Virtual Pause

Virtual Pause

By Angie WinnHealth & FitnessMental Health
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Virtual Pause episodes

  • Episode 104: Letting our Self-Protectors Rest
    November 13, 2023
    I continuously find myself in situations where the core of my
    beliefs and how I experience God is triggered. Yet by practicing this
    contemplative life, we are surrendering to the flow and allowing our ego to
    lessen and the self-protective mechanisms to rest. In today’s pause, we will go
    through a visualization where we identify a place where we are being triggered and
    self-protecting, and allow those soldiers to let go and take a nap.
    26 min
  • Episode 103: A Way to the Inside

    November 6, 2023

    Our lives are the context by which we can heal and grow. We

    often focus on the circumstance, yet there is something deep underneath that
    needs addressing.

    Today we will talk about how to look underneath that hood,

    underneath the circumstance, so we can find healing and freedom.

    “I’m so done running from freedom

    Double down on everything that I believe in

    I was too scared to see my whole vision

    I put myself up in my self built prison

    No one had the key but myself and my feelings

    The pain never leaves till it’s all done teaching

    But it all brought me here after a thousand seasons

    So thank you for a million reasons”

    …they’re just a way to the way to the way inside

    Way to the Way, Kevin Paris

    https://open.spotify.com/track/2LU6SdGdA3faORkSDY6tw6?si=93dd191397c3493f

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-cm7Q3693g


    Art on episode cover- from Kevin Paris' Way to the Way song

    25 min
  • Episode 102: Letting the Bicycle Chain Fall Off

    October 16, 2023

    Sometimes challenges come up in life and although they effect

    us, it is like when our bike moves to a different gear. Takes some time to
    adjust, but then we find our rhythm and cadence again. And then there are other
    situations, past wounds, and relationships, that somehow get such a grip on us
    that our chain falls off! In this episode, we will identify those things we
    grab onto that change our entire being, and let them go.

    Listening portion today:

    Settle

    Quiet down

    Be still

    Open up

    Release

    Let go

    And let in

    25 min
  • Episode 101: Getting Out of the Dark Forest Floor

    October 9, 2023

    We can get ourselves in a dark forest, sit on the floor, and
    gather some really wet, unusable twigs and try to start a fire. That’s our mind
    solving all of our problems with all of our own faculties and resources. In
    this pause, we will GET OUT of that forest floor, allowing the flame of the Spirit
    to bring us up to the top of the mountain where we can clearly see and
    experience freedom.

    Listening portion today:

    I waited patiently for the Lord

    He inclined and heard my cry

    He brought me out of the pit

    Out of the miry clay

    I will sing, sing a new song

    You set my feet upon a rock

    And made my footsteps firm

    I will sing, sing a new song.

    Psalm 40, as sung by U2 “40”

    27 min
  • Episode 100:  What and Who are You Listening to?

    September 25, 2023

    There is a small seed in us that was planted inside of us and

    leads us to doing good in the world. But that small seed can lose it’s ability
    to grow if we allow the voices of others to tell us it’s not good enough, or
    the distractions of life to choke it out.  We have to “take care how we listen.”

    In this episode we will identify the voices and circumstances

    that drown out this seed in us, and keep us from listening to the still small
    voice of God in us.

    I will quote Luke 8:15-18, and Henri Nouwen form Finding My

    Way Home.

    “Don’t be afraid. Something is happening to you. Pay

    attention.”


    photo credit: Jeremy Bishop Unsplash


    27 min
  • Episode 99: So What? Letting it Pass Through


    September 18, 2023

    We cling to or resist external circumstances, others’

    perspectives, outside voices, just to be okay. We believe if we cling onto
    something in our minds, we will eventually become more of that thing (like
    praise), and if we resist something in our minds, we will become less of that
    thing (like criticism).

    We believe by clinging or resisting, we will be okay. The opposite

    is true. We become disconnected and disengaged. And our inner place of peace
    gets covered up.

    In this episode, we will identify the clinging and resisting

    and let these things “pass through”.

    It doesn’t have to be

    The blue iris, it could be

    Weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones;

    Just pay attention, then patch

    A few words together and don’t try

    To make them elaborate, this isn’t

    A contest but the doorway

    into thanks, and a silence in which

    Another voice may speak.

    Praying, Mary Oliver


    25 min
  • Episode 98:  Balance in between wired and tired

    September 11th, 2023

    When we come out of a crisis or stressful situation, we often

    feel either wired or tired. In today’s pause we will try to get back to that
    place of balance – in between the frenetic frenzy and the hiding sloth.  We will dig a little deeper into what’s going
    on in our bodies, minds, and hearts, so we can clear the clutter and connect to
    our source.

    28 min
  • Episode 97:  Experiencing Your Soul in the Earth, Wind, Fire and Water

    August 28, 2023

    Sometimes life is so challenging that we can’t articulate what

    is going on inside of us. Our minds can’t quiet and our soul feels completely
    buried. Staying in our heads doesn’t help at all, we need a deeper soul connection.

    In today’s episode we will imagine our selves as the earth, wind,

    fire and water. We will experience the characteristics of each, and identify
    where we uniquely reflect in those elements.


    28 min
  • Episode 96:  Gulps of Grace in the Midst of Getting the $#Q% Kicked Out of You

    August 14, 2023

    I have felt like I have been whipped around in the strong

    waves of the ocean lately, and it has been so challenging that even trying to shove
    my way to the surface to breathe doesn’t seem to work. But, as I reflect, there
    have been these moments of grace when breath was given to me. Today we will look
    back at where and how we have been given little lifelines, little gulps of air,
    in the midst of our storms, and experience a sense of gratitude.

    Deep calls to deep in the roar of your torrents, and all your

    waves and breakers sweep over me. By day may God send God’s mercy, and by night
    may God’s righteousness be with me I will pray to the God of my life.  Psalm 42

    Photo credit:

    Photo by César Couto on Unsplash

    53 min
  • Episode 95: The Unswerving Commitment to our True Self

    August 7, 2023

    I gave up on the pause, or any form of being still and

    letting go, last week when I had a meltdown in the midst of a very difficult
    season I am in. But then I realized that meltdown is actually the fruit of the
    pause – the breaking open of the defense mechanisms to the vulnerable and
    painful reality of what is going on in me.

    Today we will practice abhyasa – the unswerving commitment to

    what we believe in – that we are made to be brilliant diamond lights of love
    and peace.

    26 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…