Peace + Presence with Melina

08/01/2026

One thing I’ve noticed again and again (and for myself in the past too) is that people don’t stop meditating because it doesn’t help.

They stop because it quietly becomes another thing they’re trying to hold on their own.

Choosing what to listen to, deciding how long to sit, wondering if they’re doing enough. Trying to stay consistent through tiredness, hormones, busy seasons, loud days, and the sheer mental load of being human.

It’s not a lack of desire…it’s exhaustion.

For some people, a few simple practices they return to now and then are enough. They reach for them when things feel heavy, settle themselves, and move on. That rhythm works, and there’s nothing wrong with it.

For others, what they’re really longing for is something steadier. A companion, a rhythm a companion they don’t have to keep recreating from scratch. A place they can arrive at without thinking so much.

And here’s why that steadiness matters.

Meditation doesn’t tend to change life through big moments of calm, it changes things through repetition. Through the body learning, over time, that there is a place it can return to. That it doesn’t always have to stay braced, that it’s allowed to soften.

When that happens, the shifts usually show up in ordinary, physical ways.

You might notice you pause before reacting, that your shoulders don’t stay tense all day, that you sleep a little more deeply, that you don’t spiral as far when something goes wrong. That you recover faster after emotional days instead of carrying everything forward.

These aren’t big changes, but they’re real. And they only really land when the practice becomes familiar enough for the nervous system to trust it.

This is where consistency becomes less about discipline and more about support. Not forcing yourself to show up, but having something that makes showing up easier.

Something that meets you on the days you feel steady and the days you don’t.

That’s why some people find that having a regular, gentle container makes all the difference. Not because it’s “better,” but because it removes friction, less deciding, less starting over and more returning.

This is the space The Body Bundle was created for: A free bundle of three guided meditations to support consistency without pressure.

💛 You can grab it right here: https://peace.melinademertzis.com.au/the-body-bundle/

02/01/2026

Hey sensitive woman...🤍

It's January 2026 and if you're like me...you want this year to be bigger, brighter, MORE. You can feel it, that pull toward everything you want to create and become.

But I know what keeps happening for us...

We think the problem is our sensitivity, our busy minds, how easily we get distracted or that we don't have what it takes…

but that is not the truth of it is it...

The problem is we've been taught to push through all of that, to override our natural rhythms, to treat our nervous system like it's in the way instead of listening to what it's trying to tell us.

What if we stopped fighting our nature and started working with it?

I wrote this for you (and for me) as a little reminder at the start of the year that the way opens when you stop trying to force yourself through the door everyone else is using. Start noticing the one that’s already open, the one that was always meant for you.

Click to read more...👇

For sensitive women who want to achieve their goals without burning out. Learn how to follow your energy in 2026.

29/12/2025

Everyone's waiting for January 1st, like some magic switch flips and suddenly we're different people, ready to change.

But sitting here in these last days of 2025, I keep thinking...why wait? Why do we need permission from a date on the calendar to choose something a much better option.

Your body is keeping score, right now, today. All that stress you've been pushing down, telling yourself you'll deal with later...your body's holding it. And it's not waiting for January to remind you.

I'm on break right now, all the time in the world stretching out in front of me, and you know what I'm noticing? My mind is STILL MAKING EXCUSES, still looking for reasons why I shouldn't sit in stillness, why there's something more important I should be doing instead.

That's when it hit me...it's not about time and it never was…even though that sounds super convincing to me.

It's about priority…even with all the time in the world, you'd still find a reason not to sit with yourself if you weren't making it the priority. Because sitting in stillness is uncomfortable. Really bloody uncomfortable. It's where you finally feel everything you've been pushing down.

You already know what you need to do…you're just really, really good at talking yourself out of it.

So…. what if you chose something for 2026 right now? Not on January 1st when it might seem easier to, but today. What if you chose peace, or stillness, or just choosing yourself... and started living it now, in these last messy days of the year when you don't feel ready?

