Episodes
Saturday Nov 26, 2016
Take 3 steps away from feeling discouraged
Saturday Nov 26, 2016
Saturday Nov 26, 2016
You might be in a slump or a losing streak or a you might just hate the holidays. It's a time of year when many people add up their accomplishments and treasures and they feel beat up instead of pumped up.
If that's you, take a few minutes to listen to these three steps that will help you keep going until you notice that things are getting much better.
Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
Relief for physical pain
Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
Pain is experienced in your body, but it is created in your brain. When you appreciate that pain is a message designed to help you stay safe and heal, you can release your attention from the pain. At first, you notice the pain, and then you notice the parts of your body that are not experiencing pain. It becomes wonderful and interesting to explore what normal means and what normal allows you to do and to be. The episode takes you through an appreciation of your body's experience and your brain's experience and finally to your commitment to do what your brain and body need so that you can live with more engagement and more satisfaction.
Monday Mar 14, 2016
Mindful limits: How language helps you find the edges of your pain
Monday Mar 14, 2016
Monday Mar 14, 2016
This exercise takes less than 10 minutes to demonstrate that mindful attention in response to language allows you to find the edge to your experience of pain. As you do, you'll find your breathing settles, your mind clears, and you develop the ability to choose to focus on your pain or to focus on what is on the other side of the edges of your pain. And if you do focus on your pain, you will find that human focus blurs, so that paying attention to only one thing creates a sense of calm and space, even when what you give your focus is painful at first. And you will notice that on the other side of the edges of your pain, you are calm and centred and you have what you need to move forward.
Monday Jul 13, 2015
A short exercise in breathing big and becoming centred
Monday Jul 13, 2015
Monday Jul 13, 2015
You're not really the centre of the world. But you are the centre of your world, the centre that perceives and experiences and connects.
Monday Jan 05, 2015
Help for Pain Management and Healing
Monday Jan 05, 2015
Monday Jan 05, 2015
I didn't intend to start 2015 with a podcast on healing, but the need to support healing has come up too often lately for me not to pay attention. This short recording is a reflection, a trance, a perspective. You will find it gives you fresh thinking on what is happening to the whole of yourself (mind and body and brain) when you are in pain and while you are healing.