Divine Presence in Despair

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Divine Presence in Despair

Guided meditation to cultivate emotional wellness

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Psalm 34:18

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness.

Today, we will be interacting with the emotion, despair. Despair is a complete loss of hope. Despair can happen when a circumstance seems too much to bear when it feels like nothing could possibly improve.

What do you turn to in the midst of despair? This meditation will guide you to overcome hopelessness by receiving divine hope.

Witnessing Grief With Compassion

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Matthew 5:4

Welcome to The Well's Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations, designed to cultivate your inner well-being. Today's guided meditation offers a gentle space to explore grief. Grief, a deep sorrow after loss, is a natural human experience. It can feel overwhelming and confusing at times, even manifesting as physical discomfort. This meditation will guide you in witnessing your grief with compassion, all while feeling the comforting embrace of the Divine.

Healing Shame

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Jeremiah 31:3, Psalm 34:4

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. In today’s meditation, we will focus on feelings of shame. Shame is a universal emotion. It’s often described as an intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed or unworthy of love and belonging because of something we’ve experienced, done, or failed to do. These internalized beliefs can trigger our fear response (fight/flight/or freeze). Shame causes us to go into a mode of self-protection, leading to secrecy and darkness. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as we begin to run from the connection we crave. As we begin this meditation, let's journey together to move deeper into the healing presence of the Divine. In doing so, we invite God's love to touch the deepest parts of our being, helping to heal the wounds of shame and restoring a sense of connection and worthiness.

Practicing Non-Judgment

Rev. Aaron Bjerke

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. Today’s meditation will guide you in practicing non-judgmental observation of your thoughts. Judging is a precursor to every emotion we feel. It is the process of attaching positive or negative value to experiences, oneself, or others. However, our judgments are not facts; rather, they are our own preferences and opinions. A reflex to judge situations or yourself as negative actively creates more negative feelings inside you. Non-judgment, which is a core component of mindfulness, will allow you to become more accepting, curious, and better able to regulate your emotions. Let's begin today's meditation.