An impromptu meditation sesh recorded in the countryside this summer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An impromptu meditation sesh recorded in the countryside this summer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I’m excited to share that I have just released four new meditation classes on the @alyte.app. Starting next week, I’ve scheduled sessions of my pre-recorded meditation classes. You can simply join via the link in my Instagram bio to sign up and experience them with me.For those of you who don’t know, Alyte is the new social fitness app. With Alyte, you don’t have to make compromises, you can hang out while you work out, and build friendships, while you build fitness. So join me, as we start the movement, for social movement.https://www.alyte.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second verse of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes, it is written: "As above, so below". The physical world follows a rational, beautiful logic, and human beings for some mysterious reason can tune in to it. Even more mysteriously, as the quote from the Hermetic writings suggest, this beautiful logic mirrors the higher dimensions of consciousness. And this echo is one key we can use to unlock access to unified consciousness. The 'beautiful logic' explored in this meditation is that of the four elements that constitute the building blocks of the physical world. In this meditation you will learn how to tune in to the harmony underlying these building blocks of reality. And by synching up with the harmony of the sacred number four, you have the possibility of transcending numbers, the elements and physical reality altogether, opening the gateway to all the power of the universe flowing effortlessly through your human form. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second verse of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes, it is written: "As above, so below". The physical world follows a rational, beautiful logic, and human beings for some mysterious reason can tune in to it. Even more mysteriously, as the quote from the Hermetic writings suggest, this beautiful logic mirrors the higher dimensions of consciousness. And this echo is one key we can use to unlock access to unified consciousness. The 'beautiful logic' explored in this meditation is that of the four elements that constitute the building blocks of the physical world. In this meditation you will learn how to tune in to the harmony underlying these building blocks of reality. And by synching up with the harmony of the sacred number four, you have the possibility of transcending numbers, the elements and physical reality altogether, opening the gateway to all the power of the universe flowing effortlessly through your human form. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second verse of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes, it is written: "As above, so below". The physical world follows a rational, beautiful logic, and human beings for some mysterious reason can tune in to it. Even more mysteriously, as the quote from the Hermetic writings suggest, this beautiful logic mirrors the higher dimensions of consciousness. And this echo is one key we can use to unlock access to unified consciousness. The 'beautiful logic' explored in this meditation is that of the four elements that constitute the building blocks of the physical world. In this meditation you will learn how to tune in to the harmony underlying these building blocks of reality. And by synching up with the harmony of the sacred number four, you have the possibility of transcending numbers, the elements and physical reality altogether, opening the gateway to all the power of the universe flowing effortlessly through your human form. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If there were a road to heaven it would begin at the heart ❤️, travel up through the neck 😌, pause at the center of the eye brow line ✨ and finish at the crown of the head 🕊️. Travel this road of peace, harmony, unity and oneness (PHUO); follow this path to universal love with me in this meditation on your true nature.PEACE: The sensibility of your fourth or heart chakra, the seat of your intuition, the consciousness where you awaken to your higher selfHARMONY: The sensibility of your fifth or throat chakra, where you realize you are an equal partner with the life forceUNITY: The sensibility of your sixth or third eye chakra, where you awaken to the truth of union with the divineONENESS: The sensibility of your seventh or crown chakra, where you and universal love are one and the same Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If there were a road to heaven it would begin at the heart ❤️, travel up through the neck 😌, pause at the center of the eye brow line ✨ and finish at the crown of the head 🕊️. Travel this road of peace, harmony, unity and oneness (PHUO); follow this path to universal love with me in this meditation on your true nature.PEACE: The sensibility of your fourth or heart chakra, the seat of your intuition, the consciousness where you awaken to your higher selfHARMONY: The sensibility of your fifth or throat chakra, where you realize you are an equal partner with the life forceUNITY: The sensibility of your sixth or third eye chakra, where you awaken to the truth of union with the divineONENESS: The sensibility of your seventh or crown chakra, where you and universal love are one and the same Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If there were a road to heaven it would begin at the heart ❤️, travel up through the neck 😌, pause at the center of the eye brow line ✨ and finish at the crown of the head 🕊️. Travel this road of peace, harmony, unity and oneness (PHUO); follow this path to universal love with me in this meditation on your true nature.PEACE: The sensibility of your fourth or heart chakra, the seat of your intuition, the consciousness where you awaken to your higher selfHARMONY: The sensibility of your fifth or throat chakra, where you realize you are an equal partner with the life forceUNITY: The sensibility of your sixth or third eye chakra, where you awaken to the truth of union with the divineONENESS: The sensibility of your seventh or crown chakra, where you and universal love are one and the same Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A wise master once explained to me that the secret to a happy life was simply to let go of all negative or limiting thoughts or emotions. If you can do that all you have to do is sit back and watch your good arrive. 'Why does it work, what is the foundation, what is the key?', I asked him. "The key is that there is already an underlying perfection. By letting go of all negative or limiting thoughts you get out of the way and allow that perfection to manifest unimpeded." A cynic might say we are simply tricking our brain to believe something that isn’t true. But if it works, does it matter? Try it out and decide for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A wise master once explained to me that the secret to a happy life was simply to let go of all negative or limiting thoughts or emotions. If you can do that all you have to do is sit back and watch your good arrive. 'Why does it work, what is the foundation, what is the key?', I asked him. "The key is that there is already an underlying perfection. By letting go of all negative or limiting thoughts you get out of the way and allow that perfection to manifest unimpeded." A cynic might say we are simply tricking our brain to believe something that isn’t true. But if it works, does it matter? Try it out and decide for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A wise master once explained to me that the secret to a happy life was simply to let go of all negative or limiting thoughts or emotions. If you can do that all you have to do is sit back and watch your good arrive. 'Why does it work, what is the foundation, what is the key?', I asked him. "The key is that there is already an underlying perfection. By letting go of all negative or limiting thoughts you get out of the way and allow that perfection to manifest unimpeded." A cynic might say we are simply tricking our brain to believe something that isn’t true. But if it works, does it matter? Try it out and decide for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Loving kindness meditations (metta bhavana) are a simple and beautiful way to sooth the body and settle the mind. This is a guided version of a meditation taught to me by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Loving kindness meditations (metta bhavana) are a simple and beautiful way to sooth the body and settle the mind. This is a guided version of a meditation taught to me by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Loving kindness meditations (metta bhavana) are a simple and beautiful way to sooth the body and settle the mind. This is a guided version of a meditation taught to me by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Throughout mystical traditions the world over the heart and heart center have been understood to be a gateway of sorts to Truth. The wisdom one needs in order to discover the secrets of Illumination (or, to use the old phrase: "to know God") can be found in our heart energy. But these secrets can only be attained by lifting the dark curtain of ignorance that covers the mirror we call our heart. We lift the curtain and we polish this mirror. Then the hidden treasures of divine beauty and love can begin reflecting these secrets out into our life in the physical domain. This guided meditation helps translate this precious insight into practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Throughout mystical traditions the world over the heart and heart center have been understood to be a gateway of sorts to Truth. The wisdom one needs in order to discover the secrets of Illumination (or, to use the old phrase: "to know God") can be found in our heart energy. But these secrets can only be attained by lifting the dark curtain of ignorance that covers the mirror we call our heart. We lift the curtain and we polish this mirror. Then the hidden treasures of divine beauty and love can begin reflecting these secrets out into our life in the physical domain. This guided meditation helps translate this precious insight into practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Throughout mystical traditions the world over the heart and heart center have been understood to be a gateway of sorts to Truth. The wisdom one needs in order to discover the secrets of Illumination (or, to use the old phrase: "to know God") can be found in our heart energy. But these secrets can only be attained by lifting the dark curtain of ignorance that covers the mirror we call our heart. We lift the curtain and we polish this mirror. Then the hidden treasures of divine beauty and love can begin reflecting these secrets out into our life in the physical domain. This guided meditation helps translate this precious insight into practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of our superpowers is our ability to direct our attention. Whether we do so consciously or not, we have the power to move our awareness to a place of our choosing. Yet most of us spend our entire lives unconscious of this power and therefore use it only sparingly. But, with practice, it can be developed and strengthened. With practice we can learn to use this power to relax and heal the body, unlock long buried traumas, and even release long-held karma. When we do this, we awaken to the fullest and best experiences life has to offer. This guided meditation helps you develop this superpower. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of our superpowers is our ability to direct our attention. Whether we do so consciously or not, we have the power to move our awareness to a place of our choosing. Yet most of us spend our entire lives unconscious of this power and therefore use it only sparingly. But, with practice, it can be developed and strengthened. With practice we can learn to use this power to relax and heal the body, unlock long buried traumas, and even release long-held karma. When we do this, we awaken to the fullest and best experiences life has to offer. This guided meditation helps you develop this superpower. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist practice developed to awaken compassion. Done correctly it can release long buried pain and awaken a profound and healing loving energy within you. Through a process of "giving and taking" (which is what Tonglen means), you restore harmony to a divided world and heal your wounds simultaneously with others'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist practice developed to awaken compassion. Done correctly it can release long buried pain and awaken a profound and healing loving energy within you. Through a process of "giving and taking" (which is what Tonglen means), you restore harmony to a divided world and heal your wounds simultaneously with others'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist practice developed to awaken compassion. Done correctly it can release long buried pain and awaken a profound and healing loving energy within you. Through a process of "giving and taking" (which is what Tonglen means), you restore harmony to a divided world and heal your wounds simultaneously with others'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are suffering, you can take responsibility for healing yourself. This meditation will show you how to do that. Whether your pain is physical or emotional, you have the power to ease the pain and promote the healing. In this meditation we use the fact that beauty heals and we combine it with your power to move your awareness to help you heal any wounds of the body or traumas of the mind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are suffering, you can take responsibility for healing yourself. This meditation will show you how to do that. Whether your pain is physical or emotional, you have the power to ease the pain and promote the healing. In this meditation we use the fact that beauty heals and we combine it with your power to move your awareness to help you heal any wounds of the body or traumas of the mind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Visualization of a deity is an age-old practice among all the major spiritual traditions for generating and sustaining a calming, healing energy within ourselves. In this guided meditation we use the baby Jesus and Mother Mary, the Madonna, as the focus for the visualization. You can still use this guided meditation recording and replace Jesus and Mary with another deity or Saint or spiritual guru of your choice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Visualization of a deity is an age-old practice among all the major spiritual traditions for generating and sustaining a calming, healing energy within ourselves. In this guided meditation we use the baby Jesus and Mother Mary, the Madonna, as the focus for the visualization. You can still use this guided meditation recording and replace Jesus and Mary with another deity or Saint or spiritual guru of your choice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whether you are religious or not there is an extraordinary power in learning to let go. A core teaching from the great masters of old is, to use the old phraseology, "to submit to the will of god". In contemporary, non-sectarian language we might say "letting go" or "allowing the universe to unfold" or "practicing non-resistance". Whatever you'd like to call it, it is like a superpower of healing. So you can use this meditation to help you do that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whether you are religious or not there is an extraordinary power in learning to let go. A core teaching from the great masters of old is, to use the old phraseology, "to submit to the will of god". In contemporary, non-sectarian language we might say "letting go" or "allowing the universe to unfold" or "practicing non-resistance". Whatever you'd like to call it, it is like a superpower of healing. So you can use this meditation to help you do that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This guided meditation walks you through the ancient Buddhist practice of Loving Kindness or Metta Bhavana. But it is directed at your body instead of a being or beings. In this case the words guide you to the feet and ankles but you can use this to direct loving, healing energy to any part of your body that is injured or sick. Just replace the words "feet and ankles" with whatever muscle is sore or body part is bruised or cut or broken. It also will help with internal injuries or illnesses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tantra is a method for realizing the true nature of reality. If we can master these practices in our human lifetime then, when we die, the we will be able to stabilize the nature of mind and achieve liberation. This ancient Tibetan tantric meditation will open you to the core energy channel that supports your life energy and open you to the radiant, non-dual, emptiness that is true reality. It also has the benefit of preparing you for the inner dissolution that comes in the first stages of death. So when that time comes for you, it won't seem as fantastical and frightening and may even become the gap through which you can achieve liberation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tantra is a method for realizing the true nature of reality. If we can master these practices in our human lifetime then, when we die, the we will be able to stabilize the nature of mind and achieve liberation. This ancient Tibetan tantric meditation will open you to the core energy channel that supports your life energy and open you to the radiant, non-dual, emptiness that is true reality. It also has the benefit of preparing you for the inner dissolution that comes in the first stages of death. So when that time comes for you, it won't seem as fantastical and frightening and may even become the gap through which you can achieve liberation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tantra is a method for realizing the true nature of reality. If we can master these practices in our human lifetime then, when we die, the we will be able to stabilize the nature of mind and achieve liberation. This ancient Tibetan tantric meditation will open you to the core energy channel that supports your life energy and open you to the radiant, non-dual, emptiness that is true reality. It also has the benefit of preparing you for the inner dissolution that comes in the first stages of death. So when that time comes for you, it won't seem as fantastical and frightening and may even become the gap through which you can achieve liberation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tantra is a method for realizing the true nature of reality. If we can master these practices in our human lifetime then, when we die, the we will be able to stabilize the nature of mind and achieve liberation. This ancient Tibetan tantric meditation will open you to the core energy channel that supports your life energy and open you to the radiant, non-dual, emptiness that is true reality. It also has the benefit of preparing you for the inner dissolution that comes in the first stages of death. So when that time comes for you, it won't seem as fantastical and frightening and may even become the gap through which you can achieve liberation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tantra is a method for realizing the true nature of reality. If we can master these practices in our human lifetime then, when we die, the we will be able to stabilize the nature of mind and achieve liberation. This ancient Tibetan tantric meditation will open you to the core energy channel that supports your life energy and open you to the radiant, non-dual, emptiness that is true reality. It also has the benefit of preparing you for the inner dissolution that comes in the first stages of death. So when that time comes for you, it won't seem as fantastical and frightening and may even become the gap through which you can achieve liberation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The nature of the human "self" is truly subtle. The physical self in this world of form is clear to see and feel. And even the airiness of thoughts and the ephemerality of emotions still have a substance that everyone can clearly recognize. But behind all of that is the everlasting you; the infinite self. In this meditation, to awaken the recollection of your true self, we use the ancient system of numbers deployed by the ancients from Babylon and Egypt to Pythagoras up through the medieval alchemists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The nature of the human "self" is truly subtle. The physical self in this world of form is clear to see and feel. And even the airiness of thoughts and the ephemerality of emotions still have a substance that everyone can clearly recognize. But behind all of that is the everlasting you; the infinite self. In this meditation, to awaken the recollection of your true self, we use the ancient system of numbers deployed by the ancients from Babylon and Egypt to Pythagoras up through the medieval alchemists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The nature of the human "self" is truly subtle. The physical self in this world of form is clear to see and feel. And even the airiness of thoughts and the ephemerality of emotions still have a substance that everyone can clearly recognize. But behind all of that is the everlasting you; the infinite self. In this meditation, to awaken the recollection of your true self, we use the ancient system of numbers deployed by the ancients from Babylon and Egypt to Pythagoras up through the medieval alchemists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The nature of the human "self" is truly subtle. The physical self in this world of form is clear to see and feel. And even the airiness of thoughts and the ephemerality of emotions still have a substance that everyone can clearly recognize. But behind all of that is the everlasting you; the infinite self. In this meditation, to awaken the recollection of your true self, we use the ancient system of numbers deployed by the ancients from Babylon and Egypt to Pythagoras up through the medieval alchemists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The nature of the human "self" is truly subtle. The physical self in this world of form is clear to see and feel. And even the airiness of thoughts and the ephemerality of emotions still have a substance that everyone can clearly recognize. But behind all of that is the everlasting you; the infinite self. In this meditation, to awaken the recollection of your true self, we use the ancient system of numbers deployed by the ancients from Babylon and Egypt to Pythagoras up through the medieval alchemists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The nature of the human "self" is truly subtle. The physical self in this world of form is clear to see and feel. And even the airiness of thoughts and the ephemerality of emotions still have a substance that everyone can clearly recognize. But behind all of that is the everlasting you; the infinite self. In this meditation, to awaken the recollection of your true self, we use the ancient system of numbers deployed by the ancients from Babylon and Egypt to Pythagoras up through the medieval alchemists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s 3AM and you feel like crap. Time to bring out your superpowers. You actually have three superpowers. Yet you’re probably not using them or even conscious that you have these superpowers. But you have them all the same. The first power is the ability to move your attention. The second is the power to grant significance. The third is the power to assign causation. Most people project their attention out to other people, into the past or future, and spend their entire lives through the filter of other people or the non-Now. You scatter and weaken yourself by seeking approval from others, thinking about what they are thinking of you, trying to understand their motivation, or wanting something to happen. These are all acts of giving away your energy and neutralizing your power. You are depositing spiritual energy into people or ideas or memories; things you don’t have control over. Seeking authority outside yourself means you have implicitly given someone else (or some idea or event) authority over you; whether you intended to or not, you have given them power; you have granted them dominion over you. Your power of love and healing is within. It is your essential nature. Humans are social animals which means that you co-create your reality with others so it can be scary to remove this power from others. But, paradoxically, by removing this power from others you deepen your connection with them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s 3AM and you feel like crap. Time to bring out your superpowers. You actually have three superpowers. Yet you’re probably not using them or even conscious that you have these superpowers. But you have them all the same. The first power is the ability to move your attention. The second is the power to grant significance. The third is the power to assign causation. Most people project their attention out to other people, into the past or future, and spend their entire lives through the filter of other people or the non-Now. You scatter and weaken yourself by seeking approval from others, thinking about what they are thinking of you, trying to understand their motivation, or wanting something to happen. These are all acts of giving away your energy and neutralizing your power. You are depositing spiritual energy into people or ideas or memories; things you don’t have control over. Seeking authority outside yourself means you have implicitly given someone else (or some idea or event) authority over you; whether you intended to or not, you have given them power; you have granted them dominion over you. Your power of love and healing is within. It is your essential nature. Humans are social animals which means that you co-create your reality with others so it can be scary to remove this power from others. But, paradoxically, by removing this power from others you deepen your connection with them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s 3AM and you feel like crap. Time to bring out your superpowers. You actually have three superpowers. Yet you’re probably not using them or even conscious that you have these superpowers. But you have them all the same. The first power is the ability to move your attention. The second is the power to grant significance. The third is the power to assign causation. Most people project their attention out to other people, into the past or future, and spend their entire lives through the filter of other people or the non-Now. You scatter and weaken yourself by seeking approval from others, thinking about what they are thinking of you, trying to understand their motivation, or wanting something to happen. These are all acts of giving away your energy and neutralizing your power. You are depositing spiritual energy into people or ideas or memories; things you don’t have control over. Seeking authority outside yourself means you have implicitly given someone else (or some idea or event) authority over you; whether you intended to or not, you have given them power; you have granted them dominion over you. Your power of love and healing is within. It is your essential nature. Humans are social animals which means that you co-create your reality with others so it can be scary to remove this power from others. But, paradoxically, by removing this power from others you deepen your connection with them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s 3AM and you feel like crap. Time to bring out your superpowers. You actually have three superpowers. Yet you’re probably not using them or even conscious that you have these superpowers. But you have them all the same. The first power is the ability to move your attention. The second is the power to grant significance. The third is the power to assign causation. Most people project their attention out to other people, into the past or future, and spend their entire lives through the filter of other people or the non-Now. You scatter and weaken yourself by seeking approval from others, thinking about what they are thinking of you, trying to understand their motivation, or wanting something to happen. These are all acts of giving away your energy and neutralizing your power. You are depositing spiritual energy into people or ideas or memories; things you don’t have control over. Seeking authority outside yourself means you have implicitly given someone else (or some idea or event) authority over you; whether you intended to or not, you have given them power; you have granted them dominion over you. Your power of love and healing is within. It is your essential nature. Humans are social animals which means that you co-create your reality with others so it can be scary to remove this power from others. But, paradoxically, by removing this power from others you deepen your connection with them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s 3AM and you feel like crap. Time to bring out your superpowers. You actually have three superpowers. Yet you’re probably not using them or even conscious that you have these superpowers. But you have them all the same. The first power is the ability to move your attention. The second is the power to grant significance. The third is the power to assign causation. Most people project their attention out to other people, into the past or future, and spend their entire lives through the filter of other people or the non-Now. You scatter and weaken yourself by seeking approval from others, thinking about what they are thinking of you, trying to understand their motivation, or wanting something to happen. These are all acts of giving away your energy and neutralizing your power. You are depositing spiritual energy into people or ideas or memories; things you don’t have control over. Seeking authority outside yourself means you have implicitly given someone else (or some idea or event) authority over you; whether you intended to or not, you have given them power; you have granted them dominion over you. Your power of love and healing is within. It is your essential nature. Humans are social animals which means that you co-create your reality with others so it can be scary to remove this power from others. But, paradoxically, by removing this power from others you deepen your connection with them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Pythagoreans believed that the number 10 was sacred and perfect; that it symbolized God or Unity or Completeness. It turns out that the number ten, also roughly corresponds to the number of seconds it takes to breathe the "perfect" breath. What is the perfect breath? It is the breath that is universally arrived at by any careful student of spiritual or physical health. For example, people reciting a Buddhist mantra, the Latin version of the rosary, and the Catholic prayer cycle of the Ave Maria all breathe between five and six breaths per minute during their prayer or mantra or meditation. And the body loves this length: researchers in one of these experiments connected sensors to measure the subject’s blood flow, heart rate, and nervous system activity. Whenever the chanters followed this slow breathing pattern and were in this zone of about 5.5 breaths per minute, blood flow to the brain increased and the functions of heart, circulation, and nervous system reached a state of peak efficiency and harmony. In other words, the systems in the body entered a state of coherence right around this number of about five and half second inhales and five and a half second exhales, which also works out to be about five and a half breaths per minute. This same phenomenon has been observed across cultures and time periods. Whether it is Buddhist monks chanting their popular mantra, "Om Mani Padme Hum", Jainist chants, the Kundalini chant of "Sa ta na ma", each of these takes five or six seconds to vocalize, followed by a five to six second inhale. In the Hindu tradition, "khechari" hand and tongue mudras which are purported to help bolster physical health and promote spiritual development, the practitioner places their tongue and hands in specified positions and take deep, you guessed it, slow and even breaths which each take between 5.5 and 6 seconds. This phenomenon has been observed as well in Hawaiian, Native American, Japanese, African, and Taoist cultures. They all arrived at the roughly the same techniques, each requiring the same breathing patterns. So let's practice it together!Pro tips: 1) Breathe in and out through your nose the whole time; 2) Move your belly and grow your torso in three dimensions with each breath. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Pythagoreans believed that the number 10 was sacred and perfect; that it symbolized God or Unity or Completeness. It turns out that the number ten, also roughly corresponds to the number of seconds it takes to breathe the "perfect" breath. What is the perfect breath? It is the breath that is universally arrived at by any careful student of spiritual or physical health. For example, people reciting a Buddhist mantra, the Latin version of the rosary, and the Catholic prayer cycle of the Ave Maria all breathe between five and six breaths per minute during their prayer or mantra or meditation. And the body loves this length: researchers in one of these experiments connected sensors to measure the subject’s blood flow, heart rate, and nervous system activity. Whenever the chanters followed this slow breathing pattern and were in this zone of about 5.5 breaths per minute, blood flow to the brain increased and the functions of heart, circulation, and nervous system reached a state of peak efficiency and harmony. In other words, the systems in the body entered a state of coherence right around this number of about five and half second inhales and five and a half second exhales, which also works out to be about five and a half breaths per minute. This same phenomenon has been observed across cultures and time periods. Whether it is Buddhist monks chanting their popular mantra, "Om Mani Padme Hum", Jainist chants, the Kundalini chant of "Sa ta na ma", each of these takes five or six seconds to vocalize, followed by a five to six second inhale. In the Hindu tradition, "khechari" hand and tongue mudras which are purported to help bolster physical health and promote spiritual development, the practitioner places their tongue and hands in specified positions and take deep, you guessed it, slow and even breaths which each take between 5.5 and 6 seconds. This phenomenon has been observed as well in Hawaiian, Native American, Japanese, African, and Taoist cultures. They all arrived at the roughly the same techniques, each requiring the same breathing patterns. So let's practice it together!Pro tips: 1) Breathe in and out through your nose the whole time; 2) Move your belly and grow your torso in three dimensions with each breath. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Pythagoreans believed that the number 10 was sacred and perfect; that it symbolized God or Unity or Completeness. It turns out that the number ten, also roughly corresponds to the number of seconds it takes to breathe the "perfect" breath. What is the perfect breath? It is the breath that is universally arrived at by any careful student of spiritual or physical health. For example, people reciting a Buddhist mantra, the Latin version of the rosary, and the Catholic prayer cycle of the Ave Maria all breathe between five and six breaths per minute during their prayer or mantra or meditation. And the body loves this length: researchers in one of these experiments connected sensors to measure the subject’s blood flow, heart rate, and nervous system activity. Whenever the chanters followed this slow breathing pattern and were in this zone of about 5.5 breaths per minute, blood flow to the brain increased and the functions of heart, circulation, and nervous system reached a state of peak efficiency and harmony. In other words, the systems in the body entered a state of coherence right around this number of about five and half second inhales and five and a half second exhales, which also works out to be about five and a half breaths per minute. This same phenomenon has been observed across cultures and time periods. Whether it is Buddhist monks chanting their popular mantra, "Om Mani Padme Hum", Jainist chants, the Kundalini chant of "Sa ta na ma", each of these takes five or six seconds to vocalize, followed by a five to six second inhale. In the Hindu tradition, "khechari" hand and tongue mudras which are purported to help bolster physical health and promote spiritual development, the practitioner places their tongue and hands in specified positions and take deep, you guessed it, slow and even breaths which each take between 5.5 and six seconds. This phenomenon has been observed as well in Hawaiian, Native American, Japanese, African, and Taoist cultures. They all arrived at the roughly the same techniques, each requiring the same breathing patterns. So let's practice it together!Pro tips: 1) Breathe in and out through your nose the whole time; 2) Move your belly and grow your torso in three dimensions with each breath. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Pythagoreans believed that the number 10 was sacred and perfect; that it symbolized God or Unity or Completeness. It turns out that the number ten, also roughly corresponds to the number of seconds it takes to breathe the "perfect" breath. What is the perfect breath? It is the breath that is universally arrived at by any careful student of spiritual or physical health. For example, people reciting a Buddhist mantra, the Latin version of the rosary, and the Catholic prayer cycle of the Ave Maria all breathe between five and six breaths per minute during their prayer or mantra or meditation. And the body loves this length: researchers in one of these experiments connected sensors to measure the subject’s blood flow, heart rate, and nervous system activity. Whenever the chanters followed this slow breathing pattern and were in this zone of about 5.5 breaths per minute, blood flow to the brain increased and the functions of heart, circulation, and nervous system reached a state of peak efficiency and harmony. In other words, the systems in the body entered a state of coherence right around this number of about five and half second inhales and five and a half second exhales, which also works out to be about five and a half breaths per minute. This same phenomenon has been observed across cultures and time periods. Whether it is Buddhist monks chanting their popular mantra, "Om Mani Padme Hum", Jainist chants, the Kundalini chant of "Sa ta na ma", each of these takes five or six seconds to vocalize, followed by a five to six second inhale. In the Hindu tradition, "khechari" hand and tongue mudras which are purported to help bolster physical health and promote spiritual development, the practitioner places their tongue and hands in specified positions and take deep, you guessed it, slow and even breaths which each take between 5.5 and six seconds. This phenomenon has been observed as well in Hawaiian, Native American, Japanese, African, and Taoist cultures. They all arrived at the roughly the same techniques, each requiring the same breathing patterns. So let's practice it together!Pro tips: 1) Breathe in and out through your nose the whole time; 2) Move your belly and grow your torso in three dimensions with each breath. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Pythagoreans believed that the number 10 was sacred and perfect; that it symbolized God or Unity or Completeness. It turns out that the number ten, also roughly corresponds to the number of seconds it takes to breathe the "perfect" breath. What is the perfect breath? It is the breath that is universally arrived at by any careful student of spiritual or physical health. For example, people reciting a Buddhist mantra, the Latin version of the rosary, and the Catholic prayer cycle of the Ave Maria all breathe between five and six breaths per minute during their prayer or mantra or meditation. And the body loves this length: researchers in one of these experiments connected sensors to measure the subject’s blood flow, heart rate, and nervous system activity. Whenever the chanters followed this slow breathing pattern and were in this zone of about 5.5 breaths per minute, blood flow to the brain increased and the functions of heart, circulation, and nervous system reached a state of peak efficiency and harmony. In other words, the systems in the body entered a state of coherence right around this number of about five and half second inhales and five and a half second exhales, which also works out to be about five and a half breaths per minute.  This same phenomenon has been observed across cultures and time periods. Whether it is Buddhist monks chanting their popular mantra, "Om Mani Padme Hum", Jainist chants, the Kundalini chant of "Sa ta na ma", each of these takes five or six seconds to vocalize, followed by a five to six second inhale. In the Hindu tradition, "khechari" hand and tongue mudras which are purported to help bolster physical health and promote spiritual development, the practitioner places their tongue and hands in specified positions and take deep, you guessed it, slow and even breaths which each take between 5.5 and six seconds. This phenomenon has been observed as well in Hawaiian, Native American, Japanese, African, and Taoist cultures. They all arrived at the roughly the same techniques, each requiring the same breathing patterns. So let's practice it together!Pro tips: 1) Breathe in and out through your nose the whole time; 2) Move your belly and grow your torso in three dimensions with each breath. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The legendary Pythagoras from ancient Greece firmly believed that there was a beautiful underlying order to the universe. His insight was that this order was made of numbers and math and music. As far as we know, he was the first human being to have an insight which to this day drives the scientific method and the search for the numbers and deep mathematical relationships that explain the physical foundations of our universe. But Mr. P. took it further than a simple insight that the natural or physical world could be explained by math. He believed that Nature follows a rational, beautiful logic, and human beings for some mysterious reason are tuned in to it. I'll help you synch up to these sacred numbers of One, Two, Three and Four and tune in to the harmony underlying them in this meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The legendary Pythagoras from ancient Greece firmly believed that there was a beautiful underlying order to the universe. His insight was that this order was made of numbers and math and music. As far as we know, he was the first human being to have an insight which to this day drives the scientific method and the search for the numbers and deep mathematical relationships that explain physical foundations of our universe. But Mr. P. took it further than a simple insight that the natural or physical world could be explained by math. He believed that Nature follows a rational, beautiful logic, and human beings for some mysterious reason are tuned in to it. I'll help you synch up to these sacred numbers of One, Two, Three and Found and tune in to the harmony underlying them in this meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The legendary Pythagoras from ancient Greece firmly believed that there was a beautiful underlying order to the universe. His insight was that this order was made of numbers and math and music. As far as we know, he was the first human being to have an insight which to this day drives the scientific method and the search for the numbers and deep mathematical relationships that explain physical foundations of our universe. But Mr. P. took it further than a simple insight that the natural or physical world could be explained by math. He believed that Nature follows a rational, beautiful logic, and human beings for some mysterious reason are tuned in to it. I'll help you synch up to these sacred numbers of One, Two, Three and Found and tune in to the harmony underlying them in this meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The legendary Pythagoras from ancient Greece firmly believed that there was a beautiful underlying order to the universe. His insight was that this order was made of numbers and math and music. As far as we know, he was the first human being to have an insight which to this day drives the scientific method and the search for the numbers and deep mathematical relationships that explain physical foundations of our universe. But Mr. P. took it further than a simple insight that the natural or physical world could be explained by math. He believed that Nature follows a rational, beautiful logic, and human beings for some mysterious reason are tuned in to it. I'll help you synch up to these sacred numbers of One, Two, Three and Found and tune in to the harmony underlying them in this meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Distant Saturn represents the completion of the spiritual journey, the final stage of awakening. But most people aren't at this stage and can't just switch to this level of consciousness at the snap of the fingers. This also means that to do a meditation that will take you to this level has to begin lower down, at the heart center in this case, and then move up. In this meditation, you are guided gently along this path ascending to the remote, beautiful celestial sphere we call Saturn.The ancient Assyrians called Saturn “Lubadsagush” which means "the oldest of the old” perhaps because of its slow movement across the sky and steady, lugubrious twinkle. The ancient Greeks named Saturn after Kronos, Jupiter's father in their mythology, implying more seniority in the celestial hierarchy than the Jovial, stately Jupiter. In the Islamic tradition, Saturn is associated with Abraham, the father of Jewish people. So we can say that Saturn represents the Father, or the God-head, that we associate with our Crown Chakra. