Happy Body - A Wellness Podcast

Happy Body - A Wellness Podcast

By Zebediah RiceAlternative HealthHealth & FitnessMental HealthFitness
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Happy Body - A Wellness Podcast episodes

  • Sending Love to your Feet & Ankles
    Our feet and ankles are the most distant part of our bodies from our mind. Because of that they're sometimes overlooked or undervalued and can themselves communicate this very mindset about our whole self. Pain and injury is the body's way of teaching us how to take care of ourselves, our bodies. Our job is to listen. It can be as simple as slowing down, listening to what they have to say and sending them love. Or suffering in the feet and ankles can symbolize a much deeper sense of disconnectedness from the earth and nature, or undervaluing of ourselves, an inability to fulfill our ideals or objectives in life. This guided meditation will help put you in touch with what your feet and ankles have to say.

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    15 min
  • Take the sleep test
    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 tests to see if perhaps the moment isn’t right for you. Whether you are someone who meditates or not, these two simple tests will help with your insomnia. 

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    10 min
  • Use your inner fortress to help you fall asleep
    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. This meditation will help unlock the cycle you are stuck in. It may not work tonight, and that is okay. The extraordinary thing about meditation is that if you can concentrate properly, the time spent can be even more rejuvenating than sleep itself. Sleep, nature’s sweet nurse, awaits. Listen to this meditation to help you enter her care. 

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    13 min
  • "Bedtime Bath" - A guided talk to help you fall asleep
    Sleep really is such a strange phenomenon. No matter how much we want it, it is only when we let go of needing to fall asleep, and thinking about sleep, that we can fall asleep. Fortunately, doing peaceful sleep-time meditations is relaxation and rest enough for your body to be rested for tomorrow. It has a similar effect on the brain and body. So don’t worry if you don’t fall asleep. Just enjoy cycling through this meditation. 

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    13 min
  • Putting your body to sleep
    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.

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    13 min
  • Serena Sleep Meditations Intro
    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 if you can concentrate properly, the time spent can be even more rejuvenating than sleep itself. And even if it isn’t done to perfection, there is an enourmous psychological and physical benefit. Sleep, nature’s gentle nurse, is waiting for you. 

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    10 min
  • Wrist Warm Up (15 min)

    Do you suffer from fatigued or aching fingers, hands, wrists, elbows or forearms? Are feeling the chronic pain of a repetitive stress injury (RSI/RSD--Repetitive stress disorder/repetitive strain injury) or CRPS (Complex regional pain syndrome)? If so, this set of warm up movements will help them recover their relaxed comfort and ease. You can also use it prepare them before a stint in front of the computer or a session at the gym. Time to stop taking your wrists for granted and nurture and attend to them. This set of movements does just that.


    This is a 15 minute version of the wrist warm up.


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    15 min
  • Wrist Warm Up (10 min)

    Are your wrists or forearms aching or sore? If so, this set of warm up movements will help them recover their comfort and ease. You can also use it prepare them before a stint in front of the computer or a session at the gym. We tend to take our wrists for granted but they are delicate parts of our bodies that need to be nurtured and attended to. This set of movements does just that.


    This is a 10 minute version of the wrist warm up.


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    10 min
  • Wrist Warm Up (5 min)

    Hands sore from too much typing or physical work? Computers and smartphones have added hours more of delicate hand use for all of us. And when you combine that with other activities it can all just be too much. Use this warm up or post exercise to help gently invigorate and awaken your fingers, hands, wrists, forearms and elbows.


    This is a 5 minute version of the wrist warm up.


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    5 min
  • I Am Healthy (1 hr)

    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.


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    1 hr 1 min

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