, and how to have peace with our families - as well as more esoteric topics, such as how to invoke the help of our spirit guides and angels. Find his videos and popular monthly energy updates on YouTube, where he posts as LeeHarrisEnergy.

Jeffery Eisen, a life coach from Toronto, channels a group of entities known as Shaltazar. His short recordings are available on the Insight Timer app and YouTube. They offer solace and support on subjects such as Embracing the New, The Unknown, Making Peace With The Struggle, Becoming Who You Truly Are, Understanding The Laws of Manifestation, and Connecting To Your Personal Power Centre.

This interview from the Next Level Soul channel is for those who have travelled some way along their spiritual path, feel that they have ‘awakened’ to a more spiritual life and wonder what the next step in their journey is. Geoff Hoppe channels Adamus St. Germain, who discusses some profound subjects such as: How can we find peace and happiness in this lifetime? Where is AI going, and how will it affect us? What is the path to self-realisation? What is the role of faith and how do you handle feelings of spiritual doubt? It’s an amazing insight into what life is like as an ascended master and it tells us how we can transmute ourselves into a whole new level of spirituality.

Lee Carroll is an American channeller, speaker and author. He channels an entity called Kryon, and the teachings are on a wide variety of topics for lightworkers and old souls. The messages teach that in 2012 the human race passed an important marker that sets the planet on a new course of awakening and positive growth. The topics provide wisdom on past lives, entities from other star systems, energy, future predictions and the new evolutionary tasks for humanity. He has also written books on the Kryon messages. He posts his videos on YouTube on the ‘Kryon Lee Carroll’ page.  

This page from the Healthline website is a very informative article that explains what auras are, what the colours mean, how to see auras, what the layers mean, and how to cleanse them.

An interesting article that explains how to read your own aura and the auras of others, with a guide of what the colours mean and how to cleanse your aura.

This is a page from the Arhanta Yoga site. It explains what the chakras are, names the seven main chakras, and then lists each chakra giving information that includes its colour, location, emotional characteristics, and symptoms so that you can tell when it is blocked. You will also be given suggestions of how to unblock your chakras.

This is a good article that explains the chakras, what they represent and how to tune in to what they are saying to us. The author gives suggestions of what to ask yourself in order to realign the chakra that your intuition says is not working freely.

Lee Harris channels his spiritual guides to obtain from them updates of the key energy themes every month. These themes are similar to a global astrology forecast or a spiritual weather forecast, using the types of energy that we will be feeling as a global collective of souls. He typically shares 5-7 themes of which we should be aware, and gives wisdom of how we can adapt our mindset to either get through the negative influences, or make the most of the positive ones.

Christine Lang is a medical intuitive, energy healer and author. She has a spiritual approach to healing, focusing on our energetic fields, chakras and her spirit guides to treat illnesses from a spiritual mindset to interpret physical illnesses and how stored emotions negatively affect us. This fascinating video on Suzanne Giesemann’s channel  is a masterclass in how we can manipulate our energy and chakras for a happier, healthier life. She discusses how to protect our energy from the negativity of others, rid ourselves of the influence of negative entities, send positive energy to others and release unwanted energy. Watch this if you want to cleanse your energy, offer a positive influence to support the energy of others, avoid overwhelm and receive brilliant tips for maintaining or raising your positive vibrations. You will never look at life in the same way again.

Amy offers a selection of tracks on the fantastic app called Insight Timer that allow you to focus on a particular chakra, so that you can cleanse and activate it. They are guided meditations that take around a quarter of an hour, and you will also find tracks to calm and align your energy in more general ways too.

The book refers to the above podcast. Ainslie MacLeod refused to acknowledge his psychic abilities until an epiphany with his spirit guides propelled him into a new life-changing career path. He has written the knowledge passed on to him into an instruction book that explains our soul age, how we can explore what our life plan was when we were born, and how we can unlock our soul’s purpose to live a more fulfilled life. It illuminates why people act from different perspectives, have phobias, and what emotional baggage we carry from former lives that we can cleanse. A truly eye-opening read.