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Distant Saturn represents the completion of the spiritual journey, the final stage of awakening. But most people aren't at this stage and can't just switch to this level of consciousness at the snap of the fingers. This also means that to do a meditation that will take you to this level has to begin lower down, at the heart center in this case, and then move up. In this meditation, you are guided gently along this path ascending to the remote, beautiful celestial sphere we call Saturn.The ancient Assyrians called Saturn “Lubadsagush” which means "the oldest of the old” perhaps because of its slow movement across the sky and steady, lugubrious twinkle. The ancient Greeks named Saturn after Kronos, Jupiter's father in their mythology, implying more seniority in the celestial hierarchy than the Jovial, stately Jupiter. In the Islamic tradition, Saturn is associated with Abraham, the father of Jewish people. So we can say that Saturn represents the Father, or the God-head, that we associate with our Crown Chakra. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Distant Saturn represents the completion of the spiritual journey, the final stage of awakening. But most people aren't at this stage and can't just switch to this level of consciousness at the snap of the fingers. This also means that to do a meditation that will take you to this level has to begin lower down, at the heart center in this case, and then move up. In this meditation, you are guided gently along this path ascending to the remote, beautiful celestial sphere we call Saturn.The ancient Assyrians called Saturn “Lubadsagush” which means "the oldest of the old” perhaps because of its slow movement across the sky and steady, lugubrious twinkle. The ancient Greeks named Saturn after Kronos, Jupiter's father in their mythology, implying more seniority in the celestial hierarchy than the Jovial, stately Jupiter. In the Islamic tradition, Saturn is associated with Abraham, the father of Jewish people. So we can say that Saturn represents the Father, or the God-head, that we associate with our Crown Chakra. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Distant Saturn represents the completion of the spiritual journey, the final stage of awakening. But most people aren't at this stage and can't just switch to this level of consciousness at the snap of the fingers. This also means that to do a meditation that will take you to this level has to begin lower down, at the heart center in this case, and then move up. In this meditation, you are guided gently along this path ascending to the remote, beautiful celestial sphere we call Saturn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Distant Saturn represents the completion of the spiritual journey, the final stage of awakening. But most people aren't at this stage and can't just switch to this level of consciousness at the snap of the fingers. This also means that to do a meditation that will take you to this level has to begin lower down, at the heart center in this case, and then move up. In this meditation, you are guided gently along this path ascending to the remote, beautiful celestial sphere we call Saturn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wonder why the third eye Chakra is coded as the color Royal Blue? Jupiter, the Sky King, resonates with this frequency of light. In this meditation you can synch up with this frequency, with this color. The third eye is located at the center of the forehead, where sixth Chakra whirls away, and is associated not just with Royal Blue and the Jupiter of old, but also with the greatest prophets of old. Moses, Jesus, and Buddha are among those purported to have lived from this level of being. But this consciousness is not the domain just of extraordinary prophets. Each and every one of you can experience the unity and completeness characterized by this level of consciousness, or celestial sphere. This practice will help you on this journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wonder why the third eye Chakra is coded as the color Royal Blue? Jupiter, the Sky King, resonates with this frequency of light. In this meditation you can synch up with this frequency, with this color. The third eye is located at the center of the forehead, where sixth Chakra whirls away, and is associated not just with Royal Blue and the Jupiter of old, but also with the greatest prophets of old. Moses, Jesus, and Buddha are among those purported to have lived from this level of being. But this consciousness is not the domain just of extraordinary prophets. Each and every one of you can experience the unity and completeness characterized by this level of consciousness, or celestial sphere. This practice will help you on this journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wonder why the third eye Chakra is coded as the color Royal Blue? Jupiter, the Sky King, resonates with this frequency of light. In this meditation you can synch up with this frequency, with this color. The third eye is located at the center of the forehead, where sixth Chakra whirls away, and is associated not just with Royal Blue and the Jupiter of old, but also with the greatest prophets of old. Moses, Jesus, and Buddha are among those purported to have lived from this level of being. But this consciousness is not the domain just of extraordinary prophets. Each and every one of you can experience the unity and completeness characterized by this level of consciousness, or celestial sphere. This practice will help you on this journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wonder why the third eye Chakra is coded as the color Royal Blue? Jupiter, the Sky King, resonates with this frequency of light. In this meditation you can synch up with this frequency, with this color. The third eye is located at the center of the forehead, where sixth Chakra whirls away, and is associated not just with Royal Blue and the Jupiter of old, but also with the greatest prophets of old. Moses, Jesus, Buddha are among those purported to have lived from this level of being. But this consciousness is not the domain just of extraordinary prophets. Each and every one of you can experience the unity and completeness characterized by this level of consciousness, or celestial sphere. This practice will help you on this journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wonder why the third eye Chakra is coded as the color Royal Blue? Jupiter, the Sky King, resonates with this frequency of light. In this meditation you can synch up with this frequency, with this color. The third eye is located at the center of the forehead, where sixth Chakra whirls away, and is associated with the greatest prophets of old. Moses, Jesus, Buddha are among those purported to have lived from this level of being. But this consciousness is not the domain just of extraordinary prophets. Each and every one of you can experience the unity and completeness characterized by this level of consciousness, or celestial sphere. This practice will help you on this journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most people think of the red planet as the God of War or the quintessence of male energy. But this is misleading. Martian energy is raw, unbridled spiritual power. Whether you are a man or a woman, this energy belongs to you. It is true that it can express itself as discord, violence, or passion; but it can also manifest as an intense transformational and healing spirit. It is up to you to guide it in one direction or another. Let’s practice so you can learn to bring it under your control. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most people think of the red planet as the God of War or the quintessence of male energy. But this is misleading. Martian energy is raw, unbridled spiritual power. Whether you are a man or a woman, this energy belongs to you. It is true that it can express itself as discord, violence, or passion; but it can also manifest as an intense transformational and healing spirit. It is up to you to guide it in one direction or another. Let’s practice so you can learn to bring it under your control. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most people think of the red planet as the God of War or the quintessence of male energy. But this is misleading. Martian energy is raw, unbridled spiritual power. Whether you are a man or a woman, this energy belongs to you. It is true that it can express itself as discord, violence, or passion; but it can also manifest as an intense transformational and healing spirit. It is up to you to guide it in one direction or another. Let’s practice so you can learn to bring it under your control. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most people think of the red planet as the God of War or the quintessence of male energy. But this is misleading. Martian energy is raw, unbridled spiritual power. Whether you are a man or a woman, this energy belongs to you. It is true that it can express itself as discord, violence, or passion; but it can also manifest as an intense transformational and healing spirit. It is up to you to guide it in one direction or another. Let’s practice so you can learn to bring it under your control. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most people think of the red planet as the God of War or the quintessence of male energy. But this is misleading. Martian energy is raw, unbridled spiritual power. Whether you are a man or a woman, this energy belongs to you. It is true that it can express itself as discord, violence, or passion; but it can also manifest as an intense transformational and healing spirit. It is up to you to guide it in one direction or another. Let’s practice so you can learn to bring it under your control. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sun is the giver of life. But darkness is just as important. There is an energy in the Yin and Yang of darkness and light the propels life forward, that drives change and fluctuation. But all that movement and transformation is only at the surface. You can learn to cease your identification with the impermanence of phenomenal existence, to observe life flowing by, simply bearing witness to creation unfolding and tuning in to the light and the dark. This is the lesson of Buddha and Jesus, Lao Tzu and Hermes, shared here in a simple meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sun is the giver of life. But darkness is just as important. There is an energy in the Yin and Yang of darkness and light the propels life forward, that drives change and fluctuation. But all that movement and transformation is only at the surface. You can learn to cease your identification with the impermanence of phenomenal existence, to observe life flowing by, simply bearing witness to creation unfolding and tuning in to the light and the dark. This is the lesson of Buddha and Jesus, Lao Tzu and Hermes, shared here in a simple meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sun is the giver of life. But darkness is just as important. There is an energy in the Yin and Yang of darkness and light the propels life forward, that drives change and fluctuation. But all that movement and transformation is only at the surface. You can learn to cease your identification with the impermanence of phenomenal existence, to observe life flowing by, simply bearing witness to creation unfolding and tuning in to the light and the dark. This is the lesson of Buddha and Jesus, Lao Tzu and Hermes, shared here in a simple meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sun is the giver of life. But darkness is just as important. There is an energy in the Yin and Yang of darkness and light the propels life forward, that drives change and fluctuation. But all that movement and transformation is only at the surface. You can learn to cease your identification with the impermanence of phenomenal existence, to observe life flowing by, simply bearing witness to creation unfolding and tuning in to the light and the dark. This is the lesson of Buddha and Jesus, Lao Tzu and Hermes, made real in a simple practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sun is the giver of life. But darkness is just as important. There is an energy in the Yin and Yang of darkness and light the propels life forward, that drives change and fluctuation. But all that movement and transformation is only at the surface. You can learn to cease your identification with the impermanence of phenomenal existence, to observe life flowing by, simply bearing witness to creation unfolding. This is the lesson of Buddha and Jesus, Lao Tzu and Hermes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The planet Venus represents wisdom and peace and harmony. She also symbolizes beauty, love and relationships. But what do these words mean, really? How do they apply to your life? And is there any significance to them being associated with the second planet from the sun? This meditation will guide you through a practice which will open you to answers for these questions. In other words, through your own experience of opening your heart and accessing the subtle energies from the planet Venus you will come to understand the nature of Venus and her purpose not with your mind but with your heart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The planet Venus represents wisdom and peace and harmony. She also symbolizes beauty, love and relationships. But what do these words mean, really? How do they apply to your life? And is there any significance to them being associated with the second planet from the sun? This meditation will guide you through a practice which will open you to answers for these questions. In other words, through your own experience of opening your heart and accessing the subtle energies from the planet Venus you will come to understand the nature of Venus and her purpose not with your mind but with your heart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The planet Venus represents wisdom and peace and harmony. She also symbolizes beauty, love and relationships. But what do these words mean, really? How do they apply to your life? And is there any significance to them being associated with the second planet from the sun? This meditation will guide you through a practice which will open you to answers for these questions. In other words, through your own experience of opening your heart and accessing the subtle energies from the planet Venus you will come to understand the nature of Venus and her purpose not with your mind but with your heart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The planet Venus represents wisdom and peace and harmony. She also symbolizes beauty, love and relationships. But what do these words mean, really? How do they apply to your life? And is there any significance to them being associated with the second planet from the sun? This meditation will guide you through a practice which will open you to answers for these questions. In other words, through your own experience of opening your heart and accessing the subtle energies from the planet Venus you will come to understand the nature of Venus and her purpose not with your mind but with your heart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The planet Venus represents wisdom and peace and harmony. She also symbolizes beauty, love and relationships. But what do these words mean, really? How do they apply to your life? And is there any significance to them being associated with the second planet from the sun? This meditation will guide you through a practice which will open you to answers for these questions. In other words, through your own experience of opening your heart and accessing the subtle energies from the planet Venus you will come to understand the nature of Venus and her purpose not with your mind but with your heart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In ancient Mesopotamia, the Babylonians were among the first peoples in history to decode the secrets of the heavens, and to understand that the planets in the sky provided a sort of atlas to the inner world of the human mind (as Hermes Trismegestus wrote in the famed Emerald Tablet, "As above, so below."). The great Babylonian god Nabu was believed to be in the form of the planet we now call Mercury. He was the god of literacy, reason, speech and knowledge. As powerful as these tools of the mind are, they prove to be a serious impediment to advancing towards self-mastery. These mercurial patterns of mind are so ingrained that it is only through repeated training can we open ourselves to the worlds that lie beyond the planet Nabu (aka Mercury). This guided meditation is a start in that direction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In ancient Mesopotamia, the Babylonians were among the first peoples in history to decode the secrets of the heavens, and to understand that the planets in the sky provided a sort of atlas to the inner world of the human mind (as Hermes Trismegestus wrote in the famed Emerald Tablet, "As above, so below."). The great Babylonian god Nabu was believed to be in the form of the planet we now call Mercury. He was the god of literacy, reason, speech and knowledge. As powerful as these tools of the mind are, they prove to be a serious impediment to advancing towards self-mastery. These mercurial patterns of mind are so ingrained that it is only through repeated training can we open ourselves to the worlds that lie beyond the planet Nabu (aka Mercury). This guided meditation is a start in that direction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In ancient Mesopotamia, the Babylonians were among the first peoples in history to decode the secrets of the heavens, and to understand that the planets in the sky provided a sort of atlas to the inner world of the human mind (as Hermes Trismegestus wrote in the famed Emerald Tablet, "As above, so below."). The great Babylonian god Nabu was believed to be in the form of the planet we now call Mercury. He was the god of literacy, reason, speech and knowledge. As powerful as these tools of the mind are, they prove to be a serious impediment to advancing towards self-mastery. These mercurial patterns of mind are so ingrained that it is only through repeated training can we open ourselves to the worlds that lie beyond the planet Nabu (aka Mercury). This guided meditation is a start in that direction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In ancient Mesopotamia, the Babylonians were among the first peoples in history to decode the secrets of the heavens, and to understand that the planets in the sky provided a sort of atlas to the inner world of the human mind (as Hermes Trismegestus wrote in the famed Emerald Tablet, "As above, so below."). The great Babylonian god Nabu was believed to be in the form of the planet we now call Mercury. He was the god of literacy, reason, speech and knowledge. As powerful as these tools of the mind are, they prove to be a serious impediment to advancing towards self-mastery. These mercurial patterns of mind are so ingrained that it is only through repeated training can we open ourselves to the worlds that lie beyond the planet Nabu (aka Mercury). This guided meditation is a start in that direction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In ancient Mesopotamia, the Babylonians were among the first peoples in history to decode the secrets of the heavens, and to understand that the planets in the sky provided a sort of atlas to the inner world of the human mind (as Hermes Trismegestus wrote in the famed Emerald Tablet, "As above, so below."). The great Babylonian god Nabu was believed to be in the form of the planet we now call Mercury. He was the god of literacy, reason, speech and knowledge. As powerful as these tools of the mind are, they prove to be a serious impediment to advancing towards self-mastery. These mercurial patterns of mind are so ingrained that it is only through repeated training can we open ourselves to the worlds that lie beyond the planet Nabu (aka Mercury). This guided meditation is a start in that direction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The celestial spheres hold many lessons for us. The moon 🌕 teaches us about our subconscious and our emotional selves. Are you ready to move past the rollercoaster of your emotional life? Then listen in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The celestial spheres hold many lessons for us. The moon 🌕 teaches us about our subconscious and our emotional selves. Are you ready to move past the rollercoaster of your emotional life? Then listen in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The celestial spheres hold many lessons for us. The moon 🌕 teaches us about our subconscious and our emotional selves. Are you ready to move past the rollercoaster of your emotional life? Then listen in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Astrological significance of the moon has long been known to be connected with emotions and the subconscious. In this guided meditation the moon becomes a pivot point, an invitation to discover your higher self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Astrological significance of the moon has long been known to be connected with emotions and the subconscious. In this guided meditation the moon becomes a pivot point, an invitation to discover your higher self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Astrological significance of the moon has long been known to be connected with emotions and the subconscious. In this guided meditation we use the moon becomes a pivot point, an invitation to discover your higher self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Astrological significance of the moon has long been known to be connected with emotions and the subconscious. In this guided meditation we use the moon becomes a pivot point, an invitation to discover your higher self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Astrological significance of the moon has long been known to be connected with emotions and the subconscious. In this guided meditation the moon becomes a pivot point, an invitation to discover your higher self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For many thousands of years, humans looked down: their attention was bent towards the earth. But about 12,000 years ago the archeological records shows that something changed. The flood waters receded and the Neolithic package of grains and domesticable animals provided surpluses of food. Human society began to change and they began to shift their gaze upwards and contemplated the heavens. What they saw there is still reverberating through the ages to today. They discovered a map of the human soul, a roadmap for uncovering the hidden reality and infinite potential buried within each person. Join me on this journey. Allow me to help you draw aside the veil hiding your higher self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For many thousands of years, humans looked down: their attention was bent towards the earth. But about 12,000 years ago the archeological records shows that something changed. The flood waters receded and the Neolithic package of grains and domesticable animals provided surpluses of food. Human society began to change and they began to shift their gaze upwards and contemplated the heavens. What they saw there is still reverberating through the ages to today. They discovered a map of the human soul, a roadmap for uncovering the hidden reality and infinite potential buried within each person. Join me on this journey. Allow me to help you draw aside the veil hiding your higher self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For many thousands of years, humans looked down: their attention was bent towards the earth. But about 12,000 years ago the archeological records shows that something changed. The flood waters receded and the Neolithic package of grains and domesticable animals provided surpluses of food. Human society began to change and they began to shift their gaze upwards and contemplated the heavens. What they saw there is still reverberating through the ages to today. They discovered a map of the human soul, a roadmap for uncovering the hidden reality and infinite potential buried within each person. Join me on this journey. Allow me to help you draw aside the veil hiding your higher self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Empty your mind" is the refrain that is often repeated as guidance for how to meditate. Or bring "present moment awareness" to the "the now". Yet time and again when you do that, your mind wanders off somewhere. You start thinking about what you're going to do for dinner or what you are going to wear to work or about that big meeting or argument yesterday. Before we know it, you are lost in thought. But there is a very simple technique to teach your brain how to stop those persistent thoughts from taking over your attention. Practice with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Empty your mind" is the refrain that is often repeated as guidance for how to meditate. Or bring "present moment awareness" to the "the now". Yet time and again when you do that, your mind wanders off somewhere. You start thinking about what you're going to do for dinner or what you are going to wear to work or about that big meeting or argument yesterday. Before we know it, you are lost in thought. But there is a very simple technique to teach your brain how to stop those persistent thoughts from taking over your attention. Practice with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Empty your mind" is the refrain that is often repeated as guidance for how to meditate. Or bring "present moment awareness" to the "the now". Yet time and again when you do that, your mind wanders off somewhere. You start thinking about what you're going to do for dinner or what you are going to wear to work or about that big meeting or argument yesterday. Before we know it, you are lost in thought. But there is a very simple technique to teach your brain how to stop those persistent thoughts from taking over your attention. Practice with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Empty your mind" is the refrain that is often repeated as guidance for how to meditate. Or bring "present moment awareness" to the "the now". Yet time and again when you do that, your mind wanders off somewhere. You start thinking about what you're going to do for dinner or what you are going to wear to work or about that big meeting or argument yesterday. Before we know it, you are lost in thought. But there is a very simple technique to teach your brain how to stop those persistent thoughts from taking over your attention. Practice with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Empty your mind" is the refrain that is often repeated as guidance for how to meditate. Or bring "present moment awareness" to the "the now". Yet time and again when you do that, your mind wanders off somewhere. You start thinking about what you're going to do for dinner or what you are going to wear to work or about that big meeting or argument yesterday. Before we know it, you are lost in thought. But there is a very simple technique to teach your brain how to stop those persistent thoughts from taking over your attention. Practice with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something as simple as your breath can unlock the mysteries of your higher self. Reveal the "private face" of your mind through the ancient practice of stilling the mind. (This is a 60 minute version). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something as simple as your breath can unlock the mysteries of your higher self. Reveal the "private face" of your mind through the ancient practice of stilling the mind. (This is a 45 minute version). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something as simple as your breath can unlock the mysteries of your higher self. Reveal the "private face" of your mind through the ancient practice of stilling the mind. (This is a 30 minute version). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something as simple as your breath can unlock the mysteries of your higher self. Reveal the "private face" of your mind through the ancient practice of stilling the mind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is an invisible world that can be accessed with careful attention and a still mind. Listening to the song within silence is a good practice to open a window into this world. Try it with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is an invisible world that can be accessed with careful attention and a still mind. Listening to the song within silence is a good practice to open a window into this world. Try it with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is an invisible world that can be accessed with careful attention and a still mind. Listening to the song within silence is a good practice to open a window into this world. Try it with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is an invisible world that can be accessed with careful attention and a still mind. Listening to the song within silence is a good practice to open a window into this world. Try it with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is an invisible world that can be accessed with careful attention and a still mind. Listening to the song within silence is a good practice to open a window into this world. Try it with me now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you pay close enough attention, an entire universe will open up for you in the apparently simple experience of breathing. Being still and bringing a patient attention to the detail of breathing will unlock a veritable galaxy of sensation and insight. It is said of the smallest actual galaxies in our Universe that they hold the most dark matter. The same might be said for the cycle of a single breath. Try this meditation to discover this for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you pay close enough attention, an entire universe will open up for you in the apparently simple experience of breathing. Being still and bringing a patient attention to the detail of breathing will unlock a veritable galaxy of sensation and insight. It is said of the smallest actual galaxies in our Universe that they hold the most dark matter. The same might be said for the cycle of a single breath. Try this meditation to discover this for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you pay close enough attention, an entire universe will open up for you in the apparently simple experience of breathing. Being still and bringing a patient attention to the detail of breathing will unlock a veritable galaxy of sensation and insight. It is said of the smallest actual galaxies in our Universe that they hold the most dark matter. The same might be said for the cycle of a single breath. Try this meditation to discover this for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you pay close enough attention, an entire universe will open up for you in the apparently simple experience of breathing. Being still and bringing a patient attention to the detail of breathing will unlock a veritable galaxy of sensation and insight. It is said of the smallest actual galaxies in our Universe that they hold the most dark matter. The same might be said for the cycle of a single breath. Try this meditation to discover this for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is the tiniest house of time? Beyond the physical senses of the body, each of us possesses a so-called sixth sense that allows us to perceive dimensions beyond time and space. In the Hindu and Buddhist tantric traditions, they spoke of this as our third eye, or Ajna chakra (Ajna in English means "authority" or "command" or "to perceive"). It is only through Ajna chakra that we can perceive the answer to this question. The higher dimension or the so-called noumenal realm is the root or source of our visible reality. When the third eye is open, the hidden causal levels are revealed to our consciousness and the answers to questions such as what the tiniest house of time is can be answered. The vision of our conscious mind soars like an eagle high in the sky able to see horizon to horizon, allowing our perception to patch together the fractions of our normally foggy reality into a unified whole. A magnificent, pure and clear unity. From this place, the whole world is perceived as a pure land, a complex harmony, as a gigantic hologram in which everything is related to everything in such a perfect and beautiful way. In such a state we can be awakened to the wonder of the sacred act of creation and be filled with the gratitude and peace that accompanies such a vision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beyond the physical senses of the body, each of us possesses a so-called sixth sense that allows us to perceive dimensions beyond time and space. In the Hindu and Buddhist tantric traditions, they spoke of this as our third eye, or Ajna chakra (Ajna in English means "authority" or "command" or "to perceive"). This higher dimension or the so-called noumenal realm is the root or source of our visible reality. When the third eye is open, the hidden causal levels are revealed to our consciousness. The vision of our conscious mind soars like an eagle high in the sky able to see horizon to horizon, allowing our perception to patch together the fractions of our normally foggy reality into a unified whole. A magnificent, pure and clear unity. From this place, the whole world is perceived as a pure land, a complex harmony, as a gigantic hologram in which everything is related to everything in such a perfect and beautiful way. In such a state we can be awakened to the wonder of the sacred act of creation and be filled with the gratitude and peace that accompanies such a vision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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When we learn how to open the third eye we can see everything as it is and from the point of witness or observer. It means examining self-limiting ideas and developing wisdom that comes from a perspective that transcends the dualities, whether it be good or bad, black or white, or any other pair of opposites. In the Hindu and Buddhist tantric traditions, they spoke of this third eye as the Ajna chakra (Ajna in English means "authority" or "command" or "to perceive"). This higher dimension or the so-called noumenal realm is the root or source of our visible reality. When the third eye is open, the hidden causal levels are revealed to our consciousness. The vision of our conscious mind soars like an eagle high in the sky able to see horizon to horizon, allowing our perception to patch together the fractions of our normally foggy reality into a unified whole. A magnificent, pure and clear unity. From this place, the whole world is perceived as a pure land, a complex harmony, as a gigantic hologram in which everything is related to everything in such a perfect and beautiful way. In such a state we can be awakened to the wonder of the sacred act of creation and be filled with the gratitude and peace that accompanies such a vision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In addition to the five physical senses, each of us possesses a sixth sense that allows us to perceive dimensions beyond time and space. In the Hindu and Buddhist tantric traditions, they spoke of this as our third eye, or Ajna chakra (Ajna in English means "authority" or "command" or "to perceive"). This higher dimension or the so-called noumenal realm is the root or source of our visible reality. When the third eye is open, the hidden causal levels are revealed to our consciousness. The vision of our conscious mind soars like an eagle high in the sky able to see horizon to horizon, allowing our perception to patch together the fractions of our normally foggy reality into a unified whole. A magnificent, pure and clear unity. From this place, the whole world is perceived as a pure land, a complex harmony, as a gigantic hologram in which everything is related to everything in such a perfect and beautiful way. In such a state we can be awakened to the wonder of the sacred act of creation and be filled with the gratitude and peace that accompanies such a vision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this especially pure meditation, the fifth chakra is the focus. In the Hindu tantric tradition the fifth chakra is located in the throat area and is called the Vishuddhi (in English: "especially pure"). The gift of the fifth chakra is an intuitive knowing. It is the kind of knowing that gives you the power follow the path to your perfect life and the courage to express your authentic truth. These gifts belong to you but they must be earned through patience and stillness. Allow this guided meditation to be part of your practice of unlocking access to your intuitive self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the Hindu tantric tradition the fifth chakra is located in the throat area and is called the Vishuddhi (in English: "especially pure"). The gift of the fifth chakra is an intuitive knowing. It is the kind of knowing that gives you the power follow the path to your perfect life and the courage to express your authentic truth. These gifts belong to you but they must be earned through patience and stillness. Allow this guided meditation to be part of your practice of unlocking access to your intuitive self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The fifth chakra is located in the throat area and is called the Vishuddhi (in English: "especially pure") in the Hindu tantric tradition. The gift of the fifth chakra is an intuitive knowing. It is the kind of knowing that gives you the power follow the path to your perfect life and the courage to express your authentic truth. These gifts belong to you but they must be earned through patience and stillness. Allow this guided meditation to be part of your practice of unlocking access to your intuitive self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The fifth, or throat chakra is called the Vishuddhi (in English: "especially pure") in the Hindu tantric tradition. The gift of this chakra is an intuitive knowing which gives you the power follow the path to your perfect life and the courage to express your authentic truth. These gifts must be earned through patience and stillness. Allow this guided meditation to be part of this practice of unlocking access to your intuitive self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The gift of the fifth chakra is an intuitive knowing. It is the kind of knowing that gives you the power follow the path to your perfect life and the courage to express your authentic truth. These gifts belong to you but they must be earned through patience and stillness. Allow this guided meditation to be part of your practice of unlocking access to your intuitive self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Across time and culture and geography, the heart is repeatedly represented as the bridge between our higher, divine self and our lower, physical and mental self. Because it makes this bridge it is the mythical kings of ancient times in that it has knowledge of the divine wisdom of our higher self. But it won’t assert its power and dominance unless we invite it to speak and to guide us and to rule us. It is at the center of the human body and is the point around which everything else circulates. The heart pumps life sustaining blood to every corner of the body and this circulation is not just energetic or spiritual but also is physical. It is important to ensure that our heart chakra is open and healthy because when the center goes, everything is thrown off balance. If the king isn't permitted to rule, the kingdom will begin to fall apart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The heart represents the bridge between our higher, divine self and our lower, physical and mental self. Because it makes this bridge it is the mythical kings of ancient times in that it has knowledge of the divine wisdom of our higher self. But it won’t assert its power and dominance unless we invite it to speak and to guide us and to rule us. It is at the center of the human body and is the point around which everything else circulates. The heart pumps life sustaining blood to every corner of the body and this circulation is not just energetic or spiritual but also is physical. It is important to ensure that our heart chakra is open and healthy because when the center goes, everything is thrown off balance. If the king isn't permitted to rule, the kingdom will begin to fall apart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The heart is the place where information and power that is beyond time and space can be received by our conscious, thinking self. It is said to be the temple of the divine or the throne of the god within us. And it's job is to rule. Unfortunately it makes a reluctant, quiet ruler. But it pays to heed its guidance. It is at the center of the human body and is the point around which everything else circulates. The heart pumps life sustaining blood to every corner of the body and this circulation is not just energetic or spiritual but also is physical. It is important to ensure that our heart chakra is open and healthy because when the center goes, everything is thrown off balance. If the king isn't permitted to rule, the kingdom will begin to fall apart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In traditional Buddhist or Hindu tantric traditions the Fourth Chakra is called the Anahata Chakra. Anahata means "unhurt, unstruck, and unbeaten". As the translation suggests, Anahata is associated with balance, calmness, and serenity. The Fourth Chakra is also sometimes labeled the Air Chakra: the foundation of your life giving breath, lungs, heart (oxygen), and your sense of spaciousness. It is even credited with hormone production and playing an important role in the regulation of the immune system. The heart carries a special significance in cultures and spiritual traditions throughout the world. Your Heart Chakra is located in the center of your chest towards your spine, behind your sternum. Blockage of this chakra will manifest in your life as dysfunction in your relationships with others (think codependency, marital or friendship difficulties, jealousy, neediness or withdrawal, loneliness, etc.). Relatedly, it is said to govern the love of oneself and others, as well as the important sensibilities of compassion, forgiveness, grief, and wisdom.How can you imagine what the Heart Chakra is like? One way that humans perceive and talk about physical energy is through the form of energy we call light. Thanks to the principle of "as above, so below" we can use a similar framework when talking about the parts of your energetic body. When a prism splits a ray of light you see the familiar spread of colors: the fast, tight bandwidth of violet on the top of the rainbow stack, followed by indigo and then blue, green and yellow and then finally down on the very bottom, orange light fading into the slow, wide band wavelengths of the color red. Your energetic body is like this rainbow of light. In this way of visualizing your energetic body, the heart chakra lies at the center of this light body just as green lies in the center of the rainbow. The root, naval, and solar plexus chakras lie below your heart chakra and correspond to the red, orange and yellow colors of the rainbow spectrum. Your throat, third eye and crown chakra lie above it and correspond to blue, indigo and violet or white light.From the perspective of the human brain, something strange happens in the center of the light spectrum. And the same goes with your energetic body. The heart chakra is the gateway between the higher and lower self, i.e. the physical world most of us experience as all there is and the spiritual dimensions that lie above. Thanks to this special positioning, the heart chakra not only bears the color green in typical understandings and visualizations of your energetic body, but it also can be described as pink. Strangely enough, pink doesn’t exist as a color in the light spectrum; that is to say it doesn’t have a frequency like the other colors or appear in a rainbow. Pink is the mixture of the Red light dominance of your first chakras and the white light dominance of your crown chakra. The center reflects the mixing of the two ends. The energetic realm is difficult to comprehend and doesn't precisely correspond with the physical form of light but using rainbow colors helps visualize our energetic bodies For example, the way that there is not top or bottom or middle or higher or lower when it comes to light helps you not get stuck on dimensionality of our energetic body. The radical and confusing nature of this truth pops out in this strange combination of green and pink in the fourth chakra. Let’s call pink green’s secret twin. You can play with these features of your heart chakra in this guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your Heart Chakra is located in the center of your chest towards your spine, behind your sternum. Blockage of this chakra will manifest in your life as dysfunction in your relationships with others (think codependency, marital or friendship difficulties, jealousy, neediness or withdrawal, loneliness, etc.). Relatedly, it is said to govern the love of oneself and others, as well as the important sensibilities of compassion, forgiveness, grief, and wisdom. In traditional Buddhist or Hindu tantric traditions the Fourth Chakra is called the Anahata Chakra. Anahata means "unhurt, unstruck, and unbeaten". As the translation suggests, Anahata is associated with balance, calmness, and serenity. The Fourth Chakra is also sometimes labeled the Air Chakra: the foundation of your life giving breath, lungs, heart (oxygen), and your sense of spaciousness. It is even credited with hormone production and playing an important role in the regulation of the immune system.How can you imagine what the Heart Chakra is like? One way that humans perceive and talk about physical energy is through the form of energy we call light. Thanks to the principle of "as above, so below" we can use a similar framework when talking about the parts of your energetic body. When a prism splits a ray of light you see the familiar spread of colors: the fast, tight bandwidth of violet on the top of the rainbow stack, followed by indigo and then blue, green and yellow and then finally down on the very bottom, orange light fading into the slow, wide band wavelengths of the color red. Your energetic body is like this rainbow of light. In this way of visualizing your energetic body, the heart chakra lies at the center of this light body just as green lies in the center of the rainbow. The root, naval, and solar plexus chakras lie below your heart chakra and correspond to the red, orange and yellow colors of the rainbow spectrum. Your throat, third eye and crown chakra lie above it and correspond to blue, indigo and violet or white light.From the perspective of the human brain, something strange happens in the center of the light spectrum. And the same goes with your energetic body. The heart chakra is the gateway between the higher and lower self, i.e. the physical world most of us experience as all there is and the spiritual dimensions that lie above. Thanks to this special positioning, the heart chakra not only bears the color green in typical understandings