In today's meditation we explore how color affects our brains and in what way might specific color be used to help provide us with inner stability, calm and increased confidence. 

I'm so grateful to have the vibrant, energetic life I still enjoy although I am very nearly 70 years old! 
I hope to share with you in these short meditation podcasts a bit of how I managed to heal myself from severe PTSD and achieve a life of balance, integrity and abundance in all ways. 
I hope you'll join me for Meditate for Life. 

These short pithy meditations (and yes, I do meditate with you through our 5 minute meditations!) allow me the opportunity to share with you what I have learned through over 5 decades of meditating. 
I began when I was 14 (so long ago!) with a paperback book as my guide. This was in 1964. Within a few years I met and traveled with the person who would be my meditation teacher for over 30 years. 
As I sat in a Tibetan temple in Dehra Dun India meditating with His Holiness Sakya Trizen and His Holiness Chogyam Rinpoche, I had no idea how powerful these initiations and meditations were, nor how they would change my life. 
Through visualization meditation I learned to heal from severe PTSD, achieve a double Master's Degree, and most importantly raise my son into a strong, independent husband, father, friend and more. 
I am deeply grateful for my life and want now to share what I have learned about meditation, neuroscience, visualization and life. Thank you for joining me! 

Welcome! 
In these short podcasts, I'll be meditating with you in 2-5 minute segments. 
Sound strange? No stranger than believing you can sit still and your mind will slow down! 
But that is the truth. 
I'm Charlene and I've been meditating since 1973 when I was initiated into the Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies of Vajrayana Tantra. This tantra means 'Union' with the figures and sounds associated with each of the large number of Tibetan icons of human energy. 

In these short podcasts, I hope to help you learn how to provide yourself with strength for the challenges in life, a refuge when you need to re-set and focus on the joy and abundance you already have at your fingertips. Be well!

The BreakAway Girl:Secrets of a Tantric Yogi
by Paulette Bodeman
April 5th 2021 

Join Paulette Bodeman as she explores with me the place of forgiveness, self-forgiveness as part of the highest art—new forms of healing. Bodeman finds joy in the latest science blending with ancient traditions. Take 15 mins to refresh yourself, here, with Paulette Bodeman. 

The Break Away Girl: Secrets of a Tantric Yogi by Paulette Bodeman
March 29. 2021

Paulette Bodeman, Tantric Yogi explains her direct connection with the power of the Goddesses Kali, Sarasvati and Lakshmi in her own life.  She has written this book, The Break Away Girl: Secrets of a Tantric Yogi as a memoir of her life's journey, and a paean to her help from the Goddesses. 
Listen in as Paulette describes the three Goddesses who guided her deepening faith. 

I Wanted Fries With That: How To Ask For What You Want and Get What You Need by Amy Fish 
March 22 2021

Listen in as Amy Fish continues to describe how to ask for what you want, even in cases that involve intense human interactions such as when racism prevails. Amy entertains with her humor even as she cuts through to the chase in describing how you can ask for what you want and get more of what you need.

I Wanted Fries With That: How to Ask For What You Want and Get What You Need by Amy Fish
March15th 2021

Ombudsperson Amy Fish speaks up about how to speak up. For many of us the notion of voicing our wants, whether it's a change in a restaurant order or requesting local By Law attend to a situation, this book helps you learn to access the right people to solve your struggle. Listen in as Amy talks about her work, her book and her dedication to helping others speak out. 

Headstrong: Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury by Joanne Silver Jones
After her own trauma Joanne Silver Jones recognized the fear of trauma within her students and began to rearrange her classes, in simple ways, to accommodate what she now understood to be trauma symptoms. Silver Jones believes an open heart provides the most valuable tool for education and for healing ourselves. Listen in to this remarkable woman here.
 
 

https://www.amazon.com/Headstrong-Surviving-Traumatic-Brain-Injury/dp/163152612X

https://www.thenerddaily.com/joanne-silver-jones-author-interview/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45765679-headstrong

A nightmare shatters the life of college professor JoAnne Silver Jones when a stranger pummels her with a hammer. She struggles and overcomes not only her own injuries but the emotional wounds of her family as she heals. Then she discovers writing. Listen in to this remarkable woman speak of her life, her loved ones and her writing.