This is a concept that uses your date/place/time of birth (as astrology does when mapping your birth chart) to identify the innate traits and preferences that you were born with, so that you can understand your soul’s purpose, and how you can operate to life your life to its highest levels of happiness and contentment. Firstly, you learn your ‘energy type’, then dive deeper to learn how your intuition works, how your emotions, ideas, communication, desires tend to operate so that you can understand what your highest potential looks like. For a full explanation and a cost-free link to obtain your own human design map, visit the site.

This is a quiz that allows you to visualise how balanced your life is. It is divided into five key areas of life: relationships, health, recreation, growth and wealth. Along with your overall score, you’ll receive actions to improve all aspects of your life.

Author and psychic Ainslie MacLeod explains in this Oprah Super Soul podcast how he came to liaise with his spirit guides, and how they instructed him in how we can better understand our souls and our purpose. He explains how we can determine how old our individual souls are depending on how many times we have incarnated. We can determine what overall mission our souls have chosen for this lifetime so that we can understand our own personal preferences, skills and destiny, and he has a website where you can take a questionnaire to determine your soul purpose.

Here on The Path to Awesomeness website Frederick Espiritu gives a link to Alex Ferrari, the host of the Next Level Soul Podcast as he interviews Darryl Anka, who has been channelling the entity called Bashar for over 35 years. Bashar’s primary message is to help us live a happy life using our powers of conscious creation The Five Principles are the steps we can take to align ourselves with our purpose and our best life. The web page provides a useful summary for reference. 

This is a guide to contacting your loved ones in the spirit world. It shows how anyone can talk to the spirits by tapping into their psychic powers and using their intuition. This book combines practical advice on grieving and loss with psychic counselling. It offers readers the tools to be their own medium and receive the loving energy that is waiting for them in the afterlife.

On this episode on the Next Level Soul channel, Rosemary Thornton firstly describes what happened to her in the aftermath of her husband committing suicide. She then became ill, suffered a botched procedure and died in hospital. Rosemary had an NDE experience then returned to a healed body and brings back a message of love. She subsequently wrote a book about her NDE and about how to heal after a loved one takes their own life. A beautiful and entertaining story. 

This is an Oprah SuperSoul conversation on advice on how to move forward after life’s inevitable setbacks, and build up your own resilience. Applying the lessons she learned after the unexpected death of her beloved husband, ex-Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg explains how to lean in to those uncomfortable conversations with friends and loved ones after loss.

The Next Level Soul channel brings us an interview with the founder of Quantum-Touch organisation. Richard Gordon has over 40 years of experience in the field of energy medicine. He takes us on his incredible journey to explore how any of us can harness quantum energy to heal ourselves and others easily and instantaneously, resulting in miracles so often that the followers of his techniques call them ‘normicles’. 

This seminal classic explores how positive thought and affirmations can inspire your own healing, wellbeing and happiness. Full of ideas and strategies that have worked for millions of people worldwide, this is a book that people credit with profoundly altering their awareness of the impact that the mind has on our health and wellbeing. World renowned teacher Louise Hay offers profound insight into the relationship between the mind and the body and offers a powerful key to understanding the roots of our physical diseases and discomforts.! She provides a large list of ailments and what emotional cause could be at the root of it.

Medical pioneer Dr. Dean Ornish and his wife Anne discuss their book, which highlights four lifestyle changes they claim can reverse both chronic disease and the ageing process. This is a holistic approach, where we are advised to eat well, move more, stress less and love more. Dr Ornish has seen amazing results in those who have followed his programme, to cure chronic diseases and lengthen life.

Do you want to be happier? In this Oprah Super Soul conversation Harvard trained researcher Shawn Achor shares his simple, achievable steps to diminish depression, increase joy, and shift our perspective to be more positive. Using the science of positive psychology, he offers advice on how to turn down the noise of the world we live in which he says is blocking us from true happiness. Shawn also shares how we can increase the levels of happiness for others in our lives.

