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131 - Reiki For The Unseen World
In grief, we mourn the loss of a physical presence. At times the intensity of our sadness can mask a more subtle presence.
In today's meditation, we cultivate our connection to the unseen world and the Life Force that lives there. Through this connection, we can access a more complete understanding of our grief, and the subtle presence that lives beyond our physical senses.
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130 - Breathe Easy Meditation
When we experience stress, our bodies tighten, which can restrict our lungs, air flow, and the subtle Life Force energies flowing through us (chi, prana, reiki, etc). In today's meditation, we align our physical and energetic bodies with our breathing. This podcast is made possible with great thanks to our subscribers on Patreon. Join our community at Patreon (dot) com (slash) theMeditationPodcast Listen ...
129 - Easy Reset
Use this short meditation when you want to shift gears, recenter, or simply check in with your self.
In today's meditation, we reground, recenter, reset - with ease!
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128 - The Twenty
The Twenty is a meditation I developed using techniques from yoga, yoga nidra, and qigong practices. We inhale deeply, release our exhale, and count each breath to twenty. This simple practice helps to regulate the nervous system and gently observe our racing minds.
In today's meditation, we count our breaths to twenty.
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127 - Nervous System Reboot With Reiki
Debilitating aspects of stress build over time. One way to reset our baseline stress levels is via self care toward the nervous system, specicifically the Vagus nerve.
In today's meditation we use breathing, movement, and reiki to 'reboot' the nervous system.
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126 - Your Heart's Desire
What is a heart's desire?
It can be a desire of the moment: to sleep, to daydream, to smell the ocean, to eat my favorite meal, to spend time in community or with loved ones.
It can be a lifelong desire: What is my purpose, my calling, my service, my passion? What would I do every day if I could do anything ... where hours pass, and it feels like minutes?
Whether we are in a life-milestone crisis, seeking to adjust course, or simply checking in about what we really want, acknowledging our heart's desire can help us to align our choices with our values and needs.
In today's meditation, we seek our heart's desire.
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125 - Reiki For Letting Go
Life events can overwhelm us. In addition to the challenges of daily life, we also carry the change and loss that many of us experienced during the pandemic.
In today's meditation, we practice letting go.
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124 - Dr Charles Brown
Dr Charles is a Minister and Babalawo, father, mentor, and friend. To describe the impact he has made on my life would take hours, so I will simply share his words with you.
In today's meditation, I am honored to introduce Dr Charles Brown.
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123 - A Simple Meditation
Meditation, in its simplest form, is simply awareness. In today's meditation, we practice awareness.
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122 - Reiki Meditation For a New Year
As we flip our calendars to a new year, we face an opportunity to revisit our intentions. Which parts of our human experience would we like to drop, diminish, add or amplify in the coming year?
In today's meditation, we infuse the new year with Universal life force of Reiki.
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121 - Reiki For Big Feelings
Overwhelm, anxiety, stress, grief, frustration. These intense, 'big feelings' can sap our energy, our drive, our focus, our presence, and our joy.
In today's meditation, we allow the Universal Life Force of Reiki to help us experience peace, even within the intensity of our big feelings.
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120 - Reiki Together
When we direct life force energy toward ourselves, we sometimes get stuck in an isolation loop. This can happen when our need to receive healing energy conflicts with our power to give it. By directing our power toward others, we allow it to flow more fully – including within ourselves.
In today's meditation, we practice moving life energy together.
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119 - Autumn Seed Meditation
As we enter the fall season, nature shows us an example of turning inward. Like plants dropping their leaves to allow their outward selves to fall away, we can also drop the parts of ourselves that no longer nourish us. This is part of a global life cycle, nourishing the essence, the seed of life within us.
In today's meditation, we focus on our inner essence, and prepare for the darkness of winter.
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118 - Offering - Meditate With Me
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117 - Reiki For Fatigue
I don't know about you, but I've been feeling exhausted. My energy levels alternate between hyperfocused and hyperalert to lethargic and unmotivated. I go to bed buzzing, and I wake up tired. I need a recharge!
In today's meditation, we use the Universal Life Force of reiki to restore fatigue and rebalance ourselves.
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116 - Home Blessing
Since 2020, our concept and purpose of 'home' has evolved. For many of us, home has become more of a refuge, a sanctuary, an office, a workspace, and we may have experienced significant changes in where we lay our heads.
In today's meditation we fill our home with awareness, peace, appreciation, and unconditional love.
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115 - Inward Smile
Smiling feels good, calms our stress levels, stimulates the Vagus nerve, and sends a message to our psyche that we are ok. As a mindful practice, smiling disrupts patterns of self-judgment by circulating kindness and unconditional love to ourselves.
In today's meditation, we smile inward.
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114 - Eye of the Hurricane
Modern life is full of distractions. Our jobs, screens, and apps all pull our attention by design. Environmental noise from people, animals, and machines can all distract our focus and affect our mood. We tend to shift our attention to whatever alert, sound, or nudge is the loudest and most persistent. When our environment feels out of our control, we may lose focus on our current task, and we may off-track our habits and intentions.
In today's meditation, we center ourselves in the eye of the hurricane.
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113 - Experience Your Divine Nature
A paradox of human existence: when I turn my attention upon myself, am I the self being observed, or am I the Self that is observing? The idea of a 'higher self' is one way to experience the part of ourselves that exists both within and outside of us, independent of our bodies, independent of the physical world.
In today's meditation, we experience our higher self, our divine nature.
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112 - Peaceful Heart
When we raise our inner voices of self-loathing, criticism, and doubt, the noise can grow into chaos. We need a consistent inner voice – the quiet internal rhythm that literally pumps life through our bodies.
In today's meditation, we center our attention on the heartbeat.
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111 - Healing Frequency
Being human is naturally resilient. I believe that our natural state is health and wholeness. It is also a natural human process to lose track of our wholeness, to 'forget' who we are. When we forget our nature we are often tempted to 'try' to 'fix' ourselves, when our most effective action may be to simply allow.
In today's meditation, we amplify our healing ferquency, and allow our bodies, minds, and spirits the space to heal. Listen on Patreon ...
110 - Should Compassion
Last Friday I slipped on ice, hit my head on a stone stair, and got a concussion. It affected my thought process quite a lot. I was tired, had splitting headaches, and had trouble comprehending and speaking words. Until yesterday I felt strange, not like myself, like something was off. I am ok, and am now recovering, but with my brain working on healing itself, I have not had much capacity for complex thought or "strenuous mental activity".