and visualizations of your energetic body, but it also can be described as pink. Strangely enough, pink doesn’t exist as a color in the light spectrum; that is to say it doesn’t have a frequency like the other colors or appear in a rainbow. Pink is the mixture of the Red light dominance of your first chakras and the white light dominance of your crown chakra. The center reflects the mixing of the two ends. The energetic realm is difficult to comprehend and doesn't precisely correspond with the physical form of light but using rainbow colors helps visualize our energetic bodies For example, the way that there is not top or bottom or middle or higher or lower when it comes to light helps you not get stuck on dimensionality of our energetic body. The radical and confusing nature of this truth pops out in this strange combination of green and pink in the fourth chakra. Let’s call pink green’s secret twin. You can play with these features of your heart chakra in this guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every major spiritual tradition has this same metaphor of the heart as the point of connection with God or the higher self. In the Hindu and Buddhist tantric traditions this heart-bridge is called the Anahata or Fourth Chakra. In the Koran the heart or Qalb is referred to over 100 times and in the Bible, heart or Lebab, is mentioned over 1000 times and is also seen as the seat of intuition or the throne of God. It clearly isn't the physical heart that is being referenced. So what are they talking about? Each of these great traditions recognized that if we want to get in touch with our higher self the best place to turn is the energetic bridge to that connects our higher and lower selves: our heart. But to do that you can't just read about it. You have to silence your emotions and still your thoughts long enough to hear your heart’s wisdom. it will speak to you if you are still enough and patient enough--and courageous enough to hear what it has to say (which is often not what you want or expect). You have to let go of needing to be right or wanting to be heard or needing to control situations or expecting your version of justice to prevail. Slowing down and handing over your decisions to the wisdom of your heart will unlock your best life. But you have to let go and trust in its wisdom. This is not easy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyone has heard the phrase "follow your heart". But what does that mean? And where does it come from? It turns out that regardless of place or time, all the major spiritual traditions have this same metaphor of the heart as the point of connection with God or the higher self. In the Hindu and Buddhist tantric traditions this heart-bridge is called the Anahata or Fourth Chakra. In the Koran the heart or Qalb is referred to over 100 times and in the Bible, heart or Lebab, is mentioned over 1000 times and is also seen as the seat of intuition or the throne of God. It clearly isn't the physical heart that is being referenced. So what are they talking about? Each of these great traditions recognized that if we want to get in touch with our higher self the best place to turn is the energetic bridge to that connects our higher and lower selves: our heart. But to do that you can't just read about it. You have to silence your emotions and still your thoughts long enough to hear your heart’s wisdom. it will speak to you if you are still enough and patient enough--and courageous enough to hear what it has to say (which is often not what you want or expect). You have to let go of needing to be right or wanting to be heard or needing to control situations or expecting your version of justice to prevail. Slowing down and handing over your decisions to the wisdom of your heart will unlock your best life. But you have to let go and trust in its wisdom. This is not easy. This guided meditation will help you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Follow your heart" is an oft repeated piece of advice. But why do people say that? And where does it come from? It turns out that regardless of place or time, all the major spiritual traditions have this same metaphor of the heart as the point of connection with God or the higher self. In the Hindu and Buddhist tantric traditions this heart-bridge is called the Anahata or Fourth Chakra. In the Koran the heart or Qalb is referred to over 100 times and in the Bible, heart or Lebab, is mentioned over 1000 times and is also seen as the seat of intuition or the throne of God. It clearly isn't the physical heart that is being referenced. So what are they talking about? Each of these great traditions recognized that if we want to get in touch with our higher self the best place to turn is the energetic bridge to that connects our higher and lower selves: our heart. But to do that you can't just read about it. You have to silence your emotions and still your thoughts long enough to hear your heart’s wisdom. it will speak to you if you are still enough and patient enough--and courageous enough to hear what it has to say (which is often not what you want or expect). You have to let go of needing to be right or wanting to be heard or needing to control situations or expecting your version of justice to prevail. Slowing down and handing over your decisions to the wisdom of your heart will unlock your best life. But you have to let go and trust in its wisdom. This is not easy. This guided meditation will help you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The life of Jesus holds a profound mystery within it that can be used to unlock an experience of peace and contentment for you. Broadly speaking, Easter commemorates four key parts of the Jesus phenomenon: 1) his Incarnation; 2) his Passion (betrayal, trial, torture and death); 3) his Resurrection; and 4) his Ascension. This guided meditation loosely follows this four part sequence minus the Christian overtones. The first part takes inspiration from the first line of the Christian and Jewish bible "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1). There was darkness and then there was light. The second part extrapolates from the story of Jesus' suffering into a contemplation of our own experience of physical pain or mental anguish. Mirroring the experience of Jesus transcending the pain and resurrecting back into his physical form but unburdened of his suffering, the third part of the meditation takes advantage of your inherent power to move your awareness from pain and suffering to peace and love. And the final part, in keeping with the idea of Jesus' return to the godhead, guides you through a series of exercises to unleash at least a small taste of what that ascension is like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Even though this is not a religious podcast, the religions of the world contain within them profound secrets to human existence: to its purpose and meaning. The life of Jesus is a great example of a mystery that can be used to unlock an experience of peace and contentment. Broadly speaking, Easter commemorates four key parts of the Jesus phenomenon: 1) his Incarnation; 2) his Passion (betrayal, trial, torture and death); 3) his Resurrection; and 4) his Ascension. This guided meditation loosely follows this four part sequence minus the Christian overtones. The first part takes inspiration from the first line of the Christian and Jewish bible "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1). There was darkness and then there was light. The second part extrapolates from the story of Jesus' suffering into a contemplation of our own experience of physical pain or mental anguish. Mirroring the experience of Jesus transcending the pain and resurrecting back into his physical form but unburdened of his suffering, the third part of the meditation takes advantage of your inherent power to move your awareness from pain and suffering to peace and love. And the final part, in keeping with the idea of Jesus' return to the godhead, guides you through a series of exercises to unleash at least a small taste of what that ascension is like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is not a religious podcast but the life of Jesus holds a profound mystery within it that can be used to unlock an experience of peace and contentment. Broadly speaking, Easter commemorates four key parts of the Jesus phenomenon: 1) his Incarnation; 2) his Passion (betrayal, trial, torture and death); 3) his Resurrection; and 4) his Ascension. This guided meditation loosely follows this four part sequence minus the Christian overtones. The first part takes inspiration from the first line of the Christian and Jewish bible "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1). There was darkness and then there was light. The second part extrapolates from the story of Jesus' suffering into a contemplation of our own experience of physical pain or mental anguish. Mirroring the experience of Jesus transcending the pain and resurrecting back into his physical form but unburdened of his suffering, the third part of the meditation takes advantage of your inherent power to move your awareness from pain and suffering to peace and love. And the final part, in keeping with the idea of Jesus' return to the godhead, guides you through a series of exercises to unleash at least a small taste of what that ascension is like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesus' life story holds a profound mystery within it that can be used to unlock an experience of peace and contentment for you. Broadly speaking, Easter commemorates four key parts of the Jesus phenomenon: 1) his Incarnation; 2) his Passion (betrayal, trial, torture and death); 3) his Resurrection; and 4) his Ascension. This guided meditation loosely follows this four part sequence minus the Christian overtones. The first part takes inspiration from the first line of the Christian and Jewish bible "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1). There was darkness and then there was light. The second part extrapolates from the story of Jesus' suffering into a contemplation of our own experience of physical pain or mental anguish. Mirroring the experience of Jesus transcending the pain and resurrecting back into his physical form but unburdened of his suffering, the third part of the meditation takes advantage of your inherent power to move your awareness from pain and suffering to peace and love. And the final part, in keeping with the idea of Jesus' return to the godhead, guides you through a series of exercises to unleash at least a small taste of what that ascension is like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Palm Sunday, through Good Friday and Easter Sunday, the Christian Easter week celebrates the life of Jesus. This Holy week holds a profound mystery within it that can be used to unlock an experience of peace and contentment for you, regardless of your religious convictions (or lack thereof). Broadly speaking, Easter commemorates four key parts of the Jesus phenomenon: 1) his Incarnation; 2) his Passion (betrayal, trial, torture and death); 3) his Resurrection; and 4) his Ascension. This guided meditation loosely follows this four part sequence minus the Christian overtones. The first part takes inspiration from the first line of the Christian and Jewish bible "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1). There was darkness and then there was light. The second part extrapolates from the story of Jesus' suffering into a contemplation of our own experience of physical pain or mental anguish. Mirroring the experience of Jesus transcending the pain and resurrecting back into his physical form but unburdened of his suffering, the third part of the meditation takes advantage of your inherent power to move your awareness from pain and suffering to peace and love. And the final part, in keeping with the idea of Jesus' return to the godhead, guides you through a series of exercises to unleash at least a small taste of what that ascension is like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thich Nhat Hanh is a revered Buddhist monk from Vietnam. One of his more memorable Dharma talks is based on the buddhist notion that beauty and filth are concepts in our minds. They are representations that we use to affix a skin to the surface of reality. The truth is that beauty and filth are two halves of single whole. If you look deeply enough at a rose and rubbish, you will see that they are one and the same. We can uncover this truth through a mind training technique known as ‘cognitive dissonance’. The mind naturally holds onto energies. It uses emotions to unconsciously sustain tension and fear. It is doing this to keep us at the ready, to protect us from harm in the short term. But over time, this tension or fear can result in ill health and harmful negativity in our life. But the mind and the body can also let go. It’s just that sometimes it takes a little coaxing, a little bit of brain hacking. ‘Cognitive dissonance’ is just such a technique. The mind can’t hold on to two opposite ideas or instructions simultaneously. This is why in this meditation we instruct it in these opposites using the images of roses and garbage. Try it and experience your tension melt away. Like a gentle massage back and forth on knotted muscles, this guided meditation will help release the tension in your emotional and physical self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches thatt the beauty of a rose and the filth of garbage 'inter-be". Beauty and filth are concepts in our minds. They are representations that we use to affix a skin to the surface of reality. The truth is that beauty and filth are two halves of single whole. If you look deeply enough at a rose and rubbish, you will see that they are one and the same. We can uncover this truth through a mind training technique known as ‘cognitive dissonance’. The mind naturally holds onto energies. It uses emotions to unconsciously sustain tension and fear. It is doing this to keep us at the ready, to protect us from harm in the short term. But over time, this tension or fear can result in ill health and harmful negativity in our life. But the mind and the body can also let go. It’s just that sometimes it takes a little coaxing, a little bit of brain hacking. ‘Cognitive dissonance’ is just such a technique. The mind can’t hold on to two opposite ideas or instructions simultaneously. This is why in this meditation we instruct it in these opposites. Try it and experience your tension melt away. Like a gentle massage back and forth on knotted muscles, this guided meditation will help release the tension in your emotional and physical self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh used to give a Dharma talk about the beauty of a rose and the filth of garbage. He taught that these are concepts in our minds. They are representations that we use to affix a skin to the surface of reality. The truth is that beauty and filth are two halves of single whole. If you look deeply enough at a rose and rubbish, you will see that they are one and the same. We can uncover this truth through a mind training technique known as ‘cognitive dissonance’. The mind naturally holds onto energies. It uses emotions to unconsciously sustain tension and fear. It is doing this to keep us at the ready, to protect us from harm in the short term. But over time, this tension or fear can result in ill health and harmful negativity in our life. But the mind and the body can also let go. It’s just that sometimes it takes a little coaxing, a little bit of brain hacking. ‘Cognitive dissonance’ is just such a technique. The mind can’t hold on to two opposite ideas or instructions simultaneously. This is why in this meditation we instruct it in these opposites. Try it and experience your tension melt away. Like a gentle massage back and forth on knotted muscles, this guided meditation will help release the tension in your emotional and physical self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The beauty of a rose. The filth of garbage. These are concepts in our minds. They are representations that we use to affix a skin to the surface of reality. The truth is that beauty and filth are two halves of single whole. If you look deeply enough at a rose and rubbish, you will see that they are one and the same. We can uncover this truth through a mind training technique known as ‘cognitive dissonance’. The mind naturally holds onto energies. It uses emotions to unconsciously sustain tension and fear. It is doing this to keep us at the ready, to protect us from harm in the short term. But over time, this tension or fear can result in ill health and harmful negativity in our life. But the mind and the body can also let go. It’s just that sometimes it takes a little coaxing, a little bit of brain hacking. ‘Cognitive dissonance’ is just such a technique. The mind can’t hold on to two opposite ideas or instructions simultaneously. This is why in this meditation we instruct it in these opposites. Try it and experience your tension melt away. Like a gentle massage back and forth on knotted muscles, this guided meditation will help release the tension in your emotional and physical self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The mind naturally holds onto energies. It uses emotions to unconsciously sustain tension and fear as a basic survival mechanism. It is doing this to keep us at the ready, to protect us from harm in the short term. This has been an evolutionarily successful strategy. But over time, this tension or fear can result in ill health and harmful negativity in our life. Evolution selected for more genes produced over happier, more contented minds. Fortunately, the mind and the body can also let go. It’s just that sometimes it takes a little coaxing, a little bit of brain hacking. ‘Cognitive dissonance’ is just such a technique. The mind can’t hold on to two opposite ideas or instructions simultaneously. This is why in this meditation we instruct it in these opposites. Try it and experience your tension melt away. Like a gentle massage back and forth on knotted muscles, this guided meditation will help release the tension in your emotional and physical self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The great masters of old taught that each of us has a divine self within us. It is a beautiful, bountiful, and joyful part of our self that awaits awakening. One of these great masters, harkening from Persia in the second millennium BCE, was Zarathushtra (Zoroaster). The wisdom he gained from his awakening resonates with us even today, thousands of years after he penned the famous "Gathas" tome. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 60 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true, beautiful self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the lands of Eastern Iran, sometime in the second millennium BCE, a great spiritual master named Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) awakened to the true nature of reality and uncovered the meaning of life itself. The wisdom he gained from his illumination resonate with us even today, thousands of years after he penned the famous "Gathas" tome. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 45 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true, beautiful self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Walking the lands of Eastern Iranian plateau sometime in the second millennium BCE, ancient Iran's Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) was one of humanity's greatest mystics and spiritual masters. The wisdom he gained from his awakening resonate with us even today, thousands of years after he penned the famous "Gathas" tome. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 30 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true, beautiful self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Gathas, traditionally attributed to ancient Iran's Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) himself, is one of humanity's greatest literary and mystical monuments. Its author is on a mission to share the truth about reality and human's true nature and in the verses, preserved since the second millennium BCE, he sets down this profound wisdom from ancient Persia. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 20 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ancient Iran's Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) was one of humanity's greatest mystics and spiritual masters. Walking the lands of Eastern Iranian plateau sometime in the second millennium BCE, he experienced a profound awakening and shared his insights which even today, thousands of years after his death, are practiced by nearly two hundred thousands Zoroastrians around the world. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 10 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This 60 minute guided meditation will help you to break the pattern of negative emotions that impact your life. We are focused here on situations where your emotional response, from the perspective of someone outside the situation looking in, wasn’t a fit with what was going on. An event where you reacted to the situation in a way that now you aren’t proud of or would like to have behaved differently. It is designed for situations in life where it seems like your emotions are out of hand and you feel out of control of what you are doing or how you are feeling. Maybe you yelled at your spouse or got angry at work or you are eating too much or drinking more than you should. Maybe you keep waking up in the night or can’t go to sleep in the first place because you are anxious about something going on in your life. Or perhaps you just feel sad and lonely all the time and there is no good reason for it. Maybe you feel that way right now. If so, that’s ok, we can use that.This technique starts from the premise that your life experience can change and that the change begins inside your own mind. If you can change what is happening on the inside, almost as by a miracle, you will witness the outside start to change around you. The idea is that if you are feeling any negative emotions, there is a bug in your software, a set of connections in your mind that are wired incorrectly. Your subconscious or emotional self, is confused and doesn’t understand something. So we are going to be doing a series of exercises in this guided meditation that will help your emotional self disconnect some incorrectly made associations. In a way, we could think of these negative feelings as our subconscious mind’s way of asking us for our help. If the feelings are bad enough, maybe we’ll pay attention and slow down enough to listen to what the problem is so that we can release it and our higher self can take command. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The premise behind this 45 minute guided meditation is the fact that your life experience can change and that the change begins inside your own mind. If you can change what is happening on the inside, almost as by a miracle, you will witness the outside start to change around you. The idea is that if you are feeling any negative emotions, there is a bug in your software, a set of connections in your mind that are wired incorrectly. Your subconscious or emotional self, is confused and doesn’t understand something. So we are going to be doing a series of exercises in this guided meditation that will help your emotional self disconnect some incorrectly made associations. In a way, we could think of these negative feelings as our subconscious mind’s way of asking us for our help. If the feelings are bad enough, maybe we’ll pay attention and slow down enough to listen to what the problem is so that we can release it and our higher self can take command. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The training method we will be using in this 30 minute guided meditation is for anyone that is ready to let go of unwanted feelings or emotional responses that don’t fit the situation. It starts from the premise that your life experience can change and that the change begins inside your own mind. If you can change what is happening on the inside, almost as by a miracle, you will witness the outside start to change around you. The idea is that if you are feeling any negative emotions, there is a bug in your software, a set of connections in your mind that are wired incorrectly. Your subconscious or emotional self, is confused and doesn’t understand something. So we are going to be doing a series of exercises in this guided meditation that will help your emotional self disconnect some incorrectly made associations. In a way, we could think of these negative feelings as our subconscious mind’s way of asking us for our help. If the feelings are bad enough, maybe we’ll pay attention and slow down enough to listen to what the problem is so that we can release it and our higher self can take command.Before we get started, you are going to need a specific situation to work with. We are going to be working with this one memory for the whole session so make sure you have a specific, very recent or very vivid incident in mind. Unless the incident is pressing on your mind or has just happened, generally speaking it is best to do this exercise when you are fresh and alert. So if the incident isn’t fresh in your mind and it is late and you are feeling sleepy or you have just had a big meal or a couple of drinks, now may not be the time for this technique. A nap might be better therapy in that case!You will need to think of a time when you were feeling overly worried relative to what was happening in your life or a memory of when you got angry or you were hurt by someone; where you felt unhappy, fearful, anxious, lonely, betrayed, trapped or overwhelmed by disappointment or hopelessness or shame.If your life really was in danger, then that is something different. We are focused here on situations where your emotional response, from the perspective of someone outside the situation looking in, wasn’t a fit with what was going on. An event where you reacted to the situation in a way that now you aren’t proud of or would like to have behaved differently. It is designed for situations in life where it seems like your emotions are out of hand and you feel out of control of what you are doing or how you are feeling. Maybe you yelled at your spouse or got angry at work or you are eating too much or drinking more than you should. Maybe you keep waking up in the night or can’t go to sleep in the first place because you are anxious about something going on in your life. Or perhaps you just feel sad and lonely all the time and there is no good reason for it. Maybe you feel that way right now. If so, that’s ok, we can use that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This 20 minute guided meditation / mind training exercise starts from the premise that your life experience can change and that the change begins inside your own mind. If you can change what is happening on the inside, almost as by a miracle, you will witness the outside start to change around you. The idea is that if you are feeling any negative emotions, there is a bug in your software, a set of connections in your mind that are wired incorrectly. So can listen to this guided training meditation to be taken through a series of exercises that are designed to help your subconscious mind disconnect some incorrect associations. A word of caution: these meditations can bring up some very strong past emotions. Please proceed with care and seek professional help if you do have serious traumas to deal with. For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena Happy Life podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The purpose of this 10 minute guided meditation is to break the pattern of negative emotions that afflict you. We are focused here on situations where your emotional response, from the perspective of someone outside the situation looking in, wasn’t a fit with what was going on. An event where you reacted to the situation in a way that now you aren’t proud of or would like to have behaved differently. It is designed for situations in life where it seems like your emotions are out of hand and you feel out of control of what you are doing or how you are feeling. Maybe you yelled at your spouse or got angry at work or you are eating too much or drinking more than you should. Maybe you keep waking up in the night or can’t go to sleep in the first place because you are anxious about something going on in your life. Or perhaps you just feel sad and lonely all the time and there is no good reason for it. Maybe you feel that way right now. If so, that’s ok, we can use that.This technique starts from the premise that your life experience can change and that the change begins inside your own mind. If you can change what is happening on the inside, almost as by a miracle, you will witness the outside start to change around you. The idea is that if you are feeling any negative emotions, there is a bug in your software, a set of connections in your mind that are wired incorrectly. Your subconscious or emotional self, is confused and doesn’t understand something. So we are going to be doing a series of exercises in this guided meditation that will help your emotional self disconnect some incorrectly made associations. In a way, we could think of these negative feelings as our subconscious mind’s way of asking us for our help. If the feelings are bad enough, maybe we’ll pay attention and slow down enough to listen to what the problem is so that we can release it and our higher self can take command. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your power to heal yourself is extraordinary. For example, much suffering comes from unconscious holding on to painful personal histories. One method is to simply let go of that holding. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, traditional Hawaiian practices teach that each person unconsciously participates in a holding on to a sort of shadow cable ("aka"). Until the aka cord was consciously severed ('oki) or untied ("kala"), discord or neuroses would manifest in the person's body or life. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 60 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is called a Kala meditation or also sometimes an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After some harm has been done or wrong committed, traditional Hawaiian practices teach that each person unconsciously participates in a holding on to a sort of shadow cable ("aka"). Until the aka cord was consciously severed ('oki) or untied ("kala"), discord or neuroses would manifest in the person's body or life. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 45 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is called a Kala meditation or also sometimes an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ritual practice has provided a means of releasing suffering and ending emotional or physical distress for millenia. Hawaiian traditions preserve soe of these ancient practices and the Kala Meditation is a very powerful one that has been handed down to us through the memories of Hawaiian elders. Kala means to release or untie in Hawaiian. Traditional Hawaiian cultures believed that when one person wronged another the two were bound by a shadow (or "aka") cord until the cord was consciously severed or untied. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, each person unconsciously participates in this holding on to each side of the cable. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 30 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is also sometimes called an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kala means to release or untie in Hawaiian. Traditional Hawaiian cultures believed that when one person wronged another the two were bound by a figurative or shadow (or "aka") cord until the cord was consciously severed or untied. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, each person unconsciously participates in this holding on to each side of the cable. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 20 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is also sometimes called an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Traditional Hawaiian cultures believed that when one person wronged another the two were bound by a figurative or shadow (or "aka") cord. Until the cord was consciously severed ('oki) or untied ("kala") discord or neuroses would manifest. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, each person unconsciously participates in this holding on to each side of the cable. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 10 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is also sometimes called an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We can use the breath as our guide to our higher chakras. In our lives, each of us is born and then we grow up, and then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, our bodies expand with life giving air as we breathe in and contract as we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 60 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The human life follows a predictable pattern, varying only in the details. We are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, we breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 45 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The breath is our teacher. Just as our breath is born, grows, shrinks and dies, we are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, we breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 30 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The breath is like a microcosm for life. We are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 20 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We can use the breath as our teacher. We are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, we breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 10 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meditation can be used wherever you are, whenever you like to settle your mind and relax your body. In spite of the sound quality of this 20 minute recording not being ideal (it was captured during a group session in a glass-walled room) it will provide a rapid transport away from the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Use this meditation to settle your mind and relax your body. In spite of the sound quality of this 10 minute recording not being ideal (it was captured during a group session in a glass-walled room) it will provide a rapid transport away from the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you would like to feel connected with others, you don't have to have them physically present. They can even be passed away and you can re-establish your loving connection with them. If you are meditating with a group that is physically present together, it works just as well and this is a simple meditation that you can do together. It works whether there are just two of you or many more and it works whether the group is physically together or not. (Apologies for the poor audio quality--most of the people in this meditation were on the phone so it was recorded over the phone line!). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just as we want to understand the nature of reality and we search for meaning and peace and health and joy in our lives, so the men and women of ancient times sought answers to these very same questions and methods of reaching these states of mind. The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) revealed the secret methods of the Ancient Egyptians in a series of scrolls in the early centuries of the first millennium in the Great library of Alexandria. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. In this 60 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life.Background reading:The Way of HermesThe Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) represented a carrier of wisdom from Ancient Egypt. These scrolls found a home in the libraries of Alexandria during the early centuries of the first millennium. In this text the secrets of happiness and peace and the very nature of reality were revealed. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. In this 45 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life.Background reading:The Way of HermesThe Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The wisdom of Ancient Egypt found a home in the libraries of Alexandria during the early centuries of the first millennium. A collection of works attributed to the Egyptian god Thoth (aka Hermes) were among the many hundreds of thousands of scrolls in that great city of old. And in this text the secrets of happiness and peace and the very nature of reality were revealed. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. In this 30 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life.Background reading:The Way of HermesThe Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this 20 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life. The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) revealed the secret methods of the Ancient Egyptians in a series of scrolls in the early centuries of the first millennium in the Great library of Alexandria. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching.Background reading:The Way of HermesThe Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) revealed the secret methods of the Ancient Egyptians in a series of scrolls in the early centuries of the first millennium in the Great library of Alexandria. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. In this 10 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life.Background reading:The Way of HermesThe Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Khorasan is a region in north eastern Iran that was home to the great medieval poet Farid Ud-Din Attar. But there were many poets and mystics like him who laid down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set free our soul. It is a royal way and no mind can penetrate the sovereign whom we seek. The mystery of this unending state remains forever out of reach of the intellect. So you have to leave your mind behind on this journey. And that is what we do in this guided meditation. You will pass through the seven valleys of this mystical framework. At each one shed an aspect of mind so that by the end you are ready to witness the dazzling perfection of Truth. The inspiration for this guided meditation are the great Islamic masters like Rabi'a, Ibn 'Arabi, Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani , Jalaluddin Rumi, and above all (in this meditation) Farid Ud-Din Attar. This is a 60 minute version.Valley 1: The Valley of the QuestValley 2: The Valley of DesireValley 3: The Valley of the IntellectValley 4: Mystic Apprehension & DetachmentValley 5: HarmonyValley 6: BewildermentValley 7: AnnihilationBackground reading:The Conference of the Birds (Farid Ud-Din Attar)The Secret of Secrets (Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani)Rab'ia of Basra: Selected PoemsI Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy (Hafez) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The middle ages in the Islamic world witnessed an extraordinary flowering of human spiritual development. There were several extraordinary men and women lay down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set free our soul. It is a royal way and no mind can penetrate the sovereign whom we seek. The mystery of this unending state remains forever out of reach of the intellect. So you have to leave your mind behind on this journey. And that is what we do in this guided meditation. You will pass through the seven valleys of this mystical framework. At each one shed an aspect of mind so that by the end you are ready to witness the dazzling perfection of Truth. The inspiration for this guided meditation are the great Islamic masters like Rabi'a, Ibn 'Arabi, Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani , Jalaluddin Rumi, and above all (in this meditation) Farid Ud-Din Attar. This is a 45 minute version.Valley 1: The Valley of the QuestValley 2: The Valley of DesireValley 3: The Valley of the IntellectValley 4: Mystic Apprehension & DetachmentValley 5: HarmonyValley 6: BewildermentValley 7: AnnihilationBackground reading:The Conference of the Birds (Farid Ud-Din Attar)The Secret of Secrets (Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani)Rab'ia of Basra: Selected PoemsI Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy (Hafez) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Long ago a great many poets and mystics graced the land stretching from the Andulus to the Levant and beyond. In these enlightened medieval times several extraordinary men and women lay down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set free our soul. It is a royal way and no mind can penetrate the sovereign whom we seek. The mystery of this unending state remains forever out of reach of the intellect. So you have to leave your mind behind on this journey. And that is what we do in this guided meditation. You will pass through the seven valleys of this mystical framework. At each one shed an aspect of mind so that by the end you are ready to witness the dazzling perfection of Truth. The inspiration for this guided meditation are the great Islamic masters like Rabi'a, Ibn 'Arabi, Qadir Gilani, Jalaluddin Rumi, and above all (in this meditation) Farid Ud-Din Attar. This is a 30 minute version.Background reading:The Conference of the Birds (Farid Ud-Din Attar)The Secret of Secrets (Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani)Rab'ia of Basra: Selected PoemsI Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy (Hafez) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The land of Khorasan has a long history of spiritual seekers stretching back millenia. It was one of many locations in the region stretching from the Andulus to the Levant and beyond where the poets and mystics of old illuminated the uninitiated into the secret ways of the soul. In medieval times in particular several extraordinary men and women lay down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set free our soul. It is a royal way and no mind can penetrate the sovereign whom we seek. The mystery of this unending state remains forever out of reach of the intellect. So you have to leave your mind behind on this journey. And that is what we do in this guided meditation. You will pass through the seven valleys of this mystical framework. At each one shed an aspect of mind so that by the end you are ready to witness the dazzling perfection of Truth. The inspiration for this guided meditation are the great Islamic masters like Rabi'a, Ibn 'Arabi, Qadir Gilani, Jalaluddin Rumi, and above all (in this meditation) Farid Ud-Din Attar. This is a 20 minute version.Background reading:The Conference of the Birds (Farid Ud-Din Attar)The Secret of Secrets (Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani)Rab'ia of Basra: Selected PoemsI Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy (Hafez) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In medieval Persia, in the land of Khorasan, a tale would be told of the seven valleys one needed to pass through to reach illumination. The poets and mystics in these ancient times enlightened the uninitiated into the secret ways of the soul. In these times several extraordinary men and women lay down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set free our soul. It is a royal way and no mind can penetrate the sovereign whom we seek. The mystery of this unending state remains forever out of reach of the intellect. So you have to leave your mind behind on this journey. And that is what we do in this guided meditation. You will pass through the seven valleys of this mystical framework. At each one shed an aspect of mind so that by the end you are ready to witness the dazzling perfection of Truth. The inspiration for this guided meditation are the great Islamic masters like Rabi'a, Ibn 'Arabi, Qadir Gilani, Jalaluddin Rumi, and above all (in this meditation) Farid Ud-Din Attar. This is a 10 minute version.Background reading:The Conference of the Birds (Farid Ud-Din Attar)The Secret of Secrets (Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani)Rab'ia of Basra: Selected PoemsI Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy (Hafez) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Plotinus (204-270 CE) was one of the great philosophers and mystics of antiquity. Sharing many of the themes found in the writings of other ancient masters like his intellectual and spiritual forebearers Plato and Aristotle, he directly or indirectly had an enormous influence on later writers like St. Paul, Aquinas, Augustine, and Ibn 'Arabi. He regarded human's true nature as being something wholly different than the one composed of matter that most of us associate with our selves. Instead, he advocated for a conception of a self based on increasingly perfect levels existence. Through spiritual transcendence he believed we could reach these perfect dimensions of consciousness. One of his most powerful metaphors to explain the nature of human beings is that of the mirror. And that is what this one hour version of the Plotinus' Mirror uses to help you reach these higher levels of consciousness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ancient master Plotinus (204-270 CE) was one of the great philosophers and mystics of antiquity. Profoundly influenced by earlier masters like Plato and Aristotle, he directly or indirectly had an enormous impact on writers for centuries to come such as Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, and the great Ibn 'Arabi. He regarded human's true nature as being something wholly different than the one composed of matter that most of us associate with our selves. Instead, he advocated for a conception of a self having nothing to do with our physical forms and mental fabrications. Instead, he asked us to focus on an ephemeral conception of the self. Through spiritual transcendence he believed we could reach the perfect manifestation of ourselves. To explain the nature of human beings in his conception he frequently used the metaphor of a mirror. And that is what this 45 minute version of the Plotinus' Mirror uses to help you reach these higher levels of consciousness that he wrote of so long ago. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ancient master Plotinus (204-270 CE) looms large among the mystics of antiquity. Earlier masters like Plato and Aristotle informed his thinking but Plotinus took it in a more spiritual direction, thereby influencing later giants such as Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, and the great Ibn 'Arabi. He regarded human's true nature as being fundamentally different than the physical stuff that most of us associate with our selves. Instead, he advocated for a conception of a self having nothing to do with our physical forms and mental fabrications. Through spiritual transcendence he believed we could regain contact with the perfect within ourselves. To explain the nature of human beings he frequently used the metaphor of a mirror. And that is the imgage that this 30 minute version of the Plotinus' Mirror uses to help you reach these higher levels of consciousness that he wrote of so long ago. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ancient mystic Plotinus (204-270 CE) regarded human's true nature as being fundamentally different than the physical stuff that most of us associate with our selves. Instead, he advocated for a conception of a self having nothing to do with our physical forms and mental fabrications. Through spiritual transcendence he believed we could regain contact with the perfect within ourselves. To explain the nature of human beings he frequently used the metaphor of a mirror. And that is the imgage that this 30 minute version of the Plotinus' Mirror uses to help you reach these higher levels of consciousness that he wrote of so long ago. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this guided meditation you will take advantage of the Neoplatonic mystic Plotinus' (205-270 CE) ancient methods of understanding your true self. One of the last great philosophers of the Roman world, his influence on philosophy and mysticism throughout the centuries since his time is immeasurable. We will be using his metaphorical mirror as the inspiration for this short 10 minute version of the Plotinus' Mirror guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In St. Augustine's words: "And being thence warned to return to myself, I entered into my inward self, .... And I entered, and with the eye of my soul (such as it was) saw above the same eye of my soul, above my mind, the Unchangeable Light. Not this common light, which all flesh may look upon, nor, as it were, a greater one of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be much more resplendent, and with its greatness fill up all things. Not like this was that light, but different, yea, very different from all these. Nor was it above my mind as oil is above water, nor as heaven above earth; but above it was, because it made me, and I below it, because I was made by it. He who knows the Truth knows that Light; and he that knows it knows eternity. Love knows it. O Eternal Truth, and true Love, and loved Eternity! You are my God; to You do I sigh both night and day." Confessions, Book VII, Chapter XHow do you touch this light or love yourself? How do you bring a consciousness of who we really are to the fore? And can you touch this truth, experiencing it directly yourself, if you don't believe in "God"? Indeed you can! Medieval Masters like Hafez and Augustine shared a way of accessing these truths and their words are the source of inspiration for this 60 minute version of the "Tethered Falcon" guided meditation. (Pro-tip: cover your eyes with your right hand during the covered falcon / darkness parts of the meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