Happiness is sought by everyone the world over. Unfortunately, many find it fleeting and hard to maintain. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The authors outline a 10-point Happiness Manifesto grounded in the science of human flourishing and the reality of life. Built on simple and no-nonsense, practical principles, The Happiness Revolution is a thought-provoking and fun read which will have an immediate positive effect on your life and the lives of those around you.

This video has a Spanish translation throughout and it has not been possible to find a version without it. But if you persevere, you will hear an incredible story from Kryon, the Being channelled by Lee Carroll, explaining of how the Earth was created, and how we were seeded with consciousness by beings from another constellation. You will need a completely open mind for this one!

An astonishing podcast from Jeff Mara as he talks to a man in the US Navy working in the UK who was recruited to a secret space programme. Buckle up for a story that includes aliens, telepathy, working on the moon, age regression and different dimensions of time. Jaw dropping X-files stuff..

If you feel that a particular animal has a message for you, this website can help, because it provides a comprehensive guide to the spiritual meaning, symbolism and totem information for all the main animals, including the symbolism of the animal in different cultures. Simply choose the ma

Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium who possesses an incredible gift: the ability to communicate with loved ones who have passed, convey messages of love and healing, and impart a greater understanding of our interconnectedness. Though her abilities are exceptional, they are not unique, and that is the message at the core of this book. Understanding 'the secret language of the universe' is a gift available to all. As we learn to ask for and recognise signs from the other side, we will start to find meaning where before there was only confusion, and see light in the darkness. We may decide to change paths, push toward love, pursue joy, and engage with life in a whole new way.

This article from the Holisticshop.co.uk website succinctly answers some basic questions that explain what dowsing is, how it works, how to get started, and what to do if it doesn’t seem to work.

For those interested in receiving guidance through the Tarot cards, this is a YouTube channel with over 750,000 subscribers. Baba Jolie does readings for each astrological star sign, from monthly readings, to readings relating to love or career. She delivers uplifting and perceptive messages using her spirit guides.

This website offers a really useful guide to any angel number. If you scroll down past the introduction to angel numbers you can click on the number of your choice to find out more about its meaning.

Sonia Choquette comes from a line of intuitives and has communicated with spirit guides from a very young age, being able to see, and communicate with angels, souls who have transitioned and other spiritual guides. This fascinating and inspirational book provides all the information you need to help you connect with your spirit guides so that you can enjoy all the love, abundance, and joy you're entitled to. In it, Sonia takes you through the obstacles to experiencing divine guidance, developing trust in your inner guidance, and inviting your guides into your heart and mind so that you can accept their help.

This website explains what angel numbers are and what the meaning is of some of the specific numbers.

Psychic medium Rebecca Rosen explains the five clair senses, what they are and how to identify and develop your strongest clair sense in order to open the door to powerful guidance that will help you create a meaningful and magical life.

This is a YouTube channel with over 700,000 subscribers. Chris offers no-nonsense advice using his intuition and knowledge of the Tarot to provide weekly and mid-monthly readings for all astrological signs.

This book shares the stories of those who have visited practitioners who can help them access their former lives to heal physical and mental problems in their current lives. It shares techniques for you to use and fascinating examples of how the former lives impacted the current experience, giving people the insight and understanding to find release from the blockages in their thinking that were not serving them.

As a neurosurgeon, Dr Eben Alexander always considered himself a man of science. His unwavering belief in evidence-based medicine fuelled a career in the top medical institutions of the world. But one morning in 2008 he fell into a coma after suffering a rare form of bacterial meningitis. Scans of his brain revealed massive damage and imminent death, but something miraculous happened. Dr Alexander's brain went from near total inactivity to awakening. He made a full recovery but he was never the same. He woke certain of the infinite reach of the soul, he was certain of a life beyond death. In this astonishing book, Dr Alexander shares his experience, pieced together from the notes he made as soon as he was able to write again. Unlike other accounts of near-death experiences, he is able to explain in depth why his brain was incapable of fabricating the journey he experienced. His story is one of profound beauty and inspiration.