Because choosing peace isn't soft, it's radical. It's saying no to the “busy” you hide behind, clearing your schedule even when it feels impossible, sitting with yourself even when your mind is screaming at you to run…and it's making yourself the priority before your body forces you to (because lovely it will!).

You can keep waiting for January 1st to give you permission to choose you?

Or you can close this app right now and sit with yourself for ten or twenty minutes, no music, no distractions, just you and everything you've been avoiding.

Your body's already keeping score …

The question is...are you going to keep pretending you don't hear it?

18/12/2025

When something jolting passes through the collective, the body feels it before the mind catches up.

Our body always knows first, it takes the hits.
Tight chest, s**t sleep, air that feels heavier than it did yesterday.

Don’t rush to name it, sit with the weight for a while.

Let it ruminate in your chest without asking it to explain itself, even when it feels heavy,
even when it feels like a burden.

When the world shakes, something inside invites us to turn inward.

And if you go there...what’s felt isn’t weakness, or being too sensitive, or reactive.

It’s care noticing that something has been harmed and fractured.

We aren’t meant to make sense of everything that happens, in the macro or the micro.

Because alot of life hardly ever makes sense.

We’re meant to stay open even when sense collapses.

Stay close to what’s real right now.
Your breath.
The warmth of those you love.

This is the tender act of not turning away, but walking toward yourself.

There are long cycles moving through humanity.
Forgetting and remembering.
Forgetting and remembering.

Darkness surfacing so it can be seen in the light.

Love learning, again and again, how to remain here despite it all.

Or perhaps its one big cosmic joke on us?
But despite the reason...it all feels quite the invitation.

And it really is a choice, a very personal one.
Do we harden in response?
Do we close the door of the heart to protect it?
Do we move further away from our light?
An open, tender heart isn’t just soft or kind or endlessly accommodating.

And no, it’s never easy.
Remaining open is brave.
Courageous.

An act of quiet rebellion in a crazy chaotic world.

When fear comes, can we meet it with presence?
When grief comes, can we let it move through us like water?
When anger comes, can we stay with it without turning it into harm?

When you feel small or powerless, can something inside dig deeper?

Not to force fake strength, or bypass reality or love and light it.

But to remember the vastness of your own soul, even without knowing why.

This is the work.
To stay human.
To stay tender.
To stay here.
To feel it all.
To sink deeper.

Sit with this moment.
It doesn’t need fixing.
It doesn’t need answers or action, or reasoning.
It just needs to be met with an open heart.

12/12/2025

Life is always answering us, though we’re usually too busy searching for the extraordinary to notice the very ordinary way it speaks.

A longing becomes a direction…a new path, a direction becomes a morning and before we know it…the morning has unfolded into the life we’d been craving.

There are prayers we never name as prayers; the internal pleading requests formed in our tired weary hearts. Little inner murmurs for space, peace, expansion and a life that we crave so deeply.

And in its own unhurried way, life begins to rearrange itself around these prayers…one day you wake up and something has bloomed for you.

A walk presents itself at the edge of your breath, the sun glints in your eyes just right, the body, faithful as ever remembers what it means to be living, breathing and alive. And in that small ordinary moment…you realise the prayer you once held has already opened and blossomed for you…right here and now.

Of course, we forget…we fall back into wanting, searching, striving, reaching imagining that the thing we seek is always somewhere else. But then the light lands on us…in that perfect way…as if the divine orchestrated that moment just for you to remember again.

And for a brief moment something inside recognises what the mind often misses when it’s too busy:

Look…this is the life you asked for, this is the answer to your prayers.

The ordinary becomes extraordinary when a prayer is met by the divine.

08/12/2025

This is my why, every day.

Not to improve myself, or become a great meditator, or be more spiritual,
but to remember that beneath the rush, the roles, the stress and the push,
there is already a deeper peace moving me through life, always and forever.