That there is a greater infinitude which we might call light or love, and that we are a small part of this light or love is one of the core messages from the great masters. But how do we touch that? How do we bring a consciousness of who we really are to the fore? And can we touch this truth, experiencing it directly ourselves, if we don't believe in "God"? Medieval Masters like Hafez and Augustine shared a way of accessing these truths and their words are the source of inspiration for this 45 minute version of the "Tethered Falcon" guided meditation.  (Pro-tip: cover your eyes with your right hand during the covered falcon / darkness parts of the meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The importance of love and light as the essential element of our being is one of the core messages from the great masters. But how do we touch that? How do we bring a consciousness of who we really are to the fore? And can we touch this truth, experiencing it directly ourselves, if we don't believe in "God"? Medieval Masters like Hafez and Augustine shared a way of accessing these truths that the religious and non religious alike can utilize. Their words are the source of inspiration for this 30 minute version of the "Tethered Falcon" guided meditation.  (Pro-tip: cover your eyes with your right hand during the covered falcon / darkness parts of the meditation)In St. Augustine's words: "And being thence warned to return to myself, I entered into my inward self, Thou leading me on; and I was able to do it, for You had become my helper. And I entered, and with the eye of my soul (such as it was) saw above the same eye of my soul, above my mind, the Unchangeable Light. Not this common light, which all flesh may look upon, nor, as it were, a greater one of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be much more resplendent, and with its greatness fill up all things. Not like this was that light, but different, yea, very different from all these. Nor was it above my mind as oil is above water, nor as heaven above earth; but above it was, because it made me, and I below it, because I was made by it. He who knows the Truth knows that Light; and he that knows it knows eternity. Love knows it. O Eternal Truth, and true Love, and loved Eternity! You are my God; to You do I sigh both night and day." Confessions, Book VII, Chapter X Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

That there is a greater infinitude that we are a small part of is one of the core messages from the great masters. But how to we touch that? How do we bring a consciousness of who we really are to the fore? And can we touch this truth, experiencing it directly ourselves, if we don't believe in "God"? Medieval Masters like Hafez and Augustine shared a way of accessing these truths and their words are the source of inspiration for this 20 minute version of the "Tethered Falcon" guided meditation.  (Pro-tip: cover your eyes with your right hand during the covered falcon / darkness parts of the meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The great masters of old taught that you are not who you think you are. You are not our mind or your thoughts or your body nor any combination of those things. Whether you agree with that statement or not, for the purposes of this exercise, I want you to assume they are right for a few moments. This body of yours is not the whole picture. There is a greater infinitude that you are a small part of. But how tdo you touch that? How do you bring a consciousness of who you really are to the fore? Medieval Masters like Hafez and Augustine are the source of inspiration for this 10 minute version of the "Tethered Falcon" guided meditation.  (Pro-tip: cover your eyes with your right hand during the covered falcon / darkness parts of the meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This 60 minute version of the Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness guided meditation stands on its own but should you care to, you can take it to the next level by using as a Chakra meditation. There are seven (or eight, depending on the system) centers or wheels that anchor your so-called "energetic" body. The three lower wheels of energy, or Chakras, align with the base of your spine, your belly button (roughly) and your solar plexus, respectively. Your fourth Chakra is pivot or bridge to your higher self. This higher self can be separated out, like the lower self, into three energy centers as represented by the fourth, fifth and sixth Chakras. Though the Chakras aren't mentioned explicitly in this guided meditation, you can use to activate your 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Chakras.The Chakras each have their corresponding sensibility:The 4th Chakra (Anahata or Heart Chakra) is located in the center of your chest and is associated with a deep sense of peace. Associated with your intuition, it is the bridge to your higher self as represented by the 5th, 6th and 7th Chakras.The 5th Chakra (Visuddha or Throat Chakra) aligns with the center of your neck and is accompanied with a feeling of being in harmony with the universe.The 6th Chakra (Ajna or Third Eye Chakra) lies in the center of your forehead and, when opened, gives you visibility into your unity or union with infinity.The 7th Chakra (Sahasrara or Crown Chakra) sits at the top of your head and denotes your oneness with Love.This meditation will guide you through the activation and opening of each of these upper Chakras. To use it in this way, when you hear "Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness" visualize your heart, your throat area, your forehead, and the crown of your head, respectively.Peace = HeartHarmony = ThroatUnity = ForeheadOneness = Crown of Head Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are seven (or eight, depending on the system) centers or wheels that anchor your so-called "energetic" body. The three lower wheels of energy, or Chakras, align with the base of your spine, your belly button (roughly) and your solar plexus, respectively. Your fourth Chakra is pivot or bridge to your higher self. This higher self can be separated out, like the lower self, into three energy centers as represented by the fourth, fifth and sixth Chakras. Though the Chakras aren't mentioned explicitly in this guided meditation, you can use this 45 minute version of the Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness guided meditation to activate your 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Chakras.The Chakras each have their corresponding sensibility:The 4th Chakra (Anahata or Heart Chakra) is located in the center of your chest and is associated with a deep sense of peace. Associated with your intuition, it is the bridge to your higher self as represented by the 5th, 6th and 7th Chakras.The 5th Chakra (Visuddha or Throat Chakra) aligns with the center of your neck and is accompanied with a feeling of being in harmony with the universe.The 6th Chakra (Ajna or Third Eye Chakra) lies in the center of your forehead and, when opened, gives you visibility into your unity or union with infinity.The 7th Chakra (Sahasrara or Crown Chakra) sits at the top of your head and denotes your oneness with Love.This meditation will guide you through the activation and opening of each of these upper Chakras. To use it in this way, when you hear "Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness" visualize your heart, your throat area, your forehead, and the crown of your head, respectively.Peace = HeartHarmony = ThroatUnity = ForeheadOneness = Crown of Head Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You have a lower self and a higher self. This can best be sensed by opening your consciousness to your energetic body. There are seven (or eight, depending on the system) centers or wheels that anchor your energetic body. The three lower wheels of energy, or Chakras, align with the base of your spine, your belly button (roughly) and your solar plexus. Your fourth Chakra is a kind of pivot or bridge to your higher self which is represented by the fourth, fifth and sixth Chakras. Though the Chakras aren't mentioned explicitly in this guided meditation it is a powerful addition to this 30 minute version of the Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness guided meditation to use it to activate your 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Chakras. Keep the following associations in mind as the meditation unfolds:The 4th Chakra (Anahata or Heart Chakra) is located in the center of your chest and is associated with a deep sense of peace. Associated with your intuition, it is the bridge to your higher self as represented by the 5th, 6th and 7th Chakras.The 5th Chakra (Visuddha or Throat Chakra) aligns with the center of your neck and is accompanied with a feeling of being in harmony with the universe.The 6th Chakra (Ajna or Third Eye Chakra) lies in the center of your forehead and, when opened, gives you visibility into your unity or union with infinity.The 7th Chakra (Sahasrara or Crown Chakra) sits at the top of your head and denotes your oneness with Love.This meditation will guide you through the activation and opening of each of these upper Chakras. To use it in this way, when you hear "Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness" visualize your heart, your throat area, your forehead, and the crown of your head, respectively.Peace = HeartHarmony = ThroatUnity = ForeheadOneness = Crown of Head Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chakras aren't mentioned explicitly in this guided meditation but you can use this 20 minute version of the Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness guided meditation to activate your 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Chakras. In parallel with you physical body it is said that you have an energetic body as well. There are seven (or eight, depending on the system) centers or wheels that anchor your energetic body. These wheels of energy, or Chakras, align with a location within your physical body and have a corresponding sensibility. The 4th Chakra (Anahata or Heart Chakra) is located in the center of your chest and is associated with a deep sense of peace. The 5th Chakra (Visuddha or Throat Chakra) aligns with the center of your neck and is accompanied with a feeling of being in harmony with the universe. The 6th Chakra (Ajna or Third Eye Chakra) lies in the center of your forehead and, when opened, gives you visibility into your unity or union with infinity. The 7th Chakra (Sahasrara or Crown Chakra) sits at the top of your head and denotes your oneness with Love. This meditation will guide you through the activation and opening of each of these upper Chakras. To use it in this way, when you hear "Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness" visualize your heart, your throat area, your forehead, and the crown of your head, respectively.Peace = HeartHarmony = ThroatUnity = ForeheadOneness = Crown of Head Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In parallel with you physical body it is said that you have an energetic body as well. There are seven (or eight, depending on the system) centers or wheels that anchor your energetic body. These wheels of energy, or Chakras, align with a location within your physical body and have a corresponding sensibility. The Chakras aren't mentioned explicitly in this podcast but in this 10 minute version of the Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness guided meditation you can in fact activate your 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Chakras. The 4th Chakra (Anahata or Heart Chakra) is located in the center of your chest and is associated with a deep sense of peace. Your 5th Chakra (Visuddha or Throat Chakra) aligns with the center of your neck and is accompanied with a feeling of being in harmony with the universe. Your 6th Chakra (Ajna or Third Eye Chakra) lies in the center of your forehead and, when opened, gives you visibility into your unity or union with infinity. And your 7th Chakra (Sahasrara or Crown Chakra) sits at the tip top of your head and denotes your oneness with Love. This meditation will guide you through the activation and opening of each of these upper Chakras. So, when you hear "Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness" visualize your heart, your throat area, your forehead, and the crown of your head. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The senses and the thoughts that arise in your consciousness are so distracting that it is easy to forget that we are neither our senses nor our body nor our thoughts. Who we really are is something completely different. But just because you have forgotten your true nature is fundamentally grounded in love doesn't mean it isn't there. You can connect with the flow and foreverness of unity and oneness. Experience the stillness of peace. Deconstruct the artificial boundaries you have erected between you and the universe. And harmonize with love. Use this 60 minute version of the Oneness guided meditation to do just that. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the oneness sensibility aligns with the 7th Chakra (also called the Sahasrara or crown chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Peace is associated with the fourth or heart chakra, harmony with the fifth or throat chakra, and unity with the third eye or sixth chakra. So you can cycle your attention and energy through each of these four chakras as you work your way through these four sensibilities: Peace (heart chakra), Harmony (throat Chakra), Unity (third-eye chakra), Oneness (crown chakra). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are so many distractions flooding in through our senses and thoughts manifesting in our consciousness that it is easy to forget who we really are. But just because we have forgotten our true nature is fundamentally grounded in love doesn't mean it isn't there. You can connect with the flow and foreverness of unity and oneness. Experience the stillness of peace. Deconstruct the artificial boundaries you have erected between you and the universe. And harmonize with love. Use this 45 minute version of the Oneness guided meditation to do just that. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the oneness sensibility aligns with the 7th Chakra (also called the Sahasrara or crown chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Peace is associated with the fourth or heart chakra, harmony with the fifth or throat chakra, and unity with the third eye or sixth chakra. So you can cycle your attention and energy through each of these four chakras as you work your way through these four sensibilities: Peace (heart chakra), Harmony (throat Chakra), Unity (third-eye chakra), Oneness (crown chakra). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the distractions of the physical world flooding in through our senses and occupying the default mode of our ruminating brain it is easy to lose touch with who we really are. But just because we have forgotten our true nature doesn't mean it isn't there or isn't reachable. You can connect with the flow and foreverness of unity and oneness. Experience the stillness of peace. Deconstruct the artificial boundaries you have erected between you and the universe. And harmonize with love. Do that in this 30 minute version of the Oneness guided meditation. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the oneness sensibility aligns with the 7th Chakra (also called the Sahasrara or crown chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Peace is associated with the fourth or heart chakra, harmony with the fifth or throat chakra, and unity with the third eye or sixth chakra. So you can cycle your attention and energy through each of these four chakras as you work your way through these four sensibilities: Peace (heart chakra), Harmony (throat Chakra), Unity (third-eye chakra), Oneness (crown chakra). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deconstruct the artificial boundaries you have erected between you and the universe. Connect with the flow and foreverness of unity and oneness. Experience the stillness of peace. And harmonize with love. All in this 20 minute version of the Oneness guided meditation. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the oneness sensibility aligns with the 7th Chakra (also called the Sahasrara or crown chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Peace is associated with the fourth or heart chakra, harmony with the fifth or throat chakra, and unity with the third eye or sixth chakra. So you can cycle your attention and energy through each of these four chakras as you work your way through these four sensibilities: Peace (heart chakra), Harmony (throat Chakra), Unity (third-eye chakra), Oneness (crown chakra). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peace, harmony, unity, and oneness. This is your true nature. Use this 10 minute version of the Oneness guided meditation to reconnect to this ground truth. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the oneness sensibility aligns with the 7th Chakra (also called the Sahasrara or crown chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Peace is associated with the fourth or heart chakra, harmony with the fifth or throat chakra, and unity with the third eye or sixth chakra. So you can cycle your attention and energy through each of these four chakras as you work your way through these four sensibilities: Peace (heart chakra), Harmony (throat Chakra), Unity (third-eye chakra), Oneness (crown chakra). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This 30 minute version of the Unity Guided Meditation is designed to give you a preview of what coming to know the truth of your fundamental nature is like.The path towards enlightenment or self-mastery is said to entail a deeper and more intimate understanding of your true nature. The mystics and saints of old have explained that with enough practice we come to realize that there is a fundamental unity between your being and Love itself. Hopefully this guided meditation will open the door to your experience of this ancient truth. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the unity sensibility aligns with the 6th Chakra (also called the Ajna, guru chakra or third-eye chakra located in the center of the forehead between the eyebrows) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The path towards enlightenment or self-mastery is accompanied by a growing awareness and understanding of the self and the nature of love and peace. The mystics and saints of old have explained that with enough practice we come to realize that there is a unity or union between our being and Love itself. This 20 minute version of the Unity Guided Meditation is designed to give you a preview of what coming to know this truth this is like. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the unity sensibility aligns with the 6th Chakra (also called the Ajna, guru chakra or third-eye chakra located in the center of the forehead between the eyebrows) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we make progress in the stages towards enlightenment or self-mastery, there comes a growing awareness and understanding of the nature of our self and its relationship with the sensibilities of love and peace. The great masters and mystics of old have explained that, in fact, with enough work we come to realize that there is a unity or union between our very selves and Love itself. This is a 10 minute version of the Unity Guided Meditation which is designed to give you a preview of what coming to know this truth this is like. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the unity sensibility aligns with the 6th Chakra (also called the Ajna, guru chakra or third-eye chakra located in the center of the forehead between the eyebrows) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Through the practice of meditation we progress towards a profound understanding about the truth of existence and the nature of ourselves. At the advanced stages, we come to recognize that there is a higher power called loved that we can harmonize our entire being with. It is often a subtle process and takes a great deal of time and attention. But this is an investment worth making. This is hour long version of the Harmony Guided Meditation is designed to help you make just such an investment. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the harmony sensibility aligns with the 5th Chakra (also called the Vishuddha, or Vishuddhi, or throat chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Love fills the universe, at least in one way of explaining an unexplainable truth. You can use this meditation to connect and harmonize with this field of infinite love. This is a 45 minute version of the Harmony Guided Meditation.For those who like to work with chakra energies, the harmony sensibility aligns with the 5th Chakra (also called the Vishuddha, or Vishuddhi, or throat chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Love is the central wellspring and logic and power. This is the central insight of every great master. Take advantage of this extraordinary truth to calm your mind and heal your body and relationships. Simply by connecting with and harmonizing with this field of infinite love. This is a 30 minute version of the Harmony Guided Meditation.For those who like to work with chakra energies, the harmony sensibility aligns with the 5th Chakra (also called the Vishuddha, or Vishuddhi, or throat chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Like gravity or magnetism, love is like a field that permeates the universe. That means you have the power at any moment and in any place or situation to tap into this force. Use this meditation to do just that. Learn how to harmonize with this field of infinite love. This is a 20 minute version of the Harmony Guided Meditation.For those who like to work with chakra energies, the harmony sensibility aligns with the 5th Chakra (also called the Vishuddha, or Vishuddhi, or throat chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Love is like a field of energy that fills the universe. Use this meditation to connect and harmonize with this field of infinite love. This is a 10 minute version of the Harmony Guided Meditation.For those who like to work with chakra energies, the harmony sensibility aligns with the 5th Chakra (also called the Vishuddha, or Vishuddhi, or throat chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peace and calm are inherent features of your true self. You can use this meditation to rediscover that peaceful and calm presence within. This is a 30 minute version of the Peace guided meditation.For those who like to work with chakra energies, the peace sensibility aligns with the 4th Chakra (also called the Anahata or heart chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An inner sense of peace and calm is always present within you. You can use this meditation to restore a peaceful and calm presence. This is a 20 minute version of the Peace guided meditation.For those who like to work with chakra energies, the peace sensibility aligns with the 4th Chakra (also called the Anahata or heart chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Use this meditation to restore a peaceful and calm presence. This is a 10 minute version of the Peace guided meditation. For those who like to work with chakra energies, the peace sensibility aligns with the 4th Chakra (also called the Anahata or heart chakra) so you can concentrate on that part of your energetic and physical body as the meditation unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The mistakes that people make can harm other people, sometimes profoundly. Everyone has been on both sides of this unfortunate reality and as a result we each hold the emotional scars that accompany the giving and receiving of this kind of pain. Fortunately, the suffering that you inflicted because of your actions or choices (or that you experienced because of someone else's) can be transcended. The pain of your life now can be healed. This meditation will help you do that. This is a 60 minute version of the Unlocking Forgiveness guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyone makes mistakes, and sometimes these mistakes harm other people. Everyone has been on both sides of this unfortunate reality so we each hold the emotional scars that accompany the giving and receiving of this kind of pain. Fortunately, the suffering that you inflicted because of your actions or choices (or that you experienced because of someone else's) can be transcended. The pain of your life now can be healed. This meditation will help you do that. This is a 45 minute version of the Unlocking Forgiveness guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have all made mistakes. And sometimes those mistakes cause other people pain. Everyone has been on both sides of this unfortunate reality. The suffering that you inflicted because of your actions or choices (or that you experienced because of someone else's) can be transcended. The pain of your life now can be healed. This meditation will help you do that. This is a 30 minute version of the Unlocking Forgiveness guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When someone harms another, we can say that they are acting out of ignorance, confusion or fear. It may seem like they are acting deliberately and in a way they are. But trace that action to its source and you will find ignorance, confusion or fear. So we can say that they are making a mistake, and sometimes these mistakes harm other people in horrible ways. Everyone has been on both sides of this unfortunate reality to one degree or another. This means that we each hold the emotional scars that accompany the giving and receiving of this kind of pain. Fortunately, the suffering that you inflicted because of your actions or choices (or that you experienced because of someone else's) can be transcended. The pain of your life now can be healed. This meditation will help you do that. This is a 20 minute version of the Unlocking Forgiveness guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People harm others out of ignorance, confusion or fear. It may seem like they are acting deliberately and in a way they are. But trace the action to its source and you will find ignorance, confusion or fear. So we can think of these actions as mistakes and sometimes these mistakes really do harm other people. Everyone has been on both sides of this unfortunate reality. This means that we each hold the emotional scars that accompany the giving and receiving of this kind of pain. Fortunately, the suffering that you inflicted because of your actions or choices (or that you experienced because of someone else's) can be transcended. The pain of your life now can be healed. This meditation will help you do that. This is a 10 minute version of the Unlocking Forgiveness guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The "A Happy, Loved, Positive You" guided meditation is now only available on the Alyte app. You can download it here: https://www.alyte.app/zeb Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The "A Beautiful You" guided meditation is now only available on the Alyte app. You can download it here: https://www.alyte.app/zeb Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn to use the power of your consciousness to direct the energy of the universe to manifest your best self in your body in the world right now.You have the power to move your awareness. Practice moving it to the very best 'you' and watch the changes that unfold in your body and your self in the world. This is a 20 minute version of the 'A Beautiful You' guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You have the power to move your awareness. Learn to use the power not only to move your awareness to the very best 'you' but deploy that power to direct the energy of the universe to manifest that best self in your body in the world.This is a 10 minute version of the 'A Beautiful You' guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A 30 minute guided meditation that walks you through unlocking your hidden potential for experiencing love as an energetic force in your body and in your life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this 20 minute guided meditation, harness the healing power of love for yourself as well for as those around you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A 10 minute guided meditation to unlock your power of love. This love is for yourself as well as those around you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

By practicing that with the small things, you can develop tremendous abilities. With this meditation you will learn to use this phenomenon not only to unlock a profound relaxation in your body but also to harness the power of your attention and awareness to discover the Promise embedded in the very fabric of reality. Be patient and gentle with yourself and remain open to what arises and the answer will appear for you.This is a 30 minute version of The Promise guided meditation and offers an opportunity for deep relaxation so you can do it sitting down or lying down if you like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a deep relaxation meditation so you can do it lying down if you like. But it is also more than that. You have the power to move your awareness. By practicing that with the small things, you will discover that you can apply that power to the big things in life too. Use this power to unlock not just a profound relaxation in your body but also to discover the Promise embedded in the very fabric of reality.This is a 20 minute version of The Promise guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The secret to a happy, peaceful state of mind is staring right at us but most of us, most of the time can't see it. There is a promise embedded in the fabric of the universe. If you are religious, you could say that God has made you a promise. It is your job to see this promise and do your part by completing it.This is a 10 minute version of The Promise guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You spend so much time with your attention anchored in the physical world that you often don't remember that you have an energetic body every bit as real as your physical body. There are eight energetic centers that represent this non-physical body and the first one is the ground level of your energetic body. Located at the base of your spine, this "first Chakra" represents the energetic connection to the physicality of your body, the manifestation of your consciousness into a physical form. So, by manipulating your consciousness on a consistent and directed manner, you can change your body. This 45 minute version of the Happy Body First Chakra guided meditation will help you do just that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A simple 10 minute guided meditation to activate and heal your first chakra. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You have an energetic body every bit as real as your physical body. There are eight energetic centers that represent this non-physical body and the first Chakra is the ground level of your energetic body. Located at the base of your spine, it represents the energetic connection to the physicality of your body, the manifestation of your consciousness into a physical form. So, by manipulating your consciousness on a consistent and directed manner, you can change your body. This 45 minute version of the Happy Body First Chakra guided meditation will help you do just that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your first Chakra is the ground level of your energetic body. Located at the base of your spine, it represents the energetic connection to the physicality of your body, the manifestation of your consciousness into a physical form. So, by manipulating your consciousness on a consistent and directed manner, you can change your body. This 30 minute version of the Happy Body First Chakra guided meditation will help you do just that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Located at the base of your spine, your first Chakra is the ground level of your energetic body. It represents the energetic connection to the physicality of your body, the manifestation of your consciousness into a physical form. So, by manipulating your consciousness on a consistent and directed manner, you can change your body. This 20 minute version of the Happy Body First Chakra guided meditation will help you do just that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your first Chakra represents the physicality of your body, the manifestation of your consciousness into a physical form. So, by manipulating your consciousness on a consistent and directed manner, you can change your body. This 10 minute version of the Happy Body First Chakra guided meditation will help you do just that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In cultures separated by vast distances and long stretches of time there emerged a formal tradition of a forgiveness ritual. In places as far afield as Ancient Egypt, Medieval Islam, and pre-Colonization Polynesia, there was a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. The cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness based on the Ho'oponopono prayer from Hawai'i. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.This is a 60 minute version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cultures around the world practiced a formal tradition of forgiveness. In places as far afield as Ancient Egypt, Medieval Islam, and pre-Colonization Polynesia, there was a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. The cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness based on the Ho'oponopono prayer from Hawai'i. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.This is a 45 Min version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the olden days, in places like Hawai'i, there was a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. The cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness based on the Ho'oponopono prayer from Hawai'i. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.This is a 30 Min version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In ancient times there was a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. The cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.(NOTE: This is a 20 Min version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There used to be a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. In those ancient days, the cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you. This is a 10 minute version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you worry about providing a living for yourself or your family, this meditation will be helpful to you. Particularly when we lose a job or are struggling to make ends meet with the income we do have, these feelings arise. In addition to the outer work that is required to remedy these sorts of situations, there is an inner work that is even more important. This meditation will help guide you on that inner journey to awakening and embracing the change that awaits you.This is a 30 minute version of the Protected & Provided for guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many people worry about providing the basics. Whether it is making a living for yourself or making sure your family has enough, at some point in life most people will encounter this challenge. Some will struggle with it throughout life. There is outer work (in the physical domain) that is required to remedy these sorts of situations, but there is inner work that is even more important. It is this inner work that sets the stage for the physical world to yield its bounty. This meditation will help guide you on that inner journey to awakening and embracing the change that awaits you.It is a 20 minute version of the Protected & Provided for guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is normal to feel anxious about providing a living for yourself or your family. Particularly when we lose a job or are struggling to make ends meet with the income we do have, these feelings arise. In addition to the outer work that is required to remedy these sorts of situations, there is an inner work that is even more important. This meditation will help guide you on that inner journey to awakening and embracing the change that awaits you.This is a 10 minute version of the Protected & Provided for guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a 60 minute guided meditation that will help you connect to the invisible energy all around you. By tapping in to that energy you will be relaxed and strengthened Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a 45 minute guided meditation that will help you connect to the invisible energy all around you. By tapping in to that energy you will be relaxed and strengthened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a 30 minute guided meditation that will help you connect to the invisible energy all around you. By tapping in to that energy you will be relaxed and strengthened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a 20 minute guided meditation that will help you connect to the invisible energy all around you. By tapping in to that energy you will be relaxed and strengthened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Breath-Energy meditation is now only available by downloading the Alyte app (https://www.alyte.app/zeb) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The physical body we can perceive with our senses and our everyday consciousness is not all there is to you. You also have an energetic body. And instability or holding in your energetic body can be the source of many a physical or psychological malady. The energetic body is composed of a series of energetic wheels or "chakras" that follow the line of your spine. Your first chakra lies at the base of your spine. When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. And of course there are the myriad of physical ailments such as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet (and in men, prostate issues). This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.This is a 60 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From ancient times, the enlightened ones have taught that the physical body you can perceive with your senses and your everyday consciousness isn't all there is to you. You also have an energetic body. And instability or holding in your energetic body can be the source of many a physical or psychological malady. The energetic body is composed of a series of energetic wheels or "chakras" that follow the line of your spine. Your first chakra lies at the base of your spine. When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. And of course there are the myriad of physical ailments such as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet (and in men, prostate issues). This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.This is a 45 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many people believe that the physical body we can perceive with our senses and our everyday consciousness is all there is to us. But you also have an energetic body. And instability or holding in your energetic body can be the source of many a physical or psychological malady. The energetic body is composed of a series of energetic wheels or "chakras" that follow the line of your spine. Your first chakra lies at the base of your spine. When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. And of course there are the myriad of physical ailments such as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet (and in men, prostate issues). This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.This is a 30 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Instability or holding in your energetic body can be the source of many a physical or psychological malady. When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. And of course there are the myriad of physical ailments such as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet (and in men, prostate issues). This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.This is a 20 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.This is a 10 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Though your consciousness is dominated by the information coming in from your senses and the emotions and thought patterns that the mind generates, there is a world of energy that is invisible to most of us most of the time. But this doesn't mean that it isn't there. The root chakra, located at the base of your spine, is the connection point to the energy that permeates this physical world of ours. The fluctuating, vibrant fields of energy that we are immersed in and a part of (for matter is energy in a different form after all) can be connected to and sensed by bringing your attention to this chakra. And energy isn't just the sort of energy you are probably thinking of. There is the level of energy and light that we can measure with our detectors and comprehend with our senses. And then there is an entirely different level of what we might call spiritual energy or Qi. This guided meditation will give you a sense of what this other energy is like and how it connects to the energy of the physical dimension. If you work on it enough, you will be on your way to opening and activating this chakra and therefore aligning it with the energy of the world around you. The power that comes from this cleansing and alignment is difficult to explain in words. So, enjoy!This is a 60 minute version of the Condensed Energy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is more to you than just the flesh and guts of your physical body. You may think that your body plus your thoughts or the contents of your consciousness is all there is to you. But the great masters from disperse regions and times have explored this question and each reached the same conclusion. One level up from the physical world of course are your emotions and then the next layer is your thoughts. But there are several layers or levels of being above those three. The easiest one to access is your energetic body. Your consciousness is dominated by the information coming in from your senses and the emotions and thought patterns that your mind generates so it is hard for you to notice that there this world of energy all around and within you. All of this matter and energy in the physical and energetic dimensions is interacting with your body and your mind all the time. The root chakra, located at the base of your spine, is the connection point to the energy this dimension of energy that permeates this physical world of ours. The fluctuating, vibrant fields of energy that we are immersed in and a part of can be connected to and sensed by bringing your attention to this chakra. And there is tremendous healing potential, both physically and emotionally, by connecting and harmonizing with these fields of energy. This guided meditation will give you a sense of what that means and start you on your journey to activating this chakra and aligning it with the energy of the world around you. This is a 45 minute version of the Condensed Energy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You may think that your physical body is all there is to you (other than maybe your thoughts or the contents of your consciousness). But the great masters from disperse regions and times have explored this question and each reached the same conclusion. There is more to you than just the meat of your form. Quite a lot more, it turns out. One level up from the physical world of course are your emotions and then the next layer is your thoughts. But there are several layers or levels of being above those three. The easiest one to access is your energetic body. Your consciousness is dominated by the information coming in