This experience led me to think a lot about shoulds. The things I feel I should be doing, the life or career milestones I should have reached by now, the project I should start, or the project I should finish. Shoulds come from our survival needs and fears, our societal and cultural messages, the voices of our well meaning friends and families, and our own self talk.
Our shoulds are often tied closely with our self worth. And so, in today's meditation, we listen to our shoulds with compassion.
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109 - Grieving and Healing
My oldest friend died last week. We were born 6 months apart, friends since birth. He was like a brother to me. He was my first companion in meditation and healing work.
He was severely abused as a child. The trauma of his abuse led to severe mental illness. He spent many years of his adult life between housing stability and homelessness, and between mental stability and schizophrenia. He died alone. I am in shock, I am angry, and I am sad.
In today's meditation, we honor and grieve for those we love.
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108 - Raise Your Spirits
Happy Halloween, Samhain, and Dia de los Muertos. During this season we traditionally honor our ancestors, and those loved ones who are no longer with us.
In today's meditation we honor our ancestors ... and raise our spirits.
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107 - Burnout Ignition Reiki
As the world stumbles its way through our third year in a global pandemic, many of us have experienced major changes in our work lives, our relationships, our routines, and our travel patterns. This may have left us feeling tired, uninspired, burnt out, exhausted, nihilistic, or even hopeless.
In today's meditaiton, we use reiki and energetic healing energy to relight and reignite our inspiration.
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106 - Meditation in Movement
Here at The Meditation Podcast, we have often described meditation as sitting still and breathing. While this is one way to practice meditaiton, it is not the only way. Movement in meditation is useful when our bodies want to move. It can also be a great practice to prepare for mindful activity in our daily lives.
In today's meditation, we practice meditation in movement.
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105 - En-joy Meditation
Our self-care practice is an important antidote to the pressures of production and improvement and optimization. However, sometimes even our self-care can feel like a chore or a means to a different end.
In today's meditation, we experience the simple pleasure of our practice. En-joy meditation.
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104 - Chakra Meditation
Chakras are the traditional Sanskrit name for energy centers in the body. If you prefer, you may think of them simply as energy centers, electromagnetic poles, or source points of tension and release. Like any form of energy, when our chakras become depleted, stuck, or imbalanced, we may follow suit and become depleted ourselves.
In today's meditation, we recharge and rebalance our chakras, and rest ourselves in a blissful state of self healing and restoration.
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103 - Ground on Down
Is your life 'up in the air'? Are you 'on Cloud 9', walking around with your 'head in the clouds'? While cliche, these expressions may indicate a loss of grounding. As we navigate the ups and downs of our lives and circumstances, it may be useful to reconnect our feet to the earth and our minds to our bodies.
In today's meditation we ground our energy and our attention.
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102 - Being Acceptable
Work hard! Lose weight! Fight aging! We live in a culture of self improvement. Advertising encourages us to strive toward an ideal that is impossible to attain. Whether related to body image, how we earn or create income, or how we fit in to some standard of 'normal' -- we take for granted the idea that products, diet trends, or hard work will somehow improve us. Many of us have internalized the belief that we need to change fundamental aspects of our selves in order to be acceptable to our families, our jobs, or our communities.
Non-judgmental awareness of our selves is the first step toward self clarity. Self clarity is the first step toward knowing what we want and need. And knowing our wants and needs is the first step toward contentment and true inner power. In today's meditation we accept ourselves just as we are.
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101 - Sleep
Many of us are experiencing disturbed sleep. We have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, dreaming, and waking up refreshed. Many of us feel anxiety, stress, and uncertainty in our daily lives. Sleep, designed to restore our bodies and minds, has instead become yet another source of worry and anxiety.
In today's meditation, we sleep.
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100 - Myself
Over fifteen years of the Meditation Podcast, many listeners have shared their profound life transformations, physical mental and emotional healing, relief from anxiety, and being able to fall asleep. Serving others in this way has been some of the most rewarding and fulfilling work of my life, and I hoped to create something special to celebrate our 100th episode.
So, in today's meditation, I celebrate myself and this community and the Meditation Podcast. This meditation is my own prayer for myself, and I believe it will also serve you. You are welcome to support me, or follow my example. Give yourself whatever you need today.
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99 - Reiki for Kindness
Many of us become overwhelmed with anxiety, disturbing news, or concerns about the future. This can create doubt within ourselves that tests our integrity and our core beliefs.
In today's meditation, we practice self-kindness, while experiencing an infusuion of healing reiki life force energy.
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98 - Surrender Your Intentions
We all create intentions, goals, resolutions, prayers, wishes, and dreams. But for many of us, these intentions remain unfulfilled. According to the Law of Attraction, this is because we do not release or surrender our intentions. Instead we continue to micro-manage our intentions, using our conscious minds and force of will.
When we are unable or unwilling to release our intentions, we block our own good. This creates a perpetual state of want, instead of a path to fulfilment. Our intentions live in the realm of the unknown. It is impossible to take a known path to the unknown. Known paths lead to known destinations. But how do we find, or even see, an unknown path?
In today's meditation, we use the Law of Attraction to experience our intentions as complete, and we surrender them to God, the Univers e, our Highest Self.
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97 - Power Up
power, of connection, of liviing in our truth. We may latch onto our losses and disappointments, we may become overwhelmed with grief or anxiety, or we may simply need a little reminder of who we truly are.
In today's meditation, we power up the capacity to heal ourselves, to feel clear in our purpose, and to experience simple joy in our daily lives.
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96 - 15 Years, and a Simple Meditation
This month, we celebrate 15 years of The Meditation Podcast! It has been a wonderful and powerfully healing journey for us, and for many of you as well. Thank you for taking this journey with us.
In today's meditation we sit still and breathe.
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95 - Big Feelings
Many of us experience difficult feelings such as anxiety, frustration, anger, isolation, empathy, grief, depression, or uncertainty in career and relationships. When unresolved, these feelings build on each other, and we may begin to feel overwhelmed or overloaded by their 'size'.
In today's meditation, we process and release Big Feelings.
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94 - Secrets and New Perspectives
In the last few weeks, I've talked to a lot of people who were releasing secrets, have recently had secrets revealed to them, or in other ways were processing information that led to new perspectives on long held beliefs.
