Virtual Pause

By Angie Winn

Virtual Pause Podcast - A brief guided meditation intended to integrate your body, mind, heart, and spirit so that you can live with resilience and stability in everyday chaos. Different topic each we... more

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December 16, 2024 Episode 135:When We Can't Calm the Storm
December 16, 2024
How often do we find ourselves in a storm of life
and we think we can actually calm the chaos of the situation? We want to
control the person, circumstances, or outcome, yet instead of having the power
to do so, we find ourselves agitated, depleted, and critical because we simply can’t
change it.
In today’s episode, we will look at those
situations in our lives where we are trying to control the storm (or perpetuate
it) and imagine going inside of our tents – where our souls can find stillness
and peace - and allow that peace to flow out to the world.
Our listening portion today:
“…Our soul is so centered in God that it is free
to leave itself behind and become absorbed in the presence of the promised
Prince of Peace. From this inward stillness flows the outward peace for which
the world long.” Magnificat Meditation, December 14, 2024
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24min
December 04, 2024 Episode 134: When your “What” is in Your Way
December 4, 2024
With so much going on around this season, and my
own personal transition period moving quickly into empty nesting, I am finding
myself overwhelmed and anxious. I realized it is because I am focusing on my
plans and goals and to dos, and those are ever-changing and often out of my
control. Yet when I focus on the why – the bigger picture and purpose for my
life, and the how – the way I go about living and moving in that why, the less
anxious and more free I feel.
Today we will bring attention to what we are
paying attention to and when our “what” is in our way and blinds us, and move
past the “what” of to-dos and expectations and plans, and surrender into the
“why” and “how” of our lives.
Reading today by Thomas Merton
A Prayer
My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I can not know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I
think that
I am following your will does not mean that I am
actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does
in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am
doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from
that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by
the right road, though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always, though I may
seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and
you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude.
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26min
November 18, 2024 Episode 133: Where are you to go?
November 18, 2024
When we have to make an important decision, it is
sometimes difficult to discern the direction to go. It may be a decision to
take a job or what college to go to, or it may be how to deal with a
challenging person or situation in your life.
Often, we have our own agenda and may look for affirmation
from God for the decision we want. But that is not seeking God’s path for our
lives, it’s only fortifying our own. In today’s pause we will look at a
decision you are needing to make in your life and recognize which one God may
be pulling you toward.
The listening portion today is from Proverbs 3:6 –
and different translations of it.
“In all of your ways, be mindful of God, and God will
make straight your paths.” Magnificat
“Submit to God…” New International Version
“Listen for God’s voice in everything you do,
everywhere you go, God is the one who will keep you on track.” The Message
“Seek God’s will in all you do.” New Living Translation
“Give God the credit for everything you
accomplish, God will smooth and straighten the road that lies ahead.” The Voice
“In all of your ways know and acknowledge and
recognize God.” Amplified Version
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
    and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.
Be not wise in your own eyes;
    fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
It will be healing to your flesh
    and refreshment to your bones.” ESV
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28min
November 12, 2024 Episode 132: Camino Part 3: Lemons
November 11, 2024
My Camino de Santiago journey continues with a story about me
and a lemon and an old Spanish man….and how, without realizing it, I stole from
him.
We steal, everyday, without knowing. We steal time, attention,
etc. from ourselves and others. What
underlies this sometimes subtle behavior of ours? Scarcity? Fear? Need for
attention? Today we will dig a bit and try and let go of that inner need so we
can stay in our lane and not experience the negative effects that stealing can
have on us and others.
For our listening portion today, we will here from St.
Augustine…
“Once for all, then, a short precept is given you:
love, and do what you will:
Whether you hold your peace,
Through love hold your peace
Whether you cry out, through love cry out;
Whether you correct, through love correct;
Whether you spare, through love do you spare:
Let the root of love be within,
Of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
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26min
November 04, 2024 Episode 131: Transferring vs. Transcending
November 4, 2024
I have realized lately that for good reason I have built a
wall of self-protection around my heart in a certain situation in my life. Yet my
ah-ha happened last week when I realized that the feelings I have behind those
walls and the reason I built them – fear, insecurity, doubt, pain – have transferred
into other areas of my life. They have infested and infected relationships,
opportunities, and dreams. This doesn’t serve me or anyone around me well. So
we are going to pause it out – letting go of the stuff that rises up in our mode
of self-protection and allowing the love, peace, joy, creativity, hope, etc. to
transcend other areas of our lives, breaking down the self-protective walls.
“To love a person is to learn the song of their heart and
sing it to them when they’ve forgotten.”
Anne Garborg
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29min
October 21, 2024 Episode 130: The Camino Part 2: Dreaming
October 21, 2024
Are you allowing yourself to dream? Or are you, as Paulo Coelho
says in the book The Pilgrimage, killing your dreams by not having
enough time, by not asking enough of life, by wanting things to be comfortable?
Dreaming for me has been a way for me to escape the mundane
and ordinariness of life. My dreams have suffered and not been met at times as
well. But without dreaming, we lose hope. And we lose our connection to love.
Today we will identify what keeps us from dreaming, and pull
in the grounding that is required for our dreams to be ones that are coming
from our true self, not our ego.
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23min
October 15, 2024 Episode 129: The Camino Part 1: Joy
October 14, 2024
In this week’s episode I begin to talk about my experience on
the Camino de Santiago in Spain and some of the aha’s I discovered along the
way! The biggest and most surprising was joy! We will walk through what joy is
and reflect on what keeps us from experiencing joy in our lives.
Our listening portion:
Dear Child of God, you are loved with a love that nothing can
shake, a love that loved you long before you were created, a love that will be
there long after everything has disappeared. You are precious, with a
preciousness that is totally quite immeasurable. And God wants you to be like
God. Filled with life and goodness and laughter—and joy.
God, who is forever pouring out God’s whole being from all
eternity, wants you to flourish. God wants you to be filled with joy and
excitement and ever longing to be able to find what is so beautiful in God’s
creation: the compassion of so many, the caring, the sharing. And God says,
Please, my child, help me. Help me to spread love and laughter and joy and
compassion. And you know what, my child? As you do this—hey, presto—you
discover joy. Joy, which you had not sought, comes as the gift, as almost the
reward for this non-self-regarding caring for others.
Archbishop Desmund Tutu, The Book of Joy
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26min
September 30, 2024 Episode 128: Not “so that”, but “because”
September 30th, 2024
Off I go tomorrow to start my pilgrimage on the Camino de
Santiago. I reflected this week how much I am leaning on “so that” in order to
trust that I am supposed to take this journey. “I am going, so that I can get a
glimpse of what is next in my life, so that I can be prepared for a season of
empty nesting, so that I can get clarity on my work, so that…..”
What if we switched it from “so that”, to “because”. “I am
going because there is a gift just for me. I am going because I want to commune
with God. I am going because….”
In this episode we will address our “so that’s” and let them
go, and trust that being and communing is enough. Because…”
Our listening portion today:
I deserve to be sustained, not because of what I’ve done
But because God is who God is
I deserve to sink into your love
I deserve to commune with you
Because you are…
Creator, friend, teacher, Yahweh, alpha, omega, everything
Because you are…
Wind, rain fire, passion, movement, stillness, healer, north
star, guide, comforter, almighty, hope
Because you are…
Love,
I am….
Rooted, passionate, free, vast, shining, peaceful, joyful,
gentle, patient…
Because You Are, I am.

