When you’re in need of a new beginning, sometimes the first step is just saying yes! Saying yes to life, as it is right now, and to letting go of everything you’re holding onto that is weighing you down and holding you back from moving forward.

This 5-minute guided forgiveness meditation is great for anytime you feel like you’re holding onto resentment of someone (or yourself). Grudges and resentment can take up a lot of energy and make us feel completely drained. Let this 5-minute guided meditation be your go-to anytime you feel the need to release that and open your heart to forgiveness.

Gratitude might just be one of the secrets to a good life. In this 15-minute guided gratitude meditation, we practice expressing gratitude to ourselves, our bodies, our friends and family, the natural world around us, and even all the people who we don’t know who make our lives better in some way (thank you, garbage truck driver!)

In this meditation, we offer a blessing of loving-kindness to our friends and loved ones, our acquaintances, our “enemies”, and even ourselves (because sometimes we’re the ones who need our love most.) I heard in a podcast once that the more self-love we have, the greater our energy fields are, and the greater our ability to uplift the collective and bring peace to the world.

Why make a meditation about non-attachment? The Zen concept of non-attachment can be a useful one, especially in a world when it’s easy to feel overly attached to things (your possessions, your beauty, your identity, your phone…) Non-attachment doesn’t mean not caring about things, or giving everything up to become a monk up on a hill, alone. Non-attachment is more about freeing yourself from the stories you tell yourself, the illusions in your life, to make space for all the real stuff.

Your chakras, or seven main energy centres, are located in a straight line along your spine (for the most part) beginning at the base of your spine with the root chakra and ending at the top of your head with the crown chakra. These energy centres are aligned with the spinal plexus, the terminals along the spine that allow for communication between your central nervous system and your autonomic nervous system.