Knowledge of secrets ? whether holding on to, releasing, or learning of them ? can feel like a shift in emotional or psychic weight. New perspectives can affect not only ourselves, but our relationships with others and how we interact with the world.
In today's meditation, we practice embracing secrets, knowledge, and rebalancing the psyche around things that change our perspectives. Listen on Patreon ...
93 - Mantra Meditation 'So Hum'
A mantra is a phrase or sound that is repeated during meditation. It can be spoken, chanted, whispered, or repeated silently in the mind. Mantra meditation can help to focus and restore the mind body and spirit.
'So Hum' is a Sanskrit phrase meaning simply 'I Am'. In today's meditation we practice this mantra.
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92 - Rest
We live in a culture that rewards productivity. We push ourselves to produce results at our jobs, at the gym, with our income, our weight, we read and podcast topics on self-improvement. We use our bodies and our time to the point of exhaustion.
So, where does rest fit into productivity? Resting allows our desires and intentions to manifest, without the effort and control. At rest, we allow our bodies to restore and to heal, our natural breathing and sleep cycles to return, and we accept ourselves without needing to 'improve'. Rest is its own reward.
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91 - Manifest Your Dreams
Many of us have spent a year or more seeing the potential for deep changes in our lives. From our work and personal lives, to our economy and justice system, the individual and collective possibilities have never been greater. So, how do we create the lives we want, the communities we want, the world we want?
In today's meditation, we manifest our dreams. It is highly recommended that you first write out clear and specific details about your dream – what does it look, sound, or feel like? You will now have a guide to help you form a dream that feels real enough to touch. Listen on Patreon ...
90 - Go Within
In today's meditation, we go within; to charge our intuition, our divine guidance, our sense of peace & protection. This is a great meditation for the morning, or anytime you need a pause to refresh yourself.
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89 - Refuge
Many parts of the world are beginning to reopen, after a year of closure, isolation, and quarantine. Many of us have experienced collective and/or individual trauma, for various reasons, and sometimes in layers. We are less familiar with working, playing, or socializing in groups. Returning to what we once thought was 'normal' can be scary, stressful, and overwhelming.
In today's meditation, we enter a refuge, a safe space within, where we can recharge our energy, reset our stress levels, and recover from overwhelm. Let's step out from our screens, and from the routines that we have gotten used to over the last year, knowing that we can retreat whenever we need to.
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88 - Self Love, Self Healing
In today's meditation we practice self love, self healing, and self acceptance. Today is a longer meditation, so we're going to jump right in. You may wish to have a blanket handy, and a pillow to either sit on or rest your head on if lying down.
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87 - Grounding
As we process our experiences from the past year, it may be useful to notice the relationship between our bodies and our stress. We know that emotional stress -- including anxiety, grief, anger, and fear -- can create stress in our bodies. But we may forget that the stress in our bodies can amplify our emotional stress as well. This creates a feedback loop, where our nervous system continues to create a stress response even long after a 'threat' is gone. This can create a backlog, where we are too busy to respond 'presently' because we are re-enacting and reacting to events of the past.
In today's meditation, we use simple grounding techniques to relax our bodies and to discharge our nervous system's stress response.
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86 - Inner Light Your Way
The only constant in the universe is change. This year, around the world, many of us have faced overwhelming changes to our careers, relationships, health, safety, and daily life. As we in the northern hemisphere enter the dark and cold winter months, we may face heightened fatigue, uncertainty, anxiety, depression, stress, and difficulty in decision making.
In today's meditation, we bathe in our Divine inner light. We allow this inner light to heal us, and to guide us through the darkness of winter. Whatever darkness you face, simply let your light shine on it; let this light reveal your greatness, your divinity, your peace, and your next steps. Listen on Patreon ...
85 - We're Going to Vagus!
Not the city, but the nerve. The Vagus nerve is the nervous system's highway. Running the length of the spine, it is connected to all the organs in the body. It holds our body's responses to trauma, and plays a major role in how we deal with stress, anxiety, PTSD, and influences how we respond to perceived threats to our safety or well being.
In today's meditation, we use deep breathing and intentional relaxation to soothe the Vagus nerve. The effect is usually a sense of deep calm.
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84 - Reiki Treatment for Pandemic Anxiety
I usually write a script for this intro, and I'm just going to keep it short this time. We are all going through a lot around the world, we are dealing with our personal lives, and our career or job experiences, and also a lot of fear and unknown about the economy, the political situation around the world.
So today's meditation is a Reiki treatment.
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83 - More Deep Breathing
Breathing work is key to relaxing the body and mind, restoring the body mind and spirit from injury or trauma, and re-learning our innate ability to move smoothly and gracefully through the challenges of life.
In today's meditation we practice deep restorative breathing, applied to the body, mind, and spirit. Listen on Patreon ...
82 - Restorative Breathing
Stress tends to build up over time. When we don't process or release our anxiety, our pain, our trauma, it can affect our health - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
In today's meditation, we use the breath to restore ourselves.
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81 - Destressing the Body
For many of us, daily life has changed dramatically. We are experiencing uncertainty, conflict, anxiety, stress, and a complete disruption of our social routines. This impacts our bodies in the form of stress, tension, and conflict within ourselves.
In today's meditation, we destress the body, creating waves of cleansing energy to release the inner conflict that may be impeding our full experience of life.
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80 - Stay Inside
We are experiencing unprecedented times. How can we use this time to expand our awareness, evolve our compassion and kindness, and discern through our confusion? The world within us is truly a healer, a teacher, an infinite realm that belongs only to us.
In today's meditation, we practice the mindful art of going within, and "staying inside".
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79 - Brave New World
My friend Daniel Pohnke died in May. He made a strong impact on my life, during a difficult time. Daniel also helped us get the podcast back on its feet, at a time when we had almost given up on it. Daniel was a world traveler, meditator, songwriter, musician, educator, facilitator, light worker, and coach. His enthusiasm for life was infectious. We release this episode of The Meditation Podcast in honor of Daniel, and in support of his wife and son.