Photo credit: Les routes sans fin(s) on Unsplash
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29min
September 24, 2024 Episode 127: Carrying on the Camino
September 23rd, 2024
In a week, I am embarking on a pilgrimage called the Camino
de Santiago in Spain. I am learning that the journey doesn’t start when I get
there - I am being prepared for it now. In a desire to be open to what the
pilgrimage has in store for me, I am finding that I am holding things in which
I need to let go.
In today’s episode we will talk about those things we hold
onto, and using David Whyte’s poem, give them their fair honor in our lives,
seeing how they have shaped us in our pasts. As we look towards the journey
ahead, we will see how our way is the authentic way we want to live.
The road seen, then not seen, the hillside
hiding then revealing the way you should take,
the road dropping away from you as if leaving you
to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up,
when you thought you would fall,
and the way forward always in the end
the way that you followed, the way that carried you
into your future, that brought you to this place,
no matter that it sometimes took your promise from you,
no matter that it had to break your heart along the way:
the sense of having walked from far inside yourself
out into the revelation, to have risked yourself
for something that seemed to stand both inside you
and far beyond you, that called you back
to the only road in the end you could follow, walking
as you did, in your rags of love and speaking in the voice
that by night became a prayer for safe arrival,
so that one day you realized that what you wanted
had already happened long ago and in the dwelling place
you had lived in before you began,
and that every step along the way, you had carried
the heart and the mind and the promise
that first set you off and drew you on and that you were
more marvelous in your simple wish to find a way
than the gilded roofs of any destination you could reach:
as if, all along, you had thought the end point might be a city
with golden towers, and cheering crowds,
and turning the corner at what you thought was the end
of the road, you found just a simple reflection,
and a clear revelation beneath the face looking back
and beneath it another invitation, all in one glimpse:
like a person and a place you had sought forever,
like a broad field of freedom that beckoned you beyond;
like another life, and the road still stretching on.
from David Whyte’s collection, Pilgrim
©2012 Many Rivers Press
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21min
September 09, 2024 Episode 126: Awake My Soul
September 9, 2024
When our minds are in the forefront, which is how all usually
live our lives, our bodies are running around fulfilling the mind’s agenda, our
hearts are in self-protective mode, and our minds tell our soul that it doesn’t
even exist. We may take a break from all of that periodically, like in a Pause,
but it’s just a break – it doesn’t awaken our souls enough to transcend to the
rest of our lives.
Instead of focusing on what we are doing in the world (mind in
charge), let’s look at the space surrounding our doing. In this episode,
we will put our minds in the back seat, and awaken our souls, so that our heart
can open, our minds can be the support for our soul and heart, and our body can
be the presence needed in the world.
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
And where you invest your love, you invest your life
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
And where you invest your love, you invest your life
Awake my soul
Awake my soul
Awake my soul
For you were made to meet your maker
Awake My Soul, Mumford and Sons
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28min

FAQs about Virtual Pause:

How many episodes does Virtual Pause have?

The podcast currently has 137 episodes available.