This interview, hosted by Alex Ferrari on the Next Level Soul channel is subtitled: GOOSEBUMPS! Most Detailed Near-Death Experience EVER Recorded: Tour of Heaven. It gives an extraordinary insight into what souls get up to on the other side, and answers some important questions such as: Do I have a soulmate and am I with them in every lifetime?, Are there pets in Heaven?, What is there to do on the other side? and Is Earth the only planet where I can incarnate?  This is one podcast that brings together the many common experiences of NDEers such as meeting the soul family,  the life review, planning your incarnations, viewing the akashic records etc.  

Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of physical illness, parenting handicapped children, drug addiction, alcoholism, the death of a loved one, accidents, deafness, and blindness? This book explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we are born for the purpose of spiritual growth. Through compelling profiles of people who knowingly planned the experiences mentioned above, Your Soul's Plan shows that suffering is not purposeless, but rather imbued with deep meaning. Working with four gifted mediums, author Robert Schwartz reveals the significance of each person's life plan and allows us a fascinating look into the "other side."

This interview, hosted by Alex Ferrari on the Next Level Soul channel will appeal to those who want some scientific rigour to their spiritual learning. Anthony Peake wanted to write a book, and began by investigating what happens chemically in the human brain when in an epileptic episode. This led on to incorporate what happens to our bodies and brain when we die, which led on to the exploration of how life after death could be the ‘real world’ whilst we are only experiencing a quantum simulation. He is turning the perspective of how we think of life and death on its head. Anthony’s book that resulted from his investigations is called Is There Life After Death? – The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die. 

This complex but fascinating episode of channelling sees the Kryon entity describe different aspects of souls, such as whether animal souls graduate to human souls, what a soulmate is, what a walk-in really is, what aspect of our soul we’re accessing when we’re in deep meditation. 

This interview is an astonishing perspective, hosted by Alex Ferrari on his excellent Next Level Soul channel. It is Christian Sundberg’s story of how he can remember his pre-birth experience; why his soul decided to incarnate on earth, the process of how he arrived, and the amazing insights that he can offer with the considerable knowledge he has retained during this incarnation about spirit guides and the soul’s existence when it is not incarnated on Earth.

Anita Moorjani relates how, at the moment of death from cancer she had an incredible near death experience. When she awakened her cancer disappeared miraculously and her experience set her on a wonderful and joyous new path that changed her life and her career. This fascinating story will give you insights into what can happen at the point of death and reassurance about the journey of loved ones who have transitioned. The lessons she learned can enrich the lives we are all living now.

Roberta Grimes, speaking on the highly recommended Love Covered Life podcast video has a truly enlightening take on life after death. She says that the ‘near death experience (NDE)’ is different from what happens when we die, because NDEers are only going to the beginning or ‘foyer’ of the whole experience, whereas once we decide to not come back for this lifetime, it opens up all the multiverses and other experiences to enjoy. She explains how the soul leaves the body at death, what happens when we enter the ‘foyer’ and have our life review (as other NDEers have explained), but then tells us the different levels we go to first based on the match with the level of vibration we have reached in this lifetime. We gradually work up the levels as our vibration rises, and meet friends, family, have amazing experiences on different planets before deciding if/how we will return to Earth. She shares more information about life after death on her website www.seekreality.com

A useful article on the Soulmanity 101 website that explains what a lightworker is and the different types of lightworkers.

It is said that we vibrate on a particular frequency depending on what emotion we are experiencing; and this in turn determines what experiences we are attracting, because like attracts like, and it is in our interests to feel joy so that it attracts things that bring us joy. This is a scale of the 22 most common emotions, organised from the highest to the lowest vibrations. The Abraham Hicks perspective teaches that no emotion is bad, it is just a stepping stone up the scale to a higher emotion, which is preferable for a more joyous experience. It is far more difficult to transform our emotions straight to positivity (level 4) if we are feeling overwhelmed (level 11),  but if we reach for frustration (level 10), it will take us out of the lower feeling so that we can start working up the scale step by step. This article provides a good summary, with suggestions for how to use the scale.

Some people might find David R. Hawkins’ book a dense read, so here is a summary of the book and its valuable wisdom. It describes a summary of the book in three takeaways, gives bullet points of the summary points and some paragraphs of the summary notes.

This article gives an interesting perspective on what emotions are, separating them into the components of vibrational frequency, physiology/biology, behavioural and mind.

This article uses the perspective of David R. Hawkins’ book Power vs Force, focusing on each emotion on the scale of emotions, explaining each one and giving insights from his book on how to raise your level of consciousness.

Jack Canfield is author of the famous ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ series of books, and was one of the teachers of the Law of Attraction featured in the film called ‘The Secret’ that brought the Law of Attraction to a mass audience. This article explores what he describes as the 7 Laws of Attraction (LOA), how to use the LOA for specific goals and other tips to inspire you.

This is a TEDx talk by a man who emerged from a youth filled with crime and drugs to become a doctor, creating a health care paradigm that bridges science, spirituality and human potential, teaching us that it is in our biological design to live a radiant, purposeful and extraordinary life. Hear how we can pay attention to what our body is telling us to adjust our mental perspective; moving from guilt (living in the past) and fear (living in the future) to the present moment and navigating to a life of joy and fulfilment.

An important book for all students of the Law of Attraction. This is an introduction to the teachings of Abraham, the group of entities channelled by Esther Hicks. It gives some background to how Esther began her collaboration with Abraham, and then walks the reader through how the Law of Attraction works. It explains how we create our own reality, and how you can raise your spiritual vibration by how you feel, to consciously attract what you want to your reality. The book lists the emotions in order from lowest to highest vibration, and how we can shift our feelings up the scale of emotions to attract better and better experiences.

A succinct description of the five steps to take to manifest your desires that are often referred to in the teachings of Abraham.

Wayne Dyer was a leading teacher of the Law of Attraction. Wishes Fulfilled is designed to take you on a voyage of discovery, where you can begin to tap into the amazing manifesting powers that you possess within you and create a life in which all that you imagine for yourself becomes a present fact. In his own uniquely exhilarating style, he aims to show you how you can truly change your concept of yourself and fulfil all your wishes.

Bruce Lipton is a cell biologist known for his views on epigenetics.In this episode on Next Level Soul he discusses the importance of understanding the programs that we are inculcated with early on in our lives and how these programs unfortunately run the majority of our lives. He discusses how our consciousness has direct input into the culture of our cells … how our cells are formed based on our environment and what and how we “feed” them.

Quantum physics has revealed that objects can exist in more than one location simultaneously even though the objects are invisible to us in only one location, showing that parallel universes exist. So what if you could learn how to access and choose to live in a particular parallel world? With research from quantum physics, psychology, biology and behavioural epigenetics, this book guides you on a path to achieving your grandest ambitions.

Tara channels the ascended master Saint Germain, and the advice she receives is a loving and unique perspective where we are often urged to connect with our Inner Child to remove blocks, or to tune into and befriend the consciousness of the thing we want to attract. She suggests questions we can ask our Inner Child to soothe inner discomfort and release emotions that no longer serve us, to pave the way to attract what we would like to welcome into our life once we’ve made space by releasing these blockages.

This is a fascinating and easy to read short book that lays the groundwork for bringing wonderful things into your life. The author brings her research on manifestation and describes her journey of how she has practically applied the techniques; what she got wrong and what worked for her. It is all written in a humorous and engaging way, making it a good first book for those beginning to explore the art of manifestation.There are two further books in the course that build on this introduction.

