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In this meditation, we focus on words using the in and out breath as an anchor to elicit the Relaxation Response, the opposite of your Stress Response.  Just taking 5 Min out of your busy day to listen to this guided meditation will help you train your mind to increase the muscle of attention to focus on what you want to focus on while dialing down the often stressful everyday noise in your m...

Sara Auster is recognized as a top meditation expert by Oprah Magazine and has been featured in countless media including the New York Times and Vogue. Sara has a deep connection to the healing aspects of sound as she shares with us her story about how a traumatic event led her to search for whole-body alternative healing methods to recover and manage chronic pain. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN: Namora 10...

Short meditation for when you're feeling overwhelmed with a jumble of things to do? Everything seems important and needed to be done yesterday? You're in the right place. Instead of wanting to do everything all at once, try sitting for just 10 minutes with this meditation to activate your Relaxation Response. Shift your physiology to open awareness and the ability to think clearly by activating yo...

Dr. John Naslund wants to bridge the gap in bringing mental health and wellness to those who have little or no access to care. We talk about prevention, early detection, and effective treatments. We discuss crucial stages of life, where we can make a huge difference in setting our kids up for mental wellness. Current research shows how incredibly effective low tech, non-pharmaceutical cognitive (t...

Meditation: This is Part 6 of the relaxation practice. Last 5 weeks we focused on the sensations of heaviness, warmth, a calm heart, the breath, and our stomach. This week we focus on a cool forehead. Relieve conditions exacerbated by stress including back tension and muscle tightness. Self-generate a feeling of warmth, heaviness, and calm. (Central to Peripheral Nervous System Loop) to induce the...

Part 5 of 6. Practice for seven days or until memorized. This part adds a phrase for our stomach.  This relaxation technique accesses our innate ability to relax our muscles, our bodies, and our minds. It is a powerful tool to stay well. The mechanism is brought on by our brain's ability to feel warmth and heaviness through self-suggestion. This in turn signals our nervous system that we are relax...

Biet Simkin is definitely a unique voice in the meditation world. She is a bridge between the ancient work of shamans and the modern language of rock and roll and fashion. Biet is best known for modernizing the spiritual path and has been called the "Meditation Guru for the next generation.”  Her immersive meditation experiences have reached contemporary audiences in cultural spaces, inc...

Enjoy this Part 4 of the relaxation technique which accesses our innate ability to relax our muscles, our bodies, and our minds. It is a powerful tool to stay well. The mechanism is brought on by our brain's ability to feel warmth and heaviness through self-suggestion. This in turn signals our nervous system that we are relaxed and safe.  It has been used to elicit the Relaxation Response, the opp...

Jennifer Monness, a longtime yoga and meditation teacher, was inspired to bring mindfulness into schools when she witnessed, first hand, the extreme stress experienced by high school students. She founded The Meditation Lab and was able to convince schools to integrate her program into the school day. Listen for her best practices for working with kids of all ages, tips on financing a school progr...

As founding Dean of Relay Graduate School of Education in Connecticut, Dr. Rebecca Good is an award-winning educator and an inspirational leader. She shares with us her story of resilience, being the first person in her family to graduate from high school and, most recently, earned her Doctor of Education EdD degree in Global Education from the University of Southern California. Rebecca tells me h...

Part 3 of 6. Practice each part for 7 days before moving on. Focus this week is a calm heart. Practice at least once a day.  You can use this for muscle relaxation or just to get some peace and to train your brain how to get calm on demand. This is a powerful mind-body training in the category of self-hypnosis. Use this for stress, to relax, to sleep, to get calm, and to elicit the Relaxation Resp...

Amy Giddon had two career transformations. After many years as a corporate management consulting executive, she wanted to find more meaningful work. She decided to switch tracks to mentor young women for leadership in male dominated fields by becoming a workshop leader at Columbia University.  In 2016, she was struck by a public art exhibit " Subway Therapy , a communal art project in which s...