from your senses and the emotions and thought patterns that your mind generates so it is hard for you to notice that there this world of energy all around and within you. All of this matter and energy in the physical and energetic dimensions is interacting with your body and your mind all the time. The root chakra, located at the base of your spine, is the connection point to the energy this dimension of energy that permeates this physical world of ours. The fluctuating, vibrant fields of energy that we are immersed in and a part of can be connected to and sensed by bringing your attention to this chakra. And there is tremendous healing potential, both physically and emotionally, by connecting and harmonizing with these fields of energy. This guided meditation will give you a sense of what that means and start you on your journey to activating this chakra and aligning it with the energy of the world around you. This is a 30 minute version of the Condensed Energy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your consciousness is dominated by the information coming in from your senses and the emotions and thought patterns that your mind generates so it is hard for you to notice that there is a world of energy all around and within you. All of this matter and energy in the physical and energetic dimensions is interacting with your body and your mind all the time. The root chakra, located at the base of your spine, is the connection point to the energy this dimension of energy that permeates this physical world of ours. The fluctuating, vibrant fields of energy that we are immersed in and a part of can be connected to and sensed by bringing your attention to this chakra. And there is tremendous healing potential, both physically and emotionally, by connecting and harmonizing with these fields of energy. This guided meditation will give you a sense of what that means and start you on your journey to activating this chakra and aligning it with the energy of the world around you. This is a 20 minute version of the Condensed Energy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every physical thing in the universe is composed of matter. And matter is a form of energy. Though your consciousness is dominated by the information coming in from your senses and the emotions and thought patterns that the mind generates, there is a world of energy that is invisible to most of us most of the time. But this doesn't mean that it isn't there. The root chakra, located at the base of your spine, is the connection point to the energy that permeates this physical world of ours. The fluctuating, vibrant fields of energy that we are immersed in and a part of can be connected to and sensed by bringing your attention to this chakra. This guided meditation will give you a sense of what that means and start you on your journey to activating this chakra and aligning it with the energy of the world around you. This is a 10 minute version of the Condensed Energy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If feeling grounded, settled, open, calm and peaceful is for you, then try this meditation. Often when you are anxious, agitated, sad, lonely, or when you suffer from the almost any of the other negative feelings, it is because you have lost your connection to the earth and to others (animate an inanimate) that you share this earth and this universe with. But your breath and the breath of the earth itself are the same breath. Your breath and your transformations are, in a way, the same as the cycling or change or expansion and contraction of everything in the universe. This meditation will help you restore that connection through the activation of your first Chakra. The Muladhara or root Chakra is your most primitive and foundational energy center. Located at the base of your spine, it represents the gateway between your physical body, the earth and the entire physical cosmos we call the universe or the 'world of phenomena and matter'. The earth breathes through the trillions upon trillions of plants that breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. Though you may not sense it now, your breath and all those tiny breaths of every leaf and plant on the planet are the same breath. Through this exercise you can activate and energize your connection to every creature and form of matter in the physical universe. This is the power of your first Chakra. Choose to open yourself to it.This is a 60 minute version of The Root of it All guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Often when you are anxious, agitated, sad, lonely, or when you suffer from the many other negative feelings, it is because you have lost your connection to the earth and to others that you share this earth and this universe with. But your breath and the breath of the earth itself are the same breath. Your breath and your transformations are the same as the cycling or change or expansion and contraction of everything in the universe. This meditation will help you restore that connection through the activation of your first Chakra. The Muladhara or root Chakra is your most primitive and foundational energy center. Located at the base of your spine, it represents the gateway between your physical body, the earth and the entire physical cosmos we call the universe or the 'world of phenomena and matter'. The earth breathes through the trillions upon trillions of plants that breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. Though you may not sense it now, your breath and all those tiny breaths of every leaf and plant on the planet are the same breath. Through this exercise you can activate and energize your connection to every creature and form in the physical universe. This is the power of your first Chakra. Tap into it.This is a 30 minute version of The Root of it All guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Muladhara or root Chakra is your most primitive and foundational energy center. Located at the base of your spine, it represents the gateway between your physical body, the earth and the entire physical cosmos we call the universe or the 'world of phenomena and matter'. Often when you are anxious, agitated, sad, lonely, or when you suffer from the many other negative feelings, it is because you have lost your connection to the earth and to others that you share this earth with. But your breath and the breath of the earth itself are the same breath. This meditation will help you restore that connection through the activation of your first Chakra. The earth breathes through the trillions upon trillions of plants that breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. Though you may not sense it now, your breath and all those tiny breaths of every leaf and plant on the planet are the same breath. Through this exercise you can activate and energize your connection to every creature and form in the physical universe. This is the power of your first Chakra. Embrace it and you will open yourself to its mind-blowing potential.This is a 30 minute version of The Root of it All guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your root Chakra is located is your lowest and first energy center. It is located at the base of your spine and it represents the gateway between your physical body and the earth. Often when you are panicky or worried, sad or lonely, or suffer from any number of other negative feelings it is because you have lost your connection to the earth and to others that you share this earth with. But your breath and the breath of the earth are the same breath. This meditation will help you restore that connection through the activation of your first Chakra. Try to imagine the impossible magnitude of the earth breathing: We have over 3 trillion trees on our planet. All day long their leaves breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. How many leaves are there? The studies leaf count differ but the range seems to be on the order of 200K-500K leaves per tree. Within each leaf there are millions of little breathing tubes called stomata--that’s where the carbon dioxide comes in and the oxygen goes out. Each one of those trillions upon trillions of stomata are like tiny mouths that are breathing in and out all the time. Though you may not sense it now, your mouth and all those tiny mouths are the same mouth. Through this exercise you can activate and energize your connection to every one of these stomata as well as everything else in the physical universe. This is the power of your first Chakra. Learn to embrace it and open yourself to its potential.This is a 20 minute version of The Root of it All guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your first Chakra is located at the base of your spine and it represents the gateway between your physical body and that part of your energetic body that is rooted in the earth. Through this exercise you can activate and energize your connection to everything in the physical universe. Often when you are panicky or worried, sad or lonely, or suffer from any number of other negative feelings it is because you have lost your connection to the earth and to others that you share this earth with. This meditation will help you restore that connection through the activation of your first Chakra.This is a 10 minute version of The Root of it All guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Self-mastery means you realize who you really are; you realize your true power; and you exercise that power. The first step in achieving self-mastery involves an understanding that the energy patterns that your mind manufactures are electrochemical patterns that you can control. In this meditation you are going to practice this power by directing your awareness to a sense of belonging and membership and safety. When you feel grounded in your group and your family and your history, this is the beginning of being aware of your connection to all energies and everything; ultimately you will feel the flow and the natural connection between your energy and the energy in the world around you. Affirming your membership to different people and groups is one way to activate that sense of connection or being in the flow of the universe. If you don’t start exercising your power, if you don’t start paying attention to energy, how are you going to know how much power you really have? If you don't start feeling connected to the universal flow, how will you ever conclude that you are limitless? That there are no problems other than the ones you manufacture in your own mind? One conclusion serves as the floor for the next one. So start by mastering the ability to belong to the groups you select. Your energy will change frequencies when you do this and you will start to resonate with the universal energy and flow. You're on your way!(Note: in this meditation, when I use the word "belong" I don't mean it in the sense of "ownership." Rather, it is a in the sense of "membership." So when I say, for example, that you belong to your mother and father, this is a loving, energetic and genetic statement. Particularly if you have had fraught relations with one or both of your parents, don't get hung up on the thought of your "belonging" to them in any sort of negative or scary sense. Rather use it as an opportunity to open your heart to the love they they no doubt feel for you (or felt if they are no longer with us), even if they have never shown you that love.)This is a 60 minute version of the I Belong guided meditation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first step in achieving self-mastery involves an understanding that feelings are nothing more than energy patterns that your mind manufactures. And these are electrochemical patterns that you can control. In this meditation you are going to begin to learn to control those patterns by practicing the technique of directing your awareness to a sense of belonging and membership and safety. When you feel grounded in your group and your family and your history, this is the beginning of being aware of your connection to all energies and everything; ultimately you will feel the flow and the natural connection between your energy and the energy in the world around you. Affirming your membership to different people and groups is one way to activate that sense of connection or being in the flow of the universe. If you don’t start exercising your power, if you don’t start paying attention to energy, how are you going to know how much power you really have? If you don't start feeling connected to the universal flow, how will you ever conclude that you are limitless? That there are no problems other than the ones you manufacture in your own mind? One conclusion serves as the floor for the next one. So start by mastering the ability to belong to the groups you select. Your energy will change frequencies when you do this and you will start to resonate with the universal energy and flow. You're on your way!(Note: in this meditation, when I use the word "belong" I don't mean it in the sense of "ownership." Rather, it is a in the sense of "membership." So when I say, for example, that you belong to your mother and father, this is a loving, energetic and genetic statement. Particularly if you have had fraught relations with one or both of your parents, don't get hung up on the thought of your "belonging" to them in any sort of negative or scary sense. Rather use it as an opportunity to open your heart to the love they they no doubt feel for you (or felt if they are no longer with us), even if they have never shown you that love.)This is a 45 minute version of the I Belong guided meditation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meditation can be a powerful technique to achieve self-mastery and thereby relieve suffering. Let's say you are feeling sad, or anxious, or lonely. Or maybe you get angry or scattered. These states of mind are nothing more than energy in a particular pattern. These patterns arise when you feel threatened. And one of the most common threats humans sense is the possibility of being kicked out of their group or rejected by their peers or family or lover. But you have a choice here. Whether it is conscious or not, you are the one choosing to manufacture those patterns. And in truth, the threat of being rejected by or ejected from your group is not such a real threat. Humans are self-existing and self-maintaining organisms. This means that your energy is one with the energy all around you and the energy throughout the universe. You just have to direct your awareness to that energy and choose to tap into that power. One way to reconnect to that power is through this concept we call belonging. You simply need to affirm your sense of belonging through your own will and your own imagination. And you need to do it with commitment and confidence and focus. So that is what you will be guided to do in this meditation.(Note: in this meditation, when I use the word "belong" I don't mean it in the sense of "ownership." Rather, it is a in the sense of "membership." So when I say, for example, that you belong to your mother and father, this is a loving, energetic and genetic statement. Particularly if you have had fraught relations with one or both of your parents, don't get hung up on the thought of your "belonging" to them in any sort of negative or scary sense. Rather use it as an opportunity to open your heart to the love they they no doubt feel for you (or felt if they are no longer with us), even if they have never shown you that love.)This is a 30 minute version of the I Belong guided meditation.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When you are plagued by negative feelings, sometimes the source of it can be a fear of being rejected by a group or another person (it could be a work relation, a relative, a lover, or a friend for examples). The truth is that you will always belong and therefore have nothing to fear. You may not think this is what is happening but you'd be surprised by how often this is the fear underlying your sadness or anxiety or anger or shame or whatever else it is you are suffering from. If you really commit yourselves to the practice of the "I Belong" meditation, you may discover an enormous weight falling from your shoulders and your path through life opening in ways you could never have imagined!(Note: in this meditation, when I use the word "belong" I don't mean it in the sense of "ownership." Rather, it is a in the sense of "membership." So when I say, for example, that you belong to your mother and father, this is a loving, energetic and genetic statement. Particularly if you have had fraught relations with one or both of your parents, don't get hung up on the thought of your "belonging" to them in any sort of negative or scary sense. Rather use it as an opportunity to open your heart to the love they they no doubt feel for you (or felt if they are no longer with us), even if they have never shown you that love.)This is a 20 minute version of the I Belong guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Often negative feelings like anxiety, sadness, fear (and so on) are generated because we all have a need to belong.Your mind isn’t set up to arrive at a stable, happy and peaceful state. It is designed to keep the body alive. The mechanism that we use to move the body are called e-motions. They are energy to move the body. You need to move the body to stay alive. One of the biggest reasons that caused death over the eons of our evolution was separation from our group or tribe or family. When these fears of not belonging to our group arise, our physiology shifts to support these feelings of fear or grief and anxiety or however this fear manifests within our bodies and minds. You can reassert our control of how you are feeling in many ways but today we are going directly at this fear of being cast out. Please note that when I use the word "belong" it is not in the sense of ownership. Rather, it is in the sense of membership.This is a 10 minute version of the I Belong guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We'd all like to feel confident about who we are and what we are doing. And we have the power to make the choice, which is what this mediation is about. The truth is, however, that sustainable self confidence only arises when we realize that we actually have no control over anything and that there is a benevolent force that does have this control. Everything that happens is an expression of what the ancient masters might call the Divine Will, or as might be expressed today, what we could call the Physical Laws of Nature. We can't argue with what is. What has happened or is happening just is. You can stick a supernatural being in there as the prime mover or just call it physics or whatever but there is little basis to argue that any one of us individually as a human or even all of us collectively as a species can actually control what happens in every detail. I tell my arm to move, yes, and it moves, but the chain of causation that led to me having that thought and that ability I had nothing to do with and it is infinitely complex and goes back in time indefinitely. And modern neuroscience is producing more and more evidence supporting the claim that our actions emerge prior to us even being conscious of our intentions. So we don't control it. Our freedom of choice in the actions of bodies in the world of form is an illusion. A useful illusion for maximizing the propagation of our genes. Fine. But wait, there's more! There is this recipe for navigating through this life of ours, of adapting the electrical and chemical activity of the brain to create a sense of happiness and abundance and peace. We can short-circuit the more typical pattern of endless dissatisfaction. THAT is where we DO have control, where we CAN exercise our free will. We can choose to follow this recipe or we can choose to ignore it. Meditations like this one will help you along the path to realizing this true self-confidence; a self-confidence that is rooted in the notion that the Universe controls the Universe but you get to choose how you react to it and what emotions and thoughts you have in response.This is a 1 hour version of the I Am Confident guided meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We can claim an air of self confidence whenever we choose, and that is what this meditation is about. The truth is, however, that sustainable self confidence only arises when we realize that we actually have no control over anything and that there is a benevolent force that does have this control. Everything that happens is an expression of what the ancient masters might call the Divine Will, or as might be expressed today, what we could call the Physical Laws of Nature. We can't argue with what is. What has happened or is happening just is. You can stick a supernatural being in there as the prime mover or just call it physics or whatever but there is little basis to argue that any one of us individually as a human or even all of us collectively as a species can actually control what happens in every detail. I tell my arm to move, yes, and it moves, but the chain of causation that led to me having that thought and that ability I had nothing to do with and it is infinitely complex and goes back in time indefinitely. And modern neuroscience is producing more and more evidence supporting the claim that our actions emerge prior to us even being conscious of our intentions. So we don't control it. Our freedom of choice in the actions of bodies in the world of form is an illusion. A useful illusion for maximizing the propagation of our genes. Fine. But wait, there's more! There is this recipe for navigating through this life of ours, of adapting the electrical and chemical activity of the brain to create a sense of happiness and abundance and peace. We can short-circuit the more typical pattern of endless dissatisfaction. THAT is where we DO have control, where we CAN exercise our free will. We can choose to follow this recipe or we can choose to ignore it. Meditations like this one will help you along the path to realizing this true self-confidence; a self-confidence that is rooted in the notion that the Universe controls the Universe but you get to choose how you react to it and what emotions and thoughts you have in response.This is a 45 minute version of the I Am Confident guided meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you struggle with self-doubt, low self-esteem, or lack of confidence in some important dimension of your self or life, this meditation will be of help. You don't need to look outside yourself for affirmation or compliments or reassurance. As comforting as the reassurance and approval of others can be, you don't need to rely on other people to remove your doubts or fears or validate your choices. We are self-existing, self-maintaining, and self-sustaining organisms. So your confidence comes from within. You can't control what happens out in the world but you can control your mental and emotional response to those changes around you. And one important response is your degree of confidence. Your self-doubt or low self-esteem is rooted in a confusion about who you are and the nature of your true self. So self-assurance is a choice. For some of you it will be more natural than others but regardless, it is always a choice. This meditation will help you make that choice.This is a 30 minute version of the I Am Confident guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You can't be aware of not being. This must be, because you are. You were. And you will always be. It is up to you to choose your state of mind. No one can choose for you. Today you might be feeling self-doubt or lacking in confidence so the question is, are you going to choose freedom over wanting approval, love, or reassurance? What could be more important to you than freedom and inner peace? Perhaps there is something or things that are more important today. That is fine but until there is nothing more important than realizing that right now, right here, you are free you are just going to delay the realization of this truth. The longer you put off remembering who you really are, you are delaying the dawning of a new life of confidence, joy and peace. Why is it not obvious who you really are? Why does it seem to you that having someone else's approval is necessary? Because you believe yourself to be what it is not. As long as you spend your time preserving that which you are not, instead of celebrating that which you are, you are going to be stuck in your old life of uncertainty, confusion, and self-doubt. Or you can shift your attention to who you really are and do the work to recover the sensibilities, like self-confidence, that belong to you already.This is a 20 minute version of the I Am Confident guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many people suffer from self-doubt, low self-esteem, or lack of confidence in some important dimension of their self or their life. In these cases, often you will look outside yourself for affirmation or compliments or reassurance. As comforting as the reassurance and approval of others can be, you don't need to rely on other people to remove your doubts or fears or validate your choices. We are self-existing, self-maintaining, and self-sustaining organisms. So your confidence comes from within. Your self-doubt or low self-esteem is rooted in a confusion about who you are and the nature of your true self. So self-assurance is a choice. For some of you it will be more natural than others but regardless, it is always a choice. This meditation will help you make that choice.This is a 10 minute version of the I Am Confident guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your body, your mind and your self are just energies in a particular pattern. Part of mastery involves an understanding that mastering these energies serves a purpose. Technically, there really is no need to ‘master’ them because you are already a master. You have just forgotten. Think about it like this. On the one hand we say that God is good, love, all powerful and omnipresent. We say that we are all one. But was your day an experience of perfection, power, goodness, oneness and love? And if we are all one (or, if you are religious, you might say that ‘god is omnipresent’) then shouldn’t that have been your experience today? So, the practical question is then why wasn’t your day like that? What does omnipresent mean? Always there, everywhere, in a cell, in an atom. In this meditation you are going to practice being aware of your energy and sensing your connection to all energies; you will feel the flow and the natural connection between your energy and the energy in the world around you. If you don’t start exercising your power, if you don’t start paying attention to energy, how are you going to know how much power you really have? If your body is relaxed at a cellular level, you can choose to move your attention from the darkness to the light. If you don’t become aware of the light how shall you ever conclude that you are light? If you don’t make that conclusion how will it become apparent that light is limitless? How then shall you conclude that you are limitless? One conclusion serves as the floor for the next one. If you remember that you are eternal and unlimited, why would you fret about your body? Of course, once you realize this, then you have to let go of that realization too… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you feeling sad, or anxious, or lonely? Or do you get angry or scattered? All these states of mind are nothing more than energy in a particular pattern. You are a self-existing and self-maintaining organism. Your energy is one with the energy all around you and throughout the universe. And this energy wants to move. That is the natural order of things. It takes a lot of energy to prevent energy from moving or to hold it in a particular pattern. For you to be upset or unhappy in any way for more than a moment you must be holding on, for it is the nature of energy is to change. How do you know if you are holding? How do you know it is time to let go? It is not an intellectual process. It has to be something that you experience and therefore know. The body doesn’t lie. It just reports. You choose whether to listen to those reports and you choose what value and valence you attach to those reports. In this meditation, you will connect with your breath and your heartbeat and use it to sense the light and the energy that is your true nature. The more you master the very simple technique of slowing down and controlling your awareness, the better you will get at sensing the light and power that belongs to you. This is how you become aware of your energy and how it flows. The old stories about “Falling from Grace” or getting booted out of the Garden of Eden are really metaphors for humans forgetting how to awaken to their own power and energy and light. Being cast out of Eden just means that you are unconsciously blocking the free-flowing universal life force from moving into and through your body. So you can use this meditation to help you reconnect with your inherent energy and power and light.This is a 45 minute version of the I Am Energized guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you want to feel energized, you have to move to the level of consciousness where you uncover the inherent energy and power of your true self, your best self. If you try to generate it using coffee or pills or some other foreign stimulus, you will may reap a short term gain but it either won't last or it may have some negative side effect. When you develop that awareness that you have a direct connection to the energy and power of the whole universe, in addition to feeling energized, there is this delicious sensibility that will belong to you in those moments. Once you realize that you *are* energy, you can’t get rid of that sensibility. If you are energized and powerful you don’t need to pursue energy or power. You just are it. But people are looking for energy and power in the wrong place. They pursue whatever they thought created energy or gave them power. They believed that energy and power was something they lacked so they pursued it outside themselves. But you know better now. Move out of this dualistic perspective into the consciousness where energy and power are inherent.This is a 30 minute version of the I Am Energized guided meditation  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don’t let anything come between you and your energy. Thinking and feeling disturb your connection to the steady flow of energy in the universe. If you are aware of yourself emoting or thinking then your lower self is activated. Don’t let anything come between you and unlimited energy, including your thoughts, memories or feelings. By believing in these thoughts and feelings and memories and sensations, you are just delaying your direct connection to the universal flow, to your bliss. But you have another choice. You can appropriate your bliss and your energy right now. This meditation is a start. This is a 20 minute version of the I Am Energized guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One way to define bliss and vitality is a an open and free flow of light and energy through your body. Holding, resistance, and wanting stifle this flow and block the light. But you can open the channels that guide this flow within you. And when you do that, you will feel energized and blissful.This is a 10 minute version of the I Am Energized guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You can have a tangible impact on the health of your body simply by changing the way you think. Dedicate the time to remodeling the structures of your brain that control the health of your body. This meditation helps you do that. This is a one hour version of the I Am Healthy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your body is very susceptible to suggestion. If you think negative thoughts or believe the negative things people say about you sometimes, your body might take you or them seriously. Unfortunately, that negativity can affect your health and wellbeing. Fortunately you can take advantage of that same susceptibility to influence your body in the other direction, too. You can remind yourself of your inner potential for vitality, power, fitness and health. So do that right now!This is a 45 minute version of the I Am Healthy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you think negative thoughts or believe the negative things people say about you sometimes, your body might take you or them seriously. Unfortunately, that negativity can affect your health and wellbeing. Fortunately, this works in both directions so you can take advantage of that same susceptibility to influence your body towards health instead. You can remind yourself of your inner potential for vitality, power, fitness and health. So do that right now!This is a 30 minute version of the I Am Healthy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you have an injury or are sick or are in pain for any reason, you can use the vast powers of your mind to mitigate your suffering and support your natural immune and healing processes. This meditation will guide you through this simple yet powerful process.This is a 20 minute version of the I Am Healthy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Illness and pain are a natural part of life. Outside of the obvious things like eating right, getting enough sleep, washing our hands and reducing stress in our life, are there other techniques we can use to maximize our health and our strength? It turns out the body responds to positive thinking and can be healed by the presence of an otherworldly light. This light has been called prank, qi, and mana. But the point isn't the name. The point is to learn how to marshal this light in the service of your health and your vitality. So give it a try!This is a 10 minute version of the I Am Healthy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feelings of anxiety or sadness or anger or any other negative feeling are premised on the notion that there is something missing in your life. You sense that you are going to fail at something or that something bad will happen. In a word, you are living with wanting of some kind. You want approval or safety or love or companionship or to know or whatever it is. But you already have everything you need. The most fundamental want that you probably face, the one that often underlies other wants, is the desire for safety. Ultimately, the biggest risk is that we die. And based on the stress and anxiety you sometimes feel, or the level of anger or sadness that you might struggle with, your emotional self fears that there is a risk to your life. What is the antidote to these fears and the negative feelings that come up? The truth. The truth is that you are safe, and things are ok. You've just convinced yourself that this isn't the case. So this is a simple meditation to help remind your emotional self of the truth that you are going to be ok. Note: This is a one hour version of the I Am Safe guided meditationAs with any meditation, but especially with these longer ones, make sure you are in a regular habit of getting enough sleep. Some master will say that meditation is better than sleep. And maybe for their genetic make-up it is or maybe for advanced meditation masters their biochemistry really has changed. But for the vast majority of Homo Sapiens, 7-8 hours night after night after night is the minimum needed not just for a healthy body but also for the attentional powers necessary to embark on the transformative journey of self-mastery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When you experience negative feelings, whatever kind they are, this means that you are perceiving some sort of lack in your life. There is something missing that you want to fill in. Maybe you want control or safety, approval or love, or maybe you just want to know or understand. Whatever it is, you have the power to cut to the chase and simply let go of wanting. An age old method of doing this is to just let the breath relax. You'll do that in this meditation but it is all too easy to slip back into the little circle you are stuck in, to get yourself into turmoil for days. Eventually, the opposite energy will finally take over but the suffering along the way can be tremendous and the 'eventually' can seem to last forever. So one simple technique to short circuit this loop of wanting and suffering is to remind your emotional self that everything is going to be ok, that everything actually IS ok already. And the first step to proving that to your emotional self is to point out the seemingly obvious fact that you are safe. With that foundation stabilized, all the good stuff can be built on top of that: joy, abundance, peace, purpose and flourishing can find solid footing again. Note: This is a 45 minute version of the I Am Safe guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The strange nature of the human experience is that your thoughts and feelings aren't truth. They don't represent what is really happening in the world. They neither accurately reflect the nature of our physical reality (as Relativity and Quantum physics have proven), nor do they provide us access to the many other dimensions that make up consciousness. So until you get to the point that you look at what you think and feel as a lie, you will not progress beyond the yo-yo of feelings that probably characterizes your life right now. Until you look at your feelings -- whether the feeling is wanting control or safety, being filled with anger, fear or sadness -- as lies, you are sentenced to continue to feel them. You are sentencing yourself to this kind of a life because you continue to believe that thinking and feeling are indices of reality.  As you start to let go, as you start to work on exposing the lies that you have lived with for so long to the light of day, all the beliefs and feelings that were stored start to come up to the surface so this can make progress difficult and, especially if you are in therapy, can become a huge distraction. But you can just cut to the chase. You are free. Right here and right now. But you don’t behave that way. You still do what you think. You still do what you feel. You still believe the lies so feelings and thoughts still color what you think is actually happening in your life. But you are fine right now. Happiness, peace, flourishing and a sense of purpose and fulfillment are available to you right now. And you can start becoming comfortable with this truth by building a foundation of safety and security, by acquainting yourself with the truth of your physical safety right now, in this moment. That is what this meditation is all about.Note: This is a 30 minute version of the I Am Safe guided meditation.As always, more important than meditation is sleep. So if you are sleepy, use this time to nap and adjust your sleep routine so that you secure sufficient sleep (normally 7-8 hours) each night so that meditation can become as powerful as possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Take a moment right now and think about what happened in the last few days. Were there any disturbing feelings? You're reading this so there probably were, or are still. In this meditation you will take a hard look at the reality of your situation. Where is your body right now? What is your body doing? What is really going on? In reality, isn’t your body in a safe, friendly, even hospitable environment? So isn’t that how you should be feeling? Safe and friendly and taken care of. If that isn't how you feel, give this mediation a try.NOTE: This is a 20 minute version of the "I Am Safe" guided meditation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your emotional self sometimes gets out ahead of the facts on the ground. You could be playing a board game or in a simple work situation and suddenly feel an enormous pit in your stomach, perhaps even a sense of panic. Or perhaps you are simply plagued by some other negative emotion like loneliness, anger, sadness, anxiety or any of the other terrible feeling flavors that are all too familiar. Sometimes those feelings are appropriate and you can let them run their course but most of the time they are disproportionate to the situation at hand. In either case, there are some very simple techniques we can use to help reset our emotional baseline. One of the best ways of performing this reset is to reestablish your foundation on the fact that you are safe and protected right now. You need to remind your emotional self, using pictures and very simple, repeated phrases, that everything is ok, right now. You will be amazed by the effect that pointing out these seemingly obvious facts can have. Note: This is a 10 minute version of the I Am Safe guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This simple breathing meditation guides you through one of the most basic but most powerful meditation techniques. And keep in mind that if you want to retrain your mind and your body to be responsive to your guidance and commands, you need to start with simple techniques like following your breath so when the big moments come along, it is second nature to keep focused on what is important in life. This meditation guides you through the counting breaths up to ten practice. (If you lose count just restart at one again).NOTE: This is a 30 minute version of the counting breaths to ten practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This simple breathing exercise provides a much needed reset. And it is an essential component of retraining your mind and your body. You master your self by starting with the simple things like following your breath. This meditation guides you through the counting breaths up to ten practice. (If you lose count just restart at one again).NOTE: This is a 20 minute version of the counting breaths to ten practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our bodies and our minds are designed to generate the kind of calm and peace that underpin a happy and fulfilling existence. We have to take control, assert our dominance over the default mode of fantasizing, self-criticism, replaying the past, judging ourselves or others and the list goes on. A simple way to do that is to just count your breaths. So that is what we do in this meditation. (If you lose count of your breaths, you can just start right back at the beginning with one again).NOTE: This is a 10 minute version of the Count to 10 Guided Meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a marathon session for those in need of a thorough grounding in themselves and the landscape around them. You will be working with the country around you, the actual and mystical energies nearby, and as always, light, light light. Note: This is a 2 hour version of the Grounding Complete Set Meditation. Also, you will probably want some element from the land around you for the session. It can be a scoop of sand, a rock, a leaf, a branch or piece of bark or some other natural object that is indigenous to the landscape around you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whether you are jet-lagged or just run ragged and jagged by the splintering impacts of everyday life, it might be time for a energy refresher. An easy way to do this is to use the earth, your location, energy and light. They're free and always at hand. This meditation will help you ground yourself where you are and in who you are. It is so easy to forget!Note: This is a 90 minute version of the Grounding Complete Set Meditation. Also, you will probably want some element from the land around you for the session. It can be a scoop of sand, a rock, a leaf, a branch or piece of bark or some other natural object that is indigenous to the landscape around you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sometimes by consolidating your energies and harmonizing yourself internally and externally, you will find that you have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings you. This meditation combines using the earth, your location, and light to align you with where you are. (Though not necessary, you may want to use a stone or a leaf or a stick or the earth itself so best if you have one handy before you begin). