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Welcome to Peaceful Journey, where I share 7-minute meditations and musings to help you relax, recharge, and find balance. I’m Deb Phelps, a meditation practitioner and teacher since 1980, sound and energy healing practitioner, yoga teacher, aromatherapist, and spiritual guide.
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Week 4: Responding with Greater Care (opens the original)
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In this Week 4 reflection for Softening Inner Tension , Deb explores what happens after we have recognized and understood our reactions. The next step is learning how to respond with more care. Drawing from the teachings of Thích Nhất Hạnh, this talk looks at deep listening, loving speech, compassionate communication, and the importance of creating enough space to choose how we want to respond. This week’s invitation is to notice the difference between reacting automatically and responding from
Finding Steadiness in the Storm (opens the original)
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Finding Steadiness in the Storm is a gentle mindfulness practice for those moments when emotion feels strong and it is easy to become swept up in thoughts, tension, or reactivity. Inspired by Thích Nhất Hạnh’s teaching of the tree in a storm, this meditation guides you to find one steady anchor, such as your feet, hands, the support beneath you, a sound, the breath, or a hand over the heart, while allowing the emotion itself to be present. The practice is not about making the feeling disappear.
Week 3: What Lies Beneath the Reaction? (opens the original)
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In this Week 3 reflection for Softening Inner Tension , Deb explores what can happen when we become curious about what may be underneath frustration, anger, overwhelm, or another strong reaction. Drawing from the teachings of Thích Nhất Hạnh, this talk looks at finding steadiness first, then gently looking more deeply. Sometimes beneath the first reaction we may discover hurt, fear, exhaustion, disappointment, an unmet need, or even an assumption about what happened. This week’s invitation is to
Holding Difficult Emotions with Mindfulness (opens the original)
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This gentle meditation explores what it can be like to meet frustration, sadness, irritation, overwhelm, or other difficult feelings with mindfulness and care instead of immediately trying to push them away. Inspired by the teachings of Thích Nhất Hạnh, the practice invites you to notice what is present, create a little space around the feeling, and ask, “How can I care for what is here?” This meditation is part of Softening Inner Tension: 30 Days of Mindfulness, Compassion & Emotional Ease , a
Week 2: What Are You Taking In? Caring for What Is Here (opens the original)
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In this Week 2 reflection for Softening Inner Tension , Deb explores what it means to meet difficult emotions with care instead of fighting, suppressing, or immediately reacting to them. Drawing from the teachings of Thích Nhất Hạnh, this talk looks at mindfulness as a way of gently recognizing what is present within us and also paying attention to what we are taking in through the day. What we watch, read, listen to, scroll through, and repeatedly expose ourselves to can all affect our inner st
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