Virtual Pause

Virtual Pause

By Angie WinnHealth & FitnessMental Health
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Virtual Pause episodes

  • Episode 114: Discerning the Stirrings of Movement

    March 4, 2024

    Do you feel like you have some stirrings to do something – maybe noticing the shifts and changes in your soul or in your life, and wondering if you should pursue them? If we want to move throughout life with stability – peace, wholeness, and integration – we have to do some from a place of stillness. In today’s episode we will examine our stirrings to do, from a place of being still.

    You are not dead

    yet, it’s not too late

    To open your depths

    by plunging into them

    And drink in the life

    That reveals itself

    quietly there.

    -Rainer Maria Rilke,

    The Book of a Monastic Life, I, 14


    28 min
  • Episode 113: Exploring Outside of Ourselves

    February 26, 2024

    Today I will lead us on a journey where we begin with identifying what is occupying our thoughts (to do list, worries, etc.), and moving out of our minds, through our surroundings, and in a different environment. We will notice what we experience in that environment, and then bring that experience back down to our list of what is in our mind, and see how the perspective changes.

    26 min
  • Episode 112: Silence

    February 12, 2024

    Let’s stop the noise and the requests and trying to figure it

    all out in our heads, leaving our prayers to be ineffective incessant babbling.
    Let’s take just half an hour and let go, and experience the gifts and surprising
    answers in the midst of silence.

    “Deafened by the voice of desire

    You are unaware the Beloved lives

    In the core of your heart.

    Stop the noise and

    You will hear Her voice

    In the silence.”

    Rumi: Hidden Music

    25 min
  • Episode 111: Living out of our Fullness

    February 5, 2024

    What does it look like to live out of the fullness we were designed

    for? In today’s Pause, we will identify that seed or blossoming thing in us that
    is uniquely ours. We will look at what obstacles keep it from blossoming into
    its fullness and let go. We will see how our fullness will only be realized when
    it helps remove obstacles so that someone else may experience their fullness as
    well.

    “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn,

    and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it
    will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running
    over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be
    measured to you.” Luke 6: 37-38

    27 min
  • Episode 110: Figuring Out How to be Okay

    January 29, 2024

    If we are honest with ourselves, we deeply desire to figure

    out how to be okay. We want to design our lives so that nothing bothers us, but
    everything is structured so that we will be okay. We wander, we strive, we
    perpetuate our chaos trying to find our way to be okay. Instead, we have to let
    go, open up, and release our obsessions with making everything okay, so that we
    can just BE okay. Today, instead of finding the solutions, we will let it all
    go, so we can experience okay-ness, experience stability and peace.

    Listen portion today:

    “We don’t have to attain nirvana, because we ourselves are

    always dwelling in nirvana. The water does not have to look for water. It
    already is water. We are one with the ground of being.” ­-Thich Nhat Hanh

    (quoted from The Art of Being, Dennis Merritt Jones)

    27 min
  • Episode 109:  Snownado of Chaos

    January 22, 2024

    Have you ever experienced an actual snownado? It’s terrifying

    to watch – and you have no choice but to be in the midst of it. How often
    during chaos we resist, fight, or try to control the circumstances. Yet if we
    sit in the snownado and actually look up toward the light, the chaos can be
    used for a purpose. As Dr. Otis Moss III states, we can turn chaotic energy to purpose,
    we can consecrate our chaos. (Otis Moss III, Dancing in the Darkness
    Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times; CAC Meditation, 1/22/2024.)

    Listen portion today:

    “In the beginning God created the heaves and the earth. Now

    the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and
    the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be
    light, “ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated
    the light form the darkness.” Genesis 1: 1-4, NIV

    26 min
  • Episode 108: New Year Roots
    January 8, 2024
    Instead of setting rigid “goals”, what is being cultivated in
    you?  In today’s pause, grab a piece of
    paper and some markers, as I lead you through drawing a tree. We will review
    last year’s fruit we produced and look at the branches that needed to be lobbed
    off. We will look towards 2024 as ways to firmly plant our roots into deep soil
    and cultivate the values and virtues that come up for us.
    “May you be rooted and grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17)…
    like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season, and
    whose leaf does not wither (Psalm 1).”
    26 min
  • Episode 107: Divine Guidance

    December 18, 2023

    We so often build our house in vain or toil in labor, yet as

    the Psalm 127 continues God “pours gifts on his beloved while they slumber.”
    In this episode we will identify what we are building or toiling after, and
    then focus on releasing why we are doing this, so we can “surrender and slumber”
    and hear the divine guidance as we move throughout the world, moving with and
    as love.

    Photo Credit:

    Lanju Fotografie unsplash

    27 min
  • Episode 106: What yearning is underneath our chaos?

    December 4, 2023

    In this season of holiday craze, I am finding myself from

    time to time throwing an Angie tantrum. I easily blame my frustration and
    irritability on the chaos around me. Yet when I actually take the time to be
    still, I see that there is yearning underneath the chaos. In this episode, we
    will spend some time getting quiet and identifying what our souls are longing
    for.

    Listening passage:

    ” Better is one hand full of quietness than two hands full of

    toil and a stiving after wind.” Ecclesiastes 4:6

    28 min
  • Episode 105: Getting that Turkey OUT

    November 27, 2023

    Thanksgiving Holiday can bring about joy and absolute stress

    and strain as we navigate family, locations, busyness, and chaos. These things
    can embed themselves in us, shaping the way we think and interact and move in
    the world. Sometimes these things are conscious, yet often times they are trapped
    in us unconsciously. In today’s episode, we are going to get the turkey out! Releasing
    those things in us that we need to let go.

    Listening passage:

    I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences.

    I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things
    happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

    -Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks, 2003


    Photo credit: Anuj Yadav

    28 min

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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…