Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress Relief for Real Life

By Meditation Teacher & Mental Health Counselor, Cheri Augustine Flake, LCSW: Meditation, Stress Relief, Healthy Habits, Spirituality, Mental Health, Self-Care, Self-Help, Happiness, MindfulnessAlternative Health Health & Fitness Mental Health Education Self-Improvement

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress Relief for Real Life episodes

March 01, 2022 Meditation: Practical Ways to Make It A Habit that Lasts A Lifetime!
James Clear in his book, Atomic Habits gives us great insight into making meditation a habit that lasts. Wanting meditation to be habitual and actually creating a daily meditation habit are two entirely different things. Today, we look at the practical approaches to creating any new healthy habit ~ including meditation.

Nobody meditates because it's easy, but you can do hard things! There are some clinical studies that can assist you while you're making this beautiful practice a part of your life and allowing so many benefits to find their way into your every day living. Meditation can be just finally something you do without stress procrastination or excuses...just another part of who you are and what you do each and every day.

This is week 9 of my 12 week series~ Making Meditation Habitual: How to Build A Daily Practice That Lasts A Lifetime!
31 min
February 22, 2022 Meditation & Visualization: The Science Behind "You'll See It When You Believe It!"
Thoughts seem to be branded the bad guy in meditation but we can learn how to use thoughts to our advantage when we are creating any new habit, including a daily meditation practice. Thinking about how you think about meditation is definitely going to effect your meditation practice. But also, examining how you think and talk to yourself is relevant as well. Just noticing what's going on in your head and tweaking these thoughts is the key to making any new change stick, including a daily meditation practice.
There are three specific and scientific reasons why you must not only be kind to yourself but also get a handle on what you are thinking all day long! I will share them with you today and hopefully get you feeling good about meditation or any other new healthy habit that you’re wanting in your life.
This is week 8 of my 12-week series ~ Making Meditation Habitual: how to build a daily practice that lasts a lifetime!
38 min
February 14, 2022 Loving Meditation: How to Make Meditating Easier
Like any new habit, Learning how to meditate comes with its own obstacles. For the beginner, loving meditation, may seem tough!

Although, years ago on retreat, I learned from a Buddhist monk these three ways that our egos pull us out of meditation time and time again. It’s time to learn how to get past them and meditate anyway!

These hindrances have been the most helpful way to explain to my clients exactly what is going on in their mind when they want to just give up, walk away from their cushion and go on with their day.

It’s time to win those private battles in your head and realize that when you don’t meditate YOU don’t win, your ego does! Stop letting your ego trick you and get on the cushion so you can get to loving this practice!

Then, in honor of Valentine's Day, let's do a "Love Meditation" together. 🧡

This is week 7 of my 12-week series ~ Making Meditation Habitual: how to build a daily practice that lasts a lifetime!
36 min
February 08, 2022 Why Is It SO Hard to Meditate EVERY SINGLE Day??
Probably the most common complaint that I get about meditation is, “I Just Can’t Meditate.” It’s true that some people have great success with meditation right off the bat, but in my experience, this is really rare. Especially when we are talking about keeping it up!

Most people get wrapped up in thoughts and emotions and the next thing they know they are checking their email, unwrapping a piece of chocolate or have found some other distraction or dopamine rush to follow.

In a time of over-consumption and constant distraction with our phones and tablets and games and streaming and email and ugh, all of it, how can we make it to our cushions? Remember, while we allow our phones alone to constantly keep us actually rehearsing, practicing and getting better at inattention and distraction, meditation is actually the cure for both!

Psychoeducation regarding what is exactly going on in your brain is the way out and over to your cushion time and time again. Knowing exactly “who” is talking to you, how and when to listen and what exactly to do is the key in making meditation a habit that lasts.

This is week 6 of my 12-week series ~ Making Meditation Habitual: how to build a daily practice that lasts a lifetime!
38 min
February 01, 2022 How Do Strange Meditation Props Help Me Meditate Every Day?
Props like crystals, incense, cushions, candles & mala beads can help make meditation a habit that lasts. What's up with all of these esoteric, crunchy things and how can they help your meditate daily? Today we will use these items (along a few tricks of my own!) and a little bit of our ego to get us to keep coming back to the practice day after day.

This is week 5 of my 12-week series ~ Making Meditation Habitual: how to build a daily practice that lasts a lifetime!
38 min
January 25, 2022 How to Get and STAY Motivated to Meditate DAILY Part 2
Everything you need to know to become a motivated BOSS meditating every single day! Feeling GOOD, inspired and motivated is the key to meditation habit that lasts...we'll recap these points. The last step and big secret to creating motivation all on your own is a whole lot simpler than you think…

This is week 4 of my 12-week series ~ Making Meditation Habitual: how to build a daily practice that lasts a lifetime!
33 min
January 18, 2022 How to Get and STAY Motivated to Create Any New Healthy Habit (Like Meditation!) Part 1
Knowing the difference between inspiration and motivation is key to learning how to create motivation all on your own and sustain it for the long haul. Other motivational truths like, “The Little By Little Mentality” will not only get you motivated to meditate, but keep you motivated for the long haul. When I teach these simple motivation creation tricks to my clients, I find that they are largely not known and can be super life-changers which keeps me motivated to spread the word for sure!

This is week 3 of my 12-week series ~ Making Meditation Habitual: how to build a daily practice that lasts a lifetime!
31 min
January 11, 2022 The One, Simple, Little Secret to Making Any Change A Reality? FEEL GOOD! But HOW??
If you want to make a meditation a new, healthy habit that lasts, you're going to have to feel really GOOD about it. But HOW? Introducing your new mantra, "It's EASY and LIKE it!"
The bottom line? If meditation brings up all the good feels, you are more likely to do it. Period. So, how can we feel good about meditation when we may have tried it before and failed to keep up? It's time to learn how to make even thinking about meditation a positive experience and like you are "visiting an old friend" every single day! Is it possible that meditation can be something that fires us up and feels more like chocolate cake than push ups? YES! Let's DO This!

This is week 2 of my 12-week series ~ Making Meditation Habitual: how to build a daily practice that lasts a lifetime!
38 min
January 04, 2022 The New Year's Resolutionist's Mistake and How to Avoid it So You Can Make Meditation A Habit That Lasts a Lifetime!
New Year's Resolutions get a bad rap for a good reason~they are counterintuitive to how our brains actually work when trying to establish a new, heathy habit that lasts. Today, we learn what mistakes the typical New Year's Resolutionist makes and how to make New Year's Resolutions that actually work and have you feeling great rather than defeated and stuck. How to create a meditation practice that lasts a lifetime may have some counterintuitive and surely surprising tips and tricks, but hang with me and after this series, you'll be dying to get on the cushion each day and meditating like a BOSS. Let's do this!

This is the first episode of my 12-week series, Making Meditation Habitual: how to build a daily practice that lasts a lifetime!
37 min
December 28, 2021 Joy & Happiness ~ A Meditation on the New Year & How to Make 2022 the Best Year Yet!
Wayne Dyer said, “There is no way to happiness, Happiness IS the way.” A bit of Meditation, Yoga Nidra, Hypnotherapy & Guided Imagery will get us on the right track for a very happy year ahead!

Everybody just wants to be happy...but can we create happiness? YES. Let's meditate on a joyous new year! Together we'll learn how to create our own joy and happiness so we can make 2022 ~and beyond! ~ the best years yet!

This is an added BONUS week for my 8 Week Series ~ Stress Less, Meditate More! The Holiday Edition ~
41 min

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