Healing from a surgery or illness is not a linear journey — some days may feel harder than others. Fortunately, tools like meditation can support your healing and ease the difficult emotions that accompany the process. 

In this blog post, you’ll discover a self-healing meditation designed to nurture your body and calm your mind. Join Julie Peters, one of Insight Timer’s beloved teachers, as she guides you in restoring balance and harmony within yourself. Follow along to reconnect with your body, release discomfort, and promote healing.

Follow along with this gentle guided meditation to get to know your inner child better and help them heal.

We know our inner child is present when we feel experience big reactions to relatively small things that are happening in our lives. The inner child often shows up to let us know we're not getting what we need.

Connecting with our inner child can help them get what they need from us and allow us to see our situation clearly. It is also a wonderful way to get to know ourselves better in a gentle and loving way.

Meditation should feel like a little bit of time that’s carved out just for you. It could be for five minutes. It could be sitting on a soft couch with your cat on your lap. It could be laying down. It could be guided by someone else’s recorded voice. It could be a practice of imagining, daydreaming, prayer, or connection with a deity or spirit guide.

Most of the time we assume we make decisions with our minds. We weigh the information. Maybe we talk to a friend. And then we come to a rational decision about what to do. That’s how it works, right?

Well, not really. Some of that happens, sure, but there are many decisions that we do not make with our minds, even when we think we’re doing so. Our bodies make our decisions for us more often than we’d think.

No matter how we gave birth, the body needs time to rest and heal. Take a few minutes for yourself to breathe and observe how your body is already in the process of healing from your experience. Tap into a white-light energy to cultivate that process and rest well.

But Death is not always a harbinger of horror and loss. Other decks show the image a little differently. For example, in Liz Huston’s Dreamkeeper’s Tarot deck, the Death card depicts a skeleton woman shrouded in a thin veil that could be a coffin or an egg. She is growing out of a pond full of lily pads, embracing a skull close to her heart. This image reminds me that death is always a mother: that new birth cannot happen without appropriate death. The coffin is also an egg: endings always come with some kind of new beginning.