Quickened by a soul-longing, urgently pulling her in a temporary new direction, our host is taking to heart this quote from a reflection in a recent Science of Mind magazine: “I am inspired to exemplify a joyful, rich, and playful existence, so I may better serve the world”. And while she's away, getting her groove back, the podcast will be on hiatus for the next few months.
How meaningful it would be to live our lives in such a way that others felt safe, protected, and nurtured by warm-hearted compassion—kindled through our meditation practice. That’s the jumping-off point for our 2022 Compassion odyssey, with episode guest Timothy Harrison from the CBCT®️ Emory Center; who also guides listeners in a practice designed to connect us more deeply with nurturing feelings of compassion for ourselves and others. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org/ For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
Poised at the threshold of our ‘Living a Life of Compassion' series, we dedicate this episode to the late Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. And, before engaging in his ‘Breathing In, Breathing Out’ meditation, we’ll be inspired by Thay’s beautiful story about a river. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
When our host’s sister passed away unexpectedly last year her deferred dreams died right along with her. So, with a big birthday looming, our host was inspired to designate 2022 as the year of Sweet Intentions and mindfully start checking intentions off her Bucket List...while there's still time. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
We’ve engaged in some amazing meditative and mindfulness practices during our year “Living a Life that Matters”. And, as we review the journey, it's amazing to discover just how many of these also happen to be spot-on tools for cultivating 'peace pauses' during the Holiday Season. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
As we sojourn through this year’s season of Holy Days, with its various ‘Festivals of Light’ celebrations, this episode’s candlelighting meditation brings us back to the true meaning of some of the hallmark symbols and icons that make Christmas merry and light. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
There’s no question that Gratitude is a deepening practice… Unless it’s posing as false positivity to merely paper over cracks of unfelt emotions. Then it doesn’t work as well. So this episode’s meditation cultivates a space in which to evoke a less pretentious attitude of gratitude. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
Yes. We’re going ‘there’. In context of our annual theme: “Living a Life that Matters,’ we’re talking about one of the most feared and taboo topics in our Western society—Death. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
In part two of this mini series called When Words Matter, we put pen to paper—or fingers to the keyboard—to reveal mysteries of our heart and, with a written mandala practice, emanate peace to humanity. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
In a world that’s all about speeding everything up, this episode’s practice is the exact opposite of that. In this two-part series called When Words Matter, we slow our roll to mindfully engage in the art of sacred reading. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
In this episode’s meditation, where we engage in the practice of Tonglen, we breathe through the portal of our jewelled lotus heart to share a gift of 'active compassion,’ as a way to help transform and alleviate the suffering of all sentient beings. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
Continuing our journey of listening and hearing mindfulness practices, this episode’s meditation beckons us into present-moment awareness with the sound of the bell. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
Are you someone who resists the silence, filling the space with a constant soundtrack playing in the background of your life? Then tune in to this last Awareness Practice of our Sizzling Summer series, and discover how to engage in a Sound Fast. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
When was the last time you felt really heard? This week’s awareness practice, in part four of our annual Sizzling Summer Series, will have us listening in deeply—first to ourselves then, with compassionate care, to others. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
We call the time we ooze out of slumber, “waking up”. But then haste inattentively through our days. Part three in our Sizzling Summer Series challenges us to practice awareness with a Lying Down meditation designed to help us live life more fully awake. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
Unless we’re in pain or experiencing ill health, we may feel a bit disconnected from our bodies. We remedy that in part two of our annual Sizzling Summer Series with an awareness practice that brings attention and loving kindness to every part of our being. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
It's time again for our annual Sizzling Summer Series. this year's series of weekly episodes centers on mindful awareness and begins with a more playful practice of 'seeing the blues'. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
'Ho’opono-pono'. This Hawaiian word might be long, and sometimes tricky to pronounce, but describes a simple yet powerful self-forgiveness prayer practice that’s also believed to be able to clean up ancestral karmic messes. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org/ For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
Your response is completely disproportionate to what the situation warrants. Yet you just can’t seem to let the incident go. Dig a little deeper and you’ll unearth buried treasure within your reaction, no pirate can pilfer. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org/ For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers
Living a Life that Matters means letting go of being perfect. Much like the Japanese practice of Kintsugi, we don't disown those broken pieces of our lives, or perceived flaws in our meditation practice. Instead, we enhance the beauty in imperfection. View the website for more: https://www.touchingthestillness.org. For this month's Affirmative Prayer go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers