Author: Lindy Ariff

  • Being Whimsical & Childlike with Clouds

    Being Whimsical & Childlike with Clouds

    Have you ever looked up and been awestruck, overcome by the beauty of white, puffy or whimsical clouds in the sky? I was recently in Arizona, and I looked up overhead and was awestruck by the array of white, whimsical, beautiful clouds flowing against a perfectly blue sky. All throughout the weekend I found myself…

  • What’s Your Apology Language?

    What’s Your Apology Language?

    Have you ever thought of apologizing as a spiritual practice? I do. Apologizing is an innately spiritual practice it frees you and lifts a weight off your shoulders.  Apologizing also shows caring and love for another person. If you are in Recovery, making amends is a part of the spiritual process created to make space…

  • Sympathy vs. Empathy

    Sympathy vs. Empathy

    Today in my Inner Peace group we talked about vulnerability, which ultimately led us to a discussion about sympathy versus empathy. Everyone literally cringed at the mention of the word sympathy.  We shared how we felt when people had a sympathetic response to our life’s challenges and stories.  How it made us feel terrible when…

  • Featured in Recovery Today Magazine

    Featured in Recovery Today Magazine

    Very blessed and excited to share that my Tree Meditation was recently featured in the March issue of Recovery Today Magazine! Check it out!!! It’s a free online magazine.  You can sign up for it for free HERE.  If you have an Apple device such as an iPhone, iPad or other device, Recovery Today Magazine…

  • Are you a Social Introvert?

    Are you a Social Introvert?

    Figuring out of you’re an introvert or an extrovert is important so you can embrace how you recharge and renew your own personal battery, it’s a way of incorporating the best self care tools for yourself. What often happens is that introverts feel that they have to be more outgoing or should “love to party”…

  • Owl Meditation

    Owl Meditation

    What I absolutely love about this meditation is that it really bring us to a space of awareness surrounding grace, humility, wisdom and beauty. The space that this meditation was created in was very powerful to me and shared with a really beautiful soul. I feel blessed to share this with you today. As with…

  • It’s A Brutiful Life

    It’s A Brutiful Life

    This inspirational talk by Glennon Doyle Melton, founder of Momastery and bestselling author of Carry On Warrior, sparked a beautiful conversation this afternoon in my weekly Inner Peace Group. Participants were inspired by her ability to understand the highs and lows of each day and her empowering attitude to show up even though life can…

  • Love & Connection Meditation

    Love & Connection Meditation

    Happy Valentine’s Day! This beautiful meditation can be experienced with or without a partner.  The beauty of this meditation is that we fill ourselves up with the energy of love and then send this beautiful energy, your gift, to the world around you! Meditation for Love & Connection: So let’s take a deep breath in…

  • Karma & Soul Lessons

    Karma & Soul Lessons

    Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day?  It’s a movie from the early 90s with Bill Murray, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over again until he learns his Karmic lesson of empathy and compassion for others. Being Groundhog Day today, it got me thinking about how profound this movie…

  • Creating Intimate Connections

    Creating Intimate Connections

    Many of us long for an intimate connection with others.  Those special connections where you feel like the person understands who you are beyond your exterior self. In the current era of Facebook and text messaging there seems to be a phenomena where we connect with others daily by photos and snippets of our lives,…