Please enjoy this fun, creative episode wherein I use songs and TV shows to help me explain the process of meditation. I'll also include specific tips and learning lessons to support your meditative practice to help you reap the most benefits. I hope you love it!

A unique perspective is provided that aims to heal and unite the world.  It was originally recorded before recent historical, sociopolitical events, yet does briefly comment on them and provides real  opportunities for collaboration so that we can unite and effect positive change. Please, join the movement!

Time Stamps:

00:00:36- Accepting Ourselves & Others in This Game Called Life

00:02:25- Acceptance of Our Internal and External Realities

00:05:50- Observing our World

00:09:46- Accepting the Light and Dark Aspects of Ourselves

00:12:45- Learning to Experience and Accept Others

00:15:08- Applying Acceptance to Real-World Challenges

With the help of Master Teacher, Brad Yates, this episode "taps" (ba dum chh) into this mind-body-spirit tool called "Tapping" or "Emotional Freedom Technique" (EFT). We share its benefits, how-to instructions, and additional resources, as well as some light-hearted humor for your enjoyment. We hope you love it! :)

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Time Stamps:

00:01:10- Defining Emotional Freedom Techniques EFT

00:06:10- Tapping & Our Automatic Responses

00:12:56- Best Way to Engage EFT (Tapping) 

00:20:17- Using Tapping to Facilitate Togetherness

00:28:03- Strategies to Start Tapping & Its Potential

00:36:34- Deciding Where to Tap and Identifying Your Stress

Join this interesting exchange between myself and Dr. Susan Elswick as we discuss Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is an incredibly effective tool for your toolbox for treating and healing both clinical and non-clinical conditions. Please enjoy!

Time Stamps:

00:03:33- Credentials and Introduction of Dr. Susan Elswick

00:06:14- Defining EMDR and its Background

00:08:29- Bilateral Stimulation and the Brain

00:12:03- Researched-based Evidence of EMDR

00:17:24- How EMDR Supports Problem Solving Abilities

00:28:25- Container Exercise for Stress Management

00:36:38- Resources and Tools for EMDR

Are you ready to upgrade your relationships to the next level? Well, what if I told you the real work in relationships begins with yourself? In this episode, I share stories and a line of questioning to support your efforts in reflecting and learning how to better navigate your relationships.  Please enjoy! 

Time Stamps:

00:01:01- Intimacy versus Intensity

00:10:00- Self-Care Practices and Setting Boundaries

00:14:38- Allowing Yourself to Receive Support

00:18:30- Evolving Your Self-Care Strategies

00:27:24- Why it is Important to Practice Self-Care

00:32:10-  Questions to Ask Yourself

Drs. Carter and Pirkey discuss Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a tool for your mind-body tool belt; specifically, they discuss its history, and then, dive deeply into exploring the various cognitive distortions that influence our interpretation of reality. The goal is to encourage listeners to examine and challenge their own cognitive distortions to begin the healing process.

Time Stamps:

00:00:33- History and Background on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

00:02:52- Types of Cognitive Distortions and Their Influences

00:21:44- Being Aware of Labeling & Strategies for Conscious Awareness

00:27:14- Navigating Through Your Cognitive Distortions

00:32:55- Traumatic Experiences & CBT Trauma-Informed Therapy

00:37:37- Researched Based Evidence of CBT

00:40:30- Living Wholeheartedly

Join Drs. Sean Holden and Paige Pirkey as they share their understandings of the varying styles of meditation, as well as their offerings of tips and strategies to help you engage in the practice of meditation and mindfulness to reap the most benefits. Please enjoy! 

Meditation:

00:00:30 Background on Meditation and Mindfulness

00:07:55 The Different Schools of Thought on Meditation

00:13:40 Researched-Based Benefits and Outcomes of Meditation

00:25:34 How to Get Started with Meditation 

00:27:50 Transcendental Meditation v. Mindful Meditation

00:33:00 Using Mindful Meditation to Redirect Distracting Thoughts

00:46:07 If You are Feeling Resistance Towards Meditation

00:58:48 Tips and Techniques for Beginners

Join me in this laid-back episode as I share some personal learning lessons that I've experienced along my journey while engaging with these tools. My hope and intention is to support you in discovering how to go about self-experimenting with the variety of tools and discerning which tools are best for you. Please enjoy! :)

Time Stamps:

00:01:44 What is Self-Experimentation

00:02:00 3 Types of Knowledge about You

00:14:42 Being Open to Self-Experimentation

00:19:19 The Best Method to Discover how Tools Affect You

00:24:27 Remember to Allow Yourself Grace

00:28:11 Are You Being Hypercritical of Yourself?

Join me as I partake in an engaging dialog with Jennifer Reis, E-RYT (500 hr.), YACEP, C-IAYT regarding the research-based, mind-body benefits of yoga nidra, as well as its ability to support our problem-solving skills to more effectively navigate through and adapt to these uncertain times in history.  

Disclaimer: This podcast does not subscribe to one specific ideology or school of thought. The purpose is to support your engagement with tools to support your health and skill development --not to tell you what to think, but instead, encourage you in developing your own way of thinking using evidence-based tools. 

Time Stamps:

00:00:34 Definition and History of Yoga Nidra

00:04:51 Differences in Styles of Yoga Nidra

00:09:01 How it Supports Decision Making and Problem Solving

00:12:25 Focusing and Relaxing a Hyper Mind

00:20:20 Having Emotional Acceptance

00:31:44 Knowing When it is the Best Time for You to Practice

00:36:36 Recommendations for Beginners

00:42:45 Jennifer Reis’s Experience with Yoga Nidra

Join Dr. Pirkey as she shares not only her understanding of how yoga can be used as a tool for spiritual development, but also the lessons she learned while using the tool for spiritual development, which includes a few experiential opportunities to engage with the tool of yoga!  

Time Stamp

00:03:20 The Idea of Consciousness

00:06:24 mind-body-soul-Spirit-context (m-b-s-S-c)

00:07:25 The Swinging Pendulum of the Consciousness

00:16:16 Seasons for Using Different Tools

00:23:27 Integration of 2 Self-States

00:39:58 Developing Awareness

00:42:50 Strategies to Engage in Yoga