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This month was all about relationships but how about our relationship to ourselves? This mini meditation helps you reconnect to your body helping you connect with kindness so you can nurture and care for yourself. The somatosensory nervous system is what we're tapping into on this meditation in order to elicit our relaxation response, the antidote to our stress response. Click the share button and...

Whether you're single or not, you'll get some unique insights on how we meet the special people in our lives. Join me on this Valentine's Day with Jon Birger, an award-winning magazine writer and author of two dating books — Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game (2015) and Make Your Move: The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge (2021). A former senior writer at Fort...

Rx Chill Pill — Meditate Your Brain to Resilience Podcast. It's my monthly chat with Fiona Murden, my great friend, awesome mom, award-winning author, and host of Dot to Dot Podcast.  Each month we sit down to discuss the science and real life applications of topics that help us achieve our highest potential. This episode is about how we can find what we value in our romantic relationships, s...

This mini-meditation will elicit your Relaxation Response, the antidote to your stress response, while you visualize a situation from your past. Have you ever regretted something that happened? Something you said? If you're a normal run of the mill human, the answer is an emphatic "yes". Perhaps you overreacted or you handled a situation less than optimally. Or maybe there's something you want to...

Meditation is not just about sitting still with a mantra. Meditation is also a form of deep learning. Since New Year's Resolutions are so notoriously difficult to stick to, I wrote a guest blog on School of Thought Blog at the Revolution School to shed some light on how we can have a better chance at learning more efficiently. Here's a little recap and practical tips on how to Reflect to Move Forw...

The human ability to imagine is a powerful way to plant the seeds in our minds for intentional behavioral change and to create momentum to act towards goals that align with our core values. This mini-meditation guides you to visualize what you truly want for yourself this coming year. Using the metaphor of a garden, it helps you create new neuronal pathways in your brain and shift attention toward...

Rx Chill Pill — Meditate Your Brain to Resilience Podcast.  This new episode is called “Our Highest Potential”. It's my monthly chat with Fiona Murden, my great friend, awesome mom, award-winning author, and host of Dot to Dot Podcast. We immediately hit it off because we are both passionate about the science behind positively influencing our own brains. We are on a mission to widely share practic...

I met Dr. Karen Chan Barrett when she gave a fascinating talk as part of a special presentation called Music and the Mind with world renowned soprano, Renee Fleming, at The Juilliard School in NYC . This program is inspired by Ms. Fleming’s collaboration with the National Institutes of Health in association with National Endowment for the Arts, called the Sound Health initiative, and created for g...

Leslie Koenig MD is a mom, a combat veteran, and author of “Stress Relief Survival Guide: Fast, Easy, Totally Natural Techniques and Real Life Tips from a Combat Veteran ER Doctor”. We talk about why she turned to meditation and stress relief techniques for her own personal life as well as for her patients’ lives. Leslie walks us through a few of her favorite techniques with us at the end, so stic...

Take just five minutes for this relaxing body scan to feel safe and connected with unconditional love for your baby. For alll of you beautiful moms out there, I remember how special those nine months were. May you be well, may you be happy. I remember my pregnancies so clearly. It was exhilarating and stressful at the same time! I was inspired by my interview with Mark Krassner, Founder of Expectf...

"As my health, happiness, relationships, and professional life improved significantly, I recalled my mother’s struggles with anxiety and depression when she was raising me, and I wondered if meditation might be an especially great tool for new moms." Mark Krassner is the founder and CEO of Expectful, the meditation app for fertility, pregnancy, and parenthood. Since its founding, Expectful has par...

Can PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, be measured and stopped in its tracks? Dr. Perusini, with her company, Neurovation Labs, is looking to do just that! Listen to this fascinating conversation with Jennifer to find out how this innovative approach works and what adversities in her own life led her to become a neuroscientist and mentor for other women in STEM. Jennifer is a neuroscientist and...

