Mostly Mindful for Teens and Tweens

Mindfulness is a super power! Take a moment for your self.
enjoy. 

This is a practice on how to " lean in" to difficulty with compassion.

Resistance - We all avoid things in our lives we find uncomfortable. In this episode we talk about how to get "unstuck"

“Through practice, I’ve come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I’m suffering, I find this war with reality to be at the heart of the problem.”

 ~ Stephen Cope"

Don't you hate it when people tell you to breath when your are emotional! - The annoying part is...  that it is true! 
Breathing is one of the best ways to calm down. Keeping today's meditation simple but effective. enjoy 

Welcome Back!  I am excited to be releasing bimonthly podcast designed to help families and teens. Today we are going to go nice and easy.... back to basics.  
Check out the meditation for this week.  

Sometimes our minds are racing and we can't calm down. Hacking the nervous systems is a great way to pull the mind out of anxiety and brain fog. 
The Vagus nerve is the mind body connection - Take a journey down the vagus nerve as you learn to master this science based technique. 

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I'm struggling this week. Things are hard and I needed to reach into my tool kit and find new strategies that helped me clam down. My mind is too busy... meditation is a struggle right now. 
Using the body, we can hack our nervous system and encourage the parasympathetic nervous system to turn on (the rest and digest state)
Come learn the importance of the vagus nerve.

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Practice the felt experience of emotions and how they feel.  We want to lean how to 'feel stress' but not 'become stress'. We also want to lean how to be with joy and sadness/ stress and calm. etc. We focus on negative emotions... but the truth is all emotions are temporary. Mindfulness + compassion is the magic formula for well being.  

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The movie Inside and Out is an amazing analogy that helps us picture our inner characters. Who is in control? Anger, Sad , Disgust, Joy, Fear. 
We apply the Buddhist concept of "Right View" to help with difficult emotions.
1- Name it to tame it
2- Get into felt experience of the emotion - what does the emotion feel like in your body?
3- Shift from "I am" to "Is" - "I am anxious" shifts to " Anxiety is here"

We learn to relax the nervous system in the meditation session. 

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Compassion can be cultivated for yourself and others. 
This meditation is designed to support connection and belonging.