Hoping to make peace with this current season of your life? Our guided meditation for acceptance helps you acknowledge – and perhaps embrace – this moment, letting you feel whatever you need to feel today.
Reminding you that you don’t have to do or be everything at once, our meditation encourages you to let go of any unhelpful pressures you may feel, while inviting you to seek out opportunities worth embracing.
How do you feel about the season you’re currently in? Are you seeking a sense of closure for something that’s ending? Are you wondering what opportunities of new growth you could embrace? Are you feeling fed up and dreaming of better or more exciting times ahead?
Inspired by ancient words of wisdom, this guided meditation has been created to help you accept – and perhaps even embrace – the situation you’re in.
Centred around a famous biblical text on the highs and lows of life, this is a meditation for acceptance and letting go, letting you acknowledge areas of pain and celebrate moments of joy, remembering that each season has a time and a purpose.
‘There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.’
– Ecclesiastes, the Bible
These words are taken from the book of Ecclesiastes (pronounced Eh-kleeze-ee-ast-ees). It's an example of ‘wisdom literature’, which offers life lessons on topics like money, life and death. We don’t absolutely know who wrote Ecclesiastes, but it’s traditionally attributed to King Solomon of Israel, who ruled around 970 to 931 BCE.
This text was written thousands of years ago, but it still speaks to people around the world today. Maybe you can think of examples in your own life when you’ve experienced ‘a time to plant and a time to uproot’, or ‘a time to weep and a time to laugh’?
Stumbling over the reference to gathering and scattering stones? This may be a reference to how there are times to build and times to dismantle – an image that would have resonated with its early readers, who encountered the text in its finished form sometime between 400 and 250 BCE. Despite the odd idiom, this text still brings wisdom today.
Preparing for a new beginning or in a season of change? This guided meditation is designed to help you process your emotions in the midst of change.
Wondering how to stop worrying? Want to help calm anxiety? Try this ten-minute guided meditation based on ancient words of peace.
Want to take time to reflect on the healthy relationships in your life, and remind yourself of the value you add to others? Using ancient words of wisdom, this guided meditation is designed to help you feel loved and love others better.
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