This short, but powerful meditation will help you see yourself already achieving your goals. Our brains are powerful in that we "see" and create stories in our minds before anything happens in our lives. This is the intention that activates our behavior to move toward our goals. The practice ends with a beautiful bell.  Use anytime, anywhere, to elicit your relaxation response and to get extr...

In today's episode, I speak with Kayla Mack. She's an amazing teenager with a passion for dance. You might have seen her on world of dance where she lit up the stage and impressed JLo and made it to the finals. Kayla's won many competitions including the HOPE award at YAGP, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world.  She also starred as Clara at Radio City Christmas Spectacular....

Thursdays your questions are answered right.  Email podcast@mindbodyspace.com to ask questions for me or my guests. Marc Lesser is CEO of ZBA, a speaker, facilitator, workshop leader, and executive coach. He co-created Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute at Google with Chade Meng Tan and Mirabai Bush. Go to Episode 47 to hear our full conversation. Marc has written four books, his lat...

Marc Lesser is a coach, grandfather, CEO of ZBA Associates, and the Author of four books. The most recently published book is Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen . Marc asks, "What could your work, and your life, look like if you knew how to stay focused yet flexible, if you got more of the right things done, and if you were helping to create a more...

Connecting to what we deeply love can help us through the mundane or challenging times. I recorded this meditation to help us connect to our deep core values everyday.    We don't have to wait for a special occasion, illness or a landmark in our life to know and reflect on what really matters to us. In fact connecting daily with what is most important to us, will help us to make the tini...

This is for couch potatoes and for athletes alike. Learn to walk with your breath to elicit your Relaxation Response, the opposite of your stress response.  Focusing on the rhythm of breath to walk is a meditation to help you take your mind off the news for just 10-30 minutes and to increase your attention neuronal connections. Questions or Topic Suggestions? Please email  podcast@mindbo...

Founder of Purpose Blue, best selling author and meditation teacher Laurie Cameron guides us through a special meditation on uncertainty. Mindfulness can help us take action on things we can control and accept things we can't control. This stress reliever can help heal us down to the cellular level by changing the baseline response of our nervous system to stressful thoughts.

Laurie Cameron and I continue our conversation about mindfulness at home, schools and in our lives. Laurie talks about how deep personal losses led her to seek ways to alleviate suffering and build resilience. Laurie incorporates mindfulness for schools and corporations. She firmly believes in the wellness that self awareness and self compassion can bring into our lives. Laurie talks about Joseph...

Laurie Cameron learned how to breathe in the most unusual place. Her colleague, who was an engineer from Vietnam introduced her to mindfulness at work. She was then introduced to the work of Thich Naht Han who became her teacher. Listen as we talk about how her mindfulness practice found its way into her corporate life, eventually transforming her coaching business into a mindfulness based trainin...

Bonus episode for October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Want to know a simple way to decrease your anxiety around getting mammograms and other tests and procedures? Listen to this episode for some great lifestyle tips for prevention and staying well and some great tips on how to stay calm through exams and procedures!  Dr. Saksena also shares with us her story of grit and her 18 year journe...

Need something for stressful moments throughout your day? I guide you through the three steps to shift your attention so that you can check in with your mind and body to figure out what you need to keep moving and refocus. You can then do these same three steps throughout your day, anytime, anywhere.  Take a step back, take a breath and reset, so you can choose how you want to react. This exercise...

Laura Denardis is the author of The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch, Yale University Press. We discuss what this means for our everyday lives and she gives us practical and simple tips to to protect ourselves. “As always, with any internet issue. It's a tension between the great conveniences and the great economic benefit and the human aspects that are yo...

Meditation On the Go Quick stress relief anytime anywhere. Welcome to the meditation portion of Rx Chill Pill, the podcast that strengthens your resilient mind every time you listen.  I'm Dr. Juna Bobby. a physician and mom specializing in mind body medicine. Find out more about online courses for stress management, procrastination and mindset coaching for students, parents and professionals...