Mindfulness with an Edge

In this podcast episode, the host explores the deep connection between emotions and physical health. Emphasizing that unresolved emotions can manifest as illnesses, the episode delves into the importance of recognizing and releasing these emotional burdens. Using insights from research, emotions are described as waveforms that can cause widespread disruptions if not managed. Through guided meditat...

In this episode of 'Mindfulness with an Edge,' host Darlene explores the theme of growth by introducing the idea of living at one's 'edge'—the boundary between where you are and where you grow. Mindfulness is presented as awareness, and awareness leads to action, enabling intentional change. Through guided meditation and reflection, listeners are encouraged to regularly interact with their edges,...

On Veterans Day 2024, a military veteran fondly known as Lucky, shared her remarkable experience about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with a fellow veteran, who was blinded in combat. She reflected on their shared military service and the challenges of their post-service life. The journey required resilience, grit, and mutual support, and served to underscore her appreciation for the brotherhood a...

In this episode of 'Mindfulness with an Edge', the host guides listeners through a meditation focused on life's top priorities: love, money, and health. With affirmations centered on building strong relationships, achieving financial prosperity, and attaining better health, participants are encouraged to reflect on their personal values. Listeners are invited to express gratitude and manifest posi...

This podcast episode delves into the nature of interpersonal conflicts, using the parable of porcupines during a cold winter as a metaphor. Despite the inevitable injuries from each other's quills, the porcupines learn to stay together for warmth, symbolizing how people can choose to navigate disagreements and emotional wounds in relationships. The discussion emphasizes pausing to understand one's...

In this meditation-focused episode, listeners are guided through a journey of addressing daily frustrations using mindfulness. The host emphasize the importance of observing one's thoughts and physical sensations to understand the root of stress. Through a guided mindfulness meditation, she offers strategies for growing through frustrations. The discussion encourages accepting annoyances as a part...

In this podcast episode, immerse yourself in the Hawaiian spiritual practice of Ho'Oponopono, a transformative ritual for healing and reconciliation. Through guided meditation, the practice focuses on forgiveness, gratitude, and unconditional love. Listeners are invited to sit with issues they are responsible for and seek forgiveness by repeating the powerful mantra: 'I'm sorry, please forgive me,...

In this episode, we delve into the Hawaiian spiritual practice of Ho'oponopono, an approach centered around healing through repentance, forgiveness, gratitude, and love. The host discusses how she was repeatedly introduced to the practice by unrelated individuals, leading her to explore it further. Through a guided meditation, listeners are invited to bring issues to mind, offer the key phrases, a...

In this episode of 'Mindfulness with an Edge: Mastering Your Mind for Peak Performance,' host Darlene Budzinski explores the profound impact of making decisions from the heart. The guided meditation focuses on stillness and clarity, encouraging listeners to align their choices with their core values and beliefs. By fostering mindfulness, individuals can enhance resilience, improve decision-making...

In this episode, the host recounts a poignant experience at a Cinco de Mayo parade where she dressed in a full-body skeleton body suit. Despite feeling claustrophobic and distressed, the host finds solace in a shared moment of vulnerability with a young skeleton princess. The episode delves into the essence of compassion, offering a guided meditation to help listeners cultivate connectedness, espe...

In this podcast episode, the host delves into contrasting life lessons learned from her parents. The father's motto, 'What are you telling me for?' teaches self-reliance and resilience. In stark contrast, the mother's embodiment of compassion, helping prisoners, the homeless, and troubled individuals, illuminates the power of selfless love. The host discusses the broader concept of compassion, its...

This guided meditation invites you to start your day with an open heart and a calm mind. By focusing on your breath and resting in your heart you can become aware of your thoughts and feelings in the present moment. The meditation encourages you to acknowledge your heart's desires and to greet the new day with gratitude and intention, emphasizing that each day is a new beginning and a precious gif...

This recording guides listeners through a meditation aimed at achieving restorative sleep. By emphasizing the role of subconscious plantings before sleep, the meditation helps in shifting from a state of doing to a state of simply being. Listeners are encouraged to focus on the rhythmic cycle of their breath, allowing their muscles to relax and their mind to quiet. The practice underscores the con...

In this podcast episode, the speaker shares their personal journey through a challenging year, marked by significant achievements and deep losses, including the passing of loved ones and the end of a marriage. The speaker discusses the practice of meditation as a means to connect with their blessings and maintain focus on the positive aspects of life. By using rocks as physical reminders during me...

By becoming the mountain in our meditation practice, we can identify with its strength and stability and adopt them for our own. We can use its energies to support our energy; to encounter each moment with mindfulness and equanimity and clarity.

In this guided meditation, begin to let go of negative emotions, beliefs, and attitudes that no longer serve you. By releasing the tight grip on these harmful elements, you can create space for freedom and love.

Laugh with Darlene for 10 minutes today. This episode is designed to cultivate your ability to experience unconditional laughter. Through a series of laughter exercises, the host guides listeners to laugh for no reason other than laughter itself. Laughter is know as a powerful medicine that can boost spirits, enhance overall well-being, release stress, and elevate energy levels with the side effec...

This meditation offers a practice that navigates personal difficulties with kindness: Through guided reflection and mindfulness, you are invited to explore an unwanted or unpleasant situation or issue in your lie with compassion and curiosity. By acknowledging and accepting challenging emotions, you may cultivate resilience and emotional intelligence. This meditation encourages you to recognize li...

The practice of walking meditation serves as a powerful tool to nurture mindfulness, awareness, and peace within oneself. Through the simple act of walking, individuals can cultivate a deeper connection with their surroundings and their inner self. This transcript outlines a step-by-step guide to engaging in walking meditation, emphasizing the importance of being present and attuned to the sensati...

This guided meditation focuses on cultivating feelings of goodwill, kindness, and warmth towards oneself and others. By extending wishes of well-being to loved ones, difficult individuals, and ultimately to oneself, participants experience the power of unconditional love and healing. Through the art of loving-kindness meditation, one can nurture inner peace, foster connection with others, and cult...

The purpose of this meditation practice is to slow down and listen to the messages the body is sending us regarding recovery, healing and athletic performance.  Regular formal body scanning practices teach us to automatically tune in to the felt sense of the body and hear  the messages it sends. When we learn to do this naturally we can respond to what the body is telling us In the moment - if we...

The purpose of this meditation practice is to slow down and listen to the messages the body is sending us regarding recovery, healing and athletic performance.  Regular formal body scanning practices teach us to automatically tune in to the felt sense of the body and hear  the messages it sends. When we learn to do this naturally we can respond to what the body is telling us In the moment - if we...

This meditation is designed to help you recognize your inner strength and your inner capacity for performance in sports.  It invites you to turn towards your mind and heart in relation to your current and future sports performance.  

This meditation is designed to help you be aware of thoughts as they occur.  When we are aware of our thoughts, as just thoughts, we are then consciously able  to appropriate actions that are skillful and serve our heart. That  is the ultimate purpose of a Mindfulness Of Thoughts practice. When you notice thoughts are happening, you can see common patterns of thought without being caught in them. ...

This meditation is designed  to help you identify limiting thoughts and beliefs that may impede performance.  At times we can all  get caught in a story that holds us back or a there is  a belief outside of our awareness that keeps us from moving to the next level. We could desire different results in sport, a job, weight management, a relationship, health, our financial situation and so many othe...