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spend the next hour pulsing with what the Hawaiians called Mana, the Chinese called Qi and the Indians called Prana. Meditating by following the breath or a mantra can be wonderful. But if you really want to connect with the energy all around you it is sometimes helpful to take a more structured path. Connecting to this energy is energizing and healing in any circumstance, but it can be particularly helpful when you are anxious or scattered or over-tired. And the grounding that is conveyed to the physical body by connecting with this subtle energy can have a powerful healing influence when you are suffering from more extreme cases like panic attacks or other psychological maladies. This is a 60 minute version of the Grounding - Use energy meditation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are many ways to meditate. And each meditation will be different. Even with meditations as simple as following the breath or a mantra will be different every time. And these sorts of meditations can be wonderful. But to connect with the energy all around you it is sometimes helpful to take a more structured path. Connecting to this energy (the Chinese called it Qi, the Indians Prana and the Hawaiians Mana) is energizing and healing in any circumstance, but it can be particularly helpful when you are anxious or scattered or over-tired. And the grounding that is conveyed to the physical body by connecting with this energy can have a powerful healing influence when you are suffering from more extreme cases like panic attacks or other psychological maladies. This is a 45 minute version of the Grounding - Use energy meditation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A meditation can be a simple following of breath or a mantra. But to connect with the energy all around you it is sometimes helpful to take a more structured path. Connecting to this energy (or Qi or Prana) is energizing and healing in any circumstance, but it can be particularly helpful when you are anxious or scattered or over-tired. And the grounding that is conveyed to the physical body by connecting with this energy can have a powerful healing influence when you are suffering from more extreme cases like panic attacks or other psychological maladies. This is a 30 minute version of the Grounding - Use energy meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Students of modern science will be familiar with the idea of energy and forces permeating the universe. In ancient times there was a similar idea of fields of energy connecting and filling all of space. They called it Qi or Prana. Modern science dismisses this notion of a vital life force. But the ancient masters taught that there was this other kind energy that humans can awaken to. We can't measure it with our scientific instruments today but we can use our bodies to sense it. And we can use this energy to ground our bodies and connect with where we are. Whether we are anxious or stressed, overtired or jet lagged, or even if we are suffering from panic attacksTry it now by listening to this 20 minute version of the Grounding - Use Energy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Space is permeated with fields of energy. Migratory birds navigate using this energy. Bees can feel changes in the electromagnetic field from flowers. And the ancient masters taught that there was another kind energy, or Qi, that humans can awaken to. We can use this energy in all sorts of ways. Today, we use it to ground our bodies and connect with where we are. This is a 10 minute version of the Grounding - Use Energy guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This simple meditation will help ground you when the inevitable chaos and confusion in the world and people around you becomes too much. You might be someone that has a long commute each day. Perhaps you're jet lagged. Or maybe you have recently traveled in the same time zone or moved house or changed jobs. Or maybe there is something more serious going on and panic attacks or anger are frequently threatening to overwhelm you. If so, there are many places you can go for help. One of them is within your own mind. This is a 45 minute version of the Use the ground meditation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you have a long commute each day? Have you recently traveled? Moved house or changed cities? Perhaps you're jet lagged. Or maybe there is something more serious going on and panic attacks or anger are frequently threatening to overwhelm you. If so, there are many places you can go for help. One of them is within your own mind. This simple meditation will help ground you when the inevitable chaos and confusion in the world and people around you becomes too much. This is a 45 minute version of the Use the ground meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you travel a lot, you can use this meditation as a way to help your jet lagged body overcome the lag and will help accelerate your adaptation to the new time zone. You can even begin working on shifting your body's clock before you leave! The meditation will also help if you are suffering from jet-lag or are feeling unmoored for whatever reason. Even conditions like insomnia, panic attacks, depression, anger and other psychological episodes can be helped with this simple exercise. Or you can use it as an everyday tonic to sooth your mind and body, slowing you down from the fast pace of modern life. This is a 30 minute version of the "Use the ground" meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many people in modern times suffer from anxiety, fear, anger, sometimes even outright panic in a way that is disproportionate to the actual threats to their life. It is in those moments that grounding yourself can be a true blessing. This guided meditation walks you through simple meditation to do just that. You will also find that it is a salve to the jet lagged body and will help accelerate your adaptation to the new time zone. You can even begin working on shifting your body's clock before you leave! This is a 20 minute version of the 'Use the ground' meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are suffering from jet-lag or are feeling unmoored for whatever reason, this meditation will help. Even conditions like insomnia, panic attacks, depression, anger and other psychological episodes can be helped with this simple exercise. Or you can use it as an everyday tonic to sooth your mind and body, slowing you down from the fast pace of modern life. You will also find that it is a salve to the jet lagged body and will help accelerate your adaptation to the new time zone. You can even begin working on shifting your body's clock before you leave! This is a 10 minute version of the "Use the ground" meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feeling jet lagged, scattered, discombobulated or unmoored? If so, you can use this meditation to help ground you. By consolidating your energies and harmonizing yourself internally and externally, you will feel better and find that you have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings you. It is a 30 minute version of the Use Your Location to ground yourself meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are feeling jet lagged, scattered, discombobulated or unmoored for whatever reason, this meditation will help ground you. By consolidating your energies and harmonizing yourself internally and externally, you will feel better and find that you have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings you. It is a 10 minute version of the Use Your Location to ground yourself meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When our mind and our body is out of joint and we’re not sure why, sometimes a simple meditation on grounding oneself in the place where we are right now is all that is needed to feel better. By consolidating our energies and harmonizing ourselves internally and externally, we find that we have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings us. This is a simple meditation that will allow you ground yourself where you are (or where you will soon be if you are traveling). This meditation is especially useful if you are jet-lagged or feeling scattered or unmoored. It is a 10 minute version of the Use Your Location meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Using your breath as the anchor and the dualistic nature of the phenomenal or physical world as your medium. You can use this guided meditation to release suffering of any kind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonglen works almost like they that jet black coal is consumed in a white hot furnace and transformed into light. You can think of the practice as though the universe is using you as a forge. By accepting the negativity or anguish or others you are purified and your true loving nature is revealed. Contrary to what you might think, your willingness to accept another's suffering allows you to become the smithy for the creation of joy and light, both for them and within yourself as well. This is a 1 hour version of the Tonglen for Others meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonglen, the Buddhist meditation practice of 'sending and receiving' works in an almost alchemical way to relieve the suffering of others and your personal pain at the same time. The practice of Tonglen fires up a boiler or a smithy within the soul and then guides you to shovel the jet black coal of suffering into the white hot flames in the furnace. Through the practice, the universe uses you as a forge. As paradoxical as it sounds, by accepting the negativity or anguish or others you are purified and your true loving nature is revealed. Your willingness to accept their suffering allows you to become the anvil for the creation of joy and light with your own heart and others as well. This is a 45 minute version of the 'Tonglen for Others' meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many of us suffer terribly. Whether it is physical or psychological pain, the suffering deep down within us can be unbearable. And we often know others who struggle with their own demons. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen is a simple practice that allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. Using the alchemy of light and dark, you can use this practice to connect with the suffering of others and through that connection, forge a happier, lighter experience of life. You can use your body and your mind as a kind of crucible where you can transform the darkness and pain of someone else into light and joy. And by doing it for another, almost magically your own clouds will lift too. This is a 30 minute version of the Tonglen for Others practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. This ancient Buddhist technique is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. The method is to just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering within ourselves ceases, or at least reduces, and almost magically, we help alleviate the suffering in others at the same time. It is one of the oldest, and very best, brain hacks of all time. This is a 20 minute version of the 'Tonglen for Others' practice.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The age-old Buddhist practice of Tonglen can be used to help another person or people who are in pain. If there is someone who is suffering, or some group of people, and you would like to help and support them with your love, you can use this technique to do just that. Tonglen means giving and receiving and in this meditation you will do just that, receiving their suffering and giving your love.Note: This is a 10 minute version of the Tonglen for Others guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. This is a one hour version of the Past Regrets Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is hardly a person that doesn't have emotional wounds from the past. Tonglen is a method that can be used to heal them. If you can open your heart to your pain and your past, you can become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. This is a 45 minute version of the Past Regrets Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonglen is a method that can be used to heal old emotional wounds. If you can open your heart to your pain and your past, you can become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. This is a 30 minute version of the Past Regrets Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyone has regrets. Sometimes you are the wrongdoer, sometimes you are the victim. Sometimes it is a little of both. Regardless, by bringing an open heart to your pain and your past, you become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete and healed self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to reconnect with that safety and light and hope. This is a 20 minute version of the Past Regret Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

By bringing an open heart to your pain and your past, you become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete and healed self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to reconnect with that safety and light and hope. This is a 10 minute version of the Past Regret Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Tonglen' was developed over hundreds and possibly thousands of years to help heal the most painful and disturbing parts of our selves and our past. It continues to be widely practiced today across the world for the simple reason that it works. The methodology has stood the test of time for this reason. Each of us has a history of injury or anguish or suffering and there are practices that can heal that pain. Your suffering may be more or less fresh, more or less chronic, but everyone wages an ongoing battle with dissatisfaction or pain of some kind or another. This Buddhist practice can heal these old wounds and help you release the pain you endure. This is a 1 hour version of the 'Self-Tonglen' guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tibetan technique called 'Tonglen' was honed over hundreds and possibly thousands of years to heal the most painful and disturbing parts of our selves and our past. It continues to be widely practiced today across the world for the simple reason that it works. The methodology has stood the test of time for this reason. Each of us has a history of injury or anguish or suffering and there are practices that can heal that pain. Your suffering may be more or less fresh, more or less chronic, but everyone wages an ongoing battle with dissatisfaction or pain of some kind or another. This Buddhist practice can heal these old wounds and help you release the pain you endure. This is a 45 minute version of the 'Self-Tonglen' guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this meditation we will utilize the ancient Buddhist practice called Tonglen. In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. It is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. You might have been a small child long ago when the emotional wounds were inflicted. But you can embody that little you in your mind and utilize this technique to comfort and heal this child within. One of the advantages of this practice is that we don't have to work out what our problems are. We don't have to engage in months or years of therapy, we don't have to follow a guru or join a group. We just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering ceases or at least reduces. It is one of the oldest, and very best, brain hacks of all time. This is a 30 minute version of the 'Self-Tonglen' practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This guided meditation is based on the ancient Buddhist practice called Tonglen. In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. It is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. You might have been a small child long ago when the emotional wounds were inflicted. But you can embody that little you in your mind and utilize this technique to comfort and heal this child within. One of the advantages of this practice is that we don't have to work out what our problems are. We don't have to engage in months or years of therapy, we don't have to follow a guru or join a group. We just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering ceases or at least reduces. It is one of the oldest, and very best, brain hacks of all time. This is a 20 minute version of the 'Self-Tonglen' practice.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist practice developed to relieve suffering or anguish. In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. One of the advantages of this practice is that we don't have to work out what our problems are. We don't have to engage in months or years of therapy, we don't have to follow a guru or join a group. We just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering ceases or at least reduces. It is one of the oldest, and very best, brain hacks of all time. This is a 10 minute version of the 'Self-Tonglen' practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a surprising reversal of the normal logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure, the ancient Tonglen practice uses the exact opposite logic to achieve an even better outcome. Pleasure, like pain, is fleeting. But true peace, uncapped spaciousness and profound compassion are sustainable sensibilities that are unlocked through this paradoxical technique. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself. In the simple act of being unflinchingly present for your own anguish, bearing witness to it with an open heart and fearless acceptance of this suffering, you heal yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. This is a 1 hour version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself. In the simple act of being unflinchingly present for your own anguish, bearing witness to it with an open heart and fearless acceptance of this suffering, you heal yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. This is a 45 minute version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonglen is an millennia-old Tibetan technique to help you release suffering within yourself (or on behalf of others too). It has survived in more or less the same form through successive generations for many hundreds of years in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself. In the simple act of being unflinchingly present for your own anguish, bearing witness to it with an open heart and fearless acceptance of this suffering, you heal yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. This is a 10 minute version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Environment of the Mind can be transformed using this millennia-old Buddhist Tonglen technique. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself. In the simple act of being unflinchingly present for your own anguish, bearing witness to it with an open heart and fearless acceptance of this suffering, you heal yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself, and you transform the pain into joy, the darkness into light. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist technique to help you release suffering within yourself (or on behalf of others too). It has survived in more or less the same form through successive generations for many hundreds of years in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet.This is a 20 minute version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist technique to help you release suffering within yourself (or on behalf of others too). It has survived in more or less the same form through successive generations for many hundreds of years in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself. In the simple act of being unflinchingly present for your own anguish, bearing witness to it with an open heart and fearless acceptance of this suffering, you heal yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. This is a 30 minute version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You aren't who you think you are. It is like you are asleep to the truth of who you really are. That is why they call it 'waking up.' But how do we wake up? An enlightened master once told me that the secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work?  Well, it works because resistance, holding on, and wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of our separation of us from our true self. So, letting go shatters that illusion and wakes us up. And when the illusion is shattered, we sense the connection to the universal love and power and peace that is our source. That is why it works. But how do you do it and when can you practice it? In fact, you can practice it every day, all the time. Every thought that arises, every want, every resistance you have, you simply let go of it. Over and over again until it is second nature. With enough practice, the letting go becomes a reflex. And those who have taken this path before you teach that eventually, with enough letting go, the neurological habits of holding on and resisting and wanting fade away and your consciousness will stabilize on the true nature of your mind. The structure of your brain literally experiences a permanent physical and electrochemical change. This is a 45 minute version of the Reconnect with your Source episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is enlightenment? And how do we experience it? An enlightened master once told me that their secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work?  Well, it works because resistance, holding on, and wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of our separation us from our true self. So, letting go shatters that illusion. And when the illusion is shattered, we sense the connection to the universal love and power and peace that is our source. That is why it works. But how do you do it and when can you practice it? In fact, you can practice it every day, all the time. Every thought that arises, every want, every resistance you have, you simply let go of it. Over and over again until it is second nature. With enough practice, the letting go becomes a reflex. And those who have taken this path before you teach that eventually, with enough letting go, the neurological habits of holding on and resisting and wanting fade away and your consciousness will stabilize on the true nature of your mind. The structure of your brain literally experiences a permanent physical and electrochemical change. This is a 60 minute version of the Reconnect with your Source episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is enlightenment? The reports from those who experienced this extraordinary brain-state hold the promise that we can transcend the emotional disturbances that seem to be a given element of being a human.But how do we experience it? An enlightened master once told me that their secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work?  Well, it works because resistance, holding on, and wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of our separation of us from our true self. So, letting go shatters that illusion. And when the illusion is shattered, we sense the connection to the universal love and power and peace that is our source. That is why it works. But how do you do it and when can you practice it? In fact, you can practice it every day, all the time. Every thought that arises, every want, every resistance you have, you simply let go of it. Over and over again until it is second nature. With enough practice, the letting go becomes a reflex. And those who have taken this path before you teach that eventually, with enough letting go, the neurological habits of holding on and resisting and wanting fade away and your consciousness will stabilize on the true nature of your mind. The structure of your brain literally experiences a permanent physical and electrochemical change. This is a 10 minute version of the Reconnect with your Source episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are reports from every culture and every age of certain human beings who somehow seem to be able to transcend the emotional disturbances that seem to be a given element of being a human being. An enlightened master once told me that their secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work?  Well, it works because resistance, holding on, and wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of our separation us from our true self. So, letting go shatters that illusion. And when the illusion is shattered, we sense the connection to the universal love and power and peace that is our source. That is why it works. But how do you do it and when can you practice it? In fact, you can practice it every day, all the time. Every thought that arises, every want, every resistance you have, you simply let go of it. Over and over again until it is second nature. With enough practice, the letting go becomes a reflex. And those who have taken this path before you teach that eventually, with enough letting go, the neurological habits of holding on and resisting and wanting fade away and your consciousness will stabilize on the true nature of your mind. The structure of your brain literally experiences a permanent physical and electrochemical change. This is a 20 minute version of the Reconnect with your Source episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An enlightened master once told me that the secret to a life of continual peace and joy was letting go. Anyone could experience the life of peace and love and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work?  It works because resistance, holding on, and wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of your separation from your true self. So, letting go shatters that illusion. And when the illusion is broken, you sense the connection to the universal love and power and peace that is your source. That is why it works. But how do you do it and when can you practice it? In fact, you can practice it every day, all the time. Every thought that arises, every want, every resistance you have, you simply let go of it. Over and over again until it is second nature. With enough practice, the letting go becomes a reflex. And those who have taken this path before you teach that eventually, with enough letting go, the neurological habits of holding on and resisting and wanting fade away and your consciousness will stabilize on the true nature of your mind. The structure of your brain literally experiences a permanent physical and electrochemical change.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This 90 minute long episode is an adaptation of a lesson taught by George Falcon, an enlightened Qi Gong master who passed away in recent times. It begins with a simple breathing and body scan meditation, transitions to a steady contemplation on the nature of the self and finishes with a sustained meditation on your true I AM. From the earliest wisdom teachers to the great living masters of today, we consistently hear the message that ‘you are free’, ‘you do without doing,’ and ‘you are not the self.’ It doesn't matter whether it is Lao Tzu or Krishna, Jesus or Mohammed, Buddha or Rumi, they all share this same insight. But what can they possibly mean? Unfortunately, we have to experience it to understand it. It is impossible to explain in a way the intellect can grasp. Bearing that truth in mind, you can use this extended meditation practice to help you remember who you really are. This guided meditation is a 90 minute version of the Letting Go Of Who You Think You Are episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the earliest wisdom teachers to the great living masters of today, we consistently hear the message that ‘you are free’, ‘you do without doing,’ and ‘you are not the self.’ It doesn't matter whether it is Lao Tzu or Krishna, Jesus or Mohammed, Buddha or Hermes Trismegestus, they all share this same insight. But what can they possibly mean? Unfortunately, we have to experience it to understand it. It is impossible to explain in a way the intellect can grasp. Bearing that truth in mind, this hour long episode contains an adaptation of a lesson taught by George Falcon, an enlightened Qi Gong master who passed away in recent times. It transitions from a steady contemplation on the nature of the self into a sustained meditation on your true I AM.This guided meditation is an hour long version of the Letting Go Of Who You Think You Are episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can you experience enlightenment right now? The great masters have told that you already have this enlightened state as your essential nature. You've just forgotten. You're just asleep. But then, who are you, really? Unfortunately, it is impossible to answer this question using words or concepts. So today, instead of giving a lecture on who you really are, I am going to guide you in a way that you might just be able to begin to get a sense of it. This model was taught to me by my teacher George Falcon and I have adapted it into a method of contemplation and meditation that you can use to begin to grasp this ancient teaching on the nature of self. It will give you a more intuitive understanding of what it is these masters are talking about when they say things like ‘you are free’, ‘you do without doing,’ and ‘you are not the self.’ You may wonder why it is so important to understand who you really are. It is because this confusion is the source, in one sense, of all your problems in life. Buddha tells us in the Diamond Sutra, for example, that "Nirvāna and samsāra are, for the human mind, merely the ultimate pair of opposites, and like all lesser pairs of opposites, such as ego and nonego, they are unreal. Only in the transcendent state, beyond the domain of opposites, is truth realizable." (The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-neng (Kindle Locations 193-196). Shambhala Publications.)But never forget that this is just a model and, as Buddha said many times, these teachings "of the Dharma is to be likened unto a raft." and just like any model or teaching, or Dharma, "the buddha-teaching must be relinquished." (The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-neng (Kindle Locations 395-396). Shambhala Publications.)This is a 45 minute version of the Letting Go of Who You Think You Are episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In one sense, all our problems in life stem from a confusion about who we really are. Buddha is among the most explicit on this point. He speaks repeatedly about how we are not an ego entity, a personality, a being or and individual. He tells us, for example, in The Diamond Sutra, that we “should leave behind all phenomenal distinctions [such as the idea that we are a self] and awaken the thought of the consummation of incomparable enlightenment”. But what does this mean exactly? And how do we awaken this thought? Unfortunately, this is not something we can put into words, as the somersaulting language of the Diamond Sutra attests. But we are told again and again by saints and sages throughout the ages that this experience of our higher self, our true self, is possible. So why not take them at their word and give it a go? Why not take seriously the possibility that this awakening is something we can experience. That is what we are going to do today. In this meditation, you will be guided to a place where you might just be able to get an inkling of the awakening Buddha speaks about. This framework was taught to me by my teacher George Falcon and I have adapted it into a contemplation/meditation practice. While you may not experience satori or the sudden awakening that Zen speaks about, it will at least bring you to a place where you can understand at a more intuitive level what it is these masters are talking about when they say things like ‘you are free’, ‘you do without doing,’ and ‘you are not the self.’Can you experience enlightenment right now? Maybe not but why not try? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a longer session for those ready to extend their letting go practice. Letting go, remembering who you really are, learning to act in accordance with the truths about free will--these things don't just start happening automatically. You have had a lifetime or learning a different method. All those years and decades of learning have to be overwritten. The brain rewiring just takes time. But we know that neurons that fire together wire together. So you marathon meditators can utilize this one to help you on your journey. Just make sure you have had a good night's sleep first! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It may feel like you are in command of your world and your body but that isn't true. And it isn't just people like Lao Tzu and Krishna that you hear this message from anymore. It is the scientific community. The ancient masters understood that free will is not what we think it is and modern science is finally beginning to catch up. To quote from Sam Harris' book, Free Will, "The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously used EEG to show that activity in the brain’s motor cortex can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab extended this work using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): Subjects were asked to press one of two buttons while watching a “clock” composed of a random sequence of letters appearing on a screen. They reported which letter was visible at the moment they decided to press one button or the other. The experimenters found two brain regions that contained information about which button subjects would press a full 7 to 10 seconds before the decision was consciously made. More recently, direct recordings from the cortex showed that the activity of merely 256 neurons was sufficient to predict with 80 percent accuracy a person’s decision to move 700 milliseconds before he became aware of it. (Harris, Sam. Free Will (pp. 8-9). Free Press.)So, as hard as it is to comprehend, you are not the one doing the doing. You can use this meditation to learn to become comfortable with this truth and to start to unpack what this means for you and in your life, right now.This is a 60 minute version of the complete 'you are not the doer' set. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ancient masters understood that free will is not what we think it is and modern science is finally beginning to catch up. To quote from Sam Harris' book, Free Will, "The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously used EEG to show that activity in the brain’s motor cortex can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab extended this work using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): Subjects were asked to press one of two buttons while watching a “clock” composed of a random sequence of letters appearing on a screen. They reported which letter was visible at the moment they decided to press one button or the other. The experimenters found two brain regions that contained information about which button subjects would press a full 7 to 10 seconds before the decision was consciously made. More recently, direct recordings from the cortex showed that the activity of merely 256 neurons was sufficient to predict with 80 percent accuracy a person’s decision to move 700 milliseconds before he became aware of it. (Harris, Sam. Free Will (pp. 8-9). Free Press.)So, as hard as it is to comprehend, you are not the one doing the doing. You can use this meditation to learn to become comfortable with this truth and to start to unpack what this means for you and in your life, right now.This is a 45 minute version of the complete 'you are not the doer' set. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Less talk, more meditation' version of the 'Be the witness' practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Modern neurological research suggests that our concept of free will is unfounded. The ancient masters understood this long ago. And they developed a series of brain-training exercises to settle in to a state of so-called 'non-doing' or Wu Wei. But non-doing, or just being the witness to the unfolding of your existence, isn't what you think it is. You aren't sitting around doing nothing. Quite the contrary. It's just that the doing that you do do is more organic, appropriate and effortless.This is a 30 minute version of the complete 'you are not the doer' set. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Letting go' can seem very scary. After all, if we let go, if we stop doing, then what will happen to us? Won't we starve or rot away on our couch? Or won't bad things happen to us? It turns out that letting go and stopping "doing" aren't what we might at first think. It is true that free will as we normally think about it is an illusion. Even though it feels like we are the authors of our existence, the reality is something quite different. Even though we think we perceive reality through our senses and make judgements about how to behave and what to do with our bodies and our lives, the great masters of old as well as the neuroscientists of our day tell us this is not true. So 'letting go' is really about acknowledging the world as it is. A world where we are the objects of things being done rather than their true author. So it doesn't have to be scary. The wisdom teachers of ancient times explained that, in fact, the realization of this fact that we are not the subjects of our life, that we are the objects of a greater flow, holds the secret to happiness. But we have to learn to let go for it to work. This guided meditation helps you practice this technique of letting go, of not thinking you are the doer in your life, of accepting what arises. Note: This is a 15 minute version of the Be the Object Guided Meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Free will as we normally think about it is an illusion. Even though it feels like we are the authors of our existence, the reality is something quite different. Even though we think we perceive reality through our senses and make judgements about how to behave and what to do with our bodies and our lives, the great masters of old as well as the neuroscientists of our day tell us this is not true. For some, this is quite a scary thought. But the wisdom teachers of ancient times explained that, in fact, the realization of this fact that we are not the subjects of our life, that we are the objects of a greater flow, holds the secret to happiness. But we have to learn to let go for it to work. This guided meditation helps you practice this technique of letting go, of not thinking you are the doer in your life, of accepting what arises. Note: This is a 60 minute version of the Be the Object Guided Meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It feels like we are the authors of our existence. We perceive reality through our senses and make judgements about how to behave and what to do with our bodies and our lives. But the great masters of old as well as the neuroscientists of our day tell us this is not true. Free will as we normally think about it is an illusion. For some, this is quite a scary thought. But the wisdom teachers of ancient times explained that, in fact, the realization of this fact that we are not the subjects of our life, that we are the objects of a greater flow, holds the secret to happiness. But we have to learn to let go for it to work. This guided meditation helps you practice this technique of letting go, of not thinking you are the doer in your life, of accepting what arises.Note: This is a 30 minute version of the Be the Object Guided Meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the more confusing and seemingly wrong teachings from the ancient masters is this idea that the secret to a happy healthy life is 'non-doing' (Wu Wei). But what in the world can they possibly mean?! How is doing nothing (if that is what they mean) the key to happiness and health? The answer isn’t what you think. You first need to learn what the old sages mean by expressions like “The wise person does nothing, yet nothing is left undone” (Lao Tzu) or “Self, confused by the idea of an ‘I’, thus thinks, ‘I am the doer’" (Krishna). Or, if you prefer, you can look to the Islamic mystics of 12thcentury CE (such as Ibn ‘Arabi) for a solution. He made a distinction between “Divine Will” and “Divine Wish” which helps elucidate what these ancient teachings mean. Ibn 'Arabi might express it by saying that the truth of reality is that everything that happens, the world as it is and as it becomes each moment, is an expression of God's Will (or you could just say is an expression of the forces of nature of physics, if God isn’t your thing). This is what he calls the ‘Divine Will.’ In contrast, ‘Divine Wish’ is concerned with how each one of us individually as a human can reach "heaven" or "Nirvana" or discover within ourselves the underlying perfection that union with the all (what Ibn 'Arabi would call "Oneness of Being") allows to become manifest. You see, it quickly becomes complicated and overly intellectual. For those that like that kind of thing, I explain what all that means in my blog. But sometimes it is just easier to experience the lesson. That is what this meditation is for. To teach you how to let go, to show you what that feels like, to open you to the possibilities that emerge when you learn this lesson. Just relax and let me do the work for you. Note: This is a 45 minute version of the Be The Vehicle meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The great masters have explained in no uncertain terms that we are not the doer. But what in the world can they possibly mean?! How is doing nothing (if that is what they mean) the key to happiness and health? The answer isn’t what you think. You first need to learn what the old sages mean by expressions like “The wise person does nothing, yet nothing is left undone” (Lao Tzu) or “Self, confused by the idea of an ‘I’, thus thinks, ‘I am the doer’" (Krishna). Or, if you prefer, you can look to the Islamic mystics of 12thcentury CE (such as Ibn ‘Arabi) for a solution. He made a distinction between “Divine Will” and “Divine Wish” which helps elucidate what these ancient teachings mean. Ibn 'Arabi might express it by saying that the truth of reality is that everything that happens, the world as it is and as it becomes each moment, is an expression of God's Will (or you could just say is an expression of the forces of nature of physics, if God isn’t your thing). This is what he calls the ‘Divine Will.’ In contrast, ‘Divine Wish’ is concerned with how each one of us individually as a human can reach "heaven" or "Nirvana" or discover within ourselves the underlying perfection that union with the all (what Ibn 'Arabi would call "Oneness of Being") allows to become manifest. You see, it quickly becomes complicated and overly intellectual. For those that like that kind of thing, I explain what all that means in my blog. But sometimes it is just easier to experience the lesson. That is what this meditation is for. To teach you how to let go, to show you what that feels like, to open you to the possibilities that emerge when you learn this lesson. Just relax and let me do the work for you. Note: This is a 60 minute version of the Be The Vehicle meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The great masters of old were all consistent with at least one piece of advice: the key to happiness and health is to stop doing. Wu Wei ('not doing'), the ancient Chinese masters might have said. Old sages like Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching tell us that “The wise person does nothing, yet nothing is left undone” or we can look to Krishna who tells us “Self, confused by the idea of an ‘I’, thus thinks, ‘I am the doer’". Or, if you prefer, you can look to the Islamic mystics of 12thcentury CE (such as Ibn ‘Arabi) for a solution. He made a distinction between “Divine Will” and “Divine Wish” which helps elucidate what these ancient teachings mean. Ibn 'Arabi might express it by saying that the truth of reality is that everything that happens, the world as it is and as it becomes each moment, is an expression of God's Will (or you could just say is an expression of the forces of nature of physics, if God isn’t your thing). This is what he calls the ‘Divine Will.’ In contrast, ‘Divine Wish’ is concerned with how each one of us individually as a human can reach "heaven" or "Nirvana" or discover within ourselves the underlying perfection that union with the all (what Ibn 'Arabi would call "Oneness of Being") allows to become manifest. You see, it quickly becomes complicated and overly intellectual. For those that like that kind of thing, I explain what all that means in my blog. But sometimes it is just easier to experience the lesson. That is what this meditation is for. To teach you how to let go, to show you what that feels like, to open you to the possibilities that emerge when you learn this lesson. Just relax and let me do the work for you. Note: This is a 15 minute version of the Be The Vehicle meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wu Wei. Non-doing. What in the world can the great masters possibly mean?! How is doing nothing (if that is what they mean) the key to happiness and health? The answer isn’t what you think. You first need to learn what the old sages mean by expressions like “The wise person does nothing, yet nothing is left undone” (Lao Tzu) or “Self, confused by the idea of an ‘I’, thus thinks, ‘I am the doer’" (Krishna). Or, if you prefer, you can look to the Islamic mystics of 12thcentury CE (such as Ibn ‘Arabi) for a solution. He made a distinction between “Divine Will” and “Divine Wish” which helps elucidate what these ancient teachings mean. Ibn 'Arabi might express it by saying that the truth of reality is that everything that happens, the world as it is and as it becomes each moment, is an expression of God's Will (or you could just say is an expression of the forces of nature of physics, if God isn’t your thing). This is what he calls the ‘Divine Will.’ In contrast, ‘Divine Wish’ is concerned with how each one of us individually as a human can reach "heaven" or "Nirvana" or discover within ourselves the underlying perfection that union with the all (what Ibn 'Arabi would call "Oneness of Being") allows to become manifest. You see, it quickly becomes complicated and overly intellectual. For those that like that kind of thing, I explain what all that means in my blog. But sometimes it is just easier to experience the lesson. That is what this meditation is for. To teach you how to let go, to show you what that feels like, to open you to the possibilities that emerge when you learn this lesson. Just relax and let me do the work for you. Note: This is a 30 minute version of the Be The Vehicle meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We all seek happiness and health for ourselves and the ones we love. But somehow it seems to elude us most of the time. The great masters tell us that one of the reasons we suffer so much is that we hold on to things without being aware of it. We hold our breath and we don't realize it. We hold our muscles tight and we are unaware of it. We hold onto patterns of thinking and judging and blaming and criticizing and we aren't conscious of this. And then we are surprised when we get angry or sad, when we feel anxious or aimless, when our muscles spasm or we get sick. So, what to do? It is time to let go. This is one of the most powerful techniques we have to experiencing a life of peace and happiness. But how do you do that, and why does it work? There are many ways to let go but the reason it works is that your underlying nature, your true self is inherently beautiful and joyful and loving. You’ve just forgotten. You’ve moved your attention to other things. You’ve done that for so long that you now think that the body and the brain and the thoughts and feelings and memories they produce are who you are. But that isn’t true. That isn’t who you are any more than your car or your bedroom is who you are. To escape this illusion, most of us need more than hearing someone tell us this truth. We have to put in the regular meditation practice to train our mind to stabilize on the truth of who we are. So today, rather than telling you, let me show you what I mean, let me help you let go of your illusions and remember who you really are.Note: This is a 15 minute version of the What's Left When You Let Go episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Letting go sounds like such an easy thing to do. But trying to let go is like saying try not to try. The act of trying reinforces the holding. Holding is something most of us do unconsciously. We hold our breath and we don't realize it. We hold our muscles tight and we are unaware of it. We hold onto patterns of thinking and judging and blaming and criticizing and we aren't conscious of this. And then we are surprised when we get angry or sad, when we feel anxious or aimless, when our muscles spasm or we get sick. So, what to do? It is time to let go. This is one of the most powerful techniques we have to experiencing a life of peace and happiness. But how do you do that, and why does it work? There are many ways to let go but the reason it works is that your underlying nature, your true self is inherently beautiful and joyful and loving. You’ve just forgotten. You’ve moved your attention to other things. You’ve done that for so long that you now think that the body and the brain and the thoughts and feelings and memories they produce are who you are. But that isn’t true. That isn’t who you are any more than your car or your bedroom is who you are. To escape this illusion, most of us need more than hearing someone tells us this truth. We have to put in the regular meditation practice to train our mind to stabilize on the truth of who we are. So today, rather than telling you, let me show you what I mean, let me help you let go of your illusions and remember who you really are.Note: This is a 45 minute version of the What's Left When You Let Go episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holding is something most of us do unconsciously. We hold our breath and we don't realize it. We hold our muscles tight and we are unaware of it. We hold onto patterns of thinking and judging and blaming and criticizing and we aren't conscious of this. And then we are surprised when we get angry or sad, when we feel anxious or aimless, when our muscles spasm or we get sick. So, what to do? It is time to let go. This is one of the most powerful techniques we have to experiencing a life of peace and happiness. But how do you do that, and why does it work? There are many ways to let go but the reason it works is that your underlying nature, your true self is inherently beautiful and joyful and loving. You’ve just forgotten. You’ve moved your attention to other things. You’ve done that for so long that you now think that the body and the brain and the thoughts and feelings and memories they produce are who you are. But that isn’t true. That isn’t who you are any more than your car or your bedroom is who you are. To escape this illusion, most of us need more than hearing someone tells us this truth. We have to put in the regular meditation practice to train our mind to stabilize on the truth of who we are. So today, rather than telling you, let me show you what I mean, let me help you let go of your illusions and remember who you really are.Note: This is a one hour version of the What's Left When You Let Go episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Letting go is one of the most powerful techniques we have to experiencing a life of peace and happiness. But how do you do that, and why does it work? There are many ways to let go but the reason it works is that your underlying nature, your true self is inherently beautiful and joyful and loving. You’ve just forgotten. You’ve moved your attention to other things. You’ve done that for so long that you now think that the body and the brain and the thoughts and feelings and memories they produce are who you are. But that isn’t true. That isn’t who you are any more than your car or your bedroom is who you are. To escape this illusion, most of us need more than hearing someone tells us this truth. We have to put in the regular meditation practice to train our mind to stabilize on the truth of who we are. So today, rather than telling you, let me show you what I mean, let me help you let go of your illusions and remember who you really are.Note: This is a 30 minute version of the What's Left When You Let Go episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No one likes to think about it but each of us has experienced the feelings of shame or humiliation or done something we deeply rgret. At one time or another, more frequently or less, everyone has had the fear that people will see you as a fraud, they will judge you as a failure, or that they will reject you because you are unreliable. That toxic cocktail of deep embarrassment combined with fear and regret and even self-loathing is not something anyone wants to taste.So, if you’d rather not go there right now, I understand. Most of the Serena meditations allow you to bypass these dark places. The method is such that, without repressing or suppressing these darker passages of our history, we can free ourselves from them without directly addressing them. But sometimes the unpleasant moments of our past (we could even call them ghosts) haunt us with such persistence that it is helpful to have a technique to just go right at it and let go of these feelings and memories directly. So that is what we are going to do today. I am going to guide you through the steps to let go of your “ghosts” of regret, shame or humiliation. As a side note, I should say that I will be using the words ghost and demons in this meditation. You should be aware that I use them as a device to focus your mind. If you prefer, you can call them habitual patterns of neurological activity that irresistibly manifest as unpleasant emotions and dysfunctional behavior. But those aren’t words we can work with very easily to effect a change in your life. They might please our intellect, but they do nothing for our emotional self. So, I’m going to stick with the ghost metaphor and (unless you’re someone that is really into ghosts), I ask that you just think of this term like a sort of brain hack or shortcut and play along with the metaphor. Note: this is a 30 minute version of the Letting Go of Shame & Regret meditation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever noticed that, even though meditation makes you feel better, you seem to be the same person with the same negative feelings and sometimes inappropriate reactions to situations? You meditate, you feel great, or at least settled, afterwards. Your mood improves. But then your baseline emotion springs back and your fears or disproportionate reactions shows their ugly head again.So, what to do? It’s time to learn to let it be. It is time to honor the space in which these feelings live. The secret is to allow whatever the negative feeling or reaction is to be the content of your awareness but to focus on the fact that it is the content and you are the one who is placing and keeping your attention on these feelings. You are NOT the feelings themselves and the feelings are NOT real. So, it is time to let go of trying to let go of them. It is time to learn to just allow them to be at the same time as you remember they aren’t real. But that isn’t as easy as it sounds. So, let’s practice that together now. Note this is a 1 hour version of the Let Go of Letting Go episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s time to learn to let your emotions just be. It is time to honor the space in which these feelings live. But how to do that? The secret is 1) to allow whatever the negative feeling or reaction is to be the content of your awareness but 2) to focus on the fact that it is the content and you are the one who is placing and keeping your attention on these feelings. You are NOT the feelings themselves and the feelings are NOT real. So, it is time to let go of trying to let go of them. It is time to learn to just allow them to be at the same time as you remember they aren’t real. But that isn’t as easy as it sounds. So, let’s practice that together now. Note this is a 45 minute version of the Let Go of Letting Go episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You probably have tried other meditations, and they might have worked for you. You feel great, or at least settled, afterwards. Your mood improves. But then your baseline emotion springs back and your fears or disproportionate reactions shows their ugly head again.So, what to do? It’s time to learn to let it be. It is time to honor the space in which these feelings live. The secret is to allow whatever the negative feeling or reaction is to be the content of your awareness but to focus on the fact that it is the content and you are the one who is placing and keeping your attention on these feelings. You are NOT the feelings themselves and the feelings are NOT real. So, it is time to let go of trying to let go of them. It is time to learn to just allow them to be at the same time as you remember they aren’t real. But that isn’t as easy as it sounds. So, let’s practice that together now. Note this is a 30 minute version of the Let Go of Letting Go episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meditation has the ability to make you feel great. And it has all sorts of health benefits. But the question is whether it can really fundamentally change your inherent baseline emotional state; whether it can address the sorts of reactions that seem to unconsciously creep in to your day to day life. The secret to extending the benefits of meditation is to learn to let your feelings just be; to learn to honor the space in which these feelings live. You can learn to allow whatever the negative feeling or reaction is to be the content of your awareness. And instead of getting lost in that content, you can learn to shift your focus onto the fact that the content is just that, the content. And you are the one who is placing and keeping your attention on these feelings, on this content. You are NOT the feelings themselves and the feelings are NOT real. So, it is time to let go of trying to let go of them. It is time to learn to just allow them to be at the same time as you remember they aren’t real. But that isn’t as easy as it sounds. So, let’s practice that together now. NOTE: This is a 15 minute version of the Let Go of Letting Go episode Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Regardless of the particular negative feeling, we all experience them. Fortunately, there are many methods we can employ to let them go. But it does require facing them. Repressing them, resisting them or pretending they don’t exist will only strengthen them. So, we have to take a different tack. For you the negative feeling could be anger, sadness, loneliness, fear, anxiety, shame, or even boredom or apathy. Or something else. Whatever your negative feeling flavor is today, for this meditation, it is best if you have a specific feeling in mind, or memory of an experience that generates that feeling, to work with.We need to speak the language of our emotional selves if we are going to let go of negative feelings or heal an emotional wound. The way this part of our self works is that anytime our life veers on a course that even remotely resembles the facts or circumstances of a past moment where we had these feelings, these emotional ghosts become very animated and old patterns and habits reemerge. The fear that something bad is going to happen again creates a surge of energy that activates these long-buried demons. A surge so powerful that they can take you over, literally almost like a possession where your thoughts, feelings and actions start to become disconnected from the reality of your situation. You are just living your life and before you know it you are acting like a crazy person. You might have a big deal at work or a speech to give or a family member going through some troubles, but your levels of fear and anxiety are more in line with a situation where your own life is in immediate mortal danger.Most of the Serena meditations allow you to bypass these dark places. The method is such that, without repressing or suppressing these darker passages of our history, we can free ourselves from them without directly addressing them. The ghosts or echoes of long ago events hang around long after the actual incident. These memories will haunt you for many years, some would say many lifetimes. And sometimes the unpleasant moments of our past haunt us with such persistence that it is helpful to have a technique to just go right at it. So that is what we are going to do today. I am going to guide you through the steps to let go of your “ghosts” of negative feelings inside. As a side note, I should say that I will be using the words ghost and demons in this meditation. You should be aware that I use them as a device to focus your mind. If you prefer, you can call them habitual patterns of neurological activity that irresistibly manifest as unpleasant emotions and dysfunctional behavior. But those aren’t words we can work with very easily to effect a change in your life. They might please our intellect, but they do nothing for our emotional self. So, I’m going to stick with the ghost metaphor and (unless you’re someone that is really into ghosts), I ask that you just think of this term like a sort of brain hack or shortcut and play along with the metaphor. NOTE: This is a 15 minute version of the Letting in the Light guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Each of us experiences negative feelings of one kind or another, and for most of us, these feelings are present far more often than we would like. (NOTE: It is best if you have a specific feeling in mind, or memory of an experience that generates that feeling, to work with). These feelings come an endless variety of flavors. For you it could be anger, sadness, loneliness, fear, anxiety, shame, or even boredom or apathy. Regardless of the particular negative feeling, we all experience them. Fortunately, there are many methods we can employ to let them go. But it does require facing them. Repressing them, resisting them or pretending they don’t exist will only strengthen them. So, we have to take a different tack.We need to speak the language of our emotional selves if we are going to let go of negative feelings or heal an emotional wound. The way this part of our self works is that anytime our life veers on a course that even remotely resembles the facts or circumstances of a past moment where we had these feelings, these emotional ghosts become very animated and old patterns and habits reemerge. The fear that something bad is going to happen again creates a surge of energy that activates these long-buried demons. A surge so powerful that they can take you over, literally almost like a possession where your thoughts, feelings and actions start to become disconnected from the reality of your situation. You are just living your life and before you know it you are acting like a crazy person. You might have a big deal at work or a speech to give or a family member going through some troubles, but your levels of fear and anxiety are more in line with a situation where your own life is in immediate mortal danger.Most of the Serena meditations allow you to bypass these dark places. The method is such that, without repressing or suppressing these darker passages of our history, we can free ourselves from them without directly addressing them. The ghosts or echoes of long ago events hang around long after the actual incident. These memories will haunt you for many years, some would say many lifetimes. And sometimes the unpleasant moments of our past haunt us with such persistence that it is helpful to have a technique to just go right at it. So that is what we are going to do today. I am going to guide you through the steps to let go of your “ghosts” of negative feelings inside. NOTE: This is a 30 minute version of the Letting in the Light guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your heart is the place your emotional self expresses love. When you feel loved by someone, it glows and you can feel the love and the joy and the completeness coursing through your whole body. When you are feeling rejected or unloved, your whole body aches in response. Your heart is the seat of love in your body. And love is the closest we can come to experiencing heaven in this body of ours.There is an old saying that home is where the heart is. But like many old sayings, there are many layers to this phrase. It doesn’t just mean that we can be happy and safe and at rest (i.e. at home) where our loved ones are. Home can also be understood as our true nature our true self. In this sense, we can see why the heart has played the role of the bridge to the mystical or magical parts of the self; we can see why it has been seen as the door separating our lower, physical self from our higher, numinal self. Today we are going to bridge that divide.NOTE: This is a one hour version of the Grateful for My Heart Guided Meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The heart generates its own electromagnetic field. It is estimated that this field is 60-100 times as strong as the brain's electromagnetic field. It is also thought that the brain contains its own set of neurons. With the heart's field extending a meter or so from the body, a mother's brainwaves have been shown to synchronize with her baby's even when they are a few feet apart. There are many mysteries to this extraordinary organ of ours, the heart. Today, we will explore the energetic power of the heart and take advantage of its role as the gateway to dimensions of our higher self.NOTE: This is a 45 minute version of the Grateful for my love, for my heart guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is an old saying that home is where the heart is. But like many old sayings, there are many layers to this phrase. It doesn’t just mean that we can be happy and safe and at rest (i.e. at home) where our loved ones are. Home can also be understood as our true nature or our true self. In this sense, we can see why the heart has played the role throughout the ages of the bridge to the mystical or magical parts of the self; we can see why it has been seen as the door separating our lower, physical self from our higher, numinal self. Today we are going to bridge that divide.Your heart is also the place your emotional self feels and expresses love. When you feel loved by someone, it glows and you can feel the love and the joy and the completeness coursing through your whole body. When you are feeling rejected or unloved, your whole body aches in response. The heart is the seat of love in your body. And love is the closest we can come to experiencing heaven in this body of ours. So sit back, relax, and open yourself to a meditation of gratitude for the power of your heart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Because of its bridge-like connection to the numinal or non-physical dimension, the heart has been thought of throughout the ages as the ruler within us. Today, we are going to invite our reluctant ruler to help us access our higher self.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We don't notice our breath most of the time. Yet it sustains our life each moment of each day. So take just a few minutes today to notice and appreciate your breath. (NOTE: This is a 10 minute version of the Grateful for my Breath guided meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take our breath for granted. We don't even notice it most of the time. Yet it holds the key to accessing our higher self. Many an ancient master has said there is another plane of existence that our life force inhabits alongside the physical dimension we are all so familiar with. The breath is a symbol for this life force. In ancient China and India they used words like qi or prana to describe the life force in this other dimension. We can take advantage of this deep-seated symbolism and use your physical breath to refresh or reactivate our connection to your spiritual self. Listen now to do just that. (NOTE: This is a 45 minute version of the Grateful for my Breath guided meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many an ancient master has said there is another plane of existence that our life force inhabits alongside the physical dimension we are all so familiar with. The breath is a symbol for this energy or spirit self. In ancient China and India they used words like qi or prana to describe the life force that bridges the world of form and this other dimension. We can take advantage of this deep-seated symbolism and use our physical breath to refresh or reactivate our connection to our spiritual self. Listen now to do just that. (NOTE: This is a 1 hour version of the Grateful for my Breath guided meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Throughout history the breath has been a symbol for life. It is a symbol not just of life in the sense of a physical body breathing and being alive; it also represents the life energy or life force (we could also call this qi or prana). We can take advantage of this deep-seated symbolism and use your breath refresh or activate your connection to your spiritual self. Listen now to do just that. (NOTE: This is a 25 min version of the Grateful for my Breath guided meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a simple meditation designed to connect you with a teacher you work with today in a non-intellectual fashion so that you can access their teachings in a different way. NOTE: It is the first part only of the longer Grateful for my teacher guided meditations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the very best teachers, just being around them feels good. And even reading a true master’s words, when those words are truly understood (or, to use the words of the Diamond Sutra, are “received and retained”) will put you in the frequency of happiness and love. But 'receiving and retaining' a master’s teaching isn’t a straightforward exercise. Which is part of why this podcast exists: to help you receive and retain and understand and experience the teaching of the illuminated ones of bygone eras. And one of the gateways we can use to “receive and retain” their teachings is the magic potion called gratitude. We all have teachers. Some are ancient masters who have long been dead. Some are with us today. Some we know well, some we’ve never met. Some don’t even know they are our teachers (any parent of a small child or a teenager can attest to that!). Our teachers hold a special place in our development as people and on our path to self-mastery. So today we are going to thank them. And because of gratitude’s special power, we will be able to use this meditation to activate their teaching within you again right now, and extend their teaching to new levels. So join me now, drink the draught of gratitude and let your teachers help you experience the illumination they talk so much about. NOTE: This is a 45 minute version of the Grateful for my teacher mediation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We all have teachers. Some are ancient masters who have long been dead. Some are with us today. Some we know well, some we’ve never met. Some don’t even know they are our teachers (any parent of a small child or a teenager can attest to that!). Our teachers hold a special place in our development as people and on our path to self-mastery. So today we are going to thank them. And because of gratitude’s special power, we will be able to use this meditation to activate their teaching within you again right now, and extend it to new levels. With the very best teachers, just being around them feels good. And even reading a true master’s words, when they are truly understood (or, to use the words of the Diamond Sutra, are “received and retained”) will put you in the frequency of happiness and love. But receiving and retaining a master’s teaching isn’t a straightforward exercise. Which is part of why this podcast exists: to help you receive and retain and understand and experience the teaching of the illuminated ones. And one of the gateways we can use to “receive and retain” their teachings is the magic potion called gratitude. So join me now, drink the draught of gratitude and let your teachers help you experience the illumination they talk so much about. NOTE: This is a 30 minute version of the Grateful for my teacher meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We all have so much to be grateful for. Yet we rarely take time the time to be grateful for all the things we do have. Use this opportunity to be grateful for all the many gifts you have been given. (NOTE: This is a 10 minute version of the Grateful for my Gifts meditation.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We all have so much to be grateful for. Yet we rarely take time the time to be grateful for all the things we do have. Use this opportunity to be grateful for all the many gifts you have been given. (NOTE: This is a 30 minute version of the Grateful for my Gifts meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We all have so much to be grateful for. Yet we rarely take time the time to be grateful for all the things we do have. Use this opportunity to be grateful for all the many gifts you have been given. (NOTE: This is a 20 min version of the Grateful for my Gifts meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(One hour version). You are strong, beautiful and loved. But you probably don't feel like this all of the time, or even most of the time. Why? The primary function of your body and your mind is to keep you alive and create copies of your genes into the next generation. It is a highly efficient, capable entity finely crafted to achieve these goals. So when you suffer, whether from physical or emotional pain, this is they way that you know to change course. This is how you keep yourself alive. The organisms and people in our distant past that weren't good at that didn't pass down their genes. But these techniques that are so foundational that they are instinctual and reactive habits aren't good measures of what is actually happening to you at any given moment or on any given day. The intelligence of your emotional and physical self is excellent at generating the feelings and movements to keep you alive in the primitive and dangerous settings that life developed in over the last few million years. Unfortunately, it isn't well-adapted yet to the relative safety and comfort of today's world. So we have to do the work to train the brain to adapt to this new environment. You have to recognize that any time you are suffering, you have some belief that is preventing you from releasing the suffering. But you control your beliefs. But it takes practice to let go of long held beliefs. Lots and lots of practice. Let's do that now. (NOTE: This is a one hour version of the Strong, Beautiful and Loved guided meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are loved. It may not feel like that right now, but it is true. You have to recognize that any time you don't feel loved, anytime you are suffering, you are the one creating this experience. You have some belief that is preventing you from releasing the suffering and feeling loved. Your beliefs then manifest as your experience. But you get to decide what your beliefs are. So why not change them? You can do that now. Let's do that now. (NOTE: This is a 30 minute version of the You Are Loved guided meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are strong, beautiful and loved. But you probably don't feel like this all of the time, or even most of the time. Why? The primary function of your body and your mind is to keep you alive and create copies of your genes into the next generation. It is a highly efficient, capable entity finely crafted to achieve these goals. So when you suffer, whether from physical or emotional pain, this is they way that you know to change course. This is how you keep yourself alive. The organisms and people in our distant past that weren't good at that didn't pass down their genes. But these techniques that are so foundational that they are instinctual and reactive habits aren't good measures of what is actually happening to you at any given moment or on any given day. The intelligence of your emotional and physical self is excellent at generating the feelings and movements to keep you alive in the primitive and dangerous settings that life developed in over the last few million years. Unfortunately, it isn't well-adapted yet to the relative safety and comfort of today's world. So we have to do the work to train the brain to adapt to this new environment. You have to recognize that any time you are suffering, you have some belief that is preventing you from releasing the suffering. But you control your beliefs. But it takes practice to let go of long held beliefs. Lots and lots of practice. Let's do that now. (NOTE: This is a 45 minute version of the Strong, Beautiful and Loved guided meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are loved. It may not feel like that right now, but it is true. You have to recognize that any time you don't feel loved, anytime you are suffering, you are the one creating this experience. You have some belief that is preventing you from releasing the suffering and feeling the love. Your beliefs then manifest as your experience which then confirms your beliefs as being true! But you get to decide what your beliefs are and therefore what your experience of life is like. So why not change your beliefs and reap the benefits that flow from there? You can do that now. Let's do it together. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You many not feel it, but you are beautiful. If you don't feel incredibly beautiful right now, you have some belief that is preventing you from seeing this truth. But you control your beliefs so you can shift your beliefs and this, in turn, will change your experience not just of this moment but of your whole life. But it takes practice. Lots of practice. Let's do that now in a simple but powerful meditation to help you remember just how beautiful you really are. (NOTE: This is a 30 minute version of the You Are Beautiful meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are beautiful. You may not realize it but it is true. If you don't feel incredibly beautiful right now, you have some belief that is preventing you from seeing this truth. But you control your beliefs so you can shift your beliefs and this, in turn, will change your experience not just of this moment but of your whole life. But it takes practice. Lots of practice. Let's do that now in a simple but powerful meditation to help you remember just how beautiful you really are. (NOTE: This is a 15 minute version of the You Are Beautiful meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a simple but beautiful and powerful technique to bring a positive mindset into dominance. The intelligence of your emotional and physical self is excellent at generating the feelings and movements to keep you alive in the primitive and dangerous settings that life developed in over the last few million years. Unfortunately, it isn't well-adapted yet to the relative safety and comfort of today's world. So we have to do the work to train the brain to adapt to this new environment. You have to recognize that any time you are suffering, you have some belief that is preventing you from releasing the suffering. But you control your beliefs. But it takes practice to let go of long held beliefs. Lots and lots of practice. Let's do that now. (NOTE: This is a 10 Min version of the You Are Strong Meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The intelligence of your emotional and physical self is excellent at generating the feelings and movements to keep you alive in the primitive and dangerous settings that life developed in over the last few million years. Unfortunately, it isn't well-adapted yet to the relative safety and comfort of today's world. So we have to do the work to train the brain to adapt to this new environment. You have to recognize that any time you are suffering, you have some belief that is preventing you from releasing the suffering. But you control your beliefs. But it takes practice to let go of long held beliefs. Lots and lots of practice. Let's do that now. (NOTE: This is a 30 min version of the You Are Strong Meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The primary function of your body and your mind is to keep you alive and create copies of your genes into the next generation. It is a highly efficient, capable entity finely crafted to achieve these goals. So when you suffer, whether from physical or emotional pain, this is the way that you know to change course. This is how you keep yourself alive. The organisms and people in our distant past that weren't good at that didn't pass down their genes. But these techniques that are so foundational that they are instinctual and reactive habits aren't good measures of what is actually happening to you at any given moment or on any given day. The intelligence of your emotional and physical self is excellent at generating the feelings and movements to keep you alive in the primitive and dangerous settings that life developed in over the last few million years. Unfortunately, it isn't well-adapted yet to the relative safety and comfort of today's world. So we have to do the work to train the brain to adapt to this new environment. You have to recognize that any time you are suffering, you have some belief that is preventing you from releasing the suffering. But you control your beliefs. But it takes practice to let go of long held beliefs. Lots and lots of practice. Let's do that now by being grateful for your strength. (NOTE: This is a 20 min version of the You Are Strong Meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When we talk about forgiveness, we are not talking about allowing ourselves to be treated badly or giving ourselves permission to act badly towards others. We are talking about taking control of our emotional well-being; about achieving self-mastery. But how do we do that? The complexity of our minds rivals that of our universe. And like the cosmos, our minds follow certain rules. Burned deep into our neural circuitry are vast networks that perform silently and invisibly beneath our consciousness to ensure our survival. They include sexual attraction, jealousy, wanting fairness, empathizing, and, among many more, recognizing facial expressions. This last skill of ours, reading facial expressions, is essential to function in any society or group of any kind. These expressions are one of the most important signals our brains receive from the environment and not surprisingly there are whole regions of our brains devoted to decoding these expressions, to figuring out their valence and meaning.So in this meditation we harness these powerful brain centers to help us release feelings of anger or shame or sadness or whatever other emotions are connected with a painful moment in our past where forgiveness is in order. If you are spiritually inclined, you can think of this meditation as breaking the bonds of karma or a prayer of accepting God's grace. We've all done things we regret. And we have all had other people treat us badly. So we can all benefit from creating a habit of forgiveness. To create and strengthen this habit, these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated often, sometimes more than once a day when there is a something causing you problems. So consider that as an option for you. Importantly, before we proceed, make sure you have someone specific in mind who has wronged you in some way or someone who you have wronged. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Haunted by something in your past? Regretting something you did? You're not alone. But sometimes there are experiences so difficult that they require a special focus in order to reach a state of forgiveness. This meditation is going to help bring you to a place where you can experience forgiveness even with the toughest situations. Remember that forgiveness doesn't mean that you will allow yourself to be treated badly in the future or that you ever need to see someone that has wronged you again. This is an internal and private conversation that allows you to heal yourself and return to a place of integrity and peace. This is an exercise in opening your heart, in letting go, in finding relief, in leaving all bitterness and anger or shame and grief behind. If you are spiritually inclined, you might like to think of this as a method to break the cycle of karma or accept God's grace. There are two features of human consciousness that are superpowers most of us fail to take full enough advantage of: You have the power to move your awareness and you have the power to hold your awareness where you choose. Today we are going to employ these powers to help heal a situation in your past that haunts you today. It may be something you have done or it could also be something that has been done to you. It could be from an offence, a flaw, a mistake. It will be something that makes you feel angry or ashamed or trapped or misunderstood or sad. Often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.I should say here that am indebted to the Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi for inspiring much of my practice but this meditation in particular. (NOTE: This is a 20 min version of the Meet me in the Field of Forgiveness Guided Meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The mindset of forgiveness is one of the happiest spontaneous side-effects of meditation generally. But sometimes there are experiences so difficult that they require a special focus. This meditation is going to help bring you to a place where you can experience forgiveness even with the toughest situations. Remember that forgiveness doesn't mean that you will allow yourself to be treated badly in the future or that you ever need to see someone that has wronged you again. This is an internal and private conversation that allows you to heal yourself and return to a place of integrity and peace. This is an exercise in opening your heart, in letting go, in finding relief, in leaving all bitterness and anger or shame and grief behind. If you are spiritually inclined, you might like to think of this as a method to break the cycle of karma or accept God's grace. There are two features of human consciousness that are superpowers most of us fail to take full enough advantage of: You have the power to move your awareness and you have the power to hold your awareness where you choose. Today we are going to employ these powers to help heal a situation in your past that haunts you today. It may be something you have done or it could also be something that has been done to you. It could be from an offence, a flaw, a mistake. It will be something that makes you feel angry or ashamed or trapped or misunderstood or sad. Often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.I should say here that am indebted to the Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi for inspiring much of my practice but this meditation in particular.(NOTE: This is a 30 min version of the Meet me in the Field of Forgiveness Guided Meditation) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The art of forgiveness is an ancient practice for healing illness, life troubles and psychological distress. It has so much power that some Buddhist teachers recommend practicing forgiveness to ourselves and others twice a day for months on end. When forgiveness is practiced with such steady devotion, forgiveness starts to seem almost like a field of energy. A field is anything that has a physical quantity at any point in space. Anywhere you look in the universe, even in a vacuum, you will find fields. We are all familiar with physical phenomena such as temperature, gravity, pressure, and magnetism. All these phenomena are present at any point in space so we can think of each of them being a "field." In the same way, we can think of forgiveness almost like a field permeating the universe, including us. But we have to do the work to tune in to the frequency of forgiveness for it to perform its magic. Or if you are religious, let's express this same idea another way. Let's describe it as you having the ability to imagine Jesus or Buddha or whoever your deity of choice is radiating out the forgiveness directly to you and your job is to accept "God's Grace" or the equivalent in your particular faith. Feel free to add that religious dimension during the meditation if that works for you. Otherwise, just let me do the work for you and help you find the release that awaits. (Note: this is a 30 minute version of the Welcoming Forgiveness Guided Meditation.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Forgiveness is a sacred art with profound healing potential. It has so much power that some Buddhist teachers recommend practicing forgiveness to ourselves and others twice a day for months on end. When it is practiced with such steady devotion, forgiveness starts to seem almost like a field of energy. A field is anything that has a physical quantity at any point in space. Anywhere you look in the universe, even in a vacuum, you will find fields. We are all familiar with physical phenomena such as temperature, gravity, pressure, and magnetism. All these phenomena are present at any point in space so we can think of each of them being a "field." In the same way, we can think of forgiveness almost like a field permeating the universe, including us. But we have to do the work to tune in to the frequency of forgiveness for it to perform its magic. Or if you are religious, let's express this same idea another way. Let's describe it as you having the ability to imagine Jesus or Buddha, or whoever your deity of choice is, radiating out the forgiveness directly to you and your job is to accept "God's Grace" or the equivalent in your particular faith. Feel free to add that religious dimension during the meditation if that works for you. Otherwise, just let me do the work for you and help you find the release that awaits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

YOU are not your feelings. Sometimes, you might feel that you are engulfed with sadness or anger or anxiety or whatever the feeling. You can't shake it. You might even come to believe that is just the kind of a person you are, that that is part of your personality. But this isn't true. Unfortunately, you can't just tell yourself to feel relaxed or beautiful or peaceful. If only it were that simple! Your states of mind seem to just arise. But you have two choices. You can choose to allow the environment and the people and circumstances within that environment to stimulate those states within yourself; or you can train your mind to generate them on its own, under your direction. But it takes practice. Lots of practice. So, this meditation is provides you an extended opportunity for this kind of practice. In this guided meditation, you are training your mind to focus its attention where you choose to have it focus rather than letting it running wild like a little puppy. And you are teaching it the trick of generating feelings of relaxation, peace, and beauty. Enjoy.(Note: this is a 45 minute version of the moving your awareness guided meditation.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

