Emotionally Healthy Soul

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.

Hope for Healing

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Jeremiah 30:17

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. This meditation will guide you through opening your heart to divine healing and hope amidst feelings of hurt and anger when you feel like you've been wronged or betrayed.

Experience Divine Love

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • 1 Corinthians 13:4–8, Romans 8:38–39

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. Today’s meditation will focus on experiencing Love. I am sure that as I say the word, “love,” you have an experience of your own that comes to mind. Love can be felt in the unbreakable bond of friendship, the nurturing parent, or even the cherished pet. Love is a strong feeling of warm personal attachment and deep affection, and it is a fundamental human need. We can say that to love and to be loved is hard-wired into our very nature, and its lack can manifest as insecurity, loneliness, and even difficulty coping with stress. Love gives life meaning and purpose by providing a sense of belonging and connection to something greater than oneself. Today, we will connect to the experience of Divine love, which is readily and infinitely available to you. Let’s begin today’s meditation

Clarity in Confusion

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • James 1:5

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. Today, we'll explore a powerful practice for navigating one of life's common challenges: feeling confused. Confusion can leave you feeling perplexed, unsettled, or unsure. It often arises when you face a decision but feel stuck or indecisive. Unsure of the "right" choice, you might find yourself overthinking endlessly or avoiding the situation altogether. Both these reactions can hinder effective decision-making. This guided meditation aims to help you cultivate curiosity in the midst of confusion. By exploring your inner landscape with gentle awareness, you can gain valuable insight into the root cause of your indecisiveness tendencies. This newfound perspective will empower you to move towards a place of peace and clarity, allowing you to make decisions with greater confidence.

Healing From Rejection

Rev. Aaron Bjerke

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. Have you ever found yourself deeply affected by rejection, wondering why it seems to hurt so much? Neuroscience offers insights into this experience. It reveals that our brain processes social distress—like rejection—through the same neural pathways that manage physical pain. This means that when we experience rejection, our brain perceives it similarly to physical injury, triggering a cascade of emotional reactions. This reality points to the importance of tending to our feelings of rejection with gentleness, compassion, and care. Let's begin today's meditation.

Freedom Through Powerlessness

Rev. Aaron Bjerke

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. In today’s meditation, we will interact with the feeling of powerlessness. Powerlessness refers to a state of being without power or control. The emotions that accompany powerlessness can include despair, helplessness, and frustration. In this meditation, we will explore what it looks like to reframe powerlessness and move from a sense of helplessness to a sense of liberation. Let’s begin today’s meditation.

Tolerating Annoyance

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Proverbs 14:29

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. Today, we will explore the common feeling of annoyance. To be annoyed means to be slightly angry or irritated. Annoyance is a precursor to bigger feelings of anger and frustration. It is not inherently bad to be annoyed. We all get annoyed by things, some big, and some small. However, being quick to be annoyed and react in an annoyed way can be described as “irritability.” A consistently irritable person will likely have trouble with personal and professional relationships and experience a reduced sense of general well-being. This meditation will guide us on how to recognize and tolerate annoyance by cultivating patience. Let’s begin today’s meditation.

Divine Peace

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Isaiah 43:4

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. Today's meditation invites us to embrace Divine peace–a state of inner harmony, wholeness, contentment, and well-being. Peace, in its essence, allows us to accept the present moment fully, unburdened by past worries or future anxieties.

Divine Presence in Despair

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.

Surrendering Resentment

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Psalm 55

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. Today, we will be reflecting on the feeling of resentment. Resentment is a feeling of bitterness or indignation that comes from believing you have been treated unfairly. Perhaps you didn’t get the thing (love, appreciation, support, a reward, the promotion, the affection) you think you deserved. Resentment keeps our emotional wounds open and actively nourishes negative and angry feelings toward others. Resentment inhibits self-awareness because it hides our vulnerable feelings, like shame or disappointment, by blaming them on someone else. Today, we will explore what it looks like to surrender our resentments and discover the freedom of forgiveness.

Evoking Playfulness

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Ecclesiastes 3:1–14

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. Today, we will be interacting with the feeling of playfulness. Play is any recreational activity done for joy and excitement. Although we know that playing is vital for child development, it’s also important for adults. Play boosts overall well-being and helps manage stress. In a culture that emphasizes work and busyness, many of us don’t play enough anymore. Today, we will work to discover and embrace our inner playfulness. Let’s begin today’s meditation.

Embracing Vulnerability

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Psalm 139:23

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. Today, we will be interacting with vulnerability. Vulnerability is willingly revealing your true self—thoughts, feelings, and insecurities—to others. It fosters authenticity and openness. In being vulnerable, you open yourself up to the possibility of a deeper sense of belonging, a deeper sense of purpose, and a deeper sense of hope. Let’s begin today’s meditation.

Embracing Our Value

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Isaiah 43:4, 2 Timothy 1:7

Welcome to The Well’s Emotionally Healthy Soul meditations to cultivate emotional wellness. In today’s meditation, we will focus on rooting our sense of value in our eternal worth. Feeling valued isn't just a desire but a fundamental need for feeling significant, cherished, and fulfilled. When we perceive a lack of value, we often confront fears of rejection, displacement, or neglect. This impacts our emotional well-being and influences our actions throughout the day, diminishing our capacity to contribute meaningfully to the world around us.

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Guided Meditations to cultivate emotional wellness

Witnessing Grief With Compassion

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Matthew 5:4

Healing Shame

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

Practicing Non-Judgment

Rev. Aaron Bjerke

Hope for Healing

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Jeremiah 30:17

Experience Divine Love

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • 1 Corinthians 13:4–8, Romans 8:38–39

Clarity in Confusion

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • James 1:5

Healing From Rejection

Rev. Aaron Bjerke

Freedom Through Powerlessness

Rev. Aaron Bjerke

Tolerating Annoyance

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Proverbs 14:29

Divine Peace

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Isaiah 43:4

Divine Presence in Despair

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Psalm 34:18

Surrendering Resentment

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Psalm 55

Evoking Playfulness

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Ecclesiastes 3:1–14

Embracing Vulnerability

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Psalm 139:23

Embracing Our Value

Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Isaiah 43:4, 2 Timothy 1:7