Daniel led me through this meditation five years ago, on an hours-long hike around Griffith Park in Los Angeles. If you would like to learn more about Daniel, and support his family, please feel free to check out these links:
Creating a Brave New World (Promo Reel) - http://www.bnwshow.com
Full Moon Rising (Apple Music) - https://music.apple.com/us/album/brave-new-world-the-time-is-now/1491858206
Full Moon Rising (Google Play) - https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Full_Moon_Rising_Brave_New_World_The_Time_Is_Now?id=Bmjotihn2zdsiz7e3vfwwus3d6m
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78 - Restorative Breathing
This is Episode 78 - Restorative Breathing, and it's also Day 43 of our daily meditation during the Coronavirus pandemic. It's free at Patreon.com/theMeditationPodcast
In today's meditation, we use a three-part breathing technique designed to restore the body from the effects of chronic pain, tension, stress, and injury.
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77 - Stress and Anxiety Detox
Hey everybody, welcome to The Meditation Podcast. This is episode 77 - Stress and Anxiety Detox, and it's also day 10 of a daily meditation that we're doing during the Coronavirus pandemic. It's free at Patreon.com/theMeditationPodcast.
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76 - Love Inside Out
It is our human nature to seek love. We want to be seen, encouraged, celebrated. But the love that we receive from others is limited by our capacity to love ourselves. When we begin to accept, encourage, and celebrate ourselves, we become better able to give and receive those same feelings.
In today's meditation, we practice the self-generated, healing light of unconditional love.
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75 - Three-Part Breath (Dirga Pranayama)
The Three-part breath is a simple and ancient technique for reducing stress, anxiety, and emotional struggles. Traditionally it is used to regulate life energy, and to clear imbalances in the body mind and spirit. In yoga practices, it is also known as Dirga Pranayama, or Dirga Swasam Pranayama, or rebirthing.
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74 - New Intentions for the New year
As we enter a new year, and a new decade, we may find ourselves ready to change, to grow, to release the old and to claim the new.
In today's meditation, we create new intentions for the new decade of 2020.
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73 - Releasing Discomfort Through Intention
Often the areas of greatest discomfort in our bodies are the areas that require the most attention. Our discomfort may be telling us to slow down, not to worry. It may hold trauma from old injuries, emotional wounds, or regret. One way to release our discomfort, whether physical or emotional, is to simply breathe into it.
In today's meditation, we breathe into our discomfort. We give it our attention, our focus, and our breath. Finally, we invite ourselves to let it go.
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72 - Release Vibration
Through meditation, we release tension and focus our minds inward. Through daily practice, we may face opportunities for deeper release, such as chronic tension or old injuries. When we experience fidgeting, difficulty focusing, difficult self-observations, areas of chronic pain or tension, etc., this may be a sign that we are ready for a deeper release.
In today's meditation, we use a simple, self-generated vibration to help realign our subtle energy and to release any areas of tension or stuck-ness. Such releases may feel as simple as a gentle letting go. They may also include emotional release such as laughing, crying, trembling, shaking, or feeling hot or cold. Whatever feelings come up (or don't), our goal is to observe our thoughts and sensations while staying focused on the vibration.
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71 - Finding Your True Purpose
When we meet someone who has 'found their purpose', what qualities do we notice? Do they seem to have mastered their craft or occupation? Do they seem joyful and content in their day to day lives? How do we find – and live in – our true purpose? Is it finding the right job, the right career? Is it becoming really 'good' at something? Or is it as simple as learning to remain present?
In today's meditation, we attune ourselves to our deepest thoughts, needs, and desires to find our true purpose. By giving our full attention to this moment – our breath, and our thoughts – we open ourselves to the Universe to give us direction through our inner voice. Listen on Patreon ...
70 - Opening the Heart
We all have the capacity to experience love, through both giving and receiving. But over time past hurts and mistrusts can close our hearts to fully experiencing love. We may carry a fear of being hurt again. In turn, we become selective in how much love we give, and how much love we allow ourselves to receive from others. Restricting our hearts in this way stifles our spiritual growth — and it can even affect the body, including the heart itself.
In this meditation, we learn to open our hearts by removing any walls we may have built. This increases our capacity to give love openly, and receive love without conditions. Listen on Patreon ...
69 - Breathing Through the Body
As we journey through our lives, our bodies experience many forms of stress -- including danger, grief, trauma, anger, and physical injury. When we don't process or release stress it remains inside our bodies, causing tension and restricted breath. Restricted breath in turn deprives the body and blood of oxygen, which can lead to hypertension, weight fluctuation, and all sorts of dis-ease. In today's meditation, we use our own breathing to cleanse our physical and emotional bodies. Using simple extension of the breath and release of the body through breath, we can significantly lower stress for a healthier life and a healthier state of mind. The Meditation Podcast is made possible with great thanks to our subscribers on Patreon. Join our community at Patreon.com/theMeditationPodcast Listen on Patreon ...
68 - Stress Relief
We take on stress in many ways. Stress normally originates in a traumatic event or life-death situation. However, simple day-to-day events can also create stress, by triggering memories of trauma and fear.
In today's meditation, we build our capacity to process and release stress. This meditation uses breath work and stillness, to increase awareness of our stress, its sources, and how to let it go.
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67 - Releasing Destructive Habits
We are spiritual beings, going through a human experience on this earth. Through this experience, we develop habits that may be detrimental to our spiritual, mental and physical well-being. Eventually, destructive habits become a normal part of our everyday, and we can lose sight of their long term effects.
Examples of destructive habits include alcohol or drug abuse, compulsive eating, nail-biting, self mutilation, belligerence, or rage. We are not interested in judging 'good' or 'bad', but rather examining our own habits and whether they empower us or hold us back from our highest good.
In today's meditation, we learn to release destructive habits, refreshing and renewing ourselves through the powerful energy of Infinite Love and Light.
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66 - Processing Pain, Grief, and Anger
In our life journey, we all encounter pain, grief, and anger in various forms. Examples include physical or emotional trauma, ending relationships, death of loved ones, or betrayal by someone we trust. When we don't digest these feelings, they can build upon each other. This can lead us to fear and anxiety, and uncontrolled or unwanted outbursts of emotion. In the long term, we remain stuck in a cycle, repeating the same emotional experiences with new friends, colleagues, partners, or loved ones.
In today's meditation, we access the deep subconscious to process pain, grief, or anger. Using simple techniques, we digest, release, and heal our experiences, and resolve stuck patterns. This allows us to create new and healthier subconscious patterns for present and future relationships.
Note from Producer Jesse: This was released to our Patreon subscribers on April 30, the 2-year anniversary of my mother's death. I experienced a lot of raw emotions coming up over the last few days, compounded by a health scare with my dear cat, and several deep conversations with old friends. I was having trouble processing my emotions, and it took a toll on my work & sleep schedules. I remembered some of the techniques and wisdom I have learned over many years, and put it into this meditation. I hope listening to it helps you as much as creating it has helped me. Peace and blessings. Listen on Patreon ...