It’s how I come home to myself, its how I remember the truth of who I am.

How simple this is the remedy to the modern world...we all have capacity for stillness, to stop and witness.

You don’t need a perfect practice, just a moment, every day, repeated action..lets begin...close your eyes.

02/12/2025

I had someone book a clearing recently and ask if they could skip the home part and just have their personal energy cleared. Totally valid question, but it also reminded me of something bigger I see in every area of growth and change in life.

We want to change what’s happening inside us, without realising how much the space (our "environments") around us is imprinting on our bodies, our emotions and our energy every single day.

Our spaces hold so much gunk…Heavy emotions, stress, tension, anger, grief and the spirit energies that love to mess with us. Our bodies, minds and energy fields soak it all in and it can dull us, fog us and pull our frequency down.

You can do the inner work, healings, clear your energy, meditate, breathe, soften and open… but if your “environments” keeps feeding you the old pattern, the shift doesn’t hold. It’s like having a spotless white room and walking through it with muddy shoes every day.

And this is the same with absolutely everything really…meditation is beautiful and necessary, but it can only do so much if your nervous system is under repeated constant strain. Eating well helps, moving your body helps, mindset helps etc etc. But none of it works in isolation and all of it works when the rest of your life begins to support you instead of re-draining you.

Real change comes from small choices repeated until they become your rhythm. It’s living in an energetically clear space and tending to your body, mind and spirit in a way that matches who you actually are beneath the noise. It never needs to be perfect or intense, only aligned with the life you want to feel.

And yes, life will still life, things will shake you, test you, pull at you… but when you’re clearer inside yourself, you meet those moments with a steadier heart. You can actually hear your own guidance. You feel held and directed and you don’t get as lost in the noise.

When your inner world and your outer world start working together in that sweet spot of balance and harmony, you land in a place where real change actually holds.

You feel yourself moving forward without being pulled back into the version of you that got buried under life.

26/11/2025

Everyone’s obsessed with “inner peace” until it stops feeling "pretty" and starts feeling like work.

We all say we want peace, we say we want calm, balance, a steady nervous system. I’ve said it a thousand times too...but lately I’ve been asking myself… do we actually want that life, or do we just like the idea of it?

Peace takes work, it’s the slow, repetitive choosing of yourself over the noise, especially on the days your mind and life is anything but calm.

I’ve had to give myself the real talk more times than I can count, it took a while to click and I’ve been in that tedious phase for a long stretch now, doing the repetitive things, the sit-even-when-I’d-rather-scroll things, the tiny choices no one sees, again and again.

And eventually the shift started to seep in and not that short-term calm, but a deeper steadiness that has been building the whole time. Oh right…this is what all those mornings were doing, this is why I kept going even when I don’t feel like it.

There were so many times in the past where I bailed right before this point, before the shift landed and before my nervous system finally softened and went, okay… I know this place now…this is the new "peaceful" normal for me.

So if you’re saying you want peace and calm and a balanced nervous system...ask yourself this… will you stay with the devotion and the steadiness long enough for peace to become real, not just imagined? And don’t sugarcoat the answer.

Can you let your steadiness grow roots.

And the answer you’re looking for?
Just do the thing, choose yourself, everyday, rinse, repeat…that’s it.

20/11/2025

The peace of steadiness…it’s a funny thing, because we tend to chase it as if it’s somewhere far ahead of us, when it has been waiting in the background the whole time, almost amused by how hard we work to find something that never actually left.

Most of us move through life as if we are whirlpools pretending to be solid objects, always spinning and reacting and trying to hold ourselves together through sheer effort, and when life slows even slightly, we start to feel uneasy, almost suspicious, as though something important has gone missing simply because the pace has changed.

But steadiness isn’t a frozen state, and it has nothing to do with clamping down or forcing stillness; it is a kind of presence that appears when you stop trying to control the moment and instead begin to participate in it with the same naturalness you breathe.

