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Mindful Steps To A Meaningful Life

Everyone wants a richer, more meaningful life; a life worth living. And yet, most of us often feel trapped, stuck, or empty, as if we’re waiting for our life to really begin. It feels a little as if our life isn’t completely ours. For the next 10 days, Laurie will take you on a journey to find out what living according to your true values would feel like, as well as helping you reflect on the steps it takes to get there. This course combines two practices essential to coherent and long-term personal development: mindfulness and introspection. Every lesson will explore a different theme, beginning with a mindfulness meditation to help you reach a state of calm and openness before exploring what the different themes mean to you. With every lesson, you will find what you truly need to start building a meaningful life, drawing on key virtues such as patience, curiosity and kindness to help you along your path to a richer life. Since these lessons will have you reflect on many fundamental questions, and lots of possible answers, it is recommended that you note your observations, questions and discoveries in a journal at the end of each session.

Happiness Health & Happiness Mindfulness Secular Authenticity Concentration Insight Meditation Spirituality Spirituality Secular Mindfulness Breathing Meditation

Meet your Teacher

Laurie Chaiken

Montreal, Canada

Laurie Chaiken is a mental health professional, and the host of Respire avec moi, a French meditation and relaxation podcast for children and adults. She teaches personal development classes, with themes such as mindfulness meditation, stress relief, body image and sex education, in a community center that specialises in mental health, in Montréal, Canada. Laurie received a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s degree in Clinical Sexology from Université du Québec à Montréal. She has worked with people living with mental health disorders since 2003. Her goal is to make mindfulness meditation accessible to all who are willing to try, and to teach people to be patient, curious and kind with themselves and others.

10 Days

1.4k students

4.7 stars

15 min / day

Happiness

English

Lesson 1

Identify What Feels Stuck

In this lesson, you will be introduced to an introspection practice you can do once you have reached a state of calm through mindfulness meditation. You will be invited to meditate on what feels stuck in your life. The first lesson teaches you to anchor to your body and your breathing which lays the foundation for the questioning and exploration work.

Lesson 2

Identify My Values

You go further in your introspection by identifying your most fundamental values, your core values. To know your values is to know what is really important to you. Your values are your deepest convictions, your anchor points. They give direction to your actions and decisions. They are the inner compass that gives your life its meaning. Meditation and introspection will help you question your own values and daily actions to create a more meaningful and coherent life.

Lesson 3

Know Your Needs

In the third lesson, you become aware of your needs. When you know your needs and how to meet them, you gain clarity and confidence. Many authors wrote theories about the types of human needs. One of the theories, proposed by Clayton Alderfer, suggests that there are three categories of universal needs: existence needs, relatedness needs and growth needs. Once you understand the different categories, you can target areas of your life where you have unmet needs.

Lesson 4

Practice Your Passion

Today’s practice is about passions and activities that you are enthusiastic and excited about, the ones you never get tired of doing. Like many people, you may feel like you don’t have any passions. Today, you put aside misconceptions about what a passion is or isn’t. Answering specific questions during an introspective meditation will help you explore the diversity of subjects and activities you are passionate about.

Lesson 5

Feed Your Connections

This lesson is about how important human connections are in ordr to have a meaningful and happy life. You realise how being fully present in your relationships, both physically and mentally, is essential to feeling real intimacy, pleasure and compassion. From a state of openness and kindness, you identify what keeps you from really connecting with your loved ones.

Lesson 6

Give Back To The World

Today, we will take it a step further and tackle altruism, doing something for others without expecting something in return. You will learn about the physical and mental health benefits of giving back to the world, of taking care of your community and engaging in causes that are important to you, while respecting your limits. You will expand your comprehension of altruism while identifying small actions you could do to give back to the world.

Lesson 7

Discover The Extraordinary

Today will not be about small ordinary steps, it will rather be about the extraordinary! We will be thinking about these moments that make us feel truly alive, and transform us by their beauty, their splendor, their incredible impact. These moments, even brief ones, can considerably enrich our life. Today you will simply become aware of what amazes you, so you can make more room for these wonderful experiences.

Lesson 8

Declutter Your Daily Life

This lesson is about freeing space in our mind and schedule, about removing the unnecessary. To create a richer life, you will take an honest but kind look at all time and energy consuming activities that have little to no positive outcome. When you declutter your life and simplify your schedule, you end up with more precious free time to do things you really want to do.

Lesson 9

Take Action

Today is about taking action. From lesson 1, you have practiced meditation and introspection on what you really need to lead a richer life, one with more authenticity and meaning. These notes you took through the process provide a road map to your most authentic life. Today’s lesson is about getting you started on the journey you mapped out without completely disrupting daily life with the small step approach.

Lesson 10

Embark On Your Journey To Change

Today, we review all the answers and realisations of the last days. You will think about the help you need, about your reliable resources, about the allies that can help you on your journey to a richer life. Adopting a kind, curious and patient attitude gets you started on a path to a life that is truly yours.

Ask your teacher

This course includes 15 community questions and 5 audio replies from Laurie Chaiken. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Carol

May 19, 2025

Im not sure if I didnt do it right or i wasnt in the right place do take this course but it didnt enrich me. Good teacher, good music

Kim

December 15, 2024

Nice voice. Good points.

Sari

April 24, 2022

Perfect course to make me learn how to work on being thankful for my life! Thank you! 🙏

Mairon

October 7, 2021

What an excellent course! I enjoyed it a lot, and it was very useful for me. Among all these great lessons, the ones that moved me the most were those about core values and wonder. Thank you so much! 🙏❤️

Claudia

June 21, 2021

This course provided excellent reminders, resources and reflections for anyone wanting to improve. Easy to follow, broken down into manageable steps and very enjoyable to listen to. Loved the concept of always coming back to our breath to ground us!. Definitely will be repeating. Thank you!

Keuk

May 11, 2021

Thank you, it was great experience

Ale

November 29, 2020

Excellent journey to reflect on change

Anne

November 15, 2020

Very helpful course. A lot of good advice and materials to work with

James

September 21, 2020

Nice course for a surface level reflection of meaning in your life.

Arpit

September 20, 2020

Hi Laurie / fellow travellers who took on this amazing journey on path of self awareness , building trust and self worth by virtue of being honest with ourselves as much as with others. I am too emotional while writing this review with wet eyes since the very person that I started as on this course, and later ended are surely a revelation. The course that started with such an awesome contemplation exercise on what holds one back in life, moves on to identify core values and needs. I absolutely loved how the course then picked pace and was truly a magical experience when you talked about transcendence, altruism and importance of social connections and support systems. The course was complete in whole, but I craved if you could have included motivation and meaning to build up on this beautiful and strong pillars of compassion, curiosity and openness. For the members taking the course, welcome on this amazing journey on self transformation through authentic means of meditation. Or as Laurie says in the end, this journey has just started.... Regards, Arpit.

Terri

September 14, 2020

I have a fair amount of experience in this area, and I love the way this all came to together. Excellent!

Angela

September 11, 2020

Thank you 🙏 this course was lovely. I need to start again as I didn’t do the journaling.

Henry

September 11, 2020

Thanks Laurie for a fabulous course. The way you integrated breath work and teaching was pretty great.

Krista

September 6, 2020

I found this course both practical and very soothing to the soul! Every morning, I looked forward to the next lesson. Laurie has a beautiful and calming voice that I really resonated with. Thank you as I feel that I have made some shifts in my life at just the right time due to your lessons.

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