65 - Staying Calm in the Storm
Life often confronts us with turmoil, setbacks, bad news, or disappointments. This can occur in world events, our personal relationships, our home, and our careers. It is a natural response to feel and express anger, sadness, or fear. However, when these emotions overwhelm us we may find ourselves thrown off-balance, losing our ability to function or communicate effectively.
In today's meditation, we practice staying calm in the middle of a storm. We learn how to express emotion, sympathy, and empathy, while still retaining our internal peace and effectiveness.
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64 - Chi Energy Bath
Do you ever just feel great? Balanced, confident, strong, yet relaxed? What if there was a way to cultivate feeling great? To massage our body, mind, and spirit? Through a simple visualization exercise?
In today's meditation we cultivate our internal energy for physical healing, mental clarity, and emotional resolution. Based on ancient Chinese practices of qigong energy work, we build up our chi, then move it in a gentle cycle through our bodies. This creates a subtle, gentle, and very powerful healing effect that can balance and strengthen all the body's systems and functions. Listen on Patreon ...
63 - Recharge in Your Sacred Space
In today's meditation, we visit our Sacred Space to restore our body, mind, spirit, inspiration, and energy. By simply resting, while in a high vibrational state, we restore our ability to work efficiently, to rest fully, to function in a chaotic world, and to experience our daily lives with full presence and intention.
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62 - Recognizing Prosperity
As we start the New Year, many of us seek wealth or prosperity: a raise, a new car, a bigger house. Our goals reflect the desire for more money, more things. However, when we seek material prosperity, it's easy to miss the prosperity we already have – such as our health, our friendships, and family.
In today's meditation, we recognize our present prosperity in areas including – but not limited to – our financial and physical wealth. By acknowledging our current prosperity, we open the door for more blessings to come our way.
Remember that this podcast uses audio technology that affects the brain, so please use headphones, and please do not use this podcast while driving or operating machinery.
We are not licensed health care practitioners, and we do not claim any specific health benefits from using this podcast. You are responsible for your own health.
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61 - Morning Boost
Energy, clarity, alignment. Sometimes we need a boost. In fact, wouldn't it be great if every day we could feel our best? In today's meditation, we recharge body mind and spirit with a morning boost. Listen on Patreon ...
60 - Resolving Anger
Our anger has many sources. Trauma, grief, frustration, and shame can all slowly reshape themselves into anger. When unresolved, these complex emotions can become stuck in our minds and bodies, leaving us feeling bitter, ungrateful, unhappy, and sick.
In today's meditation, we address and resolve our anger. Using a timed breathing technique, we shake loose emotions that have become stuck in our bodies, creating space for more useful, creative energy.
Please note: while it is important in this meditation to acknowledge whatever we are feeling, it is not necessary to relive or detail any experience. Listen on Patreon ...
59 - Ears, Sound, Balance
Our ears serve us not only for hearing, listening and communicating; but our inner ears are also the center for balance, equilibrium, and stability. The modern world can be an onslaught of noise, imbalance, and instability. For people, this onslaught may lead to selective hearing, tinnitus, dizziness, and tuning out.
In today's meditation, we receive a healing session for our ears. Through this process, we clear the anxiety and trauma of noise pollution, renew our ability to listen mindfully to the world around us, and retune our inner balance. Listen on Patreon ...
58 - Finding My Truth
Thankfully, many of us are able to get through our day to day lives without major obstacles. But are we thriving? Are we living in our purpose? Are we taking mindful action that brings joy and benefit to ourselves and those around us?
In today's meditation, we journey to our highest Being, our highest Self, to gain a deeper, divine perspective about our lives, our Truth, and our Purpose. Listen on Patreon ...
57 - Preparing for Major Life Events
When preparing for a major life event -- such as surgery, childbirth, marriage, career change, or moving to a new home -- we often experience a mix of excitement, anxiety, and fear of the unknown. We may feel comfortable in our old state of being, even if the new state of being will be much more healthy, happy, productive, and beneficial for us.
In today's meditation, we prepare for a major life event by acknowledging our fears, and surrendering to the unknown. Listen on Patreon ...
56 - Self Love
It is in our nature to want to feel love in our lives. This feeling brings a sense of warmth and security. However, we often look to outside forces and other people for the love that we seek. Our capacity to experience love in relationships is limited by how we love ourselves.
In today's meditation, we simply love, appreciate, and accept ourselves. This increases our capacity to love others, and to experience feeling loved. Listen on Patreon ...
55 - DNA Activation and Healing
In our DNA, we carry the grief, anger, fear, addictions, and physical toxins that belonged to our ancestors. This is one of the most powerful ways that parents pass such afflictions to our children and grandchildren. It can lead us to remain stuck for generations in a cycle of mental imbalance or destructive behavior.
In today's meditation, we cleanse and repair the ancestral DNA, while activating the portions of our DNA that facilitate our health, healing, and evolution of body mind and spirit. Listen on Patreon ...
54 - Intense Cleanse
Intense emotions – such as anger, grief and fear – serve to protect us by putting us in heightened states of awareness. However, once they have served their purpose, we often find it difficult to let go of them. When we can't let go, the experience can leave us feeling traumatized or stuck.
Today's meditation is based on an ancient practice using our breath to connect with and release deeply rooted emotions. As you begin, set an intention to release one specific emotion or attachment to one specific life event. For best effect, practice this meditation regularly, and choose one at a time. Listen on Patreon ...
53 - Empowering the Spirit
We naturally use our five physical senses to interact with the world. However, we can enhance our senses – and our presence in the world – by empowering the spirit within us. In today's meditation, we connect with the Divine source, to empower the Spirit. By recognizing and empowering our spirit, the core of who we are, we can have a better understanding of ourselves – that we are spirits having a human experience. We can then let go of any limitations, and think and move beyond the physical world. Listen on Patreon ...
52 - Intuition Boost
When faced with a decision, we are often told to trust our intuition, to trust our gut. But what should we do when our intuition goes against logic? What should we do when we're not sure what our intuition is telling us? Or even whether it is speaking to us at all? When disconnected from our intuition, we become unsure, insecure, doubtful, stagnant, and stuck. When connected, our intuition protects, motivates, and leads us toward our highest good. In today's meditation, we reconnect with our intuition, that quiet voice inside us. Listen on Patreon ...
