Episode 59: The Calming Loving-Kindness Meditation & Affirmation To Use During Stressful Times
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Episode 59: The Calming Loving-Kindness Meditation & Affirmation To Use During Stressful Times
“May you be at ease, may you be content, may you be joyful, may you feel safe and secure.” — Kait Hurley
This podcast episode is about my routine of saying part of the Loving-Kindness Meditation as an affirmation while driving my kids to school in the morning to create calm & ease. I have been saying this affirmation with them for the last three years.
I learned it via Kait Hurley on the Kait Hurley App which includes movement and mediation. Kait learned this ancient practice of Loving-Kindness from her teacher Kimberly Carson, they have an 8-week meditation course in Kait’s app.
The morning ritual of saying part of the Loving Kindness Meditation as an affirmation with my kids has gained an extra special meaning throughout the pandemic and times when the world is hurting. And when we are having our own challenges as humans and a family.
The affirmation is always with us to guide us home to each other. When we say this as the sun peaks into the car, we are 100% present and calm, even if it’s just for that moment.
Note: You can say also say Loving-Kindness for your community, your country, and the world.
Journal Prompts:
1. What would it look and feel like to be at ease?
2. What would it look and feel like to be content?
3. What would it look and feel like to feel joyful?
4. What would it look and feel like to feel safe and secure?
I am excited to hear your thoughts! Listen on ITUNES + Spotify Please tag me @chefcarlacontreras on Instagram so I can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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About Chef Carla Contreras
For the last 24 + years, I’ve worked as a trained chef in: Restaurants, hotels, as a chef instructor at three culinary schools, and personal chef in New York City.
Since 2013, I have been sharing my gift of content creation with publications and brands like Better Homes and Gardens, The Wall Street Journal, Shape Magazine, justBobbi.com, Nutritious Life, Well + Good.
In my personal brand, I not only show up for the hard things, I own them and then share them with the world, like my $38,000 lesson I learned in my business and evolution of a Digital Entrepreneur over the last ten years.
In my online courses, I bring my years of experience as a trained chef, content creator, health and life coach, and meditation teacher to help you with you shift mindset around cooking & the content creation process. Learn more here
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Full Show Notes
chefcarla
Hey, it's chef Carla and welcome to show up fully. This is a podcast where I share what it's like to show up for your real life if you don't know me I'm a food stylist photographer and health coach. You can find me. It's Carla Conreas on Instagram and more information in today's show notes this episode is a solo cast. It's where I'm going. To be sharing the affirmation that I use with my kids to create calm and ease in our mornings. So the history behind this. My kids were 3 and 4 and they were in the same montessori preschool class and my partner Ed was working in New York City and I was doing all of the things like getting them breakfast and getting them dressed and getting them in the car and getting them to school on time and you know all of the things and it felt stressful and it felt chaotic and it felt. You know I could even feel my heart racing as I'm telling you this but I was using the Kate Hurley app at the same time if you don't know Kate she is an incredible human that blends movement and meditation and. While I was using her app I was using the meditations and her lovingkindness meditation which is an ancient practice.
She learned this from her teacher Kim Carson they also have a meditation course inside of the Kate Hurley app so I started using this meditation and I was like okay could I pull part of this out and repeat it to the kids as we drive to school so that's what I started to do and I remember sending Kate videos like on Instagram. Of my daughter when she was 4 years old repeating lovingkindness and it really shifted our mornings it shifted it into a space of calm a space of ease a space of presence and. But didn't matter what was going on before we got in the car. It didn't matter what was going on in the world. It didn't matter what was going on in our family or you know meltdown to all the things for that moment we were at ease we were calm. And so I'm going to repeat this to you. It's also going to be in the show notes and I'm going to invite you to apply this to your life and see how it shifts how you show up all right? May you be at ease may you be content.
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chefcarla
May you be joyful may you feel safe and secure may you be at ease may you be content may you be joyful may you feel safe and secure I am sending you so much. Love. I invite you to take a deep breath in your nose and out your mouth if that feels right right? Now there are journal prompts that are in the show notes and it goes a little deeper like what does it mean to be at ease. What does it mean to be content. What is. Being joyful mean to you and how can you feel safe and secure if you've liked this episode I would love if you could share it with someone. You love text message email Instagram story all of my information is in the show notes. Kate's information's in the show notes as well big hugs to you and yours send you love bye.