YOU are not your feelings. Sometimes, you might feel that you are engulfed with sadness or anger or anxiety or whatever the feeling. You can't shake it. You might even come to believe that is just the kind of a person you are, that that is part of your personality. But this isn't true. Unfortunately, you can't just tell yourself to feel relaxed or beautiful or peaceful. If only it were that simple! Your states of mind seem to just arise. But you have two choices. You can choose to allow the environment and the people and circumstances within that environment to stimulate those states within yourself; or you can train your mind to generate them on its own, under your direction. But it takes practice. Lots of practice. So, this meditation is provides you an extended opportunity for this kind of practice. In this guided meditation, you are training your mind to focus its attention where you choose to have it focus rather than letting it running wild like a little puppy. And you are teaching it the trick of generating feelings of relaxation, peace, and beauty. Enjoy. (Note: this is a one hour version of the moving your awareness guided meditation.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Stay in the present moment,” is an oft-heard recommendation from spiritual teachers. But how exactly do you do that? Your mind is not set up to ‘stay in the now.’ Fortunately, brains can be trained; the mind can be rewired. But it takes practice. And learning to accept what arises is the perfect way to master present moment awareness. This simple meditation helps you do just that. (Note, this is an extended, 20 min version of the shorter 10 min version of the same name and description) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You often hear spiritual teachers and modern day gurus tell us to “Be in the now,” but how exactly do you do that? Your mind is not set up to ‘stay in the now.’ Fortunately, brains can be trained; the mind can be rewired. But it takes practice. And learning to accept what arises is the perfect way to master present moment awareness. This simple meditation helps you do just that. (Note, this is an extended, 30 min version of the shorter version of the same name and description) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Modern day gurus tell us to “Be in the now,” but how exactly do you do that? Your mind is not set up to ‘stay in the now.’ Fortunately, brains can be trained; the mind can be rewired. But it takes practice. And learning to accept what arises is the perfect way to master present moment awareness. This simple meditation helps you do just that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This track is the complete Chakra set extended to 1 hour. Proceed with caution as it is an advanced practice and can unlock some long buried memories and powers. Make sure you are ready to ground yourself and get back in touch with your true self if things get out of hand. The eight noumenal centers of energy in the body are all activated in this guided meditation. Then you are guided through moving the energy within each Chakra, among multiple chakras and finally out into the universal Chakras.The concept of Chakras was passed down probably for thousands of years in the oral tradition of the Indian subcontinent before emerging in the various sacred texts of Buddhism and Hinduism. There are some pretty wild legends, Marvel Comics-style, of god-like beings forging spinning weapons from stars and concentrating down extreme energy rays into something lower beings could handle. This sort of mythology continued to develop right into the middle ages. By that point, things got out of hand and rather than the typical seven or eight chakras, there developed theories of hundreds or even 10s of thousands!In this exercise, we keep it simple and explore the activation of our chakras as a path to experiencing our true self and discovering our true home in the oneness with all things that comes from stillness.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you lost someone you care for deeply? Or perhaps someone you love has pulled away? You can use the meditation practice of acceptance to help heal these wounds and open yourself to the vitality and joy that is still present in your life. Whether it is a person, a pet, or some thing very dear to you, acceptance is available to you right here, right now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a 10 minute version of Metta meditation. Metta is a compassion based practice that is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism but is also found in the ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism and Jainism. The word “metta” can be translated as "friendly, benevolent, affectionate, kind, good-will, love, amity, sympathy". This Guided Meditation is a variation on that ancient practice. It follows the more traditional method of generating and cultivating loving kindness and other wonderful sensibilities within ourselves and then extending them out to others. Through this emptying of our selves of these sensibilities, we discover in the hours and days after the practice that we are more open to receiving these sensibilities from others and more perceptive of their presence all around us. It is an extended, hour long, version of the one posted some months ago on the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A common meditation technique that has been passed down through the millennia is Loving Kindness or Metta Bhavana meditation. There is a reason it has stood the test of time: it works. One study done at Stanford University suggests that a loving-kindness meditation practiced even for 7 minutes can increase social connectedness. Loving kindness meditation has also been shown to help people with chronic lower back pain and Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill demonstrated that loving-kindness meditation can help increase positive emotions.It is a compassion based practice that is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism but is also found in the ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism and Jainism. The word “metta” can be translated as "friendly, benevolent, affectionate, kind, good-will, love, amity, sympathy"This is an extended version of the metta session posted some months ago. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a one hour version of Metta meditation. Metta is a compassion based practice that is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism but is also found in the ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism and Jainism. The word “metta” can be translated as "friendly, benevolent, affectionate, kind, good-will, love, amity, sympathy". This Guided Meditation is a variation on that ancient practice. It follows the more traditional method of generating and cultivating loving kindness and other wonderful sensibilities within ourselves and then extending them out to others. Through this emptying of our selves of these sensibilities, we discover in the hours and days after the practice that we are more open to receiving these sensibilities from others and more perceptive of their presence all around us. It is an extended, hour long, version of the one posted some months ago on the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learning the subtle technique of acceptance is a gateway to a stable and happy life. According to the Buddha, it is an antidote to suffering. Any time you are wanting something or rejecting something else, you are authoring your own suffering. It’s almost like there is a spring of love and happiness, of peace and health, within each and every one of us that is just waiting to be discovered. Today we will blend the technique of acceptance with the practice of non-self to help you access this eternally flowing and infinitely plentiful inner spring. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Acceptance is an extraordinary technique that anyone can employ to brighten their day. Indeed, the great masters make the extraordinary claim that perfecting these practices of letting go and acceptance will free us from all suffering. Even if that is beyond what most of us are hoping or looking for, anyone can cultivate this habit of acceptance in order to feel a little better right now and a lot better with practice. Learning to let go is like cleaning the window that leads to your true self, to your inner garden and allowing its light to shine through and brighten every dimension of your life right now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our true nature is by definition peaceful and loving and joyful. So whenever we experience anything other than wonderful feelings like this, our task is to seek out all the barriers within ourselves that prevent our true nature from emerging in our experience. But how? One of the best ways humans have come up with is called Acceptance. So we are going to practice that today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feeling gratitude is like a drug. Except it is free and the only side effect is that you feel awesome. So the best advice is to get drunk on it as much as possible. But just saying “I’m grateful” or “Aren’t I lucky” doesn’t really do it. Your mind and your emotional state can be like a little puppy. They have to be coaxed into this feeling of gratitude. There has to be a regular practice to create the mental habit of gratitude. So let’s practice together now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The physical world you perceive with your senses and through your imagination is constantly changing. Yet you are unchanging, complete, connected and free. Meditation is a method of practicing the separation of your conscious awareness from all the things that change and returning to this place of limitlessness and peace and abundance and joy. If you can stop identifying with your mind and just be still, the truth can shine through. A great Sufi master once described our true nature as being like the light formed by holding a ruby up to the dawn sun. You can practice meditation in a way to remember your true nature, to recall this fusion of your flavor with the light of perfection and truth. Listen to this meditation and be guided through this ancient practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wonder what to do with your body when you meditate? How to hold it? What position is best? What to do if you experience an itch or pain or discomfort of any kind? In this guided introduction to meditation, you’ll learn the answers to these questions. You’ll be walked through the four rules to follow on how to sit in a meditation practice. And, if you do become distracted or experience pain and discomfort during a meditation practice, this guided meditation explains what to do in two simple steps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In mindfulness meditation the idea is to be a witness to each sensation, to pay bare attention to it, just as it is. You do this practice because it is now well-established that “being in the now” is a recipe for health and happiness. But trying to “be in the now” generally ends up meaning you spend a lot of time NOT being in the now. That’s because as you settle in to the mindfulness practice, what’s called your “Default Mode Network” of brain activity kicks in; in other words, your mind will wander. That’s what your brain does when it is idle. That’s why it is called the “Default” mode, it is what your brain defaults to doing when your aren’t involved in doing anything else. In this meditation you will be introduced to these ideas and have a chance to practice mindfulness and take the next step in your journey to happier, healthier you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The greatest wisdom teachers to have lived — Buddha, Jesus, Krishna and so on — tell us that life is meant to be great, that suffering can end, that heaven on earth is possible for each of us. Yet it almost never feels that way. Why is that? The answer is that we have forgotten who we are. We think we are our emotions, our thoughts, our body, and the activity that the body engages in. Yet we are none of those things. So meditation is really about retraining our brain to be familiar with this truth, re-claiming command of our selves. Today we'll practice this remembering, this retaking of control. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Never tried meditation before? Or you have but your mind won't settle down so you don't see the point? Or maybe you meditate regularly but don't seem to get much out of it. Listen to this short introductory guided meditation session to learn by doing it. Learn about the practice for the first time or enhance your understanding if you already are familiar with meditation. The latest discoveries from neuroscience are showing that these ancient masters were definitely on to something! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyone knows that feeling of being empty and sad inside. Some people feel that on Friday afternoon with the weekend stretching out in front of them and no plans on the calendar. Other people feel that on Sunday night after a weekend with friends or family. Or if you travel a lot, you might feel it when the jet lag has caught up with you and you seem to feel bad for no reason at all. Often if there is a lot of activity or movement or change, there is a chemical shift that occurs in the brain and body to compensate for that and to prepare for something bad that our lower self believes must lie ahead. There is a loss of where you have been or what you have been doing so underlying that hollowed out feeling there likely will be anxiety or fear. But that doesn’t mean those feelings are going to be permanent or that they are an accurate representation of what is happening in the world around you. When these feelings arise you have three choices. You could give up and wallow in it and suffer through it as you wait for it to pass. Obviously this isn’t the best strategy but ying follows yang and whenever one feeling is present, its opposite is nearby, waiting for its turn. So eventually this strategy will work. You could also bring energy and activity into your life and DO things. This is better than doing nothing but it avoids releasing the feelings and dooms you to repeating the pattern so that you will end up running to stay ahead of your imaginary demons your whole life. That isn’t such a good strategy either. Fortunately, there is a better way: you can turn and face the demons, release them and align yourself with perfection. That is what we do in this meditation. And to do that, we are going to employ three foundational principles of the nature of mind: First, 1) The content of your awareness is not you. Second, 2) You can move your awareness. And third, 3) You can hold your awareness where you choose. Recognizing and employing these three principles requires practice, lots of practice. So in addition to helping you feel better today, think of this guided meditation as training for your mind to get better at feeling great more often. Feeling great, having a sense of purpose and an underlying joy in life on a sustained basis doesn’t just happen. We have to practice developing those neural states. Let’s do that now together. If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Mid- and Upper backs hold the weight of the world, our world at least. And this weight can bring chronic or periodic pain. Fortunately we can use our bodies and minds to release this pain, to heal ourselves. We just need to know the code. Listen to this or the longer version to help you learn that code.If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. Obviously, if are having a serious traumatic episode and are suffering from whiplash or very real back pain, please seek the help of a professional. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Mid- and Upper backs hold the weight of the world, our world at least. And this weight can bring chronic or periodic pain. Fortunately we can use our bodies and minds to release this pain, to heal ourselves. We just need to know the code. Scientists have identified and synthesized the parts of marijuana that make people feel so good and along the way they have figured out the answer to the mystery of why all human brains would have evolved a specific receptor in the brain for a plant that until recently only grew in South Asia. It turns out that the cannaboid system is key part of our brain’s regulatory structure. So we didn’t evolve to respond to that particular plant. We, and every other organism down to the lowly sponge uses cannaboids to maintain balance in the body. Amazingly, the effect of our self-produced cannaboids in our bodies, while not as strong as the highly concentrated versions that people consume from the cannabis plant, is the same. Our bodies also produce endorphins and anyone that regularly exercises is familiar with the fact that these chemicals activate the same opioid receptors as morphine and heroin, albeit at a much lower intensity. The point is that we have the power to create these chemicals ourselves. In fact, producing these cannaboids might be the most important physiological system we have for creating and maintaining health in our bodies. These extraordinary compounds, while performing different tasks in different tissues, always have the same goal: the achievement and preservation of a balanced internal environment despite changes in the external environment.So we can synthesize the active agent in marijuana in our own bodies when we choose to and not have the costly side-effects from the over the counter or illicit kinds. But how? We can’t say to our brain “Okay, I’ll have some endorphins now.” We have to go exercise. The same goes for cannaboids. We have to speak the language of our bodies. We do that through movement, touch, music, attention, and love. We’ll bring these insights to releasing tension in our backs in this guided moving meditation. When we speak of chakras and energy and spirit this engages our brain in a conversation with our muscle tissues in a way that we can’t have using everyday language. So even if you don’t believe in a numinal realm and energy channels and chakras and so on, just play along and think of these ideas as simply ways to hack your brain, as ways to take command of the extraordinary chemical factories we have within us. If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. Obviously, if are having a serious traumatic episode and are suffering from whiplash or very real back pain, please seek the help of a professional. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ready to release the tension in your back and shoulders? Having pain and tightness again? You have the power to fix it by taking advantage of the way the brain works, by hacking its mode of operation. The world we perceive isn’t what we think it is. Take the vision processing center of our brain. 90 per cent of all connections coming in to this part of our cortex don’t come from our eyes. They come from other parts of our brain, carrying predictions about what is in the world we “see” out there. Neuroscientists have concluded that this means that we construct our reality in our minds. A small trickle of fresh data from the outside world is used only at the margin to update the model in our mind of what we are “seeing.” This invented reality allows for much faster response to dangers so was evolutionarily advantageous. We are optimized for survival, not for complete and accurate perception of what is “out there.” This world-simulation feature also applies to our model of our bodies and its movement. Unfortunately it means that we often are ready for a "fight or flight" situation far more often than is necessary. But it also means that we can heal our body through simple movements or even without even moving. We can take advantage of this aspect of human consciousness to conjure the world and the self image that is going to be most healthy for us. All we have to do is set our intention in this direction, simulating it in our heads and the physical reality will follow! If you are a beginner, the results may not be instant but this miracle is available to each and every one of us. All it takes is a little practice and when done right you’ll quickly begin to see results. So let’s get started!If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. If are having a serious traumatic episode and are suffering from whiplash or very real back pain, please seek the help of a professional. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine that you have a daughter and she has just come in from playing outside. She has a freshly skinned knee and is crying because the bully who pushed her down also took her dolly. Our bodies are like that. They can’t speak the language we use with each other so they tell us their troubles and fears through pain, soreness and restricted movement. We can learn the language of our bodies and demonstrate mastery of our selves by understanding and practicing this truth. And our sore muscles will feel better in the process! But a tight or spasming muscle can reach a point of complete debilitation so we may have to bring out the full tool box to settle our little girl down. So before you begin, consider deploying some of the other options you have available to you. They include things like: making sure we are drinking plenty of water, massaging in arnica cream or tiger balm, taking ibuprofen or other NSAIDs, using ice packs, a foam roller, calcium-magnesium supplements, hot baths/showers or Jacuzzi/sauanas, and of course eating a high omega 3 fatty acid and alkaline diet. You may have to bring out every tool over several days to deal with a real flare up. But unless we get to the root of the problem, unless we are able to really listen to the message the universe and our bodies have for us, we can count on the pain coming back, maybe even louder next time. So let’s take the time now to see if we can figure out what we need to do to help. If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. Obviously, if are having a serious traumatic episode and are suffering from whiplash or very real pain, please seek the help of a professional. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wonder why a hug feels so good? Or a massage? Or hot baths? It is because these are the sorts of “words” our bodies understand. We can’t command a muscle to relax with a thought or a sentence. We have to speak the body’s language. We do this by combining love and attention with movement and touch. Music works too. This is the language our bodies understand. We all carry the stresses of the day and the traumas of our past in our bodies. One of the common but often unrealized spots is our jaw and our mouths. Some of us grind our teeth as we sleep or seem to be more prone to toothaches or cavities than others. Or we square and tighten our jaw to face the challenges and fears and stresses of our day to day life. Avoiding that tension in the first place is the cure but fortunately, we can treat the symptom in a way that not only helps release this muscle tension but also contributes to the cure. By learning the language of our bodies we can practice mastery of our selves and our body and take a giant step forward on our path to rewiring our brains. And our sore muscles feel better in the process!If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We spend most of our lives either doing something or wanting something. We all know the feeling of wanting more money or more leisure time or more love or peace or safety or comfort or whatever it is. Some of us get sucked in to that and struggle to pull out. Most of us believe that the best thing to do isn’t to sit around and wallow in it but to get out there and create our destiny. The self-help gurus tell us that we have the power to do something about our situation. That is true. And doing is better than wanting. But there is are better options. Options that vanquish the feelings of lack and the dysfunctional behavior and negative emotions that inevitably arise from being in lack and doing. And these other options will change our life. One of these options is called Having and alongside this state of being is an inevitable sense of Gratitude. This is something we can practice anytime but driving is an excellent period to do that. There are over 7 billion people on the planet yet fewer than 10% own a car. And only around 2 billion of us have smartphones. So if you are driving and have a smartphone to listen to this on, you are part of the global elite few, the topmost, wealthiest echelons of humanity. And not only your car but the health care and safety and time that allow you to live the kind of life that even kings of old couldn’t dream of. So take a moment and pause to notice this and appreciate just how lucky you are. If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. Obviously, if you are driving the most important thing is your safety so please give your primary attention to the road and the cars around you.Obviously, if you are driving the most important thing is your safety so please give your primary attention to the road and the cars around you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When we experience suffering of any kind, the great masters tell us that we are the ones creating that suffering in ourselves. But how can that be? Surely some things we can blame others for? These ancient masters suggest that really we are the ones who need to be taking the responsibility. Where better to practice becoming comfortable with this truth than while driving? It seems like every time we drive, ample evidence is provided that other people are to blame. How am I to blame for a traffic jam? Or if someone rear ends me surely it is their fault. This guided meditation will help develop your ability to see the nature of reality and through that shift in awareness and recognition, increase your happiness and sense of personal power.If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. (Obviously, if you are driving the most important thing is your safety so please give your primary attention to the road and the cars around you.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Driving appears to be the very place where the world conspires against us. We discover that people can become unusually inconsiderate when they feel they are anonymous and are in a rush. Yet we can choose to convert this time from one of frustration and stress into part of our systematic program for retaking control of our life. We are going to use this time and this experience of driving your car to advance on your path of retraining your brain. The great masters have consistently told us that there is an end to suffering and that the world is designed to maximize our individual wellbeing (see the quotes, below). It doesn't look that way because we don’t always recognize what is in our long term best interests. We mistake a push in the right direction as a frustration of our near sighted and self-defined goals.So, in a way, we can use this meditation to deepen our understanding of Buddha’s Four Noble Truths. As a reminder, the First Noble Truth states that suffering (or unsatisfactoriness) is a defining characteristic of this existence of ours. The Second Noble Truth is that the cause of suffering is attachment or craving or resistance to what is happening to us in the world (like a traffic jam). The Third Noble truth is that suffering can end. There is a method that allows a human being to escape the resisting, the holding and the wanting. The Fourth Noble Truth is this method, and it includes following the Noble Eightfold Path, restraining one's self, cultivating discipline, and practicing mindfulness and meditation. Listening to guided meditations like this one is part of that method.Or in the words of the Bhagavad Gita: "Through devotion to [Krishna and the practice of tranquility of self] ... one reaches through my grace an imperishable, unchanging home... Take me alone as your place of rest, and do not grieve, because I will free you from all evils." In the words of the Gospel of Luke: "Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”" And finally, in the words of St. Paul, "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness."If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. And obviously, if you are driving the most important thing is your safety so please give your primary attention to the road and the cars around you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Driving today is yet another illustration of how modern society isolates each of us from one other and from our communities. The facts support this in places like Los Angeles where 70% of commuters choose to drive alone in their vehicle to get to and from work. And when we are in our cars we are surrounded by a bubble of reinforced steel and hardened glass and plastic, separated from our fellow travelers not just by space but by this thick and protective physical barrier. Yet this very barrier can become our link to the rest of the world. We are going to practice using our cars to connect our bodies with the people and energy fields that are all around us all of the time. The universe is built out of energy, out of light. An adult male might have 70kg of mass making up their body. We know from Einstein that E=Mc2. That means that a single human body contains 100,000 times as much energy as was released The the Hiroshima bomb. We can use the energy being generated by our bodies, our driving motion and the motive force in a vehicle’s engine to amplify these sensibilities, to consciously connect us more closely to the unified whole. And at the very least it takes our mind off driving! If you enjoy these practical guided meditations, you may like to listen to the Serena Podcast (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo) which provides the theory behind these practices and where we are headed by doing them. Obviously, if you are driving the most important thing is your safety so please give your primary attention to the road and the cars around you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Driving seems like an obvious place where we are in control of our movement. So it makes a great place to practice getting used to the two of the most important concepts in achieving lasting peace and happiness: the ideas that we are neither a self nor a doer. We are doing this practice because, as counterintuitive as it sounds, the biggest names in the pantheon of great masters, from Lao Tzu to Buddha to Krishna to Jesus all tell us that we are not the one doing the doing in our life. This is a very deep and subtle teaching and one of the keys to realizing an end to suffering in our life. This podcast is about practice through guided meditation so we are not going to try to explain it. We are just going to practice it. But here are a few quotes so you don't have to take my word for it:“The wise person does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone” – Lao TzuYour true “Self, confused by the idea of an ‘I’, thus thinks, ‘I am the doer.’” – Krishna “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do.” – Jesus"‘Don't be afraid! Stand still, and see what the LORD will do to save you today.’ - Moses "All things [and experiences] are thoughts which the Creator thinks... What a joy ... to perceive the unmoved mover moving in all that moves. He who is hidden, manifest through all his works." The Hermetica (The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs)“Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit alone [all things are done]," says the Lord Almighty. - Book of Zechariah, Hebrew BibleIf you are interested in more of the theory and explanation around it you can listen to this Podcast's companion, the Serena Podcast series (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ancient Chinese philosopher and military strategist Sun Tzu is famous for saying: “To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” His wisdom is surprisingly relevant to the battle against insomnia. The key to winning the battle for sleep, to breaking our wakefulness’s resistance, is not to fight for sleep in the first place. You may be lying in bed wanting to fall asleep but maybe you shouldn’t even be bothering to try. Take these two "supremely excellent" tests to see if the moment is right to break your enemy, insomnia's, resistance. Whether you are someone who meditates or not, these two simple tests will help with your insomnia.If you are interested in more of the theory and explanation around it you can listen to this Podcast's companion, the Serena Podcast series (https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This short talk introduces the Serena Sleep Meditation Series. If you hare suffering from insomnia, your subconscious or lower self doesn’t want to let you fall asleep. There is some worry or fear so deep that your lower self believes that sleep might even lead to your death. It is irrational but the part of our selves that is in charge of putting our bodies to sleep has a different logic. It’s logic is survival. It doesn’t trust your logical self or your higher self that everything is going to be ok. So it is time take another tack. These meditations will help unlock this cycle. It may not work tonight, and that is okay. The extraordinary thing about meditation is that there is an enormous psychological and physical benefit to listening to guided meditations, even if you don't sleep right away tonight. But keep practicing, earn the trust of your lower self, and sleep, nature’s gentle nurse, will soon come.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is bedtime and once again you can’t sleep. You’ve tried everything you can think of and you’re ready to give up but you don’t even know what that means. It is time take another tack, to earn the trust of your lower self, to help her discover your inner fortress where the best sleep of your life is possible. Using this meditation to find that inner fortress will help unlock the cycle of insomnia that you are stuck in. It may not work tonight, and that is okay. It will come. Sleep, nature’s sweet nurse, awaits. Listen to this meditation to help you enter her care.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We can’t tell our body to fall asleep the same direct way we can tell our arm to move or our voice to make words. Unfortunately, that isn’t how that system works. So we have to play by the rules of the going to sleep game. Tonight, the way we are going to play that game is by pretending our body is a small child. She doesn’t want to go to sleep tonight so we have to help her. We have to remind her that we are the one in charge and make sure she trusts us and knows that it is safe to let the body go to sleep. Sleep tight and sweet dreams!For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sleep is a funny thing. It is only when we let go of needing to fall asleep and thinking about sleep that we can fall asleep. This meditation involves imagining a bed time bath. Sleep is brought on by changes in your body and this sort of guided meditation helps bring about those changes. Normally, our body follows the rules and keeps with the rhythm of the day and puts us to sleep according to the regular schedule. When it doesn't, that means our thinking or emotional self is giving our body the wrong instructions. It is keeping your body in a state of alertness to protect itself. Listen to this meditation to help shift that state, to put you back in charge of your bedtime self.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A wonderful meditation practice that has been passed down through the ages is Loving Kindness or Metta Bhavana meditation. It is a compassion based practice that is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism and is also found in the ancient texts of Hinduism and Jainism. The word “metta” can be translated as friendly, benevolent, affectionate, kindness, good-will, love, or sympathy. In this brief session the focus is on generating and sharing loving kindness and other wonderful sensibilities. The longer ones are more effective and powerful but if you don't have much time or just want to get a feel for it, try this one.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An extraordinary meditation technique that has been passed down through the millennia is called Loving Kindness or Metta Bhavana. Through a sort of paradox of giving equals receiving, this meditation allows an emptying of oneself to lead to a fullness. In this shorter session the focus is on generating and sharing loving kindness and other wonderful sensibilities.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An extraordinary meditation technique that has been passed down through the millennia is Loving Kindness or Metta Bhavana meditation. This Guided Meditation is a variation on that ancient practice. It follows the more traditional method of generating and cultivating loving kindness and other wonderful sensibilities within ourselves and then extending them out to others. Through this emptying of our selves of these sensibilities, we discover in the hours and days after the practice that we are more open to receiving these sensibilities from others and more perceptive of their presence all around us.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A common meditation technique that has been passed down through the millennia is Loving Kindness or Metta Bhavana meditation. There is a reason it has stood the test of time: it works. One study done at Stanford University suggests that a loving-kindness meditation practiced even for 7 minutes can increase social connectedness. Loving kindness meditation has also been shown to help people with chronic lower back pain and Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill demonstrated that loving-kindness meditation can help increase positive emotions. In this session the focus is just on generating and cultivating loving kindness and other wonderful sensibilities within ourselves.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This track is the complete Chakra set. Proceed with caution. The eight noumenal centers of energy in the body are all activated in this guided meditation. Then you are guided through moving the energy within each Chakra, among multiple chakras and finally out into the universal Chakras.The concept of Chakras was passed down probably for thousands of years in the oral tradition of the Indian subcontinent before emerging in the various sacred texts of Buddhism and Hinduism. There are some pretty wild legends, Marvel Comics-style, of god-like beings forging spinning weapons from stars and concentrating down extreme energy rays into something lower beings could handle. This sort of mythology continued to develop right into the middle ages. By that point, things got out of hand and rather than the typical seven or eight chakras, there developed theories of hundreds or even 10s of thousands!In this exercise, we keep it simple and explore the activation of our chakras as a path to experiencing our true self and discovering our true home in the oneness with all things that comes from stillness.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the third in the Chakra series and it encompasses activation, energizing, connection and balance. Chakras represent the centers of energy or power in the body and are believed to regulate and harmonize the physical, emotional, neurological and spiritual systems in the body. Many practitioners of Eastern medicine believe that when they are blocked or disconnected we experience negative effects in our bodies and lives. So keeping them energized, open, healthy, balanced and connected is a well worthwhile practice. For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the second of several that you can use and is similar to the first one but longer, focusing primarily on the activation and balance of the chakras. Chakras represent the centers of spiritual energy in the physical self and are believed to regulate and harmonize the physical, emotional, neurological and spiritual systems in the body. Many practitioners of Eastern medicine believe that when they are blocked both our bodies and lives will suffer the consequences. So we do the work to keep them energized, open, healthy, balanced and connected.But are they real? There is no scientific evidence that I am aware of demonstrating the existing of Chakras. But the theory that these ancient Indian masters developed was that in our human life there is a parallel dimension to the physical one we experience. So in addition to our physical body, we have an energetic or subtle body. Just as our physical body has veins and organs, our subtle body has energy channels coursing through it and these channels connect the energy centers that are distributed throughout the body. Those centers are called Chakras.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chakra is a Sanskirt word meaning wheel. They represent the centers of energy or power in the body and are believed to regulate and harmonize the physical, emotional, neurological and spiritual systems in the body. Many practitioners of Eastern medicine believe that when they are blocked all sorts of negative side effects will manifest in our bodies and lives. So keeping them energized, open, healthy, balanced and connected is a wise practice. This is the first of several that you can use and is the shortest and most basic, focusing primarily on the activation and balance of the chakras.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One popular mantra chanted as part of the Kundalini tradition is the phrase “sa-ta-na-ma”. Sa means infinity; Ta means life; Na/death; and Ma/rebirth. This track is chanting only so that you have someone to harmonize and chant along with. You can also listen to the brief introductory track for a bit of background to the practice and then spend a few minutes chanting on your own.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One popular mantra chanted as part of the Kundalini tradition is the phrase “sa-ta-na-ma”. Sa means infinity; Ta means life; Na/death; and Ma/rebirth. Listen to a brief introduction to the practice and then spend a few minutes chanting on your own.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is a Buddhist chant popular in the Japanese Nichiren tradition called “Nam myoho renge kyo.” Nam means taking refuge. Myoho means pure dharma or wonderful law. Renge means lotus flower. And Kyo means sutra. Putting this together, one way to say the meaning of the phrase in English is “May I take refuge in the wonderful teachings of the Lotus Flower Sutra.” This refers to the extraordinary Buddhist text The Lotus Sutra which is thought by many to include the definitive teachings of the Buddha. If you are not a Buddhist, another way to translate the phrase that might be easier to say but that is still true to the meaning Buddha intended is “May I take refuge in the wonderful truth of an ending to suffering and an awakening to joy and love.” The underlying message of the Lotus Sutra is no different from the teachings described by all the great masters and the essential principle of the Serena system as well: that is, that who we are isn’t who we think it is and this confusion leads to an extraordinary amount of suffering. As far back to the Egyptian book of the dead and probably even further, there is this idea that words have extra-ordinary power and that when said in the right way and with the right intention, magical effects will be revealed. This idea lingers even today in our word “spelling” and “spell” when we refer to the letters in a word.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chanting has a long history across many cultures and spiritual traditions. They key isn’t really what you say but rather that you set your intention to chant a specific phrase for a specific period of time and that you chant that phrase for that period. It could be 3 minutes or 2 hours or whatever feels right for you (though best to start off with a shorter period and practice it often——frequency is more effective than duration in making progress). With chanting, like the other techniques, you are demonstrating your mastery so the content is less important than the general practice.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are not who you think you are. Use this mediation to practice remembering who you really are. When you remember that you are truly your higher self, lasting peace, health and happiness can be yours.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have confused our self with our body and the feelings, memories, and thoughts it produces. But that is not who we are. Use this mediation to practice remembering who you really are. When you remember that you are truly your higher self, lasting peace, health and happiness can be yours. (This is a shorter, edited down version of the 15 minute version).For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Definitely a classic. One of the best. Very simple. Originating in the Indian Buddhist tradition, Vipassana meditation has a long and illustrious history. Most recently, it has had a powerful influence in the Thai and Burmese Buddhist traditions in the 20th Century. Vipassana is a Pali word meaning "insight" and by insight it is referring to our ability to directly experience reality and truth without thoughts or feelings distorting things. Through this unmediated experience of the truth, we are said to have been liberated or to have "awakened." Through the practice, we become liberated from the three core misunderstandings about the nature of reality: 1) that life and everything in the phenomenal world is impermanent; 2) until we learn to master letting go of attachments (especially to the self), we will always be plagued by suffering and unsatisfactoriness; and 3) even though we think there is a self and we are that self, this isn't true. You are guided through this ancient technique in the recording but in essence it involves contemplation and observation of our bodily sensations, usually our breath. We could also say that it fits into the modern tradition of mindfulness.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you have trouble keeping your attention focused during meditation, this is a great one to use. It is a four-part breathing meditation that sounds complicated to explain but is actually very simple when you do it. The "complexity" is actually its virtue, since that is what helps keep the mind from wandering. You can listen to this track and be guided through it or, once you have it down, simply set a timer for 5 or 30 or whatever minutes and you get as far as you get in that time. You can practice it as a variation during your seated meditation practice or you could do it during the night if you have trouble falling asleep. You could also do it on the bus or during an aggravating meeting. Whenever, wherever is fine.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a simple meditation practices. You simply count to eight as you breath in, hold the breath for eight seconds, breath out to a count of eight, then hold the breath with empty lungs for eight seconds. And then repeat.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is one of the most basic and frequently used meditation practices. You simply count each breath until you reach the tenth breath and then begin again. A simple but extraordinarily powerful practice. Zebediah Rice guides you through it before leaving you to practice it for a few minutes on your own.For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This track is an eight minute version of the longer Split Screen guided meditation. Once you have become familiar with the full length version, you can use this shorter one going forward. If possible, you will want to do these mind training meditations while the experience you are focusing on is recent and the feelings and memory are very fresh. A word of caution: these meditations can bring up some very strong past emotions. Please proceed with care and seek professional help if you do have serious traumas to deal with. For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo.This is a 10 minute version of the Split Screen episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you have ever had a big emotional response in a situation that doesn’t require such a strong reaction (or are feeling sad for no apparent reason), then this exercise is for you. The principle here is that you are the master of your emotions: If you don’t want a particular emotion in any given situation, you can drop it. But you have to realize you have the power to do this and then develop mastery of the “dropping it”. How do you do this? Like anything else you want to master, you have to practice. With this guided meditation practice you can reprogram that connection, you can refile the memory/emotion connection. This is the full length version. A word of caution: these meditations can bring up some very strong past emotions. Please proceed with care and seek professional help if you do have serious traumas to deal with. For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Happy Life Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This track is a shorter version of the Fire & the Well guided training meditation. Once you have listened to the full length version once or twice, you can use this one for everyday practice. It is best to do these Training Meditations while the experience you are rewiring is recent and the feelings and memory is very fresh so find a quiet, private place as soon afterwards as you can or grab your headphones and a pair of sunglasses and maybe a hat and find a comfortable place to sit so you can run through the training. A word of caution: these meditations can bring up some very strong past emotions. Please proceed with care and seek professional help if you do have serious traumas to deal with. For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Happy Life Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This track is a shorter version of the Refiling guided meditation. After you have listened to the full length version once or twice, you can use this one for everyday practice. It is best to do these Training Meditations while the experience you are refiling is recent and the feelings and memory is very fresh. Try to find a quiet, private place as soon afterwards as you can or grab your headphones and a pair of sunglasses and maybe a hat and find a comfortable place to sit so you can run through the training. A word of caution: these meditations can bring up some very strong past emotions. Please proceed with care and seek professional help if you do have serious traumas to deal with. For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo.This is a 12 minute version of the Refiling episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are the master of your emotions. If you don’t want them in any given situation, you can drop them. But you have to realize you have the power to do this and then develop mastery of the “dropping it” technique. But how? Like anything else you want to master, you have to practice. If you are not a master of your emotions already, that means your emotional self, like an unruly dog, needs to be re-trained. The following guided training meditations, which we can call "Refiling," are a good way for you to train this part of your self. A word of caution: these meditations can bring up some very strong past emotions. Please proceed with care and seek professional help if you do have serious traumas to deal with. For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Happy Life Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Each of us has the power to leave a dysfunctional life behind. One of the best and simplest things we can do, as a sort of antidote to being stuck in an unhappy life, is to make believe that we are 100% responsible for whatever is happening to us. Our mantra has to change from "He, She, or It did it to me" to "I did it." Use this practice to drive that lesson home. For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena system podcast at https://goo.gl/Dxu4eo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.