51 - Inner Boundary of Protection and Power
Do you feel drained after a long day? Have you ever felt like people bothered you 'too much', or you had trouble saying 'no'? You may need to reset your inner boundary. Without a strong boundary, our life force leaks from us like water from a leaky bucket. Without a strong boundary, anyone can get 'under our skin'. In today's meditation, we reset and strengthen our inner boundary. This helps us to cultivate our own renewable energy and infinite life force, and protects us from the draining influence of others. It can also help us to set personal boundaries in our daily lives. Listen on Patreon ...
50 - Unconditional Love, Pt 2
Unconditional Love is Universal Life Force that heals us, restores us, and recalibrates our body, mind, & spirit. In today's meditation, we reside in the body of Unconditional Love. Love what we do? Want to support The Meditation Podcast? Want access to all our past episodes, plus other exclusive content? Learn more at Patreon.com/theMeditationPodcast. Listen on Patreon ...
49 - Food, Glorious Food!
In many places around the world, winter holidays are a time for feasting. However, as a culture, we surround our food -- and our time for eating -- with guilt and fear. We "grab a bite" and rush through our meals. We eat distractedly, many of us even eating at our desks while working. We tie food to our body image. We act very picky about what is considered "good" or "healthy", and we beat ourselves up for eating "bad" foods. We have destroyed our joy and our enjoyment of eating. In today's meditation, we open our capacity to enjoy a meal, fully present, with all of our senses alive, fully appreciative, and full of joy. Listen on Patreon ...
48 - Recenter, Restore, Recharge
We all get tired sometimes, stressed, and uncertain. Perhaps we've lost our creative drive, our patience or our empathy toward others, or we simply feel out of sorts. In today's meditation, we practice a simple centering exercise to energize ourselves, and help us feel our best. Looking for our past episodes? Find us, and our entire TMP Archive, on Patreon! http://patreon.com/themeditationpodcast Listen on Patreon ...
47 - Unconditional Love
We have often said that Unconditional Love is the most basic building block in the Universe. Love is a powerful healer, and simply experiencing it can regenerate the body mind and spirit. In today's meditation, we cultivate the experience of Unconditional Love. This is the first step in reiki, tantra, and many forms of partner meditation or healing arts. Listen on Patreon ...
46 - Healing Trauma Part 2 - DNA and Ancestry
Trauma is passed from generation to generation through our DNA, and through subconscious emotional communication, often for several generations. It can affect us deeply, even if we didn't know the person involved. It affects our well being, and can hinder us from experiencing true joy, freedom, and empathy. This is part 2 of our Healing Trauma series. In today's meditation, we go deeper into the release of trauma and anxiety, to explore our ancestral trauma. In doing so, we heal the ancestral aspect that resides within us. This also re-opens the subconscious communication, allowing us to learn from the wisdom of our ancestors, which we can pass on to our own future generations. Listen on Patreon ...
45 - Healing Trauma and Anxiety
Trauma has many sources: combat or confrontation, surgery or injury, death in the family, financial or survival-related struggles, and much more. Trauma is even passed on through generations via our DNA. Many of us carry trauma in our daily lives, which creates anxiety, imbalances our adrenaline, and severely affects our happiness and empathy. In today's meditation, we use a breathing technique -- and specific energetic work within the meditation -- to heal, release, and resolve trauma. Listen on Patreon ...
44 - Developing Discipline
Many of us have goals that we want to achieve in our lives: write a book, lose weight, learn a musical instrument, and so on. However, we may find ourselves lacking the discipline or self-control to start or to finish. We may even talk ourselves out of accomplishing our goals by claiming that 'it is too hard', or 'I don't have time'. In today's meditation we practice developing discipline: the long-term process of reaching our goals, one step and one day at a time. Listen on Patreon ...
43 - Creative Freedom
My mom died a few weeks ago, and today's meditation is in honor of her. In today's meditation, we prepare for – and create – beauty. Although this recording is only 20 minutes, please allow one full hour to this process. You may already have a creative outlet – music, dance, drawing, painting. If not, start today. Pick up some paper and paints, or dust off that musical instrument sitting in the corner. Listen on Patreon ...
42 - Rebuilding Self Confidence
We have all experienced moments in our lives when our confidence failed. We may have doubted our abilities, our appearance, our goals, or our dreams. This doubt may have come from trauma, mental or emotional abuse, or a simple fear of being ourselves. When we break free of these doubts, we begin to experience moving forward in our lives, with infinite success in our dreams and ambitions. In today's meditation we release our doubts and fears, to rebuild our self-confidence. Listen on Patreon ...
41 - A Higher Perspective
Mountaineers talk about Higher Peak Syndrome: from the base of the mountain we see a peak off in the distance. We aim toward it, start climbing, reach the peak, and then see another peak -- even higher -- way off in the distance. We all have desires and goals, we all imagine and wish for the future. But what happens when we achieve those desires, goals and wishes ... only to realize it wasn't what we wanted -- or that we're not even halfway there? In today's meditation, we look at our goals and wishes from a higher perspective. Listen on Patreon ...
40 - Self Acceptance
In today's meditation, we practice the fine art of self acceptance. We take a journey within, finding opportunities to love, honor, and accept ourselves -- just as we are. Through this process, we are often able to bring about the very changes that we've been looking for all along. Listen on Patreon ...
39 - Healing from Disappointment
When a person or organization does not meet our needs, breaks their word, or otherwise fails to live up to our expectations, we naturally become disappointed, hurt, angry, or mistrustful. In today's meditation, we heal this disappointment. This is an essential first step in reclaiming our own power, so that we can move clearly and positively through our lives. Find us at Patreon.com/theMeditationPodcast Listen on Patreon ...
38 - Centered and Balanced for the Holidays
In today's meditation, we allow ourselves a moment to pause from the manic holidays. Listen on Patreon ...
37 - Wall of Peace
In today's meditation, we build a Wall of Peace around our inner world. This reminds us that our external situations remain outside us, and that we always have the power to choose our natural state of peace and contentment. Listen on Patreon ...
36 - Hearing Your Inner Voice
In today's meditation, we connect with our inner voice, the infinite wisdom deep within ourselves. This voice offers clarity and guidance, perspective and purpose. Listen on Patreon ...
