Meditation Matters

It's been said that while being self-centered is the source of grief, being centered is the source of freedom. To be centered means to be aware of the calmness and quiet within you, and to experience timelessness. 

Today's meditation focuses on finding our center.

It's in our nature to judge others and ourselves. And while judging is often useful while making our way through the world, it can also become toxic and isolating. When we judge others too much, we separate ourselves and build obstacles towards deep connection.

Today's meditation focuses on cultivating acceptance and practicing non-judgment.

*A special extended episode in celebration of Well-Being Week in Law 2023: following the regular meditation, this episode includes a short discussion of how meditation is helpful in your life.*

Today's meditation focuses on physical well-being. We all know that daily meditation can reduce stress. Research also shows that meditation can help reduce the body's production of cortisol, a stress hormone. This is the fuel behind our fight or flight impulse, which is great if you are being chased by a hungry lion, but not as great if you are sitting behind a computer or just stressed out by modern life.

In this meditation, we use imagery to help reduce our cortisol levels and increase our physical well-being.

It may not always feel this way, but joy is a state of being that you can choose. Joy is infinite and within your very essence.

In today's meditation, let's focus on reawakening the infinite joy that exists naturally within us.

William Wordsworth's poetry captures the healing powers and beauty of the natural world. As with meditation, remember there is nothing that is supposed to happen when reading poetry. Simply allow the words to flow through you in any way you like. 

In today's meditation, we'll reflect on William Wordsworth poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

No matter where you are or what's going on in your life, you always have your breath. With conscious breathing, we always have the ability to choose calmness.

In this meditation, let's focus on conscious breathing and know that we always have our breath to bring calmness into the moment.

Rabbi Johnathan Sacks once said, "Humility means living by the light of that which is greater than me."

In this meditation, let's focus on cultivating the light within and serving the lights that are outside of us.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī taught love, including universal ideal love. When he passed away at the age of 66, his funeral was attended by Muslim, Christian, and Jewish admirers. 

In this meditation, let's give ourselves the gift of stillness and release ourselves from fear.

Fear doesn't actually exist anywhere in the world, only in our minds.

In this meditation, let's give ourselves the gift of stillness and release ourselves from fear.

At times it feels like fear is real and always present. But fear exists only in our minds. Today's podcast will focus on releasing ourselves from fear and letting go of anxiety.