In the Eastern traditions that developed our meditation practices, the concepts of “heart” and “mind” were inseparable. Today’s podcast episode explores how we’ve come to live from the neck-up and how meditation can be an invitation to live life in a way in which the mind and heart are not separate but one and the same.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com

Recently, I heard someone refer to this new normal of the coronavirus era as The Big Pause. When we encounter any large and abrupt change in life, resistance is a natural response. This podcast episode addresses any challenges that you may be experiencing and how meditation can help you to find freedom even in stressful situations.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com

All living beings are subject to aging, disease, and death. There are no exceptions to this rule. In this podcast episode, we discuss the concept of our own mortality and how mindfulness can help us to alleviate some of the anguish that we experience.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com

There are two modes of existing: Being and Doing. Both are essential. In today’s podcast episode, we’re exploring how mindfulness and meditation can keep these two operating systems in balance for optimal wellbeing.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com

In Zen, there is always the invitation to come back to “don’t know mind,” to rest in this space of uncertainty. As humans, however, our instinct is to seek stability and certainty. My latest podcast episode delves into my latest entheogenic experience and how my relationship with psychedelics has been able to better my mindset surrounding uncertainty.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com

Meditation is a kind of deep listening that allows you to be completely open and receptive to whatever is arising within your experience. Today, we are exploring what it means to come home to your own nature and to tune into the nature of your surroundings, for they are one the same.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com

Very few of us are willing to actively contemplate our mortality. Usually, if someone brings up the topic of death it’s considered to be impolite, almost offensive as if the implication is “we were having a nice time until you reminded us of reality.” In today’s podcast episode, we’re exploring how the contemplation and acceptance of death allow us to live life more fully.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com

Sometimes life breaks you in so many places you don’t even know where or how to begin picking yourself up again. Just two weeks ago it happened again, when one of my closest friends, Nate Olk, died very suddenly. This podcast episode explores grief and how being with the experience can open you up to freedom.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com

Very few of us know how to be alone with ourselves. In today’s podcast episode, we’ll explore the difference between loneliness and solitude, as well as how mindfulness can provide you with an alternative intimacy to ease that feeling of loneliness.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com

“Samsara is a mind towards outwards; nirvana is a mind resting in its own place.” In today’s podcast episode, we’ll explore the concept of samsara, how the coronavirus perpetuates this idea, and how it is also an opportunity to mindfully choose out of this cycle.

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Adrian Baker offers online meditation coaching and courses that help with stress, anxiety, body image issues, relationship issues, etc. Learn more about mindfulness meditation and meditation coaching at adrianbakermeditation.com