35 - Need and Transformation
In today's meditation, we transform a need for someone else, using the power of our own breath and expansion. By transforming need into fulfillment, we turn the energies of stagnation into creativity, resentment into joy, sickness into health, and fear into love. By focusing on needs outside of our own, we increase our power to heal ourselves and the world. Listen on Patreon ...
34 - Breakthrough
Breakthrough, a 1-hour transformational healing meditation. In today's meditation, we dive a little deeper, stir up still waters, break through walls, transform pain, resolve the past, repair DNA, breathe new life into every part of our selves, and begin to flow effortlessly toward our truest and highest forms. Use this meditation daily, ideally first thing in the morning, until you experience a profound and lasting change. If you have a specific goal or intent, bring it to mind now. If not, simply direct your attention toward your own quiet stillness. Listen on Patreon ...
33 - Healing From Heartbreak
In today's episode, we use meditation to heal our broken hearts. This healing allows us to open our hearts, and reminds us that we are worthy to give and receive love. Listen on Patreon ...
32 - Moving Meditation
Meditation is not always about sitting still. Rather, it involves applying awareness to any act. In today's meditation, we draw on ancient practices of moving with the breath, to cultivate the body's natural flow of energy. Listen on Patreon ...
31 - The Power of Kindness
In today's meditation, we use kindness to heal ourselves. We enter a situation that may have caused us pain or anger in the past, and then re-imagine that situation with kindness toward the people involved. This has a profound effect on our well being. Listen on Patreon ...
30 - Responding in the Moment
Today's meditation guides us toward the release of old habits by expanding our consciousness, and toward responding creatively in the moment. Responding in the moment can help us free ourselves from reacting to situations based on our past experience. It can help us fully enjoy the way we experience movement, everyday life, social interactions, even driving a car or playing a musical instrument. Listen on Patreon ...
29 - Light of Prosperity and Abundance
Prosperity can mean succeeding at and enjoying one's job or business, receiving gifts, earning dividends or royalties, or simply having a lifestyle that meets one's needs. Abundance can take the form of money, having plenty of food to eat, a wealth of friends and family, or a warm bed to sleep in. We often carry habits and mental patterns from our past experiences that block our own prosperity and abundance. In today's meditation, we use light visualization to transform our beliefs about prosperity and abundance, and increase our spiritual vibration to attract prosperous and abundant lives. Listen on Patreon ...
28 - Emotional Clearing
Use this meditation anytime you feel overwhelmed, stuck or frustrated. These feelings are often a sign of blocked emotions. As you intentionally release these stuck feelings in meditation, you may find them replaced by a fresh sense of clarity, calm and purpose. Listen on Patreon ...
27 - Reiki Treatment
Reiki means Universal Life Force. It is a mode of healing often performed as healing touch, or laying on hands. However, Reiki can also be done at a distance. The practitioner allows the Reiki energy to flow through his or her hands, and into the recipient. Often, the recipient feels physical heat, relaxation of the breath, and the experience of unconditional love. In today's meditation, just relax and allow yourself to receive an infusion of universal life force. Listen on Patreon ...
26 - Gratitude
In today's meditation, we simply give thanks for who we are, for where we are, for what we have, for our successes, and for the success of our friends and loved ones. This basic impression of feeling thankful can not only help us free ourselves from the stress of ambition, the agony of want; it can also create a very powerful cycle of gratitude: when we are thankful, we find more reasons to be thankful, and we find more good in our lives. Listen on Patreon ...
25 - Transformational Breathing
In today's meditation, we practice a simple exercise, based on Chinese and Russian martial arts, that is designed to release physical tension and blocked emotions. Breathing freely, as in this exercise, can lead us naturally to better posture, a positive outlook on life, and a clear state of mind. Listen on Patreon ...
24 - Envision Your Life
In today's meditation we will choose a life goal, and imagine it succeeding in the highest and best possible way. This means that you attain your goal -- even beyond what you hoped or imagined -- and that everyone involved benefits. Remember that this podcast uses audio technology that affects the brain, so please use headphones, and do not use this podcast while driving or operating machinery. Listen on Patreon ...
23 - Grief
Today's meditation is about releasing grief. Grief can occur in the loss of a loved one, the ending of a relationship, loss of a job, or loss of a home; and its effects can linger long after the loss itself. In this episode, we let go of grief and begin anew. Listen on Patreon ...
22 - Eyes
Today's meditation is an exercise for the eyes. According to ancient Eastern systems of health, it is intended to relieve eye strain and to preserve and restore healthy vision, by relaxing and strengthening the muscles and nerves of the eyes. Use this meditation daily, or before or after long periods of concentration. This is an active meditation, and it moves fairly quickly. Once you get the hang of it, feel free to go at your own pace. Listen on Patreon ...
21 - The Unknown
Have you ever wanted to acheive something, but chosen not to try because you were afraid of failure? Taking a risk means inviting a change into our lives. Success may mean satisfaction or reward, but it can also lead us into life's uncharted territory: the Unknown. On the other hand, failure may mean disappointment or shame, but it may also allow us to stay in life's comfort zone. The Unknown can be a terrifying place, and if our subconscious is not prepared, we may block our own success, without even realizing it! Listen on Patreon ...
20 - A Short Meditation
In response to your requests, this is a short and simple meditation. Use this meditation during a break from work, or anytime you want to recharge, but only have a few minutes -- eight, to be exact. Listen on Patreon ...
19 - Money
In today's meditation, we explore the true meaning of money, and our relationship to it. More importantly, we release any fears and emotions that we may hold toward money, allowing us to reach our potential for wealth and prosperity. Finally, we use a special manifestation blessing to attract an influx of money into our lives. Listen on Patreon ...
18 - Our Story
Over the last few years, between 2007 and 2011, we received hundreds of emails from people, asking why we stopped updating our podcast, and whether we were going to continue. We gave the vague answer that we were going through personal challenges. Well, we've decided to take the time to explain, and today we ask you to indulge us in telling our story. Listen on Patreon ...
17 - Renewal
The word "renew" means "to begin again". Whatever changes we wish to make in our lives, the renewal starts within. As we release old habits and emotions, we make room for powerful healing and regeneration. In this meditation we refresh ourselves in body, mind, and spirit, allowing us to truly begin again. Listen on Patreon ...
