Meditation Matters

Love is the key ingredient to healing. When we feel the power of love, we connect to our deeper spiritual self.

Today's meditation will focus on the healing power of love.

A beginners' mind is a mind full of curiosity and wonder, free of preconceptions and expectations. 

Today's podcast will focus on reclaiming the beginners' mind. 

Thích Nhất Hạnh once said "if we are not calm, we cannot listen and understand." 

Today's meditation will focus on finding stillness. 

In solidarity with Catherine, Princess of Whales, we'll enjoy some classic poetry from the United Kingdom. 

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is to just relax. 

Today's podcast will focus on meditating to achieve complete relaxation.

William Edgar Stafford was a poet from Hutchinson, Kansas. Some of his most poignant poems are about the simple beauty of nature and appreciating the moment.

Today we'll reflect on his poem "Ask Me". 

It's been said that what we focus on expands and grows. Thus when we focus on the goodness in our lives, we actually create more of it. 

Today's podcast will focus on prayer through gratitude. 

You are completing deserving of peace, now and always. From time to time, your mind may begin to wander to a memory of fear. That's part of being human.

Today's meditation will focus on welcoming peace with our breath. 

Joy is a state of being you can choose. Joy is infinite and part of who we really are. Sometimes we simply need to reawaken the joy that exists naturally within us. 

Today's meditation will focus on the joy within. 

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is a mindfulness training program created by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979. It is supported by a wide body of research showing that is effective in treating stress, chronic pain, anxiety, and even depression. One component of the program is called the body scan, in which we bring awareness to various parts of our body.

Today's podcast will focus on the body scan component.