The Meditation Podcast creates an extraordinary meditation experience for people in their everyday lives. The guided meditations contain audio technology that amplify slower brain waves to induce a relaxed and powerful altered meditative state of consciousness. Please use headphones, and do not listen while driving or operating machinery. Our complete archive of past episodes are available on our Patreon site.
Many of us have goals that we want to achieve in our lives: write a book, lose weight, learn a musical instrument, and so on. However, we may find ourselves lacking the discipline or self-control to start or to finish. We may even talk ourselves out of accomplishing our goals by claiming that 'it is too hard', or 'I don't have time'. In today's meditation we practice developing discipline: the long-term process of reaching our goals, one step and one day at a time.
My mom died a few weeks ago, and today's meditation is in honor of her. In today's meditation, we prepare for — and create — beauty. Although this recording is only 20 minutes, please allow one full hour to this process. You may already have a creative outlet — music, dance, drawing, painting. If not, start today. Pick up some paper and paints, or dust off that musical instrument sitting in the corner.
We have all experienced moments in our lives when our confidence failed. We may have doubted our abilities, our appearance, our goals, or our dreams. This doubt may have come from trauma, mental or emotional abuse, or a simple fear of being ourselves. When we break free of these doubts, we begin to experience moving forward in our lives, with infinite success in our dreams and ambitions. In today's meditation we release our doubts and fears, to rebuild our self-confidence.
We all have desires and goals, we all imagine and wish for the future. But what happens when we achieve those desires, goals and wishes ... only to realize it wasn't what we wanted -- or that we're not even halfway there? In today's meditation, we look at our goals and wishes from a higher perspective.
As a culture, we are obsessed with self improvement. Our media is full of ads and images enticing us -- and pitching solutions -- to lose weight, get organized, clear our skin, find love, make money, eat the 'right' foods, and more. The problem is that self-improvement can root us in the thing that we're trying to change. By focusing on wanting to 'improve', it's possible to get stuck in an addictive cycle where all we create is more 'wanting'. In today's meditation, we practice the fine art of self acceptance. We take a journey within, finding opportunities to love, honor, and accept ourselves -- just as we are. Through this process, we are often able to bring about the very changes that we've been looking for all along.
When a person or organization does not meet our needs, breaks their word, or otherwise fails to live up to our expectations, we naturally become disappointed, hurt, angry, or mistrustful. In today's meditation, we heal this disappointment. This is an essential first step in reclaiming our own power, so that we can move clearly and positively through our lives.