If your mind is getting in the way of manifesting and you find yourself constantly worrying about how your manifestation can possibly come about, try this 14 minute message from the spiritual guide Bashar, channelled by Darryl Anka. It describes how it is not your mind’s job to figure out how something can happen, so you should relax and allow your higher self to do that part of the manifestation process.

The Law of Assumption is a manifestation principle that says if you assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled you will see it manifest into your life. Imagine how you will feel when you get what you desire and step into those feelings. When you get used to having it in your life, will you feel more relaxed, confident, happy? Will you no longer feel anxious, nervous or have low self-esteem? Assuming those feelings and characteristics aligns us with the energy needed for manifestation. It is a central pillar of the teachings of the mystic called Neville Goddard, and this video explains the concept.

New York Times best-selling author Steven Pressfield discusses his book with Oprah Winfrey on her Super Soul podcast, and offers practical steps on how to unlock the creative genius he believes lives inside all of us. He reveals four questions that can help you identify your true calling in life and shares the insights he gained from his own struggles attempting to write his first novel, overcoming the obstacles his inner dialogue threw at him that challenged his ability to complete his work.

Eckhart Tolle is one of the greatest spiritual teachers in the world and the foremost thinker on the subject of our ego. Over 16 million copies of this book have been sold, taking readers on a spiritual journey to find their true self, discussing how we can overcome pain and the mind's chatter by living in the present. He explains how we can awaken to the spiritual dimension in our lives, find inner peace, increase joy and experience more harmonious relationships.

In order to establish our self-worth, it is important to see what gets in the way of it. It is estimated that 70% of us will experience Imposter Syndrome at some point in our lives. Impostor syndrome is the internal psychological experience of feeling like a fake in some area of your life, despite the success that you have achieved in that area.

You might have imposter syndrome if you find yourself consistently experiencing self-doubt, even in areas where you typically excel. This article for Very Well Mind explains the types of imposter syndrome, symptoms, causes and coping mechanisms.

Pauline Clance is an expert in Imposter Syndrome and has devised a test to uncover whether you suffer from it, and to what extent.

This is a 20-minute audio only video from the WisdomNow channel and its teaching is profound. It discusses how to stop worrying, tune out of caring so much about what happens in life and disconnect from chasing experiences that we hope will make us feel OK, but which inevitably don’t fix us. It will show you how to relax, enjoy life more, and experience a more joyful existence.

Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, author, and student of enlightenment. He interviewed over 100 spiritual teachers such as The Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa, and he passes on their wisdom as well as his experiences of living in an enlightened state - something he says we can all do within a few weeks of practice. This is one of the interviews from Alex Ferrari's Next Level Soul site on YouTube.

This is the life story of Michael Singer. As a student, he realised just how intrusive his mental chatter was, and devoted his time in meditation to stifle it into silence. This led to a lifetime of meditation and trust as he decided to open up to the guidance he received during meditation and see where it took his experience. Although he had a preference for a quiet life of meditation, he eventually found himself as the owner of a multi-million pound company among other amazing experiences.

Dr Dacher is a physician, meditation teacher and author. Recognising the central role of the mind in healing he embarked on the full time study of Eastern philosophy, psychology and meditation practices, and his quiet, practical guidance on meditation are simple but effective, especially for beginners. The Insight Timer app is the worlds largest collection of free meditations and contemplative music, and is highly recommended.

Have you ever thought about trying meditation but didn't know how to get started? In Meditation for Beginners, renowned teacher Jack Kornfield uses clear language and step-by-step guidance to show us how to start - and stick with - a daily meditation practice. From the basics of how to get started to dealing with distractions, this complete course introduces us to the Insight tradition of meditation that has helped practitioners throughout the ages cultivate profound inner calm and a lasting capacity for happiness.

