Mindfulness Hodge Podge Cast: An Eclectic & Approachable Podcast of Guru-free Meditations

This episode guides you in utilizing your breath to care for physical tension or discomfort. When you breath in you can care for the discomfort with the quality of ease and when you breathe out you can care for discomfort by releasing layers of it.

We all know situations where we are triggered to react and then regret what we said and how we reacted. This episode offers a tool to shift from reacting to responding and we will practice with it. The practice includes creating some space with your inbreath to pause and letting go of your urge to react with your outbreath. This provides you with a pause between the trigger and your response.

This mindfulness practice guides you in bringing up an experience of loneliness, accepting it as it is because it’s already here, and taking care of it to open space for a more global experience of connection. The idea is to validate your feeling of loneliness while surrounding yourself with the experience of connection at the same time.

This episode first guides you in practicing with the breath being enough in the here and now and then builds on this experience to extend it more holistically to “I’m enough in the here and now.”

This mindfulness practice guides you in bringing up an experience of loneliness, accepting it as it is because it’s already here, and taking care of it to open space for a more global experience of connection. The idea is to validate your feeling of loneliness while surrounding yourself with the experience of connection at the same time.

This episode guides you in caring for your anxiety in the body and mind through various approaches. This is an advanced meditation and it’s helpful to have practiced Breathing Anchors and/or Grounding Anchors from previous episodes.

This mindfulness practice guides you through noticing how you are feeling about your body as it is in the here and now. Then you will invite space for your thinking and feelings around your current body to shift. This in turn will create space for allowing the body to transform.

This episode guides you in experiencing the feeling of being supported by yourself, by others, and by the Earth. Then you think of a situation where you would benefit from having the feeling supported available in a future situation and you practice with applying this feeling of support.

This episode focuses on nurturing the feeling that breathing is enough  for this moment, and this moment, and this moment. It also guides you in  applying the tool (feeling that breath is enough) in real-life  situations to take a break from doing mode and switch into being mode.

This episode guides you in transforming impatience by first exploring a situation where you recently felt impatient: why impatience developed, what specific purpose impatience targeted, and what impact impatience had on you and others/or on the situation. Then you explore other ways to accomplish specific goals by transforming impatience into other tools or skills.