Virtual Pause

This Virtual Pause Podcast episode is specifically designed for kids and teens when they are feeling anxiety, stress, or dealing with a heavy worry or burden. It is a brief way to settle your body, tune in to what's going on, inhale and exhale to quiet your mind, let go of the burden, and listen to what your next step can be to help the burden become lighter.

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Our normal Virtual Pauses take about 30 minutes and are best done on a daily or a weekly basis when you can be undisturbed. Yet life doesn't always give us those 30-minute gifts! Often we find ourselves in a difficult, uncomfortable, or confrontational situation where we need to be still. This brief pause walks you through the be STILL process as you imagine yourself in a public setting and need a quick way to center yourself, so you can respond from a place of integrity to your true self, not with over-reactions nor with silence. 

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Sometimes we feel like we are paddling so fast and furious, and we don’t stop and even realize where we are. Are we in the river of our bigger story or are we paddling in a retention pond we created ourselves? Are the waves the natural waves of a Class 4 rapid or are they caused by our splashes of unnecessary chaos? In this episode, we will be still and discern where we are and the cause of our movement, what we need, and what to let go of.

Poem of the One World

This morning the beautiful white heron

Was floating along above the water

And then Into the sky of this

the one world

That we all belong to

Where everything sooner or later

Is a part of everything else

Which thought made me feel for a little while

quite beautiful myself

-Mary Oliver

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Breath brings life into the places that feel like a wasteland or a valley of dry bones. In this episode, we will discuss the importance of deep breathing, we will settle our bodies, and we will be breathing in hope, courage, stability - whatever we personally need to bring life into this season of dryness. We will also be letting go of that which keeps us from embracing this breath that our lives so desperately need, and then listening to our souls as I read an excerpt from a poem on breath.

Listen:

I am the breath,

Life is the musician

You are the flute

And music, creativity,

Depends on all of us

You are not the creator

Nor the creation

We are all a part of the process of creativity

You life and

Me the breath

Let us play together

And rejoice for

Creativity is magic

Magic is change.

-Donna Marting

https://www.satoriyoga.ca/the-breath-poem/

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In this episode, I read an excerpt from Howard Thurman on "The Sound of the Genuine", a commencement speech he gave in 1980 to Spelman College grads. I pose the question "how can being still be enough in this time of so much pain, division, and injustice?"  I lead us through a time to settle our bodies, tune into ourselves through our breath, and let go of that which keeps us from being still and from experiencing the sound of the genuine in us and in others. I then end with a chance to listen to our souls by reading the conclusion of Thurman's address. 

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