Donna Lancaster has worked as a coach and therapist for more than 25 years. She co-created The Bridge Retreat, a six-day personal development experience endorsed by many celebrities. She has an Amazon Prime documentary called Love(d) which shares the stories of 12 people during The Bridge Retreat as they take the leap to overcome grief and loss in their lives. Donna says that we are all living with the aftershocks of heartbreak throughout our lives, whether it be not fitting in at school, or witnessing our parents’ divorce, or the death of a loved one, or many other reasons that hurt our heart. This can manifest itself as depression, anxiety, self-sabotage and an inability to feel fully alive.The process in this book can support you as you feel your feelings, release them and move towards peace and more wholehearted living.

Access Bars is described as “the most relaxing, de-stressing, well-being technique you may have never heard of.” Access Bars are 32 points on your head that, when gently touched, effortlessly and easily release the thoughts, ideas, beliefs, emotions, and considerations that stop you from creating a life you love. It can feel like hitting the delete button on your computer’s cluttered hard drive – only this time, you’re creating space in your brain. Things like negative thought patterns, or that endless mental chatter keeping you awake at night, can be released and make space for the calm you’ve been seeking. There are practitioners around the world and you can find out more at the Access Consciousness website.

Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recuperation: the moment we realize we cannot cope; the acts of self-care or therapy in which we find respite; and the day we finally reclaim a sense of stability. A beautiful book written with understanding and kindness that gives reason for hope.

Do you recall, as a child, being enthralled by a drifting cloud, or the wandering of a bug? If so, then you've already had a taste of natural awareness. Created for those new to meditation and long-time meditators alike, The Little Book of Being shows us how to discover this free-flowing and expansive side of mindfulness. This concise and friendly guide takes us through 73 "mini-chapters" that explain natural awareness and help us experience it via simple and enjoyable explorations to bring welcome moments of peace, connection, and spaciousness to our often distracted and stressful lives.

This podcast was recorded during the lockdown of 2020. Oprah talks to Dr Alan Lightman where they share their other-worldly experiences whilst in nature of feeling part of a connected universe. The profound effect of these experiences showed them how we should take more time to be quiet, peaceful and spending time with our inner selves experiencing the feeling that we are all together in the same consciousness, rather than isolated individuals.

Mel Robbins says that after this episode, in less than five days you will have a profound change in your life. Her podcasts are brilliant, because she delivers techniques to improve ourselves and our life experience in a warm, loving, straight-talking style. It’s like having a wise, non-judgemental friend on tap whenever you need her. Some of her videos are shorts, some are of medium length, but this one is just over an hour. You should settle in and invest the time, because she says what she teaches in this video will create a ripple effect of tremendous proportions for enhanced happiness. We are all told to love ourselves, but nobody knows how to do it, and that’s what this entire episode is about. She will boil down the ‘how’ to one extraordinarily simple habit backed up by extensive research.

Sarah Blondin is the founder, writer, and podcast creator of the ‘live awake’ series. Her beautiful messages have attracted hundreds of thousands of followers on Insight Timer, where she brings essential wisdom that reminds us how to be loving, compassionate and understanding to ourselves. You can access her tracks through Insight Timer or from her website. Choose from tracks such as Remembering Your Worth, Loving and Listening to Yourself, Making Your Life Sacred, Transforming Fear, and I Would Like to Give You Permission. Essential listening for emotional healing that brings people to tears.

The subheading to this article is ‘We can’t control most of life, so why not stop trying and enjoy the ride?’ The concept of surrender may evoke feelings of defeat and failure, but the author explains why this is not what is meant. She outlines why the act of surrender can actually free us from the struggle and open us up for a solution to find us. 

Michael A. Singer, author of The Untethered Soul, tells the extraordinary story of what happened when, after a deep spiritual awakening, he decided to let go of his personal preferences, simply let life call the shots and trust that he was being taken in the right direction. As Singer takes you on this great experiment and journey into life's perfection, the events that transpire will both challenge your deepest assumptions about life and inspire you to look at your own life in a radically different way.