Meditate This!

Welcome to How I Meditate from the Meditate This! Podcast. This series is intended reveal personal experiences with meditation and mindfulness as a way to help others refine, rejuvenate, or even just begin a practice. Meditation can seem weird, creepy, and meaningless. But maybe it helps to hear how it's different for someone else...or how it's not.

Each episode answers 4 basic questions:

1. How do you meditate?

2. What was is like the very first time you meditated?

3. An example of when you noticed meditation made a difference in your life.

4. What other activities help you stay mindful on a regular basis?

Please visit the How I Meditate page at www.MeditateThisPodcast.com to learn more and submit your own How I Meditate story.

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Pete and Jay

In 1996 Micheline Nader hit a wall. Stress had weakened her immune system and resulted in a bleeding ulcer. Facing the bankruptcy of her business, she says, "I was so terrified that I could not get out of bed. My fear was more crippling than my pain." A serial entrepreneur, Micheline couldn't muster one more appearance of "Superwoman" to save the day. She needed a better plan and that led to her finding what she calls her True Self. Once she found it, everything turned around and her business became a huge success.

Micheline was no stranger to adversity. Having grown up in Lebanon, she endured the pain of losing her father at age 16 to esophageal cancer. He was the love of her life, but little did she know that she was on a crash course with a similar fate. In the depths of her suffering, she made space in her life and connected with her "higher consciousness", which led to the strategy she lays out in her new book, The Dolphin's Dance - a 5 Step Journey into Conscious Awareness.

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NASA engineer, Stanford University lecturer, TED talker, consciousness hacker—is there anything Mikey Siegel can't do? The answer: We'll soon find out. See, Mikey is on one serious mission—to change the word from the inside out by starting with the alleviation of that nasty little bug that bites us all: human suffering.

As Mikey explains: "My focus is on supporting the development of totally new transformative tools and technologies that can revolutionize the way we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world. I believe that every single human endeavor can be a catalyst for collective awakening, and that is the evolutionary direction for our species." We can't wait to see what Mikey comes up with next. But first, hear all the hows and whys in this undeniably* mind-expanding conversation.

*If you do deny it, you must ask yourself why!

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Pete talks about mistakes and how they really aren't your fault.  Maybe you should consider why mistakes happen rather than beat yourself up with regret or even resentment.  

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Pete talks about mistakes and how they really aren't your fault.  Maybe you should consider why mistakes happen rather than beat yourself up with regret or even resentment.  

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Some couples argue about who should take out the garbage or pick up the kids. Maureen Pelton and Charlie Hartwell only show hints of frustration when insisting that the other should realize how well-rounded they are. It's a nice problem to have, especially since most of their moments together is spent engaged in their favorite pastime: laughing. The rest is occupied with changing the world by helping raise our collective consciousness.

As co-founders of the Shift Institute, Maureen and Charlie aim to help individuals realize their best, truest self. That effort is complemented by the venture capital efforts of Bridge Builders, which invests in mindfulness companies that are utilizing the most innovative technology and communications. In all, Maureen and Charlie are making a difference every day--sometimes one person at a time, sometimes by the millions. Who wouldn't smile at that?

Note: Today's episode features special guest star Cookie in her first live interview.

Achieving the status of being a regular, average guy might not sound like much. But for Kaiser Clark, it's the biggest accomplishment of his life so far. Growing up with severe ADHD and struggling with substance abuse from a very young age, Kaiser used to think obtaining mythic powers, changing who he was, and becoming "special" was the answer to his problems.

On his quest, he utilized various forms of meditation and even had an experience he called "piercing the veil of consciousness." But Kaiser now feels that none of that really matters much. It's about surrendering, becoming more of who you are, and living as best you can.

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Pete and Jay

Five sure-fire steps to the perfect life. One burrito half-eaten by Ozzie. And Pete making contact. A Schmindfulness for the ages—both here and beyooooond.

..and Happy Birthday Diane!!!!

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The very fact that you're reading this sentence has something to do with R. Adam Engle. No, he didn't invent the internet or anything. He just happened to co-found the Mind and Life Institute and develop, back in the 1980s, the very first Mind and Life Dialogues between the 14th Dalai Lama and a panel of some of the world's most prominent scientists.

The result? A wave of new research, understanding, and acceptance of mindful practice and effectiveness in the West—culminating (well, sorta) with Time magazine declaring the beginning of a "Mindful Revolution" in 2014.

Hear this pioneer describe how a kid from Yonkers helped a 2,500 year old Eastern tradition take root in a country that tends to be more concerned with the latest thing.

Listen on:

The very fact that you're reading this sentence has something to do with R. Adam Engle. No, he didn't invent the internet or anything. He just happened to co-found the Mind and Life Institute and develop, back in the 1980s, the very first Mind and Life Dialogues between the 14th Dalai Lama and a panel of some of the world's most prominent scientists.

The result? A wave of new research, understanding, and acceptance of mindful practice and effectiveness in the West—culminating (well, sorta) with Time magazine declaring the beginning of a "Mindful Revolution" in 2014.

Hear this pioneer describe how a kid from Yonkers helped a 2,500 year old Eastern tradition take root in a country that tends to be more concerned with the latest thing.

Listen on: