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Toronto Portrait Photographer || HEARTshots || Black + White Photography

Memoirs and musings of Darius Bashar. Toronto portrait photographer and writer, in pursuit of all things real, raw and intimate. 

Posts tagged 20 min guided meditation
Quality Time With Your Inner Child (FREE MEDITATION)
 

What do you do when you’re at a crossroads and feel unsure which direction to go?

Or when you’re feeling lost and alone?

Or feeling creatively stuck?

In moments like these, many of us seek wisdom.

While wisdom can come from many sources, one of my favourite places to seek guidance is from my inner child—the younger child part of me that is very much alive inside my heart.

By cultivating a deep and trusting relationship with Little Darius, he and I have ongoing conversations where he shares many great ideas and insights with me. He has wisdom that Adult Darius might not be able to access on his own.

It’s counterintuitive but so freaking effective.

My inner child is key to my creative process as well. He gives me access to curiosity, wonder and play.

All of these are superpowers when it comes to creativity.

With the right meditation I can slow my mind down and gently connect with my inner child. Then, if he can sense my intentions are kind and loving, he often shares really significant insights with me.

If you’d like to try this out but aren’t sure where to start, I made a free guided meditation to facilitate quality time between you and your own inner child.

It can help you start your day feeling more grounded and focused. It can also clear whatever’s stuck and guide you back to your heart.

The link for the free meditation is in my bio.

(ALTERNATIVE CTA) —> Here is the link to the free Inner Child Guided Meditation.

Big love,

D

 
Meditation For Anxious Days
 

If you are feeling stuck.

If you are feeling trapped.

If you are losing hope.

If you feel like the walls are crashing in.

If you feel like it’s all slipping away through your hands.

There is a good chance you are zooming too far into a particular experience.

When we zoom that far in we can quickly lose perspective of who we really are.

Each of us gets the privilege of defining who we truly are (and what that even means).

But if we don’t actively define ourselves, the world will quickly jump in to fill the gap. And usually that’s not a good thing.

This world uses numbers to measure our worth: the money in our accounts, the amount of friends we have, the number of lovers we have, our height, our age, our clothing size—

—fuck that noise.

No number could ever measure your worth.

If you would like some support zooming out and remembering who you really are, I made this guided meditation on that exact theme.

It was a big hit during our Friday Artist Morning Live session a few weeks back.

Here’s the link —> “Support for Anxious Days - Zooming Out Meditation

 
Washing Our Hands

There are only hours left in 2021.

Soon we turn the page and start something new.

Personally, I love fresh starts. I get so excited to see an empty canvas.

Sometimes if we are not careful, we can carry forward energy from the previous year into the new one. Like a painter who forgot to wash her hands and accidentally smudged old paint onto a new canvas.

Before we pick up this gorgeous new canvas called 2022, it might serve us to take a moment and gently wash off any residue from this past year.

Here are 2 questions that I am currently reflecting on before I step into the new year.

1) Is there anything I am ready to let go of before 2022?
2) Is there anyone I am ready to forgive (including myself)?

I hope these last few hours of 2021 serve you well and that 2022 is your best year yet

Thank you for all the love and support this past year.

Thank you for all the emails, comments, voicenotes, phone calls, Zoom chats, real life hangs and more.

This has been the most loving year of my life and this community (aka YOU) are a key part of that.

Happy New Year!!

Love,

D

PS: If you enjoy guided meditations I made one specifically for New Year’s Eve and the first few days of 2022. It’s great for anyone that wants to bring closure to 2021 and step into 2022 with intention, purpose and POWER.

ANCESTOR MEDITATION for Wisdom and Connection

I hope you had a great weekend and got lots of time in the sun.

This meditation is a journey away from technology, digital screens and anything that resembles modern society.

It's an opportunity to travel through time and space and sit with your ancestors in nature.

Maybe they have something to share with you.

Have an awesome day.

Big LOVE,

D

PS: If you’re looking for a FREE collection of Guided Morning Meditations, I’ve got you covered → https://www.artistmorning.com/free-meditation-for-creativity / link in bio @dariusbashar

PPS: Come meditate with me live. We meet as a group on Zoom every Wednesday and Friday at 9am EST. Sign up here for free → Free Group Meditation / @artistmorning

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Morning Meditation For Health + Healing

This meditation has helped me on several occasions when I felt run-down and exhausted. It honestly felt like a multivitamin for my soul.

It will help recharge your battery and fill you up, especially if you have been feeling stress, anxiety, exhaustion, pain, or have a general feeling of being unwell.

In 20 minutes I went from feeling like I was about to get sick to feeling strong and healthy again.

It set me up for a really great day and week.

BIG LOVE,

D

PS: If you’re looking for a FREE collection of Guided Morning Meditations, I’ve got you covered → https://www.artistmorning.com/free-meditation-for-creativity / link in bio @dariusbashar

PPS: Come meditate with me live. We meet as a group on Zoom every Wednesday and Friday at 9am EST. Sign up here for free → Free Group Meditation / @artistmorning

#meditations #meditationpractice #meditationtime #meditationteacher #meditationclass #meditation🙏

Morning Meditation For POSITIVE ENERGY

In my opinion, mornings are the best time to activate our power and manifest magic. This 20-minute morning meditation will help you remember how freaking POWERFUL you really are.

BIG LOVE,

Darius 🙏🏽

PS: If you’re looking for a FREE collection of Guided Morning Meditations, I’ve got you covered —> https://www.artistmorning.com/free-meditation-for-creativity

PPS: Come meditate with me live. We meet as a group on Zoom every Wednesday and Friday at 9am EST. Sign up here for free —> Free Group Meditation / @artistmorning

Meditation for SELF LOVE and Acceptance (20 minute MORNING MEDITATION)

This Self-Love Meditation is a bit different from the others. It has a very powerful self-love visualization in the middle that can quickly and effectively bring you to a place of self-acceptance and self-compassion.

Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

Sending a shoutout to my brother from another mother @SoulBrotherDane for being the beautiful human in the thumbnail below. 

Big LOVE and happy Hump Day!

D

PS: If you’re looking for a FREE collection of Guided Morning Meditations, I’ve got you covered —> https://www.artistmorning.com/free-meditation-for-creativity

PPS: Come meditate with me live. We meet as a group on Zoom every Wednesday and Friday at 9am EST. Sign up here for free —> Free Group Meditation / @artistmorning