This is Part 2 of the relaxation practice. Last week we focused on the sensation of heaviness and this week we will focus on warmth. Relieve conditions exacerbated by stress including back tension, muscle tightness and stress. Self-generate a feeling of heaviness (Central to Peripheral Nervous System Loop) to induce relaxation at the cellular level. Subscribe! Part 3 releases in 1 week. This self...

This self hypnosis practice is a relaxation technique which accesses our innate ability to relax our muscles, our bodies, and our minds. It is a powerful tool to stay well. The mechanism is brought on by our brain's ability to feel warmth and heaviness through self-suggestion. This in turn signals our nervous system that we are relaxed and safe.  It has been used to elicit the Relaxation Response,...

Fine art photographer, collage artist and commercial photographer, Delphine Diallo wants to shift the conversation from race to human oneness. Brooklyn based artist born and raised in Paris to a French mother and Senagalese father, Delphine has always felt the duality of growing up biracial. We discuss her childhood, home schooled art education, the discipline of sports, her mentors and the painfu...

This meditation cultivates compassion for better relationships. Who couldn't use a bit more of that? This is adapted from a meditation I experienced at the Omega Institute when I took the Search Inside Yourself Course with Chade Meng Tan and Mirabai Bush.  As with all meditations, please find a safe, comfortable spot. DO NOT DRIVE or operate moving vehicles while listening. This is a very rel...

Desiderata means wishes or desires. This meditation on the Poem by Max Ehrmann has been a source of comfort and wise guidance to me for decades, since I found it at the age of 17. I recorded it in the hopes that it will help the listener feel grounded, find acceptance and inspiration in the ups and downs of everyday life. There's a brief story about how I found it then the reading of the poem to r...

Are you ready with legal and financial matters In Case of Emergency? We all dread thinking of the worst things that can happen but my guest, Alessandra M. Messineo Long, Esq. teaches us how to make it simple for ourselves and make it easier for our loved ones. We discuss how to be resilient in stressful times by using this time in quarantine to get our basic legal documents in order. It’s much sim...

This meditation is intended to elicit the Relaxation Response, the physiologic opposite of the stress response. Visualization of our "Best Possible Selves" (BPS) or Ideal Self, has been shown to promote desired behavior changes and break through limiting mindsets. It has also been shown to increase positive affect and flow when given as a written assignment once a week. Listeners may choose to wri...

Dermatologist Dr. Potozkin shares with us tips on COVID -19 skin findings, the importance of stress management on overall skin health, the Mind-Body connection and his simple, Resilient Skin Routines for adults, teens and young adults. Click HERE to download Resilient Skin Care PDF  Jerome R. Potozkin, M.D.is an award winning board certified dermatologist and Fellowship trained Mohs surgeon....

Powerful meditation to elicit the Relaxation Response.  Almost all of my students from teens to seniors love this meditation. It's great for whenever you're feeling overwhelmed or when you're going through very challenging times. It's also a great reminder of the most important thing: that resisting what's happening adds more suffering to any situation. It also reminds us that if we accept wh...

Powerful meditation to elicit the Relaxation Response.  Almost all of my students from teens to seniors love this meditation. It's great for whenever you're feeling overwhelmed or when you're going through very challenging times. It's also a great reminder of the most important thing: that resisting what's happening adds more suffering to any situation. It also reminds us that if we accept wh...

When was the last time you looked in a mirror and checked in with your emotions? I’m guessing probably never? Most of us look at our reflections as something we need to check on to make sure everything is in place, and more often than not, to criticize our own appearance. Dr. Tara Well, psychology professor at Barnard College Columbia University, created The Mirror Meditation, a self-care exercise...

Relaxing music in the background by Chris Collins for your Daily Dose of the Relaxation Response. Come down from your heightened stress response. We all need to give our mind and body a break but how? SImply listening to this meditation can change your brain chemistry immediately and help you recover from the stress we are all feeling at this time.

Your Daily Dose of the Relaxation Response. Come down from your heightened stress response. We all need to give our mind and body a break but how? SImply listening to this meditation can change your brain chemistry immediately and help you recover from the stress we are all feeling at this time.