Creating a Deeper Relationship with Love

Love emerges as a presence and is experienced through sharing, through your relationships. All it takes is a momentary intention for love to emerge.

Today, as you move through this landscape, look around you at all the people and objects. Take in all that comes into your visual field, and see it as something you have a relationship with.

Understanding & Transforming Fear

Fear can make a hell of heaven. It’s up to your mindset to determine the quality of your experience. If you turn toward fear and engage it, it can be transformed, even though your instincts tell you to run from it.

Discovering Anger’s Role in Your Life

Feeling anger is completely normal. That’s worth repeating. There is nothing inherently wrong with anger. Anger can be a tool and teacher to understand where in your life you need to take action.

Think of today’s walking meditation as an intimate inquiry into anger. While you can misuse anger to overpower others or defend yourself against perceived attacks, anger can also be used to create more intimacy with your own unmet needs, showing you where you need to set or enforce boundaries. Anger can propel you into action.

Dealing with Doubt & Imposter Syndrome

Self-doubt is not always an unhealthy thing. It’s what compels you to reflect inward, to challenge yourself to be better. But unhealthy amounts of doubt can be all-consuming, and even paralyzing, which leads you to believe that your dreams are not achievable (or worse, that you don’t deserve them). In this exploration, you'll learn how to turn self-doubt on itself, using its own mechanism to unwind it.

Learning from Jealousy & Envy

Jealousy and envy are often used interchangeably, but there's one important distinction: envy is wanting something that someone else has, whereas jealousy is a fear that someone else is going to take something from you. Therefore, envy is more passive, and jealousy is more morally charged. Today, you'll discover how to handle both of these emotions in a way that can motivate you to take action to create your best life.

Discussing Disgust

It’s probably easy to think about things that often disgust you, like certain smells or foods. But you can also be disgusted by someone else’s behavior, or even your own. Like fear, disgust is an expression of aversion. Today, Murray guides you through a meditation that'll show you a healthy approach to feeling and learning from disgust.

Stepping Closer to Compassion

Resentment disrupts your capacity for empathy, while contempt cuts you off from compassion. Becoming aware of your feelings of contempt or resentment can help you not only understand where you currently are emotionally but also what actions to take in order to step closer toward feeling compassion for yourself and others.

Reconciling Remorse, Shame, or Guilt

Guilt is shame combined with a high dose of fear. Unlike shame, guilt is not interested in healing. Guilt keeps you in a cycle of what you might consider “bad” or “wrong” behavior, resulting often in remorse and self-punishment. As Murray says in this guided walking meditation: You have to work with the underlying shame to root out the stalemate of guilt.

Allowing Sadness to Pass By

At its core, sadness is loss taken to heart. Sadness allows you to register and acknowledge the loss, no matter how big or small the pain is. When sadness emerges, you must maintain objectivity. That is, you distinguish sadness as a temporary experience you’re having from any story you want to tell about yourself or what happened.

Enjoying Joy

You can experience more joy when you realize it’s not found in any externally-driven circumstance. Rather, joy is created within you. Internally-generated joy comes from who you are, rather than what you have. You don’t need any set conditions to invite more joy into your life. You simply create an intimacy with what’s around you, with all of life. Joy is, in fact, your natural state.