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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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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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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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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In today's meditation, we allow ourselves a moment to pause from the manic holidays. Listen on Patreon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...