There is a place inside the body where strength and softness coexist without argument, and you can sense it in the space of a single breath when you’re quiet enough to feel it, which is why the yogis described it so beautifully long before we had language for burnout or busy minds, pointing toward that inner experience of being grounded and fluid at the same time.

Meditation reveals this so clearly, not by demanding silence but by letting the mind dance and swirl until it eventually tires itself out, moving through thought and fidget and resistance until, without any dramatic announcement, something inside relaxes and the breath deepens and the edges soften, and suddenly you meet a version of yourself that isn’t striving so hard to be anything at all.

That is steadiness, not the absence of movement but the movement that no longer shakes you.

It returns in the smallest choices, in the times you stop abandoning yourself, in the moments you listen rather than outrun your own discomfort.

Steadiness is what rises when your whole system finally exhales after living in survival mode for far too long.

When you listen instead of rush, when you actually stay with your body long enough to hear what it’s been trying to say and give it back to her.

07/11/2025

I received an email from my Vedic meditation teacher yesterday saying “congratulations” it’s been three months since you’ve been meditating. And I thought it was something awesome to celebrate! Also had a bit of a giggle because most people do posts celebrating how much money they’ve made, six, seven figures, and I’m celebrating three months of consistent daily stillness…I think that’s kinda hilarious.🤣

Yes, of course I could sit here and list all the beautiful things meditation does etc etc (you know all that already).

But beyond that…in waking life it’s something people won’t notice…you just feel these little shifts that are actually quite BIG.

Like wayyyy more self-kindness, wayyyyy less internal s**t talk…perhaps because the chatter empties out daily. And yeah, there are things I don’t like about myself sometimes (hello hormones) but I’ll have a cry and bounce back easier instead of layering shame, less triggers, more capacity when life gets loud or overwhelming.

And if I could sum it all up…it feels like widening my capacity for life, love, divine to flow in. Capacity to receive more without collapsing, to receive good without bracing.

And just to say… this isn’t the thing, it’s a thing, a big piece of the puzzle and a tool in the backpack of light and life and whatever we’re doing here. I’ve been doing the work for years, peeling, healing, cracking open, falling down, getting back up. So, meditation isn’t like the “fix”, it just finally paired the “protein with the actual movement”, if that makes sense. You can eat all the protein but if you never lift, you don’t build strength. Same here, all that inner work needed a daily anchor…still point.

Stillness with the flow, devotion with the widening = coming home to yourself again.

If you’re in that “wow I’d like to feel more like myself again” season… can this be a call to action to choose one tiny thing and show up for it. Doesn’t have to be profound.

Small is underrated but consistency is not.

Also…10/10 recommend prioritising your peace over overwhelm…😅🤓😝

Anyway, here’s celebrating inner peace and devotion because nervous system wealth is a thing too. 💪

02/11/2025

Not the good girl.
Not the agreeable one.
But a warm woman with clean boundaries,
and fire, and a body that remembers her power.
November feels like that.

Who's with me?!

01/11/2025

What if you saw your skin the way desire sees it…warm, alive, waiting to be touched. 🌹

What if every curve, every ripple, every dimple…wasn’t a flaw to tame…but a place for pleasure to land…a place life has kissed you. 💋

What if silk on your shoulder…was enough to wake something in you…a little ache, a little hunger, a little pulse…reminding you that you are made to feel not just to look. 💃🏻

What if the woman inside you did not ask permission to arrive…She just rose like warm honey sliding her way to the surface…slow, golden, dripping with sweetness. Her softness turning into sway, breath turning into blush. 🍯

Loving yourself before anyone else catches up, is self-lead internal revolution…it’s you flirting with your own soul… letting her know…you’re choosing her, again and again. 💞

Bloom first…and then let the mirror learn from you. 🌸

Your skin already knows how to be worshipped…let your fingertips teach your mind the way back. 💦