Sparked!

Join Cara for a 3-part series on how to turn chronic stress into mental fitness. Discover how to feel clear, have more energy and feel awake and alive.

Learn about the core tenets of Mental Fitness and how to integrate them into your daily routines and how to experience greater clarity and calm, improve stress resiliency and increase your energy and vitality.

Key Areas of Focus will include:-Body – The importance of daily rhythmic movement-Brain – Meditation, the nervous system and your natural state-Biome – The amazing relationship between your gut microbiome and mental wellness-Sleep – How a sleep hygiene routine impacts your overall well-being-Nature – Experiencing wakeful awareness in natural settings-Play – Finding daily joy in your primary flow activities

Discover how to embody the opposite of burnout, or what's often called "psychological vigor," and how to experience more:-Physical energy-Emotional stability-Mental acuity and sharpness

more on Amare Global - the mental wellness company https://bit.ly/2IoCTf5 

Join Cara for a special 3-part series about turning chronic stress into mental fitness. Hear stories about what works to reduce the effects of stress, feel clearer and calmer, have more energy, and feel alive again.

Learn about the core tenets of Mental Fitness and how to integrate them into your daily routines and how to experience greater clarity and calm, improve stress resiliency and increase your energy and vitality.

Key Areas of Focus will include:-Body – The importance of daily rhythmic movement-Brain – Meditation, the nervous system and your natural state-Biome – The amazing relationship between your gut microbiome and mental wellness-Sleep – How a sleep hygiene routine impacts your overall well-being-Nature – Experiencing wakeful awareness in natural settings-Play – Finding daily joy in your primary flow activities

Discover how to embody the opposite of burnout, or what's often called "psychological vigor," and how to experience more:-Physical energy-Emotional stability-Mental acuity and sharpness

more on Amare Global - the mental wellness company https://bit.ly/2IoCTf5 

Do you feel an intense pressure to be productive all the time? Seeing people doing stuff online—such as offering products, programs and services—might be triggering a sense of urgency in you to do more, and to do it faster! 

If you feel like you are pushing projects or forcing things to happen, then tune into this episode. Cara shares her struggle with being patient with herself and how she is breaking a habit of rushing to do, achieve and produce. She shares her new commitment to stop forcing and pushing by slowing down her pace of production and allowing ideas to simmer, mature and develop. Learn how to let go of pushing and be more patient with yourself. Try asking yourself these questions:* What am I forcing to make happen?* Where am I lacking patience?* What can I slow down?* And what needs space to breathe?

Asking the right questions may help you to discern how much you do and how fast you do it. Like Cara, you may discover how to stop pushing and forcing and how to instead slow down and allow ideas and relationships to mature.

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What if the peace you are seeking is already right here, waiting for you to pause and receive. Join Cara for a few minutes and give yourself permission to experience calm in this short meditation practice.

Mentions & More:Cara's Website - https://www.carabradley.netAdyashanti - https://www.adyashanti.org

Stability. It's the intersection of strength and flexibility. Tune into this Mini-Message for more on cultivating stability of body and mind.

A verge is a boundary or an edge. It's a threshold between being over here and over there. The verge is where shift takes place. It's also where we thrive.

Live, right there—on the verge—on the edge of change, and we come alive. 

Embracing change, instead of struggling against it, is the topic of this special episode during which Cara talks about big changes as she transitions out of Verge Yoga, the business she founded over 15 years ago. She shares her dreams and plans as she shifts “beyond the verge,” her process of learning when and how to pivot, and her tender relationship with an uncertain future. 

We try. We strive. We keep ourselves busy. We fill our calendars and to-do lists with things to make us feel like we are "doing" something useful and important. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you stopped all of the busyness? In this episode, Cara asks you to take inventory of how you're spending your precious life and to answer a few thought-provoking questions like:

What if you just stopped doing so much?What would happen? Who would notice?What would it feel like to not push so hard?

Tune in and explore who you are beneath the level of busy with a simple practice called: This is who I am...Enjoy.

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Pause to turn down the volume outside and turn up the volume of your inner experience. It's not only relaxing, it's also necessary for optimal mental wellness. Join Cara for this short guided meditation to slow down your thinking mind.

Tune into this quick-hit tip on how a middle school crossing guard reminds us to slow down as move through the world.

Day after day you repeat the same thoughts. Over and over again you may complain, blame, judge and doubt yourself and others. These unhelpful thoughts are exhausting. They drain your energy. And, at the end of the day, these trite little pokes at your self esteem do little to improve your life. In this episode, Cara asks you to take a hard look at your inner critic and name what you are tired of hearing between your ears. For, in the end, we must observe it before we can change it.

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