16 - Sit Still and Breathe
Welcome to The Meditation Podcast, with Jesse and Jeane Stern, Episode 16: Sit Still and Breathe. In any art or occupation, it's a good idea to go back to basics from time to time. The art of meditation can be a lot of things, but in its most basic sense it is just sitting still and breathing. This, all by itself, can be a profound experience, and it builds a safe and solid foundation for more advanced techniques. Listen on Patreon ...
15 - Wake Up!
Welcome to The Meditation Podcast, with Jesse and Jeane Stern. This is Episode 15: Wake Up! Use this meditation after sleep to help bring yourself into a state of wakeful awareness. It is a short meditation, designed as a companion to Episode 14, Rejuvenating Sleep. The Wake Up meditation can also be used on its own. Listen on Patreon ...
14 - Rejuvenating Sleep
Welcome to The Meditation Podcast, Episode 14, Rejuvenating Sleep. In our busy lives, many of us have trouble sleeping. We awaken feeling tired, overwhelmed. This is because many of us have suppressed our bodies? natural ability to renew ourselves. This meditation is designed not only to help you fall asleep, but to enter an inner world of peaceful rest. Listen on Patreon ...
13 - Finding Your voice
Welcome to The Meditation Podcast Episode 13, Finding Your Voice. Through the course of our daily lives, it's possible for us to forget how to express our true selves. This can manifest as shyness, sore throat, vocal polyps, even a complete loss of the speaking or singing voice. In today's meditation, we make sound in our bodies, allowing our vocal cords to simply vibrate. Listen on Patreon ...
12 - Peace
Is there someone or something in your life that's driving you crazy? We all experience tension and frustration from time to time, whether it's with a person -- a family member, a co-worker, a spouse, a friend -- or a situation -- like driving to work or waiting in line. Even if that person or situation never changes, it is possible to change the way we experience it. Today's meditation is about creating peace, and allowing that peace to extend beyond ourselves. Listen on Patreon ...
11 - The Healing Smile
Today's meditation is the Healing Smile. This is based on a Chinese qigong meditation, which I first learned in Kenneth Meadows' book Shamanic Experience, and which he called the Inward Smile. By directing a smile inward, we send gentle, loving, accepting and healing energy to every organ in our bodies. Listen on Patreon ...
10 - Releasing Fear
As children, we know no fear. We run, we jump, we play, without thinking about any consequences, or being hurt. However, as we grow, we start to experience fear. Things we have heard or seen, or maybe our own personal experience, has left us traumatized and frightened. Most of us want to move forward, build our dreams, but we feel stuck, paralyzed. This meditation helps us break down the walls of fear and move toward our dreams, showing us who we truly are. Listen on Patreon ...
9 - Addiction
There are different ways an addiction can begin. It may start as recreation, medical necessity, relaxation or comfort. Addiction can take the form of food, alcohol, drugs, sex and more. The common thread is the desire to fill a void, especially when situations are beyond our control. Eventually addiction grabs hold in the subconscious mind, and the void becomes a physical dependency. It is possible to break this dependency in the subconscious. In this meditation, the focus will be on releasing the mental hold of addiction, and finding a safe and peaceful place within. Listen on Patreon ...
8 - Transformational Breathing
Anxiety, anger grief and fear are examples of persistent emotional states that linger because of our unwillingness or inability to let go of past experiences. In this episode, we use breath and 'relentless self-acceptance' to help work our way through these states. Listen on Patreon ...
7 - Your Sacred Space
This month's episode is about regeneration in your Sacred Space. We will guide you through a technique that takes you into a sacred place - your own inner sanctum or sacred grove. In this place, you can regenerate your energy, renew your creativity, and gain a new perspective on choices you may have to make. Listen on Patreon ...
6 - Falling Asleep
Many of us have trouble falling asleep. We go to bed tired, but then lie awake fidgeting, or consumed with anxiety. We deprive ourselves of the rest and regeneration we need for healthy, productive lives. This meditation uses a new set of tones, designed to aid the listener in falling asleep, and to experience a deep, peaceful rest. Listen on Patreon ...
5 - Healing Series, Part 2
This meditation is part two of our series on deep-level healing. As we continue to heal our consciousness of past anger, resentment or guilt, we can begin the healing process on a physical level. We can now visualize whole health in the areas of our bodies that have been afflicted with ailments and diseases. It is important to understand that this is not an instant cure, but a process which can be done daily. Listen on Patreon ...
4 - Healing Series, Part 1
This meditation is part One of a series that focuses on deep-level healing. Healing begins in our consciousness. Our mental and emotional states play a big part in our health. It is natural to feel a full range of emotions. However, when we hold onto anger, resentment or guilt, and these feelings are not processed and released, they stagnate within the body, causing illness and dis-ease. This meditation, which can be used daily, can help you process these feelings, and bring about total well being. Listen on Patreon ...
3 - Positive Thoughts
Each of us, whether we realize it or not, abides by a universal law of attraction. What we think about, and talk about, we attract into our lives -- no matter whether we think about wanting it, or not wanting it. Therefore it is very important to think constructively. So rather than saying, 'I don't want to have these health problems anymore,' say 'I'm so glad to be healthy!' or 'I want perfect health.' Instead of trying to get out of debt, try to attain prosperity. Don't anticipate conflict with your loved ones or co-workers -- instead, imagine what it would be like to be in total harmony with them. If you hate war, try loving peace instead. This concept may seem strange at first, but it's a very powerful exercise. When we began doing it, we noticed major changes in every area of our lives. Even if a positive thought or feeling doesn't seem true for you, just try imagining 'what would it be like?' or 'wouldn't it be nice?' Listen on Patreon ...
2 - Calming the Body
This month's podcast is about calming the body. It sends a wave of relaxation from the tips of the toes to the top of the head. This helps us reduce stress, relax the body, and relax the mind as well. And this allows us to go deeper into a meditative state, making us more productive in our lives, and more peaceful in our hearts. Remember that while this podcast uses guided imagery, it also uses sound technology that affects the right and left sides of the brain, to help us enter a deeper state of relaxation and meditation. Thus, it works best with headphones, and should not be listened to while driving. Listen on Patreon ...
1 - A Basic Meditation
In its simplest sense, meditation is sitting still and breathing. You might sit, stand or lie down -- some forms of mediation even involve movement -- but the idea is to break away from habitual movement, such as fidgeting, and the impulse to 'do' something. By focusing on the breath, we focus on the most important aspect of life. We wouldn't survive long without breath, so why not spend a few moments paying attention to our breathing? Listen on Patreon ...
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